Stanley Hilton now
figures his case is stronger because of a coalition of
attorneys, victims' families and bipartisan legislators
who gathered in Washington on Monday to condemn the
government's lack of action in preventing the Sept. 11
attacks.
Hilton is the San Francisco
attorney who filed a $7 billion lawsuit in U.S. District
Court on June 3 against President Bush and other
government officials for "allowing" the terrorist
attacks to occur.
Among Hilton's allegations:
Bush conspired to create the Sept. 11 attacks for his
own political gain and has been using Osama bin Laden as
a scapegoat.
Hilton said he has
information that bin Laden died several years ago of
kidney failure.
"I hope it will expose the
fact that there are numbers of people in the government,
including Bush and his top assistants, who wanted this
to happen," Hilton said.
His class-action suit named
10 defendants, including Vice President Dick Cheney,
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of
Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Transportation Secretary
Norman Mineta. Hilton said he represents the families of
14 victims and that 400 plaintiffs are involved
nationwide.
White House spokesman Ken
Macias and Department of Justice public affairs officer
Charles Miller each said their departments were unaware
of the lawsuit.
Hilton, Sen. Bob Dole's
former aide, has been publicly critical of conservatives
in books he has written about Dole and the Clinton sex
scandal. Hilton, who said he has sources within the FBI,
CIA, the National Security Agency and Naval
intelligence, demands Bush's impeachment and believes
the truth will come out in trial.
Hilton claims the Bush
administration ignored intelligence information, refused
to round up suspected terrorists beforehand, and during
the hijackings refused to disable pilot controls and
switch to a ground-based remote system.
He claims the government
benefited from installing a puppet Afghan government
friendly to U.S. oil interests.
Hilton also says Bush used
bin Laden's antagonist image to create a public frenzy,
which allowed the Bush administration to tighten its
political grip.
E-mail: dkiefer@sfexaminer.com
