The 9/11 Truth Deniers' Question that will not Go Away: Part 2

     As 9/11 truth deniers frequently tell us, if elements of the U.S. government and the Israeli Mossad carried out the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, it had to have involved thousands of conspirators. How, we are asked, could that many people have kept it a secret?

     As promised, I explained in the first part of this series just how secrets of that magnitude are kept. In a nutshell, no one is told any more than he needs to know; and, in all but a few cases, those involved don’t have the faintest idea what the secret is. They may even be unaware that there is a secret.

     Let’s take another look at the original question and its underlying assumption. The question was, “How could that big a conspiracy be kept a secret?” The underlying assumption is that the conspiracy really was kept a secret.

     That assumption is completely false. That 9/11 was an inside job hasn’t been kept a secret from anyone but the willfully ignorant. Almost every major claim of the “official” story of 9/11 has been thoroughly discredited either by credible eyewitnesses or by highly qualified professionals examining the evidence. These facts are well known to anyone who cares to look.

     The 9/11 truth deniers demand something that can never be. They’re demanding that we produce someone who is capable of revealing everything about how the attacks were carried out. Considering how secret projects of that magnitude are compartmentalized, it’s highly unlikely that any one person has all the answers. If he did, he’d face arrest, trial, and the death penalty for speaking out.

     As it is, hundreds of eyewitnesses to 9/11 have spilled the beans, and some of them have died violent deaths since then. Additionally, tens of thousands of experts in various fields related to the “official” explanation for 9/11 have used facts well known in their respective fields to reveal the secret. While they can not “prove” how the false flag was carried out, they have accomplished two ends:

1. They have proven that almost every assertion in the “official” story is a lie; and,

2. They have proven beyond any reasonable doubt that 9/11 was an inside job.

     It would not be possible to refute more than a few of the hundreds of claims of the “official” story, but I’ll mention some that prove that the conspiracy was not limited to nineteen hijackers and the “former” CIA asset Osama bin Laden.
     William Rodriguez, a janitor at the World Trade Center North Tower, was the last survivor of the collapse. Having saved the lives of hundreds of people in the North Tower, he has no need of further glory or for lies. He testified that he heard and felt a tremendous explosion in the basement beneath his feet just before the first plane hit the North Tower. 

     Kenneth Johannemann, a part-time janitor at the North Tower, was on another lower floor when he had a similar experience. His version of events strongly supports the testimony of Rodriguez.  On August 31, 2008, Kenneth Johannemann died of a gunshot wound to the head. It was ruled a suicide.

     Barry Jennings, who worked for the City Housing Department, was trapped for several hours in Building 7. He heard explosions all during that time. In fact, he’d heard explosions before either the North or South Tower came down, and the explosions continued for the next several hours. Firemen who rescued him reported many explosions in the building. As they crossed the downstairs lobby to get out of the building, they saw many dead bodies and signs of explosions on the first floor.

     The cause of Building 7’s destruction was not even mentioned in the 9/11 Commission Report. After years of pressure from thousands of architects and engineers as well as other concerned Americans, the National Institute for Standards and Technology released its report on Building 7. The report was released two days after Barry Jennings died of “undisclosed causes.” Try as I did, I was unable to find any source that claimed to know what those “undisclosed causes” were. 

     Michael Hess, New York City’s corporate counsel was with Barry Jennings that fateful day in September. After the NIST Report was released, he said in an interview that NIST had lied in its report. 
     This is just a small sampling of the hundreds of eyewitnesses who have said, from experience, that the "official" version of events is a lie.  Now let us turn to the tens of thousands of expert witnesses who have examined the "official" version of events and say that, from their training and expertise, they know that the "official" story is a lie.

     Thousands of pilots examined the evidence for amateur pilots flying the planes and hitting the buildings and have disproven the “official” story. To give one example, some commercial airline pilots, impressed by what they had “seen” in the famous videos purporting to be Boeing 757’s crashing into the World Trade Center, decided to use a simulator to see if they could duplicate the feat. Ten commercial airline pilots with many years experience flying large commercial airliners took the test several times each. Not one of them was able to duplicate the feat, even after several tries.

