by Michael C. Ruppert, Global Research:

Never in the history of scandals involving the United States government has an attempt to conceal criminal conduct by an administration been more transparently dishonest or more easily exposed.

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On May 15 [2002] White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer — while making the startling admission that President Bush received CIA and FBI intelligence briefings in August 2001 indicating Osama bin Laden might be planning hijackings — told major news sources including CBS News,