Sometimes it takes years to unravel a mystery. In the past seventy-five years, there had been numerous mysteries that had never been resolved to everyone's satisfaction:
In 1947, an 'alien invasion' in Roswell, New Mexico was covered up by the government, even though a whole town full of witnesses claimed to see alien bodies, a crashed spacecraft, and intriguing evidence that this incident was something of an extra-terrestrial nature. Shortly afterwards, "Area 51" came to be in the Nevada desert; even though it was identified on government and military maps, military bureaucrats continued to deny its existence.
The John F. Kennedy assassination, of course, was phenomenal fodder for conspiracy theorists. And, because documents had been sealed for seventy-five years, the entire truth wouldn't come out for another thirty years when, in 2038, the federal government would release everything pertaining to the murder. All most Americans who were alive on November 22, 1963 would see was the bland Warren Commission report, an obviously doctored and sanitized version of the events surrounding one of the most infamous times in U.S. history.
Some believed the assassination of Bobby Kennedy was never resolved satisfactorily. Many speculated that actress Marilyn Monroe's death had never been fully explored - or, at least, details were never made pubic.
Sinister activity, and lying to the American people about it, had become commonplace among federal government officials and bureaucrats. Americans never knew about U-2 spy planes soaring over the U.S.S.R. until pilot Gary Powers was captured after the Russians downed his plane and made a public spectacle of it, demonstrating to the world that the United States was not quite the squeaky-clean, innocent little kid it portrayed itself to be. During the Vietnam war, U.S. troops were exposed to a dastardly thing called Agent Orange. Only after soldiers returned with disasterous symptoms and illnesses did the government finally acknowledge use of this dangerous chemical concoction.
No one knew until years later that the Ronald Reagan had made a secret deal with Iran to release 444 American hostages only after he assumed the office of the Presidency. Gullible Americans never gave it much thought at the time: but the timing was incredulous! As Reagan was in the middle of his inauguration speech, he announced that the hostages had just left Iranian air space and were on their way home. Jimmy Carter had sacrified his run for re-election as he focused on honest and ethical means of getting those prisoners back. Why couldn't Reagan, at the very least, have invited Carter to share the podium with him for that one moment, so that both the present President and the incoming President could raise their arms in victory? Instead, Reagan operatives eventually were shown to be part of what became known as the illegal, reckless and highly irregular Iran-Contra affair which traded weapons and military intelligence for the hostages.
The government lied to the citizenry about secret CIA prisons, denied that it sexually abused and tortured 'detainees' during the early years of the Iraq war, and lied about 'weapons of mass destruction' as the sole reason for invading Iraq in 2003.
These were lies straight from the second Bush administration. But the most sordid lies of that administration had yet to be found out. On Monday, July 21, 2008, Interim President Colin Powell and Interim Vice-President John McCain announced the release of newly-discovered records recovered from the wreckage of the Republic Party's national headquarters in Washington, DC. Workers had come upon across a cache of sealed ledgers and documents in a safe that had been blown apart, probably by the O.U.T.R.A.G.E. bombs, and buried under tons of debris. These documents clearly revealed that the Bush administration had, indeed, been played a part in the tragic disaster of September 11, 2001, when the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City had been obliterated by "terrorists".
Voluminous volumes of secret papers, agreements, and elaborate plans proved what many conspiracy theorists had believed for years: the United States government had participated in this horrendous event! A capsular version of the tangled web of government deceit and deception dramatized these unequivocal facts:
1. The Bush family had a personal vendetta against Saddam Hussein ever since George H.W. Bush was criticized and humiliated during Desert Storm for not 'finishing the job' and ousting Hussein at that time;
2. George W. Bush, son of George H.W. Bush, and Bush family friend Dick Cheney, had hatched this bizarre plan even prior to the son's election as President. Cheney, former CEO of a little-known company called Halliburton, had devised a sub-terrain of small corporations that would work within the Halliburton corporate structure, but only under top-secret government clearances. A team of professional demolition experts had been recruited, sworn to secrecy for life, and been put in charge of the plan to blow up the twin towers in New York. Younger brother of the 43rd President of the United States, Marvin L. Bush, was named CEO of a corporation that would assume responsibility for security within the World Trade Center complex.
3. The World Trade Center had been a 'white elephant' for years, losing billions of dollars in rent revenues as companies moved out and left multiple floors of the 110-story skyscrapers vacant. Silverstein Properties, LTD had acquired rights to the buildings as the leaseholder. The summer before 9-11-01, the leaseholder had negotiated a new insurance policy which specifically would cover the building in the event of a 'terrorist attack'. Silverstein's original $16 million investment would return $7 billion once all insurance claims were settled after the disaster.
4. Part of the seven-building complex were leased to various government offices, including federal courts, the CIA, and the FBI. Among documents that were obliterated when Building 7 was unceremoniously destroyed were important documents pertaining to government court cases against many large corporation accused of fraud, tax evasion, and erroneous earnings reports. In an instant, many government cases were dissolved for lack of evidence, or were - at best - minimized, as large companies with ties to the Bush and Cheney families saw the evidence against them evaporate.
5. The planes smashing into the World Trade Cener twin towers would create an enormous visual for most of America, but few would ever come to recognize that both towers actually came down as if they had been destroyed by demolition experts, hired to blow up buildings and make them implode on themselves. Which, in fact, they were.
6. Two of the federal government's largest contractors had direct ties to the White House: 1) Cheney was a former CEO of Halliburton, which had in a few years gone from an insignificant little company to the largest private presence in Iraq, as it was awarded multi-billion-dollar contracts without even having to submit a competitive bid; 2) George H.W. Bush, along with many of his cabinet members like James Baker, had joined the Carlyle Group shortly after he left the White House. In just a few short years, the Carlyle Group had become one of the largest government contractors - again, without those pesky requirements of a competitive bidding process. Among those who had made major investments in the Carlyle Group was a family that had put up $2.5 million - a family with the last name of binLaden.
7. The Bush family ties to Kuwait, Dubai and China were well known. Few, however, realized that the Bush family put those interests ahed of the best interests of the United States of America; the Bush dynasty was intent on being part of the new global domination, regardless of how many people had to be killed or how much property had to be destroyed.
Powell and McCain appeared on national television, broadcast from St. Kitts, and pledged to the American people that there would never be another possibility of one family assuming so much evil power and accumulating so much personal wealth while pretending to serve in the best interests of the United States. "Kennedy, Bush, Clinton - I don't care what the family's last name may be," vowed McCain, "such unmitigated power is unparalleled in our society, and we will do everything we can to keep such gluttonous practices from ever happening again."
It would become just one more part of the O.U.T.R.A.G.E. mission.