Sunday, September 13, 2009

Something Smells Fishy About That Potomac Incident

Here's the official story: On the morning of 9/11 Obama, his wife and defence scretary Gates along with about 500 others were at a ceremony at the pentagon. At 8:46, the exact time the first plane hit the WTC, they had a moment of silence. On their way back over the I 395 Memorial bridge the Coast Guard were having a routine river exercise in confronting a suspicious vessel on the river. It's not clear who overheard the Guards' radio transmission but CNN, Fox and others broke into their broadcasts of the ceremony to announce shots fired on the river. The Guard says it was all a routine drill, no shots were fired and white house spokesman Robert Gibbs chided CNN by saying "Before we report things like this, checking would be good."

That's the story all the major MSM players are peddling. But as usual when something odd goes down the government has to have everything their way and tells us "nothing to see here, just move along."

First and foremost when bad things happen, there's always a drill or training exercise in progress. Sometimes multiple exercises like on 9/11. Whether there are or not it's true that's the story we're always told.
Now the questions that beg to be answered.
Why was the Guard pulling a mock emergency at the very instant the presidential motorcade was crossing the river, right next to the bridge it was going over?

"Coast Guard officials said such training exercises, intended to improve boat-driving skills and to practice for encounters with hostile vessels, took place several times a week, often in the open water near Memorial Bridge, where the presidential motorcade passed."

OK, shit happens, at the very least it means various departments have poor communication skills. But if this was routine maneuvering then the secret service, FBI and other agencies would have known beforehand and all hell wouldn't have broken loose.

"The report on CNN sent FBI agents scrambling to the scene. Coast Guard Vice Admiral John Currier said that, due to press reports, the FAA temporarily grounded a number of planes at Reagan National Airport until they could sort out the situation."

The official story had people monitoring Guard radio when they became alarmed enough to think it was a real emergency. However the Guard maintains this is how they do their mock emergency drill:

"Rather than fire blanks, he said, crew members simply described mock gunfire in communications on Channel 81, an unencrypted marine radio frequency often monitored by hobbyists, saying “bang, bang’’ and giving the number of nonexistent rounds fired."

Some guy saying "bang bang" caused all this? Protocol dictates all transmissions have to start with someone saying "exercise, exercise" also. If the Guard did this all the time, would the people who monitored the frequencies have gotten bent out of shape by hearing what they usually hear?
First news accounts actually had an unauthorised craft very near the bridge the motorcade was going over, exactly when they were on it:

"The incident took place between the Memorial and 14th Street bridges, in a zone that had been blocked off because of the ceremonies.
The timing of the incident was not immediately clear, but President Obama had departed the Pentagon shortly after 10 a.m. ET. Reports of the incident came in shortly after 10 a.m. ET
."

Apparently when CNN hurriedly contacted the Coast Guard, the offices they called hadn't gotten briefed about the cover story they were supposed to claim, because CNN was told the Guard would be idle that day, contradicting the later story about a drill.
Meaning no exercise.

"The network said the staffers contacted a Coast Guard spokeswoman, who "said she was unaware of any activity taking place on the Potomac River." "After hearing a further radio transmission about 10 rounds being expended, and after reviewing video of rapid movement by Coast Guard vessels as the President's motorcade crossed the Memorial Bridge, CNN reported the story," the network said. "Simultaneously, during a second phone call, the Coast Guard spokeswoman informed us that its National Command Center and other command posts knew nothing about any activity in the area."

Nothing to see here, just move along.


Obama Assassination Plot Fails As Full Terror Alert Hits North America

"Russian Intelligence Analysts are reporting to Prime Minister Putin today that rogue US “intelligence” forces have failed in attempting to assassinate President Obama while his motorcade was in route to the White House from the Pentagon where he had joined with top American Military Officers in remembering the events of September 11, 2001, and is being called the “Panic on the Potomac” affair.
Making this horrendous plot against Obama even more abominable was the propaganda American news media “immediately” censoring this attack against their President so as not to alarm their citizens, an action eerily reminiscent of the Nazi German news media who, likewise, censored the many assassination plots against Chancellor Hitler, especially those
occurring in 1933 which even today remain illegal in Germany to publish accounts of.
According to a report on this plot prepared for Putin by General Shlyakhturov of the Main Intelligence Directorate (
GRU) of the Russian General Staff, Obama’s motorcade was targeted by a “disguised” pleasure boat on the Potomac River which was being remotely controlled and set to explode under the I-395 bridge the American President and his security personnel were crossing in route back to the White House.
Upon this boat nearing the I-395 Bridge however it was “challenged” by United States Coast Guard and Secret Service crafts and upon its “failure to respond or alter its course” was immediately fired upon while at the same time US Marine EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft protecting Obama’s motorcade blocked all radio frequencies resulting in the failure of the explosives to detonate."

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

""Coast Guard officials said such training exercises, intended to improve boat-driving skills and to practice for encounters with hostile vessels, took place several times a week, often in the open water near Memorial Bridge, where the presidential motorcade passed.""

Eh, When was the Last One?
When is the Next one Scheduled?

15/9/09 6:05 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

These drills are run quite frequently, especially since 9-11... The Coast Guard isn't a "secret squirrel" organization. If something went down, everybody involved would be talking about it. It doesn't take a security clearance to crew on a CG boat, for fucks sake.

15/9/09 9:48 PM  
Blogger nolocontendere said...

This is where they want to have it all their way. On the one hand we're told those drills are done all the time, so why didn't the FBI, secret service etc. know about them and coordinate to keep them from doing one on 9/11, as the POTUS was traveling across the river, for fuck's sake?
Something is very wrong with that.
Also, everything official and military is tightly compartmentalized. It's far easier to put a lid on information when chain of command is so strictly adhered to. No one blabs under threat of severe penalties.

15/9/09 11:10 PM  

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