Jeb Bush links to Florida’s 911 Terrorist Flght School

[Mick Meaney]

Jeb Bush linked to Florida’s 911 Terrorist Flght School
by Daniel Hopsicker

At the same time their planes were flying back and forth from Venezuela with illegal cargo Hilliard’s charter service was also, unbelievably, being utilized at virtually no cost — despite the fact that rentals for Lear jets can run as high as $1,800 an hour — by Florida Governor Jeb Bush.

A Learjet belonging to the true owner of the Venice flight school that trained both terrorist pilots who flew into the World Trade Center was seized with more than 30 pounds of heroin onboard by Federal Agents in July of 2000 at the Orlando Executive Airport.

Authorities at the time called it the biggest seizure of heroin ever found in central Florida.

The seized plane belonged to 70-year old Wallace J. Hilliard of Naples, FL., multi-millionaire businessman, self-styled Mormon Bishop, and the newly-discovered secret owner of Huffman Aviation at the Venice Airport since its purchase in 1999, just months before terrorists began arriving in force in Southwest Florida.

Hilliard was already well-known in aviation circles as the ‘money man’ and deep-pocketed financial backer of Rudi Dekkers, according to local aviation observers like chief flight instructor Tom Hammersly, who taught at the Venice Airport while the two flight schools there experienced a flood of Arab student pilots.

“What we heard was that he (Dekkers) had somebody in Naples backing him financially. We all knew that the money he (Dekkers) flaunted was not even his money, that he was just a ‘front’ man for the man who had the money,” stated Hammersly in an interview in “Mohamed Atta & the Venice Flying Circus.”

Though in his many media appearances Rudi Dekkers portrayed himself as both president and owner of Huffman Aviation, this claim, like so many other Dekkers’ pronouncements, is untrue.

Lying on and off-the-record

Court documents filed in August at the Sarasota Courthouse reveal that the so-called ‘Magic Dutch Boy’ never completed the Huffman sale, ‘neglecting’ to pay for his shares of stock in the resulting corporation.

While terrorist student pilots flew in veritable squadrons (as many as sixteen at a time) over Venice, Wally Hilliard had been Huffman Aviation’s true owner.

Nor is this the first time Rudi Dekkers has ‘neglected’ to pay for shares in business ventures. In 1995 in The Netherlands, the MadCowMorningNews has learned, Dekkers incorporated a company and never paid for his shares of stock in it either.

A Dutch court adjudged Dekkers guilty in that case of acting “in a manifestly improper fashion,” and said that “his manifest failure to properly manage the company was an important cause of (the firm’s) bankruptcy.”

As a result, Rudi Dekkers, a man who was invited to testify before the Congress of the United States of America on his thoughts on preventing future terrorist attacks, is today a fugitive from justice in his native Holland.

And while Rudi Dekkers busied himself training thousands of young Arab men to fly, from his base in Naples, just a short helicopter ride south of Venice, his partner Wally Hilliard was running a charter jet service called Plane 1 Leasing which provided the jet carrying 30 pounds of heroin.

“Celebrity Endorsement as Double-Edged Sword”

At the same time their planes were flying back and forth from Venezuela with illegal cargo Hilliard’s charter service was also, unbelievably, being utilized at virtually no cost––despite the fact that rentals for Lear jets can run as high as $1,800 an hour––by Florida Governor Jeb Bush.

Even stranger, both Governor Jeb Bush and Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris were providing celebrity endorsements to Hilliard’s operation well after the company’s Lear (N351WB) had been busted by DEA agents armed with machine guns.

Pretty poor advance work, at the very least…

One would think a sitting Governor seems well-advised to steer well clear of anything to do with heroin trafficking. Yet Governor Jeb Bush honored Hilliard’s operation––called at various times Florida Air, Sunrise Airlines and Discover Air––with a personal visit, even posing for photos with the “Discover Air family.”

The company promptly commemorated the memorable event by posting pictures of the visit on their website.

Finally somebody in the Bush camp realized their lethal potential exposure, and the webpage was hastily taken off the Discover Air site.

