(Fwd) [aa-info] "The Great Deception"

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L'ariticolo citato 'GUILTY FOR 9-11'
è a disposizione in italiano su http://digilander.iol.it/glry/News
(Parti 1 e 2 - la terza parte attende traduzione)

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Subject: CANADIAN TV AIRS EMPEROR'S CLOTHES 'GUILTY FOR 9-11' EVIDENCE!
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 23:56:14 EST
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CANADIAN TV AIRS EMPEROR'S CLOTHES 'GUILTY FOR 9-11' EVIDENCE!
by John Flaherty
[Posted 5 February 2001]
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For the first time material from Emperor's Clothes series 'GUILTY FOR
9-11' has appeared on a network TV show.

The program was "The Great Deception". (1) It aired Jan. 28 on the
Insight Mediafile at Vision TV, a network with 2 million distinct viewers
a week.
Vision programs are seen across Canada and can reach from 100
to 150,000 people.

Hosted by Barrie Zwicker, the program used research and material from
'GUILTY FOR 9-11, Section 1', the 'Update to Section 1, and 'Section 2'
or 'Cheney's Cover Story.' (1a)

After watching the program, Emperor's Clothes Editor Chris Black
contacted Barrie Zwicker to congratulate him for taking this brave step.

Mr. Zwicker wrote back:

[Letter begins here]

Dear Christopher Black:

What a joyful surprise to receive your e-mail.

Amidst the avalanche of e-mail I'm trying to cope with, I want to
respond immediately to yours.

I discovered www.emperors-clothes.com I don't know how long, maybe well
over a year, ago. I learned to trust it. I have been educated and nurtured by
it. And increasingly, inspired.

So for me to receive your e-mail was a complete and genuine and
gratifying surprise. I do not consider myself to be in your league as to
investigative journalism.

I was suspicious about the 9/11 thing from the outset. For me to be the
first, apparently, to ask these questions on air is ridiculous. Big
media should have done it already.

[Regarding the information on Andrews Air Force base] really, there must
be thousands of people who have first- or second-hand knowledge of
complicity.
Just take the number of people who live on Andrews AFB who know their
interceptors stayed put until too late. I don't think they can keep the
lid on this for much longer.

Thank you, Christopher, Israel and the rest, for your wonderful work all
along.

Gotta run. I hope to be in touch again. In peace and networking for
light.

Barrie Zwicker,
A producer and host
The MediaFile

[LETTER ENDS HERE]

Here's the transcript of the part of the TV show based on Emperor's
Clothes research:

[START EXCERPT FROM 'GREAT DECEPTION' TRANSCRIPT] (2)

"For large scheduled aircraft, tracked throughout on radar, to depart
extravagantly from their flight paths, would trigger numerous calls to
the military, especially after two have hit the World Trade Centre and now
one is speeding toward Washington, D.C.

"It flies over the White House, turns sharply and heads toward the
Pentagon.
Everyone - and I mean everyone - now knows these planes are very bad
news.
It's been reported on all TV networks for more than half an hour that
this is a terrorist attack.

"Now, Andrews Air Force Base is a huge installation. It's home to Air
Force One, the President's plane. It's home base for two combat-ready
squadrons of jet interceptors mandated to ensure the safety of the U.S.
capital.
Andrews is only 12 miles from the White House. (3)

"On September 11th the squadrons there were: The 121st Fighter Squadron
of the 113th Fighter Wing, equipped with F-16s The 321st Marine Fighter
Attack Squadron of the 49th Marine Air Group, Detachment A, equipped
F/A-18s
(4)

"This information was on the website of the base on September 11th. On
September 12th, Andrews chose to update its website. I find it odd that
after the update there's no mention of the F-16 and F-18 fighters. The base
becomes, according to the website, home to a transport squadron only.
(5)

"Yet at 6:30 the evening of September 11th NBC Nightly News, along with
many outlets, reported:

"'It was after the attack on the Pentagon that the Air Force then decided to
scramble F-16s out of the DC National Guard Andrews Air Force Base to
fly ... a protective cover over Washington, D.C.' (5a)

"Throughout the northeastern United States are many air bases. But that
morning no interceptors respond in a timely fashion to the highest alert
situation. This includes the Andrews squadrons which have the longest
lead time and are 12 miles from the White House.

"Whatever the explanation for the huge failure, there have been no reports,
to my knowledge, of reprimands. This further weakens the "Incompetence
Theory." Incompetence usually earns reprimands.

"This causes me to ask - and other media need to ask - if there were
'stand down' orders."

[END EXCERPT FROM 'GREAT DECEPTION' TRANSCRIPT]

Elsewhere in the show, Mr. Zwicker talked about the Payne Stewart
tragedy. As you may recall, Mr. Stewart's small business jet ceased
to respond to Air Traffic Controllers. The plane continued flying on autopilot.

Here is how Mr. Zwicker describes what happened:

"9:19 a.m.: the flight departs 9:24: The Learjet's pilot responds to an
instruction from air traffic control 9:33: The controller radios another
instruction. No response from the pilot. For 4 1/2 minutes the controller
tries to establish contact. 9:38: Having failed, the controller calls in the
military. Note that he did not seek, nor did he require, the approval of the
President of the United States, or indeed anyone. It's standard procedure,
followed routinely, to call in the Air Force when radio contact with a
commercial passenger jet is lost, or the plane departs from its flight path,
or anything along those lines occurs. 9:54 - 16 minutes later -- the F-16
reaches the Learjet at 46,000 feet and conducts a visual inspection.
Total elapsed time: 21 minutes."

