by shoestring911.blogspot.com . - with additional comments at the bottom Article .
Translated by Pino Cabras for Megachip .
A special network of backup that enables communication between the government and military agencies can continue during emergencies was "miraculously" starting the day before 9 / 11, and was therefore already in place when the attacks terrorist in New York and the Pentagon took place. The Special Routing Arrangement Service ( SARS) was, for unknown reasons, turned into "practice mode" September 10, 2001, and was then ready for use the next day, when there was a national emergency of the rank of those which had been expected. The system is under
SARS the responsibility of a little-known government body called National Communications System (NCS ) , working to operate its telecommunications critical during emergencies and played a crucial role in the government's response to 9 / 11 attacks, helping to maintain and restore communications networks. In addition, the system is linked to SARS, "Continuity of Government " - a plan that has been activated for the first time during the attacks.
SARS IN ON "PRACTICE MODE" on September 10.
Brenton Greene, which on Sept. 11 was director of NCSA, told the 9 / 11 Commission that the September 10, 2001 , "miraculously, the SARS system was activated in practice mode, and so was able to run over 11."
Therefore, when the NCS is to assist the government's response to terrorist attacks, the system "SARS was already in training and operational procedures." [1] The SARS
super secret plan to support the Continuity of Government (COG ), which has the task of keeping the government running in case of an attack on the USA. [2]
was COG's involvement in the NCSA uno dei tre programmi principali dell'agenzia. Come Greene ha riferito alla Commissione sull’11/9,
«Il principale sistema di comunicazione del Paese deve essere tenuto in funzione o nessuno potrebbe comunicare.» [3]
Il sistema SRAS fornisce «un tramite per la continuità delle operazioni, fornendo agli utilizzatori finali a livello federale e della difesa i collegamenti comunicativi in grado di sopravvivere sulla rete pubblica», a quanto si legge su una pubblicazione del Dipartimento della Sicurezza Interna. [4]
Nel descrivere presumibilmente il sistema SRAS, Greene ha dichiarato alla Commissione sull’11 settembre: «C'è una rete separata che collega il Centro di Coordinamento National and major carriers and networks with the characteristics of a backup. "(The National Coordination Center, located in Arlington, Virginia, is the" operational arm "of the NCS). This network "has demonstrated its value as a separate link on the date of 9 / 11, he has coordinated the use of networks between the Network Operations Centers, while the network [telecommunications] was saturated."
addition, before describing SARS still view the system, Greene said: "In the situation where the Continuity of Government is putting into the field" - as happened on 11 September - "there is a communication system where nobody can find the site of call on both ends of the wire. "[5]
L ' NCS WAS INVOLVED IN A FULL training exercises on September 11?
Greene apparently not told the 9 / 11 Commission because the SARS system was activated in a "tutorial" on September 10. But a possible explanation that should be investigated is that the NCS had been scheduled to attend a training on 11 September. We know that the NCS was in 2001, the Department of Defense. [6]
And we know that U.S. agencies were conducting military exercises in the morning of September 11. For example, the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) was conducting its annual exercise, "Vigilant Guardian," [7] while the United States Strategic Command (STRATCOM), was holding its annual exercise 'Global Guardian. " [8] It may be that the NCS has participated in one of these, or other exercises?
also worth mentioning the fact that beginning at 08:00 am September 11, representatives of the CIA held a briefing at NCSA in favor of "a secure facility outside Washington, DC," where they discussed the threat that international terrorists posed the telecommunications infrastructure of America. Together a Brenton Greene, al briefing erano presenti i rappresentanti di altre sette agenzie federali e più di 40 società tecnologiche e delle telecomunicazioni. I rappresentanti del settore privato erano tutti «dirigenti di primo piano delle rispettive società, e tutti avevano i nulla osta di sicurezza del governo che garantiva loro l'accesso ai dati di intelligence più sensibili» relativi a minacce alle infrastrutture di telecomunicazioni della nazione, secondo il giornalista e scrittore Dan Verton .
Gli argomenti trattati durante il briefing comprendevano la crescente minaccia terroristica alle infrastrutture delle telecomunicazioni, le capacità di guerra informatica delle nazioni straniere, e la possibilità a strategic cyber-attack on critical infrastructure of the United States, committed by a foreign nation or a terrorist group. [9]
Considering that the Special Routing Arrangement Service NCSA had been activated in "training" the day before, and considering the arguments that were discussed, this briefing may have been an introduction to a training exercise, which may prepare participants to a scenario based on a simulated attack against the telecommunications network?
THE CONTINUITY OF GOVERNMENT has been active for the first time on September 11.
Continuity Government is a program that dates back to the Cold War, and seeks to ensure that the government continues to function in the event of an attack against the United States. During the eighties was organized for a possible nuclear attack by the Soviet Union, but during the nineties has focused instead on the possibility of a terrorist attack in the United States
Considering that the system supports the COG through SARS 'provision communication links capable of surviving to the end users at the federal and defense, "it is worth noting that sophisticated methods of communication have played an important role in the COG program. In the eighties, for example, much of its budget di centinaia di milioni di dollari «veniva speso per avanzatissimi apparati di comunicazione che avrebbero consentito alle squadre [coinvolte nella COG] di avere conversazioni sicure con i comandanti militari statunitensi», a quanto afferma il giornalista e scrittore James Mann .