Getting Google-ed

But they didn’t reckon with Google’s heralded cache system. So today you can see the page in all its former glory.

Alas for Discover Air, soon after beginning operations they were forced to see their shortcomings in headlines, like this June 28, 2001 doozy from the hometown Orlando Sentinel: AIR SERVICE TO MIAMI FLOPS; NOT ONE PERSON BOUGHT A TICKET, SO DISCOVER AIR HALTED PLANS FOR FLIGHTS FROM DAYTONA BEACH.

Having “not one person buy a ticket” would seem to be hugely embarrassing to a fledgling airline… if scheduled passenger service was the true aim of the Enterprise.

Katherine Harris’ endorsement of the Hilliard/Dekkers operation must also be providing her with some bad moments today:

“As one of Florida’s top politicians, Katherine Harris doesn’t have much time to do a lot of personal traveling,” read the Sarasota Herald Tribune’s chatty lead.

“But twice in the past month or so, the secretary of state –who received national attention for her role in the November presidential election — has taken the 75-minute plane ride from her current home in Tallahassee to her old stomping grounds in Sarasota. Her choice of airline? Florida Air, a start-up commuter airline based here, grasping to be an air-taxi for the entire state.”

‘She has taken the airline twice,’ Harris spokesman Ben McKay said. ‘She appreciates the convenience that Florida Air offers.’”

Since at the same time then-Florida Secretary of State Harris was “appreciating their convenience” Florida/Discover Air had been flying passengers without holding an air carrier certificate, Ms. Harris’ reputation as a stickler for the letter of the law can be said to have suffered something of a beating.

Is it just incredible bad luck that these two prominent Florida politicians endorsed an operation that both trained murderous terrorists AND brought heroin into America?

Criminal Conspiracies & Florida: Like Cookies and Milk

Heroin overdoses kill more people in Orlando each year than anywhere else in Florida. The city’s growing importance as a major transshipment point for heroin prompted Congress to officially designate Central Florida a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area.

Thus the investigation which resulted in the big seizure was launched with some intensity after a Colombian national, Nassar Darwich, was arrested in Orlando with 1.3 kilograms of heroin in the soles of shoes he was carrying.

As a result of Darwich’s arrest, DEA agents were waiting two weeks later when the Learjet landed at the airport on July 25, and swarmed the plane brandishing machine guns, according to eyewitnesses.

Passengers Edgar Valles and Neyra Rivas, both of Caracas, Venezuela, were arrested after 13 kilograms of heroin was found hidden in the soles of tennis shoes stashed in their luggage. The pilot was not arrested, according to a DEA spokesman, because of a lack of evidence.

The flight plan of the Lear 35A originated in Venezuela and made a stop in Fort Lauderdale before landing in Orlando, with New York as its final destination. Eventually five people in Orlando were convicted in connection with the seizure, including two Venezuelans who were traveling aboard the jet when it landed at Orlando’s Executive Airport, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

“It confirms the sad fact that a massive amount of heroin is coming through Central Florida,” U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration special agent Brent Eaton told the paper when the arrests were announced.

“It’s very disturbing to the DEA that more and more high-quality heroin is coming from Colombia and at a cheaper price.”

Apparently the DEA was “very disturbed” enough to look more closely at Hilliard’s jet charter operation. The result was their firm opposition to returning the plane to Hilliard.

And although no one from Plane 1 Leasing was charged with any crime, there appears to be abundant evidence pointing to the conclusion that––at the very least––the company had to have known what was going on.

“It was just blatant,” said one aviation observer. “That same plane flew that same run thirty or forty times, ferrying the same people. And they always paid cash for the rental.”

“The red flags could not have been raised any higher.”

The plane’s frequent roundtrips to South America were confirmed by an official at Executive Jet Service, the facility which serviced the jet at Orlando Executive Airport, who stated the plane made weekly down-and-back runs to Venezuela.

This isn’t Watergate. It’s bigger.

Three weeks after his jet was impounded by the DEA, Hilliard asked for it back in a motion filed in the U.S. District Court in Orlando, arguing that he was an ‘innocent owner’ unwittingly duped by a known individual.

