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The Big Wedding: 9/11, The Whistleblowers, and the Cover-Up by Sander Hicks With Research Assistance by Allan Duncan. 9/11 was allowed to happen by Bush’s architects of death. Every five years or so comes the kind of book that is likely to lead to the resignation and impeachment of senior White House officials. In March, Vox Pop will publish such a book: The Big Wedding: 9/11, The Whistleblowers, and the Cover-Up by Sander Hicks, the gutsy investigative journalist and "punk of publishing" who started Soft Skull Press and Vox Pop. # Hicks was the first to savage the 9/11 Commission Report for its litany of omissions in the aggressively contrarian New York Press. # Hicks was the first journalist to report on 9/11 widow Ellen Mariani's lawsuit against Bush in the investigative newsweekly Long Island Press. # Hicks is the only writer on 9/11 who traveled to Toronto to find the man who predicted 9/11 from inside a jail cell, and he's the only reporter to have been verbally abused by a member of the 9/11 Commission. Hicks was the first television reporter to broadcast an interview with Mohamed Atta's American stripper girlfriend, Amanda Keller. Everything she said contradicted the FBI's official story about Atta in Florida. In Hicks' interviews with researcher Daniel Hopsicker, it looks like Atta was in Florida because of the connections between the Huffman Aviation flight school, Bush family friends, and narcotics trafficking. But only Hicks connects the dots: with Atta's level of access, it's likely he was a double agent in the US/Al Qaeda spy war. At INN World Report television, Hicks broadcast a definitive piece on 9/11 Whistleblower Randy Glass that went farther than Dateline NBC had been willing to go. Glass is a former jewelry thief-turned-FBI informant who infiltrated Pakistani terrorist groups close to 9/11, the ISI, and CIA. At the last minute, Glass divulged information that could not be included in the broadcast, but is now the hottest smoking gun in the book. Glass's arms dealers/terrorists told him the World Trade Center would be attacked. Out of concern, in July of 2001, Glass called the State Department and said,"Look. Listen, I know the World Trade Center is going to be attacked." But what did one of Colin Powell's right-hand men tell Glass that summer? "Randy listen, you cannot mention any of these things, especially airplanes being used to fly into the World Trade Center." With original research and interviews, The Big Wedding provides a new level of proof that Bush's advisors had detailed foreknowledge of 9/11. The book dispenses with the hypothetical and the realm of maybe. It attacks the kooky conspiracy theories, like "no-plane-hit-the-Pentagon," which distract from certain suppressed historical truths: the CIA has had a controlling, client relationship with the powerful Pakistani intelligence group, ISI. The ISI has proven links to 9/11; they were key funders, trainers, and supporters. Therefore, it's impossible that the CIA and White House didn't have detailed foreknowledge of 9/11 Hicks provides details from the Iran/Contra and Bank of Credit and Commerce International scandals that aid our understanding of the global political struggle and the secret history that never makes its way onto corporate media outlets. BCCI, like 9/11, involved black market global capital, the Bush family, the Pakistanis, and the CIA. An overview of the literature on BCCI, as well as all other 9/11 books, is a big feature of Big Wedding. Hicks also relates personal details: his intimacy with Bush biographer Jim Hatfield, and the secrets Jim took to his grave in July 2001. For the first time, Hicks tells the story of his personal recruitment by the CIA, and why he rebuffed the offer. This story is evident of one thing: Hicks must be onto something. Former CIA director George Tenet was awarded the highest civilian honor, the Medal of Freedom on December 13, 2004. But only Sander Hicks and the Big Wedding report that Tenet should have instead been convicted of perjury: he lied to the 9/11 Commission, under oath, saying that he didn't visit President Bush in Crawford, Texas, in August 2001. Only The Big Wedding proves that Tenet in fact visited Crawford, not twice, but three times. Big Wedding finds a pattern and it names names: the FBI and CIA higher-ups who have been covering the trail of 9/11. Big Wedding will conclude by calling for a full Congressional reform of Federal law enforcement and intelligence, as sweeping as that of the Church Committee in the late seventies. We don't need more centralization; we need to smash the CIA into a "thousand pieces" like JFK said. In the spirit of full disclosure, a generous cornucopia of appendices includes full, unedited interview transcripts, copies of hand-written notes, legal documents, photos, and phone records compiled since 1999. In March 2005, The Big Wedding will prove that 9/11 wasn't a surprise to anyone but the American people who suffered its attack. The top levels of the FBI, CIA, ONI, DIA, ATF and the Bush White House used 9/11 to justify dual, pre-planned wars of expansion. The Big Wedding announces the marriage of evil and the justice its been evading. Sander Hicks has reported on 9/11 issues since 9/2001 for Guerrilla News, Long Island Press and INN World Report, a TV news show on the Dish Network. Hicks is founder of Soft Skull Press, Inc and Vox Pop/Drench Kiss Media Corporation. He has spoken publicly about 9/11 alongside Scott Ritter, the UN arms inspector. He was recently interviewed by Janeane Garafalo about 9/11 on nation-wide radio network Air America, and addressed a massive audience at the historic Riverside Church, in New York, on the topic of the "9/11 Cover Up." Co-Editor/Researcher Allan Duncan recently contributed a twenty page affidavit to the November 2003 racketeering lawsuit Marian Elleni Vs. George Bush, in which a 9/11 widow sued the White House for gross negligence in preventing 9/11 and the wrongful death of her husband. Drenchkiss.com: Allan Duncan's New 9/11 Investigation Blog >> Let this Man Send you Truth about 9/11! Request a Subscription to Allan Duncan's E-list aduncan@drenchkiss.com