First of a 9/11 article series: Critical Insights
This coming September marks the 25th anniversary of the deadliest terrorist attack launched on American soil. It is downright frightening, almost daunting, how few Americans are aware of even the most basic elements of what happened on that tragic day and how the government covered up the worst of it. Accordingly an article series that addresses some of these issues is being prepared.
This first article quotes from high ranking government officials, both in the military and the civilian sector that hopefully will convince you that there is a larger truth that needs to be exposed.
Lieutenant Colonel Dave Gap a retired 30-year veteran senior aircraft crash investigator and who was chief of Master Air Attack planning for both the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars insists that he is not a conspiracy theorist but recognizes that “the story we’ve been told about 9/11 doesn’t add up.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtFXYJlj61s&t=4116s 1:15:37 Minutes
Standing in front of the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, Jamie McIntyre, CNN’s senior Pentagon correspondent since November 1992, reported to Judy Woodruff:
“From my close up inspection there’s no evidence of a plane having crashed anywhere near the Pentagon. . . . . The only pieces left that you can see are small enough that you could pick up in your hand. There are no large tail sections, wing sections, fuselage — nothing like that anywhere around which would indicate that the entire plane crashed into the side of the Pentagon.”
https://www.twf.org/News/Y2005/0307-Pentagon.html
Nota bene!
This link was to the live 9/11 CNN broadcast.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHeYFTPG4KQ
YouTube has removed the video for violating its hate speech policy and now McIntyre insists that he was misunderstood. But McIntyre was not the only first hand observer who reported the lack of evidence that a plane crashed into the Pentagon.
Bob Pugh, freelance photographer, who filmed the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, said in his videotaped account, “I’m looking for wreckage, . . . I can’t see anything that I recognize. I can’t see the tail, I can’t see the wheel, I can’t see the engine. There’s no chairs, there’s no luggage there’s no logo. . . . The largest piece I saw was may be 2 by 3 feet.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYtgumGX8aI&t=3s
Neither did Lt. Robert Medairos from the Arlington County Police.
“They said it was a plane and I didn’t see any pieces of any plane.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb6C3j2jHtk 6:22 – 6:24 Minutes
From the book 9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out:
“Former pilot Ralph Ombholt, discussing the photographic evidence, writes: ‘There is no doubt that a plane did not hit the Pentagon. There is no hole big enough to swallow a 757…. There was no tail, no wings; no damage consistent with a B-757 crash.’” https://archive.org/details/911americanempir0000unse/page/34/mode/2up?q=debris
Major General Albert Stubblebine, U.S. Army Commanding General of the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command, 1981 – 1984. Also commanded the U.S. Army’s Electronic Research and Development Command and the U.S. Army’s Intelligence School and Center. Former head of Imagery Interpretation for Scientific and Technical Intelligence. 32-year Army career.
“I look at the hole in the Pentagon and I look at the size of an airplane that was supposed to have hit the Pentagon. And I said, ‘The plane does not fit in that hole’. So what did hit the Pentagon? What hit it? Where is it? What’s going on?”
https://web.archive.org/web/20061130033956/http://patriotsquestion911.com/
Col. George Nelson, Former U.S. Air Force aircraft accident investigator
With all the evidence readily available at the Pentagon crash site, any unbiased rational investigator could only conclude that a Boeing 757 did not fly into the Pentagon as alleged. Similarly, with all the evidence available at the Pennsylvania crash site, it was most doubtful that a passenger airliner caused the obvious hole in the ground and certainly not the Boeing 757 as alleged. …
As painful and heartbreaking as was the loss of innocent lives and the lingering health problems of thousands more, a most troublesome and nightmarish probability remains that so many Americans appear to be involved in the most heinous conspiracy in our country’s history.
https://web.archive.org/web/20061201101029/http://www.physics911.net/georgenelson.htm (Emphasis added.)
https://web.archive.org/web/20061102204545/http://patriotsquestion911.com/
Col. Robert Bowman, U.S. Air Force Director of Advanced Space Programs Development under Presidents Ford and Carter. U.S. Air Force fighter pilot with over 100 combat missions. PhD in Aeronautics and Nuclear Engineering, Cal Tech.