“Plane 1 and its officers shareholders and directors were not aware of the identity of the passengers utilizing the Lear 35A on this trip other than Mr. Valles,” stated Hilliard’s motion, and were “unaware that the individuals chartering the plane were engaging in criminal conduct,” as well as being “not aware of any facts from which they should have been aware that individuals leasing the plane were engaging in criminal conduct.”

The U.S. Attorney’s office opposed the plane’s return, “because the property was used or acquired as a result of a violation of the Controlled Substances Act.

In a hearing on November 3, 2000 Federal Magistrate Judge James Glazebrook denied Hilliard’s motion to get his Lear back.

“Wally took a big hit on that one,” stated one aviation observer at the Naples Airport. “The DEA was not going to let him have that plane back.”

“The DEA was planning on adding it to their Border Patrol fleet,” confirmed a spokesman for the Lear jet’s current owner. East Coast Jets of Allentown, PA. bought the plane, they told us, after the insurance company which had insured it for the lender against seizure successfully wrenched it back from the DEA after Hilliard had been removed from the picture.

Wally Hilliard’s central role in the purchase and operation of the flight school that was a magnet for Mohamed Atta and the Hamburg cadre requires raising some serious questions about his charter jet company’s possible involvement in heroin trafficking…

Especially since the chief product for export of Osama Bin Laden’s terrorist organization was also, strangely enough, heroin.

Perhaps this is all just coincidence.

But one has to wonder: will these questions ever be asked in a proper forum?

Is there even a pretense of democracy in America anymore?

Testifying in the wake of the 9/11 attack before the Senate Banking Committee about terrorist connections in money laundering, Assistant Attorney General Michael Chertoff said:

“Frankly, we can’t differentiate between terrorism and organized crime and drug dealing. These groups don’t hold themselves independently: they work with one another. Terrorists get engaged in drug activity. They have relationships with organized crime.”

Too true, dude. Too true.

[TonyGosling]

9/11 Flight School owner Rudi Dekkers is "Deadbeat Dad"

August 20, 2009

The reputation of Huffman Aviation principal Rudi Dekkers, whose dozens of television appearances in the aftermath of the 9/11 attack shaped the public perception of Mohamed Atta and Marwan Al-Shehhi, took another hit recently when a Dutch television show came to light.

"Spooloos," or "Vanished," a popular reality TV show in the Netherlands that travels around the world locating missing relatives for worried family and friends, portrays Dekkers' as a callous and negligent "deadbeat dad" who abandoned a young wife in the Netherlands while she was three months pregnant.

His son Patrick's attempts to establish contact with Dekkers, the father he has never known, are repeatedly rebuffed.

A translated except from the program is part of the just-released second preview of the upcoming "The New American DrugLords" documentary at www.danielhopsicker.tv

Dekker's description of events leading up to the 9/11 attack were uncritically received on network and cable news shows in America and around the world after the 9/11 attack.
Story at http://www.madcowprod.com/08202009.html

Watch the new preview from "The New American DrugLords" at danielhopsicker.tv

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[illeagalhunter]

All this was in "The Big Wedding"


http://www.amazon.com/Big-Wedding-Whistle-Blowers-Cover-up/dp/09752763 1X

[TonyGosling]

Jeb Bush Stumbles when Asked about His Actions Relating to the Day After 9/11
POSTED BY DAVE EMORY ⋅ OCTOBER 5, 2015
TAGS 2000 ELECTION, 9/11, BIN LADEN, BUSH, BUSH FAMILY, BUSH-GEORGE H W, BUSH-GEORGE W, BUSH-JEB, DRUG TRAFFICKING, HOPSICKER, HUFFMAN AVIATION, MOHAMED ATTAhttp://spitfirelist.com/news/jeb-bush-stumbles-when-asked-about-hi s-actions-relating-to-the-day-after-911/

Dave Emory’s entire lifetime of work is available on a flash drive that can be obtained here. The new drive is a 32-gigabyte drive that is current as of the programs and articles posted by late spring of 2015. The new drive (available for a tax-deductible contribution of $65.00 or more) contains FTR #850.

