Jul 29, 2008
This
week Visibility 9-11 welcomes former diplomat from the State
Department's Foreign Service J. Michael Springmann. Mr. Springmann
served postings in Germany, India, Saudi Arabia, and the Bureau of
Intelligence and Research in Washington D.C. He is a published
author of several articles on national security themes, and is an
attorney in private practice in Washington D.C.
Michael has attended several 9/11 Conferences over the years, most
notably, the 9/11 Omission hearings on 9/9/2004 chaired by former
Representative and current Green Party candidate for President,
Cynthia McKinney, as well as the recent conference in Keene,
NH.
Included in this important interview is a
discussion regarding a new article by Mr. Springmann titled,
THE MISTAKE DEPARTMENT: One Example of Why American Foreign Policy
is a Disaster that discusses the American Consulate General at
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, and it's relationship to 15 of the 19
September 11th hijackers. In it, he says that "the Jeddah Consulate
was not a State Department post but an intelligence services
operation", "the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) routinely
demanded (and got) visas for sleazy characters with no ties to
either their home country or Saudi Arabia," and "these vile people
were terrorists recruited by U.S. intelligence officers along with
Osama bin Laden, then a CIA asset."