     Likewise, it has been impossible for the 9/11 conspirators to keep their inside job a secret from thousands upon thousands of professionals who have disproven countless points of the “official” story. A few of the groups whose areas of expertise have been instrumental in “spilling the beans,” include, but are not limited to, fire fighters, military officers, scientists,  architects and engineers, journalists and other media professionals, political leaders, medical professionals, scholars (here and here), and Muslims and Jews.

     The truth deniers’ question, “Why hasn’t anyone spilled the beans?” is entirely dishonest or incredibly lazy and gullible, especially since hundreds of eyewitnesses and tens of thousands of expert witnesses have come forward.  Anyone who cares to research the facts can easily learn who had the means, the motive, the opportunity, control over the boundary conditions, and the ability to cover it up. Here is a start.
     To read Part 1 of this series, click here.

The 9/11 Truth Deniers' Question that will not Go Away: Part 1

     Theories of how the September 11, 2001, attacks were carried out present us with a dilemma. Seemingly, two groups of mutually contradictory theories are impossible to believe.

In the official theory, nineteen poorly trained young men carrying out impossible feats of skill amid a dizzying array of coincidences and disproven excuses for the failure of every relevant part of the U.S. government to follow standard operating procedure. In alternative theories, hundreds or even thousands of people were involved in a massive conspiracy. How, we are asked, could that many people have kept something that big a secret from the American people?

     Propagandists for the first theory have been so successful that it has become the default theory. Rather than following simple logic by rejecting this impossible scenario, almost everyone falls into the belief that it can’t be rejected until an alternative theory has been proven. No, logic demands that the impossible first scenario must be rejected outright and that the puzzling second scenario be examined further and explained.

     Logic also demands that we question everything. In the first part of this series, I’ll cover well-trod ground by trying to answer the first question: How could that many conspirators keep that big a secret from the American people? In the second part of this series, I’ll question the basic assumption of that question and disprove it.

     If 9/11 was an inside job, it would have to have involved President Bush, Vice President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, WTC owner Larry Silverstein, the Israeli Mossad, other Israeli officials, several private security firms, North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD), the corporate-owned media, and many others. The number of people involved must have run into the thousands.

     In answering the question as asked, whole systems thinking requires us to ask two counter questions: Are there other known instances of government successfully keeping that big a secret? If so, how did they manage it?

     The Manhattan Project, to build the world’s first atomic bomb, was just such a secret. The above top secret Manhattan Project involved 130,000 people, and it was kept a secret until the time the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.

     Everyone who has ever watched a spy thriller has heard a line similar to, “All information is on a need-to-know basis, and you don’t need to know.” That’s how the Manhattan Project was conducted. 

     Let’s look at only 1,196 people involved in keeping the big secret, and how little they actually knew. You can imagine how more than 100,000 other keepers of the secret were similarly given the mushroom treatment.

     In mid-July 1945, a Portland-class cruiser named the USS Indianapolis (CA-35) delivered two atomic bombs within striking distance of Japan. Not one of the 1,196 officers and enlisted men aboard the Indianapolis knew what they were delivering. No one at the delivery point yet knew what the two crates contained. Even the location of the Indianapolis was top secret. When the Indianapolis was sunk by a Japanese submarine, its distress signal was assumed to be a Japanese trick, since no American ship was known to be in the area. When the Indianapolis failed to return to port, no one missed them because no one knew anything about them. The survivors spent the next few days going mad from hunger, thirst, and shark attacks. They were rescued only because a pilot on anti-submarine patrol accidentally noticed them in the water. Of approximately 900 men who had survived the sinking, only 317 survived the shark attacks. In the worst naval disaster in American history, 879 men took the secret of the Manhattan Project to their deaths, and not one of them even knew what the secret was.

     That’s just one vignette from the big secret known as the Manhattan Project. I’ve just described hundreds of people involved in a top secret. Not one spilled the beans, because not one of them knew enough to spill anything. Not even President Truman knew about the Manhattan Project until he “needed to know.”

     Look up from your computer for a moment. Suppose you had wanted to keep the building and furnishing of a home like yours a secret, and suppose it were hidden in a remote location.  Do you think that the furniture manufacturers knew that they were making the furniture for your home? Did the appliance manufacturers know? What about the lumber jacks and hardware suppliers? Thousands of people supplied your home, but only a few knew the location of your home.