COMMENT: Following major heart surgery, heroic investigative journalist Daniel Hopsicker is still rockin’! “Back in the [journalistic] saddle,” he relates that Jeb Bush stumbled badly when asked about his actions on the day after 9/11.

When asked about his presence on a C-130 cargo plane carrying the files of Huffman Aviation to the Washington D.C. area, he denied it.

In his landmark book Welcome to Terrorland: Mohamed and the 9/11 Cover-Up in Florida, Daniel discussed this and referenced information provided to him by, among others, Venice police officer Mike Treanor (who died of cancer at the ripe old age of 47 in 2008.)

Among the interviews we did with Daniel describing the Jeb Bush milieu, Katherine Harris and their remarkable behavior with regard to Wally Hilliard and the milieu around Huffman Aviation are FTR #‘s 482, 483, 484.

“Jeb Bush’s 9/11 Problem” by Daniel Hopsicker; Mad Cow Morning News; 9/4/2015.

On the campaign trail in New Hampshire two weeks ago, Jeb Bush was asked a question for which he clearly wasn’t prepared, which hearkened back to Bush’s time as Florida Governor. You can see the question here.

“According to Sergeant Marty (Mike) Treanor and other law enforcement officials in Sarasota Florida, the files pertaining to 9/11 hijacker pilots Marwan Al-Shehhi and Mohamed Atta from Huffman Aviation Flight School in Venice Florida were loaded onto two Ryder trucks and driven onto a C-130 cargo plane which left Sarasota the day after 9/11,” began newly-minted radio talk show host Mike Jackman, who with his brother comprise a media outlet pols this election season can ill afford to miss appearing on called “Jackman Radio.”

“Is it true that you were onboard the C-130? And, if so, can you tell us what became of the files?”

According to those who were there, a certain amount of discomfort ensued. Bush, who has appeared as limp as overcooked spaghetti on the campaign trail, visibly stiffened.

“Is it true that you were onboard the C-130? And, if so, can you tell us what became of the files?”

According to those who were there, a certain amount of discomfort ensued. Bush, who has appeared as limp as overcooked spaghetti on the campaign trail, visibly stiffened.

“No. Not true,” he replied. Then, as an aside to those sitting in front row of his town hall meeting, he said, “How weird.”

Bush began taking another question, then stopped. His voice rising slightly to convey indignation, he said, “I was in the Emergency Operations Center trying to make sure the state of Florida was safe… trying to work with local officials to figure out how to make sure another attack wouldn’t hit and devastate our economy…That’s what I did.”

“So, that was kind of a weird… (question.)”

No, Governor, not really. What would be “weird” would be if you could back up your off-the-cuff and very startled assertion that on the day after 9/11 you were in the Florida Emergency Center with anything like proof. Because there are a number of people who know you can’t.

Jackman’s question refers to evidence uncovered during my investigation into the activities of the 9/11 hijackers in Venice. And somewhere in there Jackman had also referenced Wally Hilliard and Rudi Dekkers, the principals in Hoffman Aviation. When he did, one observer noted, Bush seemed to freeze slightly.

Perhaps that has something to do with the little-known fact that a Learjet belonging to Hilliard, who owned the Venice flight school that trained both pilots who flew planes into the World Trade Center Towers, had been caught carrying 43 pounds of heroin by DEA agents in July of 2000.

Just weeks earlier, Jeb Bush’s Secretary of State, the infamous Katherine Harris, had heaped praise on Hilliard’s start-up commuter airline, Florida Air.

Requiem for an honest cop

What follows is a re-cap from primary sources who were there —including local official and aviation observers—about what took place on the day after 9/11.

And, after that, one final astonishing disclosure, a world exclusive, revealed here for the first time.

But first, a word about the sources of the information about Bush, who it came from, and how I learned of it. In his question, Jackman references Mike (Marty) Treanor from the Venice Police Department.

Treanor was the first person to tell me of Jeb Bush’s flight to Washington with the files from Huffman Aviation and the Venice Police Department. But not the last.