Per di più, tre delle figure chiave del programma durante gli anni ottanta e novanta ricoprivano posizioni critiche nel governo USA, l'11 settembre. Questi individui - Dick Cheney , Donald Rumsfeld , e Richard Clarke - erano rispettivamente il vice presidente, il segretario della difesa, e il consigliere antiterrorismo della Casa Bianca, al momento in cui gli attentati si verificavano. [10]
David Addington, Cheney's legal adviser in 2001, was also involved in the COG program. [11]
should also be noted that the COG plan was activated, in fact for the first time, over the 9 / 11 attacks. Richard Clarke said he gave the order to turn it around at 09:45 on 11 September, or shortly thereafter. [12]
He told ABC News: "On the morning of 9 / 11, 's Continuity of Government's entire program has been activated. Each federal agency was ordered ... to activate an alternative command post, an alternative site outside of Washington, DC. and provide it with staff as soon as possible. " [13]
Considering that the SARS system is designed to support the COG program, it was convenient - to say the least - that it proves already operating on 11 September and then immediately ready for use by those who were involved COG in the moment when the plan was activated.
RESPONSE CRITICISM OF 'THE NCS 9 / 11 attacks.
The National Communications System, which is responsible for the Special Routing Arrangement Service, an agency is relatively small, established in 1963 to provide better support of the communications system to critical government functions during emergencies. [14]
Around the time of the attacks of 9 / 11, there were about 22 federal agencies, 100 full-time civilian employees, military personnel and 10. [15]
The NCS has played a key role in the aftermath of 9 / 11, when the destruction caused by these attacks became what Brenton Greene has called "the most significant challenge that the National Communications System had ever faced. [16] In collaboration with private companies, which "have quickly assembled an unprecedented level of resources at national, state and local response efforts in support of and assistance."
Presumably, emergency operations have NCSA benefited that the SARS system was already operating when the attacks took place.
As outlined above, the system is linked to the SARS plan Continuity of Government. In particular, in response to the attacks, the National Coordinating Center NCSA operates in four sites, which included a "site of continuous operation at a distance '. [17] Greene said that he went to his "Continuity of Government site," where the staff worked all day to monitor the status of the telecommunications network, and coordinate the priorities and repairs. "[18]
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES HAVE ENCOUNTERED PROBLEMS OF COMMUNICATION DURING THE 11 September
so little has been reported on the National Communications System and the Special Routing Arrangement Service, and the role played by each of them during the September 11, many crucial questions remain unanswered. For example, what capabilities it was able to allow the system SARS? And what use is being made of on 11 September, before, during and after the attacks took place? SARS because the system was put into operation in the mode of exercise the day before 9 / 11?
The need for an investigation into the roles of the system and NCSA SARS appears increasingly urgent in the light of the fact that communication difficulties were a problem important for government agencies that responded to the attacks of 9 / 11.
In fact, a report on the secreted after-action "does not paint a favorable picture on the overall capacity of the government's crisis management," according to Dan Verton.
A government official said that "the nation was" deaf, dumb and blind for most of that horrible day in September. "[19]
NOTES [1] " Memorandum for the Record: Interview of Brenton C. Greene. " 9 / 11 Commission, March 16, 2004 .
[2] House Select Committee on Homeland Security, The Department of Homeland Security's Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Budget Proposal for Fiscal Year 2005: Prepared Opening Statement of General Frank Libutti, Under Secretary for Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection, Department of Homeland Security . 108th Cong., 2nd sess., March 4, 2004 .
[3] "Memorandum for the Record: Interview of Brenton C. Greene."
[4] David M. Barron, J. M. Hickey, and Dan Bart, Communications: Critical Infrastructure and Key Resources Sector-Specific Plan as Input to the National Infrastructure Protection Plan . Washington, DC: Department of Homeland Security, May 2007, p. 106 .
[5] "Memorandum for the Record: Interview of Brenton C. Greene."
[6] Ibid.
[7] "Conversation With Major General Larry Arnold, Commander, 1st Air Force, Tyndall AFB, Florida." Code One , January 2002 ; 9/11 Commission, The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States . New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2004, p. 458; William M. Arkin, Code Names: Deciphering U.S. Military Plans, Programs, and Operations in the 9/11 World . Hanover, NH: Steerforth Press, 2005, p. 545.
[8] Joe Dejka, "Inside Stratcom on Sept. 11 Offutt Exercise Took Real-Life Twist." Omaha World-Herald , February 27, 2002 ; Joe Dejka, "When Bush Arrived, Offutt Sensed History in the Making." Omaha World-Herald , September 8, 2002 .
