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The Pentagon
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Shakespeare 9/11 (Sonnet 64)
When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced
The rich proud cost of outworn buried age;
When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed
And brass eternal slave to mortal rage;
When I have seen the hungry ocean gain
Advantage on the kingdom of the shore,
And the firm soil win of the watery main,
Increasing store with loss and loss with store;
When I have seen such interchange of state,
Or state itself confounded to decay;
Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate,
That Time will come and take my love away.
This thought is as a death, which cannot choose
But weep to have that which it fears to lose.
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The Pentagon
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The Pentagon
Big Brass’s offices
on opposite side
(not sure where)
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Pentagon
Official Story
• American Airlines flight 77
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took off from Dulles Airport
flew west into West Virginia
turned around & came back
circled the Pentagon in 330º 7000’ descending
loop
– approached the Pentagon’s west side at about
500mph, knocking over lightpoles
– crashed into the west side at an angle at
ground level, penetrating 3 of 5 “rings”
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Pentagon
Official Story
The route according to the NSTSB
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Pentagon
Official Story
Versions of 330º approach loop
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Pentagon
Official Story
Approach path
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Pentagon
Official Story
Path through building
Note that E-D-C
rings are joined
on the lower
levels
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Pentagon: Official Story
Path
through
building,
showing
column
damage
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What time is it?
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Official story
9:37
Stopped Pentagon clock
9:32
Alberto Gonzales (WH council) 9:32
FAA (9/17)
9:32
Robert Andrews
9:35
(act asst SoD Spec Ops, keeps his watch
fast, describing violent event at)
• April Gallop’s watch stopped
9:30
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Pentagon
Official Story
Damage to face of Pentagon
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Pentagon
Official Story
Damage to face of Pentagon
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Pentagon
Official Story
Damage to face of Pentagon
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Pentagon
Official Story
Damage to face of Pentagon
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Pentagon
Official Story
Damage to face of Pentagon
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The Pentagon: Damage
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Pentagon
Official Story
Damage lawn (none)
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The Pentagon
Collapse
The collapse initiated at the
fifth floor along the building
expansion joint, proceeded
continuously and was
completed within a few
seconds, at 9:57 (19 minutes
after alleged impact)
-- Pentagon building
performance report
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The Pentagon: Collapse
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The Pentagon: Collapse
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The Cameras
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The Cameras
• 9/11: Within minutes, FBI confiscates security
videotapes from Pentagon, Citgo station, and
Doubletree Hotel (staff watching in horror)
• 2001-2006: FBI releases none
• 2002: 5 frames leaked (w/ Sept 12 date)
• 2004: various FOIA suits started, FBI fights them
all the way
• 9/2005: FBI acknowledges 85 tapes “potentially
responsive,” only two show impact
• 12/2006: at Moussawi trial, FBI releases
– Pentagon (2, neither shows a plane, no time stamp)
– Citgo station (mostly interior)
– Doubletree (shows explosion, but not Pentagon itself)
• WHY????
http://911research.wtc7.net/pentagon/evidence/footage.html
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The Cameras
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Released Pentagon Camera 1
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The Cameras
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Released Pentagon Camera 2
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The Cameras
Released Pentagon Camera 2 “with plane”
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The Cameras
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Doubletree Hotel camera
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The Cameras
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Citgo Gas Station camera
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Pentagon:
911’s most controversial aspect
• Was it a plane, a missile, a bomb -any or all of these?
• If it a plane was involved
– Was it a Boeing 757?
– Was it AA 77?
– How did it approach the Pentagon?
– Did it actually hit the Pentagon?
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Pentagon:
911’s most controversial aspect
The central point:
• The “other” side is either
– Deliberately creating dysinformation or
– Carelessly ignoring relevant facts
• Either way, it’s
– Creating discord within the movement, &
– Discrediting the movement in public eyes:
“Those people can’t get their act together”
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Pentagon:
911’s most controversial aspect
We now have the correctly decoded digital flight data from
Flight 77 and it’s time for more people to get behind the call to
reason on the Pentagon issue leading up to the tenth
anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks! There is nothing wrong with
supporting the parts of the “official story” of 9/11 that are most
likely true. The team at Visibility 9-11 believe, as does Dr
Legge, that it actually helps the interested public and
especially the scientific community to see us as reasoned and
balanced truth advocates when we do exactly that.
Lets stop being what we are labeled as “conspiracy theorists”
and become “conspiracy factulists!”