A lot of these pieces of information, taken together, prove that the official story, the official conspiracy theory of 9/11 is a bunch of hogwash. It’s impossible. … There’s a second group of facts having to do with the cover up. … I think the case is pretty clear that it’s highly placed individuals in the administration with all roads passing through Dick Cheney.
https://web.archive.org/web/20061130033956/http://patriotsquestion911.com/
Lt. Col. Karen U. Kwiatkowski, Former Political-Military Affairs Officer in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Also served on the staff of the Director of the National Security Agency.
“Beyond this strange absence of airliner debris, there was no sign of the kind of damage to the Pentagon structure one would expect from the impact of a large airliner.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20061130033956/http://patriotsquestion911.com/
Lt. Col. Stephen L. Butler, U.S. Air Force Former Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs at the Defense Language Institute. Served as a B-52 Radar Navigator in the Gulf War
“Of course Bush knew about the impending attacks on America. He did nothing to warn the American people because he needed this war on terrorism.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20061130033956/http://patriotsquestion911.com/
Capt. Eric H. May, U.S. Army Former Army Intelligence officer
“Active execution of a plot by rogue elements of government, starting with the White House itself, in creating a spectacle of destruction that would lead the United States into an invasion of the Middle East.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20061130033956/http://patriotsquestion911.com/
Capt. Russ Wittenberg
“The government story they handed us about 9/11 is total B.S. plain and simple. … Wittenberg convincingly argued there was absolutely no possibility that Flight 77 could have “descended 7,000 feet in two minutes, all the while performing a steep 270 degree banked turn before crashing into the Pentagon’s first floor wall without touching the lawn.” …
Audio Interview 9/16/04: “Regarding Flight 77, which allegedly hit the Pentagon. The airplane could not have flown at those speeds which they said it did without going into what they call a high speed stall. The airplane won’t go that fast if you start pulling those high G maneuvers at those bank angles. … To expect this alleged airplane to run these maneuvers with a total amateur at the controls is simply ludicrous…
“It’s roughly a 100 ton airplane. And an airplane that weighs 100 tons all assembled is still going to have 100 tons of disassembled trash and parts after it hits a building. There was no wreckage from a 757 at the Pentagon. …”
https://web.archive.org/web/20061102204545/http://patriotsquestion911.com/ (Emphasis added.)
Raymond L. McGovern – Former Chairman, National Intelligence Estimates, CIA, responsible for preparing the President’ Daily Brief for Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush.
“I think at simplest terms, there’s a cover-up. The 9/11 report is a joke. … [T]his is the bottom line for me, just as Hitler in 1933 cynically exploited the burning of the parliament building, the Reichstag, this is exactly what our President did in exploiting 9/11. The cynical way in which he played on our trauma, used it to justify attacking, making a war of aggression on a country that he knew had nothing to do with 9/11.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20061130033956/http://patriotsquestion911.com/ (Emphasis added.)
Capt. Gregory Zeigler
“I knew from September 18, 2001, that the official story about 9/11 was false. … the obvious demolitions of WTC1, 2, and 7, the lack of identifiable Boeing 757 wreckage at the Pentagon.”
https://web.archive.org/web/20061102204545/http://patriotsquestion911.com/ (Emphasis added.)
This cross section of high ranking government personnel together with accounts from first hand reporters hopefully provides a basis to question the government’s version regarding the devastating events of 9/11.
A series of articles will closely examine what really happened at the Pentagon, the World Trade Center buildings, as well as the suspicious anthrax attacks that rapidly ensued in the wake of the 9/11 catastrophe.
– Mark Adams National Security Commentator