November 9, 2005
2nd
Memo to Cheney after 9-11: “The ‘family’ wants their boxes”
Congress
continues to ignore explosive memos pointing to secret cash payoffs
by Tom Flocco
www.tomflocco.com
Washington—November 9, 2005—TomFlocco.com—A November 2, 2001
hand-written memo to Vice President Richard Cheney from former U.S. Ambassador
to Somalia Leo Wanta, indicates the White House knew that boxes containing
large amounts of U.S. currency were moved from the Philippines seven weeks
after the September 11 attacks.
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According to U.S.
intelligence agents with knowledge of the document, Wanta’s memo to Cheney
employed a number of code-word references outlining that White House help was
requested in moving “large sums of cash” into certain U.S. law firms
referred to as “Foundations legal groups to be formed for ‘charitable’
work here in the Philippines.”
When we last talked with Ambassador Wanta, he was being held under house
arrest by the Bush administration.
Wanta’s post 9-11 memo reminded Cheney that payment for an unnamed covert
operation was overdue and that unidentified organization members close enough
to Wanta and Cheney to be referred to as the “family” were becoming
impatient about receiving their cash--but also worried that others might be
confiscating part of their payoff:
“…The ‘family’ wants their boxes!!...Things are getting out of hand!
MIL [Marvelous Investments, Ltd., Andover, MA according to intelligence
sources] needs cash with which to purchase & remove these items [boxes of
cash]...too much is in the wrong hands! [ Click
here to read the full printed memo from Wanta to Vice President Cheney.
Wanta’s printing has been authenticated by matching it with other Wanta
documents received from separate sources, including some from the former
ambassador himself.]
The memo also revealed that a “German in the ‘family’ has financed a
large group who were recovering ten boxes which were taken to U.S., Germany
& Moldovia [Moldova/Rumania].”
Intelligence sources told TomFlocco.com that the boxes contained counterfeit
U.S. currency, laundered drug money, bearer bonds or a combination thereof,
and that standard chain-of-custody procedures required Cheney to pass such
sensitive documents to then National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice and
President Bush.
All of which raises serious questions as to why Bush, Cheney and Rice were
either involved in or had knowledge of the clandestine movement of a
substantial amount of U.S. Currency in the days following the September 11
attacks to pay off an unidentified “family” for certain clandestine
operations.
Senate’s closed-door cover-up
The Wanta-Cheney “Foundations” memo and another
document indicating that Cheney and Bush were aware that 30 days after 9-11
FBI and CIA officials met with one of Osama bin Laden’s aides appearing in
White House-produced terrorism footage broadcast nationally and
internationally both provide evidence that the White House knows more about
covert operations surrounding the attacks than it is revealing.
An intelligence source told us that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has
been in possession of these documents since early last spring.
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This raises
speculation as to whether Cheney will be asked if the memos are related in any
way to pre-September 11 intelligence reports, the Valerie Plame leak case and
whether Cheney’s Chief-of-staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby knew about
their contents.
TomFlocco.com has been told that many U.S. citizens have emailed and faxed the
Cheney memos related to the 9-11 attacks to multiple members of the House and
Senate intelligence committees and other members of Congress.
Multiple reports overnight as this piece is written indicate that cable news
trial balloons are being floated regarding President Bush issuing a full and
unconditional presidential pardon to Libby.
A pardon would prevent Patrick Fitzgerald from securing justice for the
American people; but it would also protect the Joint Congressional
Intelligence Committee from possible charges of incompetence, negligence or a
grand jury probe.
FBI, CIA agents helped move boxes of cash
U.S.
government officials named in the Wanta-Cheney memos were identified by
intelligence sources as FBI Division 5 and CIA contractors working in U.S.
counter-intelligence, including “Robert Wachtel, Brad U. Lee and Allan
Nichols.”
It is not known whether Wachtel, Lee and Nichols have testified before the
Fitzgerald grand jury or how the memos referring to cash payoffs are linked to
the covert federal agents—or whether the boxes of currency are linked to
financing the 9-11 attacks.
The memo indicates that Wanta requested that Vice President Cheney provide
assistance in maintaining secrecy in moving the boxes: “…If we are to be
successful here, I have outlined how to do it. One other thing we must have is
transportation "permits." [official cover and protection inside
& outside the country, according to intelligence sources.] ...much is
moving that no one can see."
Given the proximity of the memos to the September 11, 2001 timeline, pre Iraq
War intelligence reports and the Plame case probe, questions can also be
raised as to the role of Scooter Libby and his knowledge or actions taken at
the behest of Vice President Cheney or President Bush regarding the shipment
of U.S. currency and the provision of “transportation permits” to
facilitate their unhindered and undiscovered movement.
Documents posted within this story were obtained from www.stewwebb.com.