-- 9/11visiblity
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Pentagon:
911’s most controversial aspect
Methods of Marginalization
(most often used by debunkers, but sometimes by doubters)
• Straw man -- picking a minor or not-widely held
point and portraying it as characteristic or vital to
opponents position
• Evidence -- ignoring/omitting evidence inconsistent
with one’s own position or supporting opponent’s
• Personal attacks -- beyond legitimate questioning of
qualifications (including questions of financing)
• Language -- snide, vitriolic, drowning-out
• “Balance” -- presenting two sides but deliberately
damaging one
• Outright censorship or suppression
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Pentagon:
911’s most controversial aspect
Methods of Marginalization
• Allegations
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Junk science
Disinformation
Dysfunctional focus
Impossibility
• Examples
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Architects/Engineers <---> Wooders
Architects/Engineers <---> Pilots
Wooders ---> Steven Jones
9/11 Blogger locking out Pilots
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Pentagon:
911’s most controversial aspect
Methods of Marginalization
Cognitive Infiltration (Cass Sunstein, 2008)
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Conspiracy theory: asserts an event is caused by machinations of
powerful people who hide their role
CT can be true -- government sometimes does bad things -- but
usually not.
911Truth believes government knew and allowed, destroyed WTC
and covered up
They accept this not because of mental illness, but lack of good
sources (“crippled epistemology”)
Demonstrably false, unjustified, weak/nonexistent evidence, leads
to “degenerating research program” (continued)
Summary from Cognitive Infiltration: An Obama Appointee’s Plan
to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory (David Ray Griffin)
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Pentagon:
911’s most controversial aspect
Methods of Marginalization
Cognitive Infiltration (continued: #6-10)
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9/11 Truth are extremists who will become violent -- or at least
spread skepticism and dampen government support, undermine
democratic debate
Conspiracy theories hard to undermine/dispel, but if dangerous,
government should do so
Undermine by
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Demand: inoculate public against it
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Supply: debias or disable believers
Presenting credible evidence won’t work: theory is “self-sealing”
and resistant to contrary evidence
Can’t ban theory or punish proponents, so must “engage in
cognitive infiltration of the groups that produce conspiracy
theories”
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Crash, Bomb, Both?
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No Plane?
Witnesses claimed:
• Absence of jet-fuel
• No luggage, seats, passengers
• No plane parts -- “Where’s the
plane?”
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No Plane?
Building face damage
• Much controversy over this
– Entrance hole too small?
– Not enough damage sideways or
above to indicate wing or tail
contact
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No Plane?
High-speed plane crash into wall
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Test of F-4
Phantom hitting
reinforced
concrete wall at
500mph.
A C-130 trying to
land (slow) in Iran
hit an apartment
building, 1/3 of
wing and engines
left, otherwise
very small pieces
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Was the path right : No
Citizens Investigation Team
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Interviewed Pentagon police sergeants Legasse and Brooks
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Was the path right : No
Citizens Investigation Team
North of Citgo (CIT) vs. South of Citgo (official)
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Was the path right : No
Citizens Investigation Team
CIT interviewed Arlington Cemetery employees and store
owner, all of whom saw plane go North of Citgo station
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Was the path right : Yes
Light poles knocked over
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Was the path right : Yes
Light poles knocked over
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Was the path right : Yes
Cable hit by falling light pole
CIT interviewed Lloyd, the cab driver, took him back to the spot
(he disagreed where it was), got very ambiguous answers
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Was the path right : Yes
Cable spools and generator
Cable spools, an emergency generator and fence in the official
approach path were appropriately knocked around and damaged
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Was it a 757 : Yes
Identifiable pieces found
Fuselage piece, American Airlines markings
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Was it a 757 : Yes
Identifiable pieces found
Apparent 757 engine rotor
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Was it a 757 : Yes
Identifiable pieces found
Apparent 757 wheel
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Was it a 757 : No
• Newsman: said only tiny pieces that could be
picked up in the hand; later changed story
• Plane weighs about 100,000 pounds. Debris
accounts for only a small proportion of that
• Pilots for 9/11 Truth
– To clear Virginia DOT communications antenna
and then drop to hit the Pentagon first floor
would involve 13G force, far more than
necessary to pull the plane apart
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Was it Flight 77?
Origin of the identification
Dulles ATC: saw plane at 9:25, speed and maneuverability
seemed like military plane
ABC 10:32: F77 hijacked, no mention of coming back toward
DC
Fox: hit by Air Force flight
First: Pentagon website that day: hit by “commercial airliner,
possibly hijacked”
“Flight 77” spreads through media that afternoon (LA Times:
came from military officials speaking on condition of
anonymity)
Ted/Barbara Olson supposed phone calls
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Was it Flight 77?: No
Failure of identification
• Serial numbers on Time Change Parts
– Every commercial airliner has hundreds of parts that
are identified by serial number. FBI has never released
any of these.