     That’s how it was with the Manhattan Project and a number of other projects of the federal government. Use your favorite search engine to search the following: “Manhattan Project” secret “need to know.” You’ll find references to the stealth bomber, the CIA’s black budget, health issues, Area 51, and others.

     For agencies of the federal government, keeping big secrets from the American people is the norm. Whole books, praise by highly respected sources, have been written on the subject. The book Secrets: The CIA’s War at Home, is given favorable treatment by the American Journalism Review.  A Culture of Secrecy: The Government Versus the People’s Right to Know is praised by Seymour Hersh the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who uncovered such secrets as the My Lai Massacre and America’s Abu Ghraib torture chambers. 

     The federal government’s best-kept secrets, however, are the secrets that wishful thinkers keep from themselves. Though there are many, I will delve into only one: the 9/11 false flag attacks, which I’ll present in the second part of this series.
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Why Would Reporters Lie about 9/11 if the Truth is Worth a Pulitzer Prize?

     A 9/11 fact denier named Jonathan Kay recently came up with an age-old counter-conspiracy theory for denying the facts of 9/11: When the facts are against you, keep your opponent’s attention fixed on theories. Here’s how it works:

     Instead of addressing the facts your opponent has presented, insist that he come up with a theory for you to debate. If your opponent fails to come up with a theory and prove it to your satisfaction—of course you should continue to profess yourself unsatisfied—then use that failure to “prove” that his facts are incorrect. Once you’ve found real or imagined weaknesses in your opponent’s theory, you then claim that the weaknesses in his theory, by default, prove your own theory. By that time, innocent bystanders have completely forgotten that all the facts are against you.

     Specifically, Mr. Kay has written something like the following: If the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and an abandoned mineshaft in rural Pennsylvania were an inside job, our thoroughly professional and honest corporate media would be clambering for the chance to win a Pulitzer Prize by telling us the truth. That no one in the corporate media has done so, in Kay’s mind, proves that the corporate-owned media’s conspiracy theory is correct.

     Below, I present a simple diagram of how to prove an assertion or find the answer to a question. Then you use reason or agreed-upon premises to determine how or whether those facts support the belief or theory, or answer the question. If they don’t completely answer the question, this is a limitation. You adjust your theory accordingly.

     Nowhere in that graph do you see that you can prove a theory by disproving someone else’s theory. To prove your theory, you must use facts and reason.

This doesn’t mean, though, that Mr. Kay wouldn’t have a point if everything he said were true. In fact, he’s wrong on two points:

1. He’s assuming that no reporters for the corporate-owned media observed any anomalies.

2. He’s also assuming that reporters for the corporate-owned media are answerable to no power other than their individual convictions.

     Here’s where the rubber meets the road. There have been numerous instances when corporate-owned reporters expressed doubts, only to backpeddle after learning that their questions were verboten by their corporate bosses.

     Let’s take the alleged crash into the Pentagon. CNN reporter Jamie McIntyre was on the scene. McIntyre was visibly mystified. He claimed that he had inspected the grounds and even the hole and had found no indication that a plane had crashed “anywhere near the Pentagon.” (video)

     In a later broadcast, McIntyre claimed that his inspection had yielded the opposite results. He said he had seen “the wreckage,” and he scoffed at “conspiracy theorists” who questioned whether a plane had crashed anywhere near the Pentagon. He also made excuses for the federal government’s confiscation of the 84 security tapes around the Pentagon. He claimed that the tapes were withheld from the public only because they were evidence in the trial of alleged “20th hijacker Zacarias Moussaoui. McIntyre expressed confidence that the tapes would be released in their “full and unedited form” once the trial was over. (video) The trial ended five years ago, and we’re still waiting.

     Another reporter quoted an eyewitness as saying that he’d seen a “US Air 737” at the Pentagon. The instant the words left the reporter’s lips, his microphone was cut off.

Reporter's mic cut off after saying a "US Air 737" at Pentagon on 9/11.  (video)

     Mike Walter, a reporter for USA Today (another corporate-owned media source) went on camera for CNN and claimed to have seen a commercial airliner crash into the Pentagon. When an independent investigator checked his story and proved that he could not have seen anything from his alleged vantage point, he went on camera for a second time. That time, he was obviously embarrassed to stand before the camera telling a story that no one in his right mind could believe.

