Senator Clinton's 9/11 Call - How'd She Do?

How dare Senator Hillary Clinton bring up the subject of a 3 a.m. call. All this time later and that question still haunts me.

While researching what Senator Clinton did on 9/11, I can’t find much.

Not even a search on NY1 for “Clinton” on 9/11/01 revealed anything.

CNN’s Chronology of Terror has no listing for anything she did that day.

I did find a statement Senator Clinton made on 9/12 about 9/11. It’s posted on her site. The text is also below. I’ve added my ideas and questions.

Please read her statement, especially if you are considering voting for her to answer the phone at 3:00 A.M.

I’ve put my notes/questions in brackets and italics. Parts that jumped out at me of Senator Clinton’s statements are in bold. I’ve changed only the paragraph structure to aid in our communication.

September 12, 2001
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's Statement On The Floor of The United States Senate In Response to the World Trade Center and Pentagon Attacks

“Thank you, Mr. President, and I thank my colleagues for their outpouring of support, their concerns and their many offers of additional aid that have come to the rescue of our people as a result of this devastating travesty.”

[Note: New York City was on lockdown at 9:21a. The south tower did not fall until 10:05 a.m. Folks could not escape. The toxins from the crashing planes should have been motivation enough to evacuate. The people were left without food and water to fend for themselves as stores rapidly ran out of supplies.

The hole got cleaned up, but the surrounding area did not.

Despite the Senator and other’s claims, it’s logical to assume that since a piece of paper made it to Long Island from the exploded WTC, the toxic dust traveled much farther than the reported 14th Street.]

“You know, yesterday dawned a beautiful day in New York. My daughter told me that it was one of those days where the skies were totally clear and there was a breeze and people were starting to line up at the polling places to vote because it was primary day, election day -- a continuation of the commitment to democracy and self-government that has set us apart from every society that has ever existed because of the longevity of our democracy and the will of our people to constantly renew ourselves. New Yorkers went from standing in line to vote to standing in line to donate blood in just a few hours. I don't think any of us will get out of our minds the images that we saw on television of the plane going into the first tower, the plane going into the second tower, the plane going into the Pentagon.”

[Note: The pentagon footage of the plane going into the building was not available by the 12th. If she was that much in the Pentagon loop, then she knew the military was scheduled for their annual war games to begin at 8:30a on 9/11.]

“But there were tens of thousands of our fellow Americans, people that live in New York and New Jersey and Connecticut -- people literally from every part of our country and indeed the world for whom this was not an event that they watched in horror on television, but they lived through and in too many instances did not survive.”

[Note: From the beginning Senator Clinton knew regular folks were in danger, and failed, if she did anything, to get New Yorkers out of harms way from the toxic soup that’s creating World Trade Center Illness.]

“We are beginning to find out what that was like. Chuck and I have a lot of friends who worked in those towers, worked in the center, worked near by. We are hearing the stories of husbands and wives grabbing cell phones and calling home to say I love you, good-bye. We know and I am sure every person in this body and in the House and many, many of our fellow citizens, when we finally know the names of those killed and injured, will know someone. This was an attack on New York, but it was really an attack on America. I have been very gratified, as I know that Chuck has and all our colleagues in the House by the strong support we have received from the President, and I am very grateful. We have expressed our appreciation.”

[Note: What support was she talking about that she received from the President? Did New Yorkers get checks to help them deal with it? How did she express her appreciation to the number one suspect of 9/11 as an inside job? Why did she not call for an investigation into what happened before she started licking the Presidents ***** in public when the nation was in shock.]

“Chuck and I will be going to New York this afternoon with FEMA.”

[Note: Since she went with FEMA on the afternoon of the 12th to New York, did she have knowledge they were traveling with forged test results to be presented as fact on the 13th. Did she ask for a confirmation of the test results from any of the areas open sewers who take regular readings of air quality. When the EPA lied and said the air was safe to breathe and the water safe to drink, did Senator Clinton challenge Whitman?]

“We could not have asked for more than we have received in the immediate aftermath of this horrific attack. But we are by no means anywhere near the end of what it will take to continue the search and rescue efforts. We are finding people even as we speak. Yet we know that there is a very grim task ahead to do everything we can to find every person, to account for every single person who went to work. That is all they did: they went to work, on a beautiful September day in New York.”

[Note: Years later the city is still finding bone fragments of WTC victims who died on 9/11/01. The death toll from World Trade Center Illness is still rising with the potential to reach pandemic numbers over the next 15 years.]

“We will also stand united behind our President as he and his advisors plan the necessary actions to demonstrate America's resolve and commitment.”

[Note: Is the above a statement of blind faith in the Bush Administration? Did she have faith and ask us to have faith in “the necessary actions to demonstrate America's resolve and commitment. Resolve and commitment to what? WAR?]

“Not only to seek out an exact punishment on the perpetrators, but to make very clear that not only those who harbor terrorists, but those who in any way aid or comfort them whatsoever will now face the wrath of our country. And I hope that that message has gotten through to everywhere it needs to be heard. You are either with America in our time of need or you are not.”

[Note: “You are either with America in our time of need or you are not.” Does that sound like a wise international policy in crisis situations? Shouldn’t we work on policy the promotes us all prospering and getting along, even if it’s just along side of each other.]