[END EXCERPT FROM 'GREAT DECEPTION' TRANSCRIPT]

There appears to be an error here. The National Transportation Safety Board
(NTSB) report on the Payne Stewart tragedy (6) does not state when the
military was contacted. Other reports indicate that it took half an hour for
the FAA to notify the military. (7)

Several sources state that planes from Tyndal Air Force Base were the
first ones sent to intercept the failing jet. (8) But the Tyndal planes don't
even figure in the NTSB report. (It also appears that the NTSB report does
not state when the military was notified.)

Moreover, the NTSB switches from Eastern Time to Central Time in
mid-report.
Barrie Zwicker reported a lapse of 16 minutes from the time Stewart's
plane stopped responding to radio communication to the time
interceptors actually reached the Lear Jet. But given the switch from
Eastern to Central Time in the NTSB report, this apparently took over
an hour. Again, this is a bit murky; it is possible that planes from the
Tyndal Air Force base were dispatched and then recalled, and this is
just not mentioned in the NTSB report.

Emperor's Clothes made a similar mistake in 'Cheney's Cover Story.' (9)
In the initial post, we stated that when Stewart's plane went off course, the
FAA 'immediately' contacted the military. It's fine to make undocumented
statements in general argument, but in a Summary of Evidence one needs
to document matters of time as much as possible. Since it is difficult to
be sure of the exact timing of events in the Payne Stewart case, we have
cut out the word 'immediately.'

In any case, the question of how quickly the FAA contacted the Military
about the Payne Stewart jet is not worth a lot of research time. Regarding
9-11, the important thing is that the Payne Stewart case shows, that contrary
to Vice President Cheney's assertions on MEET THE PRESS, intercepting
planes does not means shooting them down. And as Barrie Zwicker pointed
out, it does not require presidential approval to intercept a plane, again
contrary to Mr. Cheney. These are the key points.

The question of how long it took the military to respond has to be put in
context. This was a small business jet plane flying on autopilot towards a
low-population area. It was not a hijacked jumbo jet, one of four airliners
hijacked on 9-11, of which two had already crashed into the biggest
buildings in New York. And it was not the third hijacked airliner, which
turned around in Ohio and was flying back to Washington, DC.

Clearly on 9-11 the FAA went on emergency footing. Vice President
Cheney says that after the first airliner hit the World Trade Center, the
FAA had open lines to the Secret Service. Newsday reports that by 9:06
the FAA had ordered the entire air corridor from Cleveland to Washington,
DC shut down. *** That is, the FAA shut down the route which, we are told,
American Flight 77 took heading back to the Pentagon.

It is one thing if the FAA or the military was slow responding to a small
business jet on autopilot flying over unpopulated areas, and it is another
thing for those in charge of Andrews Air Force Base not to scramble
fighter jets when there was an obvious deadly threat to key US military
and government installations, not to mention that Flight 77 was heading
for an urban area inhabited by several million souls.

-- John Flaherty

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Further Reading:
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(1) 'The Great Deception'
http://www.visiontv.ca/programs/insight/Deception.htm

(1a) The sections of 'GUILTY FOR 9-11' aired on Canadian TV:

* Section 1: 'Why Were None of the Hijacked Planes Intercepted?'
[Posted 14 November 2001]
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-1.htm

* Update to GUILTY FOR 9-11 Section 1:
[Posted 18 November 2001]
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indictupdate.htm

* Section 2: 'Mr. Cheney's Cover Story'
[Posted 20 November 2001]
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-2.htm

(2) 'Great Deception' Transcript
http://www.visiontv.ca/programs/insight/mediafile_Jan28.htm

(3) http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-1.htm#b

(4) http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-1.htm#k

(5) 'Update to GUILTY FOR 9-11 - Section 1'
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indictupdate.htm

(5a) 'NBC Nightly News,' "Attack on America," (6:30 PM ET) 11 September
2001, "Tuesday President Bush returns to White House on Marine One,"
Anchor: Tom Brokaw, Jim Miklaszewski reporting.
See transcript at:
http://emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/nbc911cover.htm

(6) NTSB Report
Accident No.: DCA00MA005
Operator or Flight Number: Sunjet Aviation
Aircraft and Registration: Learjet Model 35, N47BA
Location: Aberdeen, South Dakota
Date: October 25, 1999
http://www.ntsb.gov/Publictn/2000/aab0001.htm

(7) AP Chronology on Payne Stewart Crash
http://www.usatoday.com/sports/golf/stewart/stewfs13.htm

(8) http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/plane102599.html

(9) * Section 2: 'Mr. Cheney's Cover Story'
[Posted 20 November 2001]
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-2.htm

'Map & Timetable for American Airlines Flight 77'
[Posted 8 December 2001]
http://emperors-clothes.com/images/maptime.htm

'Map of Andrews Air Force Base'
[Posted 20 November 2001]
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/andrewsmap.htm

Frequently Asked Questions on 9-11
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/faq.htm

Includes: 'FAQ #1 - Nobody was prepared for 9-11' and
'FAQ #2 - Planes did scramble on 9-11. They just arrived late.'

'Reader Says Emperor's Clothes Wrong on bin Laden, 9-11'
A very interesting debate.
[Posted 28 September 2001]
http://emperors-clothes.com/letters/wrong.htm

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