Disconnecting the Dots: How 9/11 Was Allowed to Happen [Paperback]

Kevin Fenton (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 13, 2011

Questioning actions taken by American intelligence agencies prior to 9/11, this investigation charges that intelligence officials repeatedly and deliberately withheld information from the FBI, thereby allowing hijackers to attack the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Pinpointing individuals associated with Alec Station, the CIA’s Osama bin Laden unit, as primarily responsible for many of the intelligence failures, this account analyzes the circumstances in which critical intelligence information was kept from FBI investigators in the wider context of the CIA’s operations against al-Qaeda, concluding that the information was intentionally omitted in order to allow an al-Qaeda attack to go forward against the United States. The book also looks at the findings of the four main 9/11 investigations, claiming they omitted key facts and were blind to the purposefulness of the wrongdoing they investigated. Additionally, it asserts that Alec Station’s chief was involved in key post-9/11 events and further intelligence failures, including the failure to capture Osama bin Laden at Tora Bora and the CIA's rendition and torture program.

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About the Author

Kevin Fenton has a degree in law from Liverpool University. He currently works as a translator.

Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Trine Day (June 13, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0984185852
• ISBN-13: 978-0984185856
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 1 x 6.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #572,402 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 24 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars An extraordinary demolition of the mainstream 9/11 narrative September 5, 2011

By Jeffrey S. Kaye

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If you are thinking that so much has been written on 9/11 and putative conspiracies surrounding the event, that it's almost superfluous to add yet another, think again.

Kevin Fenton has honed in on one of the weakest, most vulnerable aspects of the mainstream narrative about 9/11, and with the tenacity of a pit bull does not let go. Disconnecting the Dots is a convincing, extraordinarily researched and footnoted examination of the circumstances surrounding the pre-9/11 activities of two of the nineteen hijackers. In January 2000, Khalid Al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi attended an Al Qaeda planning meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and then flew via Thailand on to Los Angeles a few weeks later. It is not disputed that the National Security Agency knew that at least Al-Mihdhar had a visa that indicated he was to enter the U.S. after the Malaysia conference. The information was passed on to the CIA's Alec Station, the special joint CIA-FBI task force organized to get Osama bin Laden.

What happened next is thoroughly examined by Fenton in his book. An FBI agent who sees the NSA cable asks to forward this information back to FBI HQ, but he is told to hold off by a female CIA officer known to us only as "Michael," and Alec Station's CIA Deputy Chief, Tom Wilshire. Later, "Michael" will draft a cable only days later claiming the Al-Mihdhar information was passed on to the FBI. But this was untrue.

These purported "mistakes" by the CIA's CounterTerrorism component and Alec Station -- at the behest of the CIA's Tom Wilshire, an FBI agent on the scene was forestalled in warning FBI superiors of Al-Mihdhar's U.S. itinerary -- are compounded again and again over the next 18 months by other CIA personnel, by the FBI, by the NSA, by Wilshire himself yet again (this time tasked to the FBI in the spring/summer of 2001), that the idea that these two Al Qaeda operatives slipped into the U.S. due to "errors" or poor coordination between intelligence and police agencies is debunked once and for all. Fenton obliterates the argument, and leaves us asking "why"?

Fenton, a researcher with HistoryCommons.org, has written a book that will haunt you and keep you up at nights. Utilizing public source material only, he uses unassailable logic and irrefutable evidence to demonstrate his hypothesis that CIA and other intelligence personnel deliberately let the 9/11 terror act take place, for reasons that one can make reasonable assumptions, but which to date lack sufficient documentary evidence. The personnel include former DCI George Tenet, Richard Blee (the CIA manager in charge of Alec Station, and Wilshire's boss), Tom Wilshire and others, who wittingly or not, contributed to the 9/11 outcome.

Whatever you think about such hypotheses, Fenton has made a major contribution to the examination of what really happened around the 9/11 terror attack, whose consequences have been so dire for the U.S. and the population of the world, who have experienced a major escalation in U.S. armed intervention, not to mention torture and assassinations, throughout Northern and Eastern Africa, and throughout the Middle East and West and Southwestern Asia.

Read this book, and then buy a copy for your friends.

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Good information regardless of your pet theory July 30, 2011

By Johnny Nineball

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With all due respect to RT who hated the book without reading it because he perceived that it would not match his own theory about 9/11, this is a meticulously researched book full of good information. RT in his critique does a good job of explaining what the various camps are, and in fact I'm in the same camp he is. However, I still think that good information is good information. It can be interpreted in different ways. What this book shows is how absurd the series of intelligence failures leading up to 9/11 were. Now, you can interpret that as incompetence and bungling, or you can interpret it as an unfolding operation. So the fact that the author may not make the same interpretation you do does not mean he cannot do a good job of adding to your arsenal of facts, which you can perhaps spin in another direction.

Kevin Fenton's research is impeccable, and the truths he uncovers are serious. Whether you accept the whole cloth of the official explanation or you're a full on raving insider jobber, or anywhere in between, as long as you're serious about seeking information, this is undoubtedly a useful book. I agree in fact with JGold that it is indispensable.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Maintaining a lie is harder than telling the truth September 22, 2011

By Dr. Stephen Rhodes

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To someone who is already convinced that the physical evidence of the 'collapses', initially of WTCs 1 & 2 and later WTC7 have not been properly explained or even addressed in the official reports, this book will reveal the extent to which a number of people within the US security services had prepared the 'open goal' to allow 9/11 to 'succeed'.
Rejoining the Disconnected Dots is moving apace with the recent meeting at the Toronto Hearings (September 8th - 11th 2011), that among other things is calling for a fresh inquiry to explain all the lies and obfuscations the contributors see in the official reports.
Kevin Fenton's work is a major exposee of the rather poor attempts to lie about the events leading up to 9/11 and provides hooks on which to hang other pieces of evidence, such as Scott Forbes' statement that his company was informed 3 weeks in advance, by the Port Authority, of a 30+ hour complete electricity 'power down' in WTC 2 over the weekend of 8th and 9th September 2001 - this fitting in precisely with the book's documenting of the timing of the highjackers decision on the date of the attack, closely followed by the resignation of John O'Niell from the FBI on 22nd August, and Ali Soufan's removal out of the loop to Yemen.