So pretty much, we will all continue to agree to disagree, you guys can have beertime, college kids that blatantly lie, and edited videos. I will take the engineers, the police and demo people that were there, and yes the govt and the authorities that conducted investigations on it. And i dont think any less of you if u are on the other side, just difference of seeing things and difference of opinion.
You do realize that you say......"and yes the govt and the authorities that conducted investigations on it."
These authorities that conducted your so called "investigation" have already came out and said they believed that the Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted to the 9/11 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public, according to sources involved in the debate.
Can you imagine having an investigation into 911 and having the authorities deliberately mislead you.............The pentagon?? why would they have to mislead anyone in the first place???
Of course if the "comission" was on the ball in the first place they would have brought this up at the time but they wanted nothing but to be a comission that didnt ruffle any feathers and finish all this real inquiry in a very timely and tidy fashion...........I guess the easy thing would have been to assign a truly "independent" commission to really look into things but that would have been far to easy when you can just put the people you want in place and have the investigation.
Heres the article.........
Published on Wednesday, August 2, 2006 by the Denver Post
Pentagon's Version of 9/11 Far from Truth, Panel Found
Some commission members wanted Justice Dept. probe
by Dan Eggen
WASHINGTON - Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted to the 9/11 terrorist attacks may have been part of a deliberate effort to mislead the commission and the public, according to sources involved in the debate.
Suspicion of wrongdoing ran so deep that the 10-member commission, in a secret meeting at the end of its tenure in summer 2004, debated referring the matter to the Justice Department for criminal investigation, said several commission sources.
Staff members and some commissioners thought that e-mails and other evidence provided enough probable cause to believe that military and aviation officials violated the law by making false statements to Congress and to the commission, hoping to hide the bungled response to the hijackings, the sources said.
In the end, the panel agreed to a compromise, turning over the allegations to the inspectors general for the Defense and Transportation departments, who can make criminal referrals if they believe they are warranted, officials said.
"We to this day don't know why NORAD (the North American Aerospace Command) told us what they told us," said Thomas Kean, the former New Jersey Republican governor who led the commission. "It was just so far from the truth. ... It's one of those loose ends that never got tied."
Although the commission's landmark report made it clear that the Defense Department's early versions of events on Sept. 11 were inaccurate, the revelation that it considered criminal referrals reveals how skeptically those reports were viewed by the panel and provides a glimpse of the tension between it and the Bush administration.
A Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday that the inspector general's office would soon release a report addressing whether testimony delivered to the commission was "knowingly false."
A separate report, delivered secretly to Congress in May 2005, blamed inaccuracies in part on problems with the way the Defense Department kept its records, according to a summary released Tuesday.
For more than two years after the attacks, officials with NORAD and the FAA provided inaccurate information about the response to the hijackings in testimony and media appearances.
Authorities suggested that U.S. air defenses had reacted quickly, that jets had been scrambled in response to the last two hijackings and that fighters were prepared to shoot down United Airlines Flight 93 if it threatened Washington.
In fact, the commission reported a year later, audiotapes from NORAD's Northeast headquarters and other evidence showed clearly that the military never had any of the hijacked airliners in its sights and at one point chased a phantom aircraft - American Airlines Flight 11 - long after it had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Maj. Gen. Larry Arnold and Col. Alan Scott told the commission that NORAD had begun tracking United 93 at 9:16 a.m., but the commission determined that the airliner was not hijacked until 12 minutes later.
The military was not aware of the flight until after it had crashed in Pennsylvania.
? 2006 Denver Post
I have just came to the simple fact that I dont really know who to believe so I choose to do my own research and come to my own conclusions........I think that is the smartest and safest way to come to any conclusion.
Again........forget about conspiracies....... ask yourself this simple question.........Why would anyone in the Pentagon have to mislead anyone.......assuming the above is true????