“We also stand united behind our resolve -- as this resolution so clearly states -- to recover and rebuild in the aftermath of these tragic acts. You know, New York was not an accidental choice for these madmen, these terrorists, and these instruments of evil. They deliberately chose to strike at a city, which is a global city -- it is the city of the Twenty First century, it epitomizes who we are as Americans. And so this in a very real sense was an attack on America, on our values, on our power, and on who we are as a people.”

[Note: How did she know what kind of attack it was before the dust even cleared and the evidence collected?]

“And I know -- because I know America -- that America will stand behind New York. That America will offer whatever resources, aid, comfort, support that New Yorkers and New York require. Because the greatest rebuke we can offer to those who attack our way of life is to demonstrate clearly that we are not cowed in any way whatsoever.”

[Note: How well has America stood behind New York? Is New York blessed or damned to the toxins from the WTC? Why did the first responders have to march on Washington to try to get medical help? And what about the folks who worked and lived in the area? Where’s their health care? Why is there no talk of reparations for folks exposed to WTC dust and are dealing with health issues as a result?]

“I hope that within a short period, Senator Warner, we will see scaffolding on the sides of the Pentagon after we finish the search and recovery work that is being carried out heroically. I hope we all see a clear signal that we are rebuilding and our defenses are more resolute than ever. I hope similarly that lower Manhattan has the same kind of image of project because the reality will be that we are rebuilding and reconstructing and making clear that just as our military might is unchallenged and un-cowed so is our economics, our social, our political values epitomized by New York.”

[Note: It’s 2008. Are our defenses more resolute or stretched thinner than ever? The American Gulf War Veterans Association reports the real death toll in Iraq is 70,000 American soldiers and a million Iraqi citizens when one counts the deaths from depleted uranium. Is lower Manhattan cleaned up or rebuilt? Is our military might unchallenged and un-cowed? Are our economics, our social, our political values epitomized by New York?]

I have expressed my strong support for the President. Not only as the Senator from New York, but as someone for eight years who has some sense of the burdens and responsibilities that fall on the shoulders of the human being we make our President. It is an awesome and an oftentimes awful responsibility for any person. I know we are up to it. I know we are ready for it.

[Note: Is having strong support for the president a clue as to how she will choose her advisors, what she looks for in people she supports? Is this an out clause in case she is not ready on day one?]

And I know every one in this body represents every American in making clear we are united and stronger than ever. So it is with a heavy heart, really a sense of heartbreak that I rise today in support of this resolution.

But it is also with a great sense of pride. First in the people of New York who responded as New Yorkers always do when times get tough. There was not a sense of panic, there was order, and there was an immediate outpouring of help.

[Note: If there was no sense of panic and there was order, why did she not demand an orderly evacuation underground of the City of New York? Breathing the toxic dust was the best decision that could be made?]

And those men and women we sent in to rescue our fellow Americans -- there is no way adequately to express our gratitude. To our firefighters, our police officers, our emergency personal, our doctors, and nurses and medical personnel. They responded at a height of a tragic, unexpected attack with the kind of grit and courage we expect from New Yorkers. And to all of those who are missing a loved one, there are no words any of us can express, except to tell you in the clearest possible terms we will -- in a united American response -- support you, offer assistance to you, stand with you, and pursue those who reached deep into your family homes yesterday and took someone you loved away from you.

There will be a lot of work ahead of us in this body and in the House and we will pursue that and I am grateful for the support we have received.

Thank you very much.

### END OF CLINTON SPEECH

Senator Clinton’s response to the 9/11 call she received as New York’s Senator produced none of the life supporting needs of the people of her state. She left it in the hands of, based on results, incompetents, and people are dying as a result.

My friend, Albert Davis, who volunteered at Ground Zero wrote in his book about his experiences there GETTING TO GROUND ZERO that safety gear was hard to come by at ground zero.

Her strategy of funding Medicine, Inc. to study the problem of World Trade Center Illness rather than promoting the danger and possible solutions in the early days was folly. All these years later and still no official effective strategy to help folks deal with the trauma.

In summary, please consider how Senator Clinton answered the 9/11 call as a model for how she will answer the 3 a.m. call.

1. When the planes were headed toward NYC, was she even notified or did she get notified like the rest of us?
2. When notified, did she know the military was on stand down at their annual “war games” called Vigilant Guardian? Did she not know New York was unprotected on that day (games scheduled for a week)?
3. What was Senator Clinton doing on 9/11? Delivering resources like respirators, food and water?
4. When the buildings were exploded, did she help order an evacuation of New York, or did she allow the stupid “lock down” strategy to stand, exposing millions to toxins?
5. On 9/13, when the EPA lied that the air and water were safe, did Senator Clinton stand up to Whitman?
6. When it came out that the White House told the EPA to lie, did she bring the liars to justice for endangering lives?
7. Why is it that the first responders, who are now getting sick and dying, had to recently march on Washington for funding for medical care? The first person to die from WTC Illness was a citizen, not a first responder.
8. What about the independent citizens, whose jobs and living conditions forced many to stay in the area. Many have lost their jobs and lives because they are sick, have no real champion speaking for them, not even their senator? What about the other victims of the war on terror, like the innocent people of Iraq whose lives have been torn asunder even years after no weapons of mass destruction were found?
9. What about looking into 9/11 as an inside job? Lord knows they (the president and his administration, greedy people) had motive (failed presidency and greed), opportunity (military on stand down, control of the media and the targets), and benefited most from the commission of the crime, not act of terror, crime.

If you know Senator Clinton and can ask her only one question, ask her how many respirators, how much food and water she got to New Yorkers and others exposed when they really needed it?