[9] Dan Verton, Black Ice: The Invisible Threat of Cyber-Terrorism . Emeryville, CA: McGraw-Hill/Osborne, 2003, pp. 135-139 .
[10] CBS News, September 11, 2001 ; James Mann, "The Armageddon Plan." The Atlantic , March 2004 ; Howard Kurtz, "'Armageddon' Plan Was Put Into Action on 9/11, Clarke Says." Washington Post , April 7, 2004 ; "Worst Case Scenario: Secret Plan to Control U.S. Government After an Attack Went Into Motion on 9/11." ABC News, April 25, 2004 ; Andrew Cockburn, Rumsfeld: His Rise, Fall, and Catastrophic Legacy . New York: Scribner, 2007, pp. 84-88 .
[11] Jane Mayer, "The Hidden Power." New Yorker , July 3, 2006 ; Jane Mayer, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned Into a War on American Ideals . New York: Doubleday, 2008, p. 49.
[12] Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror . New York: Free Press, 2004, p. 8; 9/11 Commission, The 9/11 Commission Report , p. 38.
[13] "Worst Case Scenario: Secret Plan to Control U.S. Government After an Attack Went Into Motion on 9/11."
[14] Dan Verton, Black Ice , p. 136 ; "Background and History of the NCS." National Communications System, n.d.
[15] Dan Verton, "At NCS, the Focus is on Telecom Preparedness." Computerworld , November 7, 2002 .
[16] Dan Verton, Black Ice , p. 151 .
[17] 40th Anniversary: Forty Years of Service to the Nation: 1963-2003 . National Communications System, 2004, p. 56 .
[18] "Memorandum for the Record: Interview of Brenton C. Greene."
[19] Dan Verton, Black Ice , pp. 150-151; see also "'Deaf, Dumb, and Blind': Were Communications Sabotaged on 9 / 11?" Shoestring 9 / 11, October 19, 2007 .
Note Pino Cabras.
The memo mentioned above on exercises related to 9 / 11 on top of other numerous cases of "war games" and simulations carried out by large and small U.S. security agencies behind the mega-attacks: in general, are simulations were rich in points of contact with current events, to the point of interfering with them. We talked about it many times: navigation in the "Zero 11" Site offers many Megachip striking examples of this complicated crime scene in which a series of gigantic role-playing games of entire systems. Scene complicated yes, but not incomprehensible, especially if you start asking questions about the similarity of the "games" with what really happens. These are questions that most of the media have systematically avoided. Most major newspapers begs the slightest light on some gray areas, especially where major government apparatus that reveals a role in the machinery of chaos and carnage. The silence up to disregard sensational news. Often these news has to do with the management of lines to pass messages of power, as in the case analyzed by "Shoestring 911".
We should not be surprised of these quirks, or the silence that surrounds them. An example of another case of massacres, the Italian one, which called into question the operational responses of the apparatus of investigation and the institutional responses of the highest offices of state.
One of the lesser known facts related to the massacre in Via Fani and the kidnapping of Aldo Moro is the day before, March 15, 1978. The structure of the then incumbent SIP phone at the time directed by piduista Prince Michael, was placed in a state of alarm . Judges and leaders Digos complained about a "total non-cooperation" of the SIP during the seizure and detention of Moro. The area of \u200b\u200bVia Fani, while being butchered cover of Moro, was in full blackout. No one could tell the phone nothing of what was happening. Determined attempt to wiretap prepared during 55 days of Moro's captivity were blocked with technical pretexts.
As it turned out almost thirty years later, the largest Italian phone company has set up a parallel structure spy who has acted for decades contrary to law, without a trace, in close collaboration with extra-legal structures of the secret services. Recently
Carlo Azeglio Ciampi has made a revelation immediately evaporated into oblivion of the media. Ciampi was president of the Council during the spring-summer 1993, when there was a series of bombings in Rome, Milan and Florence.
On July 27, 1993, night of the explosions at the basilicas in Rome and Milan via Palestro, Ciampi reveals that there was a timely blackout in the palaces of the most important Italian institutions, and adds: "I was on vacation in Santa Severa, went back urgently to Rome at night, strange things were happening: I was talking on the phone with my colleague in Rome and fall line. Then they found at Palazzo Chigi tampered with my machine was missing a plate. "
All accelerations recent investigations on the 1992-1993 Italian identify specific steps to cover "state" in execution and screening of the massacres. The hijacking of the investigations often passes for the judicious use of telecommunications. The scenario of parallel
Telecom, already very serious and underestimated in Italy, in the case of the enormous apparatus "security" the U.S. should be multiplied by many orders of magnitude. Opaque structures, but covered by layers of semi-legitimate (and considerable funds) public have become increasingly important, costly, literally "uncontrollable," as the investigation revealed "Top Secret America" \u200b\u200bpublished in 2010 by the Washington Post.
L’11 settembre 2001 questa entità esisteva già nel corpo degli apparati USA. Fu quel giorno che decise di diventare una metastasi.
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