The Pentagon

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The Pentagon

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Shakespeare 9/11 (Sonnet 64)

When I have seen by Time's fell hand defacedThe rich proud cost of outworn buried age;When sometime lofty towers I see down-razedAnd brass eternal slave to mortal rage;When I have seen the hungry ocean gainAdvantage 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 chooseBut 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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PentagonOfficial Story

• American Airlines flight 77– 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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The route according to the NSTSB

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Versions of 330º approach loop

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Approach path

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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?

• 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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Damage to face of Pentagon

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The Pentagon: Damage

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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

http://911research.wtc7.net/pentagon/evidence/footage.html

http://911research.wtc7.net/pentagon/evidence/footage.html

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The Cameras

Released Pentagon Camera 1

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The Cameras

Released Pentagon Camera 2



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The Cameras

Released Pentagon Camera 2 “with plane”

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The Cameras

Doubletree Hotel camera



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The Cameras

Citgo Gas Station camera



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• 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?

Pentagon:911’s most controversial aspect

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• 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”


The central point:

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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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• 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

(most often used by debunkers, but sometimes by doubters)


Methods of Marginalization

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• Allegations– Junk science– Disinformation– Dysfunctional focus– Impossibility

• Examples– Architects/Engineers <---> Wooders– Architects/Engineers <---> Pilots– Wooders ---> Steven Jones– 9/11 Blogger locking out Pilots



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1. Conspiracy theory: asserts an event is caused by machinations of powerful people who hide their role

2. CT can be true -- government sometimes does bad things -- but usually not.

3. 911Truth believes government knew and allowed, destroyed WTC and covered up

4. They accept this not because of mental illness, but lack of good sources (“crippled epistemology”)

5. Demonstrably false, unjustified, weak/nonexistent evidence, leads to “degenerating research program” (continued)

Cognitive Infiltration (Cass Sunstein, 2008)

Summary from Cognitive Infiltration: An Obama Appointee’s Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory (David Ray Griffin)



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1. 9/11 Truth are extremists who will become violent -- or at least spread skepticism and dampen government support, undermine democratic debate

2. Conspiracy theories hard to undermine/dispel, but if dangerous, government should do so

3. Undermine by• Demand: inoculate public against it• Supply: debias or disable believers

4. Presenting credible evidence won’t work: theory is “self-sealing” and resistant to contrary evidence

5. Can’t ban theory or punish proponents, so must “engage in cognitive infiltration of the groups that produce conspiracy theories”

Cognitive Infiltration (continued: #6-10)



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Crash, Bomb, Both?



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• Absence of jet-fuel

• No luggage, seats, passengers

• No plane parts -- “Where’s the plane?”

No Plane?Witnesses claimed:

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• Much controversy over this– Entrance hole too small?– Not enough damage sideways or

above to indicate wing or tail contact

No Plane?Building face damage

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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

No Plane?High-speed plane crash into wall



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Was the path right : NoCitizens Investigation Team

Interviewed Pentagon police sergeants Legasse and Brooks





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North of Citgo (CIT) vs. South of Citgo (official)

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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 : YesLight poles knocked over

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Was the path right : YesLight poles knocked over

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Was the path right : YesCable 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 : YesCable 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


Apparent 757 engine rotor

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Was it a 757 : Yes


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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• 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

Was it Flight 77?: No Failure of identification

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• Identification -- NTSB always lists FDR serial numbers in crash reports, did not do so for any of the 9/11 flights.

• Finding– 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

• Oddities

Was it Flight 77?: No Flight Data Recorder

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• 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.

Was it Flight 77?: No Flight Data Recorder Info

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Was it a Bomb?Bomb Toronto BLEVE

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 sometimes orange).





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• 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

A Bomb?Witness descriptions

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• 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

A Bomb?Pattern of Deaths in Pentagon

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A Bomb?April Gallop



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A Bomb?Fire (non) Damage



But of course the collapse happened after the fireball...

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• 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 outward-bent material.

A Bomb?Possible combination?

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Watch

Barbara Honneger’s

presentation at the

2011 Toronto Hearings,

Day 2

A Bomb?

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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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• 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

No Warning?Where’s Rummy?

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No Warning?Mineta Testimony



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No Warning?The E-4B Doomsday Plane



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• 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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• 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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RecommendedFor further insights:

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