"A measure of abnormal long put volume was also examined and seen to be at abnormally high levels in the days leading up to the attacks. Consequently, the paper concludes that there is evidence of unusual option market activity in the days leading up to September 11 that is consistent with investors trading on advance knowledge of the attacks".[67] —Allen M. Poteshman, The Journal of Business

  • Mrtryfe [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    The jet fuel can't melt steel beams stuff is bullshit to me, but that one passage from the PNAC's (run by Bill Kristol of Lincoln Project fame) paper, "Rebuilding America's Defenses" always comes to mind whenever I think of 9/11:

    Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor.

    The entire paper is mask off, so this type of line isn't even subtle. The paper makes a case about toppling Iraq, Iran, and Syria. You could make the case that the passage doesn't point to any conspiracy, since it seems logical enough that the US would need a casus belli, but damn if it isn't a bit too on the nose. Sure as shit, a few years later, the neocons were gifted 9/11.

    As an interesting aside, one of the principle authors for that paper is a transwoman that now works at AEI, lol.