     Chew on that one for a moment. Here we have someone doing the exact opposite of what Jonathan Kay says that every reporter would be eager to do. Far from running down a story that might get him a Pulitzer Prize he actually stood there making a fool and a liar of himself in front of millions of people by spinning a yarn that’s more risible than the claim that cookies are baked by elves in hollow trees.  

(First video, confidently lying)

(Later video, uncomfortably lying)

     What about the commercial airliner that allegedly crashed straight down into a ten-foot by twenty-foot abandoned mine shaft in rural Pennsylvania?  The mayor of Shanksville inspected the site and, on local television, announced that there was no airplane there. (video)

    A reporter for Channel 5 News, and another reporter for Fox News (sic) were on the scene. The first reporter said that it’s shocking “how little debris” could be found at the site of the supposed crash—nothing larger than a phone book. The Fox News (sic) reporter said, “[B]asically, there’s nothing there—just a hole in the ground.”  (video)

9 11 Flight 93 crash site no plane

     For comments on the collapse of WTC buildings 1 and 2, we go to the legendary Dan Rather himself. CBS talking head Dan Rather, I hasten to add, was the heir to Walter Cronkite, acclaimed as “the most trusted man in America.”

     Dan Rather said that the collapse of the World Trade Center—including, apparently, WTC building 7—looked like “controlled demolitions.” (video)

     For hours, Dan Rather harped (no, that’s not a play on words) on the probability that an attack of that “sophistication” strongly suggested “the involvement of a state.” He said it at least three times. (video) (video) I haven’t been able to locate the third video, in which a high-level source squelched further talk of that possibility, though I did see the video a few months ago.

     Oh, let’s not forget the report on WTC7, although the 9/11 Commission Report never mentioned it. In case you’ve been living in Plato’s cave for the past ten years, WTC7 was a 47-story building reinforced with over 40 tons of steel specifically designed to withstand collapse. No plane hit WTC7, and the only damage done to it was when a piece of one of the WTC towers broke off 12 feet of parapet.  In spite of all these facts, WTC7 collapsed an nearly free-fall speed.

     BBC had all the proof they needed that 9/11 was an inside job. Instead of spilling the beans in hopes of posthumously receiving a Pulitzer Prize, they had a reporter announce that WTC7 (a.k.a. the Salomon Brothers building) had already collapsed. The problem was, they made this announcement twenty minutes before the collapse occurred. The entire time the reporter talked about the collapse already having occurred, viewers could see WTC7 standing proudly in the background. Five minutes before WTC7 really did collapse, the BBC conveniently lost contact with the reporter. Otherwise, viewers would see the event take place twenty minutes after it had been reported.  (video)

     It isn’t necessary for me to come up with a theory as to why world-famous journalists would choose to tell transparent lies than receive a Pulitzer Prize. The facts speak for themselves.

     I would like to ask a question, though: Would they really receive a Pulitzer Prize; or would they, like dozens of truthful eyewitnesses, receive a tombstone? (video) 

     Or would they prefer to follow the example of Dan Rather in November 1963? When President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Dan Rather was just another reporter on the scene in Dallas. Apparently not realizing that the Zapruder film of the assassination would be made public, Rather appeared on television and claimed to have seen on the film that the fatal shot caused JFK’s head to jerk forward. This lie supported the "official" story that Kennedy had been shot from behind. We all now know that Kennedy fell back and to the left, indicating that the fatal bullet had been fired from the grassy knoll. (video)

     Was Dan Rather disgraced as a result of this lie? No, far from it. He went on to New York and rose to the top of his profession. He won seven Peabody awards, several Emmys, and a slew of honorary awards. For a false witness, a successful career like that beats a tombstone any day.

     I had intended for the previous paragraph to be the final paragraph of this article.  Then I ran across the video clip Psychologists Help 9/11 Truth Deniers Accept the Facts.  At first, I thought it was a spoof, but it's not.  It's the real deal, and it's important for people who want to understand the paradigm that causes people to resist the evidence that our government (and, as many of us believe, the Israelis) was involved.

     Please watch it.
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