• Passengers
– FBI claims to have identified every passenger and the
supposed hijackers by DNA analysis, but has never
provided evidence
– Arlington County coroner (the person with normal
jurisdiction) was denied access
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Was it Flight 77?: No
Flight Data Recorder
• Identification -- NTSB always lists FDR serial numbers in
crash reports, did not do so for any of the 9/11 flights.
• Finding
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News reported it found at about 4AM, Friday, Sept 14
NTSB helped FBI create the report
Time stamp on report was before midnight, Thursday, Sept 13
News reports: Found near entry; Pentagon building report: 300’
in
• Pilots for 9/11 Truth
– Got copy of binary report file from NTSB
– Met secretly in hotel room with employee from company that makes the
FDR, he converted binary file to spreadsheet
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Oddities
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Was it Flight 77?: No
Flight Data Recorder Info
• Pilots for 9/11 Truth
– Got copy of binary report file from NTSB
– Met secretly in hotel room with employee from
company that makes the FDR, he converted
binary file to spreadsheet
• Oddities -- many, e.g.,
– Approach was too high to hit light poles
– Cockpit door (checked every 4 secs) was never open
• Later a different report was released with different
data.
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Was it a Bomb?
Bomb
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Toronto BLEVE
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When a high-explosive explodes, the shockwave
moves out at tremendous speed, causing water vapor
in the air to condense in a cloud (usually white, but
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sometimes orange).
A Bomb?
Witness descriptions
• Bomb-sniffing dogs in Pentagon metro that
morning
• Lt.Col. Victor Correa: thought someone
planted bombs because “we saw these holes”
• Steve Vogel (Pentagon history): no one
thought it was a plane, all thought it was a
bomb
• Hundreds of people running for the entrance
saying bomb had gone off
• Several described smell of cordite, not jet fuel
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A Bomb?
Pattern of Deaths in Pentagon
• E,D,C: Plane supposedly penetrated
E, D, and C rings, stopped there
• B: Many DoD people rushed to what
appeared most damaged area, B ring
between 4th and 5th corridors
• A: Robert Andrews, on way to find
out what happened, stepped over
bodies in A (innermost) ring
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A Bomb?
April Gallop
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A Bomb?
Fire (non) Damage
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But of course the collapse happened after the fireball...
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A Bomb?
Possible combination?
• Could have been used in combination
with a plane impact, either to destroy
evidence or as the principal tool with
the plane as a cover
• Would explain reports of outwardbent material.
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A Bomb?
Watch
Barbara Honneger’s
presentation at the
2011 Toronto Hearings,
Day 2
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No warning?
• FAA notified NORAD informally of Flight
77 fairly early
• Formal notification at 9:24
• No alarms or evacuation of Pentagon
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No Warning?
Where’s Dick?
(re: Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC))
• 9/11 Commission -- Cheney got there ~10:00
– Secret Service: entered corridor at 9:37 then talked on
phone to Bush, joined by wife, still talking to Bush at
9:55 (but supportive data no longer available)
• Despite testimony that
– Mineta: arrived at ~9:20, Cheney there
– Rice: told Clarke she was going to PEOC to be with
Cheney, ~9:15
– Clarke: told Mineta he should go to PEOC to be with
Cheney (also ~9:15)
• Cheney (on Meet the Press): was already in PEOC
when Pentagon hit
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No Warning?
Where’s Rummy?
• 9/11 Commission
– DR meets with CIA briefer after WTC, until Pentagon
strike
– Went to see what was going on, back at 10:00
– DR had no “situational awareness” until 10:40
• Donald Rumsfeld
– DR heard explosion, went and helped out with injured
until came back to office half hour later
• Richard Clarke (counter-terrorism czar)
– DR in videoconference that started at 9:10
• Robert Andrews (Asst Secy Defense for Special Ops)
– DR went to Executive Support Center (videoconf) room
after 9:03 WTC2 hit
– Was there talking with White House immediately after
Pentagon hit
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No Warning?
Mineta Testimony
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No Warning?
The E-4B Doomsday Plane
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No Warning?
The E-4B Doomsday Plane
• CNN Video (18 min)
– E-4B appears at 6:20
– Pentagon smoke appears at 8:40
• Genl. Clyde Vaughn (Dir. Military Support)
Pentagon hit a few minutes after he saw E-4B
loitering over Georgetown (9/13)
• Channel 4 UK (9/13)
reports of military plane circling Capitol minutes
before Pentagon hit
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No Warning?
The E-4B Doomsday Plane
• Response by military
– Air Force: no knowledge
– Pentagon: not a military aircraft
– Off record: it was a military aircraft
• Significance:
If it was flying over DC over 2 minutes before
Pentagon hit, the Pentagon knew about the
incoming plane.
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Recommended
For further insights:
http://911research.wtc7.net/pentagon/
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/
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