“The FBI took all our files, everything,” Treanor told me. “They loaded the files right outside this window into two Ryder trucks, then drove them right onto a C-130 military cargo plane at the Sarasota Airport, which took off for Washington with Jeb Bush aboard.”

Treanor wasn’t a flake, or a name I made up. He’d been quoted in national news reports right after 9/11.

“Det. Sgt. Mike Treanor of the Venice Police Department said that FBI agents had obtained the two suspects’ school records from the Huffman school and the Voss home and identified them as two of the men who agents believe flew the hijacked jets,” reported the LA Times on Sept 13 2001.

“Treanor said FBI agents were drawn to Venice after finding Arabic language flight manuals in a car at the Boston airport.”

“’This one man, Atta,” said Treanor, “was confirmed on one of the planes that hit the towers.’”

“Like Leisure World…without the bright lights”

My personal involvement began the day after 9/11, with the news that three of the four terrorist pilots had learned to fly in tiny Venice Florida, a sleepy retirement community on Florida’s Gulf Coast. And immediately—there’s no other way to say this—I smelled a rat. For two reasons:

First, I knew Venice. My parents retired there in the early 80’s. And being a (semi)-dutiful son, I’d visit them regularly, flying in from California, where I lived. And if by the third or fourth night I was there I was restless enough to feel the need to go out and have a beer, I knew from personal experience that there was no place to go, and nothing to do… because Venice, Florida has the second oldest population in the entire United States. Picture Sun City, or Leisure World… only without the bright lights.

So what were young men with no known fetishes for blue-haired widows doing in Venice? Especially considering there are 220 other flight schools in Florida alone?

It didn’t make sense.

And second, the way the news quietly dribbled out didn’t make sense, either. That three of the four terrorist pilots—including both pilots who slammed planes in the World Trade Center Towers—had learned to fly in Venice instantly made Venice Florida the biggest September 11th crime scene that wasn’t reduced to rubble.

But when I rolled into Venice Florida three months after 9/11, there hadn’t been any spotting of Bob Woodward or Seymour Hersh or Michael Isikoff at any local watering holes.

The town seemed eerily quiet. Quiet but jittery, I discovered. In 25 years of visiting the parents I hadn’t remembered ever even seeing a cop, but on my first day in town, I was pulled over twice by local police.

Neither traffic stop resulted in a ticket. But when I wondered aloud if it might be prudent to pay a courtesy call on the Police Chief, the courteous officer allowed that it might.

Paying a courtesy call on the Chief

So I slid on by the new Police Headquarters to say hello. The Chief wasn’t in, or if he was, wasn’t receiving. And that’s how I met the Sergeant on duty, Mike Treanor, who proved congenial enough for me to ask the burning question I had about Huffman’s manager Rudi Dekkers, who had been everywhere on television during the days after the attack.

My strong suspicion was that every word out of his mouth had been a lie. So I asked my question. “Does Rudi Dekkers’ have any local priors (prior arrests)?”

Sergeant Treanor sighed. He started to say something. He thought better of it. And then he sighed again.

“Trust local before state. And never trust the Feds”

When Treanor died of cancer in 2008, his obituary in the Sarasota Herald Tribune called him the “voice of the Venice Police Department.”

“His professionalism, compassion and occasional humor had earned him the respect of his colleagues in law enforcement,” said a fellow officer. “He was gregarious, friendly and had a big heart.”

Moreover, he wasn’t afraid of speaking his mind. He was openly critical of a Venice Chief of Police— even filing a complaint against him for improperly handling a criminal investigation—for more than a year before the Chief was forced out.



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Gene “Chip” Tatum has alot of interesting stories about the Bush family getting rich(er) from dope smuggling. See his Tatum Chronicles which talks, among other things, about his boss Oliver North and fellow pilot Barry Seal. According to Tatum, Jeb told North to “take care of Seal” by calling his “Columbians”.

[outsider]

Mike Treanor - another 'convenient' cancer death of a 'problem person' for the PTB, just like Aaron Russo and Jack Ruby.