1) insider trading (put options to an unprecedented level) on days just proceeding 9/11 on AA, UA and others with offices in the WTC
Ed: and what of the may other companies w/o offices in the WTC that experienced similar unprecedented levels. And where dod thos elevels go during the following weeks
2) numerous military officers cancelling flights on 9/11 teh day before
Ed: There are numerous flight cancellations by military officers most any day. But then there where also many military officers who did take commercial flights on that day.
3) Dick Cheney's taking over directing wargame exercsies (at least 3 of them) - unheardof that a VP would do so- in the summer of 2001.
Ed: If by unheard of you mean it had not happened before so what, Bush had pledged to use Cheney in activities more significant that many previous VP's. And after Cheney was next in line for Commander and Chief.
4) FEMA moved from their exercise location on Long Island to the pier beside the WTC on the eveninig before 9/11 and then used in the cleanup unwittingly.
Ed: And when was that move first announced? And what is meant by, they where used "unwittingly" in the cleanup? What agency had more experience in disaster clean up? Including the coordination of volunteers from hundreds of organizations including the ABC-USA, CBF & yes the SBC as where the Salvation Army, Seventh Day Adventist and others . I understand that our ABCNYS Disaster relief trailer was on site that evening.
5) the removal of steel beams from the crime scene of the century - illegal to say the least (all cut to approximately the size to fit on the dump trucks and removed to China)
Ed: And what was to be done with the tons and tons of debris. When you say it was illegal, according to what law? The site was secured, photographed and video taped from many angles according to standard NYC Building codes before any thing was moved. (That is not to say there where no morbid souvenir profiteers who carted away some stuff in the first 24 hours.) The first time I saw the site (almost a year after the event) there where several piles of these beams stacked around the areas and damaged structural steel still standing. The most memorable, a cross shaped remnant that has been in thousands of pictures. When we where in the City last Summer we found that cross In a temporary resting place next to St. Peter's Catholic church a few blocks from the site. There is a plaque, which says "This cross will be returned to and become a permanent part of the memorial site". A bronze Partially Crushed Globe of the world that stood in the main WTC Plaza Is now on display on the conner entrance to Battery Park nearest the site. And construction has begun on the new memorial. In the past decade this has undoubetedly been the number one tourist attraction in NYC.
6) the delay of any investigation (Cheney asked Daschle/Congress not to investgate) until 444 days after 9/11 (unheard of - all other tragedies [Challenger, Pan Am, etc.] were started within a week]
Ed: Chaney asked what? Why? The NYPD, The Port Authority, the NY State Police, The FBI and the CIA, and FAA plus insurance investigators from dozens of companies where already doing the investigation.
7) Patriot Act written prior to 9/11 (it had to be given its size and complexity)
Ed: No doubt the administration had wanted to implement such legislation and this became a prime opportunity. As for the timing of producing the document. I see it as akin to the media having lengthy obituaries just hours after the death of a celebrity, they keep a file of pre prepared obit and then just fill in pertinent info to update.
8 ) the refusal to release 45 of the 47 video tapes of the Pentagon crash
Ed: The Pentagon had long had ts own perhaps overly stringent security policies, in place before 9/11.
9) they apparenty lost 3 of the "black boxes {really orange}" that firemen brought in as evidence at the WTC site
Ed: Who lost them? When? See http://www.mishalov.com/wtc-flight-93-transcript.html