n November 2002 Barbara Honegger released her article "The U.S. Government, Not the Hijackers, 'Chose' the Date of the 9-11 Attacks", which was mirrored at 911pi.Com. Honegger criticised in some points the official version of Sep11th: "Military aircraft had more than enough time - nearly three quarters of an hour -- to respond to and intercept the 9-11 Pentagon plane after all key decision makers were 100% certain the Twin Tower hits had been terrorist attacks and that Flight 77 had also been hijacked, but didn't do so 'in time'." Honegger mentioned the CIA-exercise from Sep11th: "Top US Intelligence Agency was to simulate plane crash into gov't bldg. on September 11, 2001. U.S. intelligence agency was planning an exercise last Sept. 11 in which an errant aircraft would crash into one of its buildings. Full story at: http://www.airdisaster.com/news/0802/22/news.shtml She explained, "why the leak of the exact wording (not the fact of, which had already been reported in the Washington Times two weeks after 9-11) of a Sept. 10, 2001 NSA intercept so worried and infuriated Vice President Cheney that he demanded an FBI investigation of members of the House and Senate Intel Committee Joint 9-11 investigation to determine who might have leaked it. That key intercept between the leader of the the 9-11 hijackers, Atta,Mohammad, and the 'mastermind' of the 9-11 plot, Khalid Sheikh Mohammad, said: "The Match is about to begin. Tomorrow (i.e. 9-11) is zero hour." "Match", of course, is what you would expect if the speaker were referring to his discovery of the date that the U.S. Gov't had selected to conduct its counter-terror simulation/exercise on the scenario of plane(s) crashing into gov't buildings - one that was about to turn very real when the terrorists 'piggybacked' their long-planned plot onto it." "...This also explains the choice of date for the attack, which was the date chosen for the 'emergency' preparedness exercise. 9-11 is U.S. abbreviation for 'emergency', and that's precisely the kind of code name the military and intel communities like to give their 'exercises'. " Honeggers conclusion was that Bin al Shibh, Atta, and Mohammad didn't 'choose the date'. The U.S. Government did. She suggested a public 911-commission and declassification of some CIA-files Barbara Honegger's article was mirrored on various independent 911-related websites. She is author of the book "October Surprise". Honegger is a former member of the Reagan administration who held several sensitive positions. Before she was working as a researcher at the Hoover Institution After becoming disillusionised by Reagan, she started to leak her insights abouty the Iran-Contra-affair in mid-1987 after it had become a household word. October Surprise" refers to the evidence that the Reagan campaign cut a secret (and treasonous) deal with Iran to delay the release of the American hostages, in order to keep President Carter from arranging a surprise release in October and winning the November election. Honegger investigated very early on the September 11th attacks. She sent an "Extreme Alert" memo to Ashcroft on September 19, 2001, insisting that Judge Royce Lamberth , who is chief judge in the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court (FISA) , be investigated. The memo went to Thomas Picard, the FBI agent in charge of the September 11 investigation. Her memo informed Ashcroft and Picard that Judge Lamberth "may have himself been acting with and on behalf of Islamic extremists." Honegger explained, that this same Chief FISA Court Judge Royce Lamberth shut down "up to 20" FISA wiretaps of Al Qaeda-related suspects linked to the near-simultaneous -- "twin" -- 1998 Africa U.S. embassy bombings. These 20 may well be, or significantly overlap with, the 20 9-11 hijackers -- 19 plus suspected "20th hijacker," Zacarias Moussaoui. Lamberth was judge in some cases of the liberty watch group Judicial Watch (->), too.