I've been posting a series of contributions on another board, which set out why I believe 9/11 was planned and executed by one or more people within one or more government agencies; I'll reproduce them here when the series is complete.

In the course of my research, I came across the following statement, given by Senator Richard Durbin to the HEARING before the COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS UNITED STATES SENATE on Friday July 30, 2004.

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I think that we have to look on this, as Franklin Roosevelt viewed Pearl Harbor, World War II, and the need for an atomic bomb. He said, “We have got to break through all of the bureaucracy then in Washington, bring together the private sector, academia, and the public sector and create a Manhattan project and build some atomic bombs.” General Groves did it in a thousand days, had the bombs that ended the war through the Manhattan Project.

We are now 1,053 days after September 11, and we have to ask ourselves where is the Manhattan Project in technology for our government? It is something I have been preaching on here in this Committee with little or no success. There is bureaucracy fighting me off. “Please stay out of this. We do this ourselves,” and yet the reality of sharing fingerprints and even envisioning biometric screening says to me that we need to be as bold in our thinking as Franklin Roosevelt was about the atomic bombs when it comes to the technology to fight this war on terrorism.


It made me wonder, if WWII gave Roosevelt the impetus to drive the development of the atomic bomb, what will 9/11 drive the present (or perhaps next) administration to do? Will it be more of what many believe to have been the erosion of our civil liberties or, given that the Manhatten Project was kept hush hush, have we yet to see the true nature of what's in store for us?