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Originally posted by homervb
Do you really believe if an independent investigation was done, the results would be the same as what is published in the 9/11 Commission Report?
Originally posted by CoolStoryMan
So can you explain to me how they flew those planes into the exact co-ordinances of the WTC's and managed to do so from several hundred miles away?
The "expert piloting skills" those damned fool conspiracy web sites are touting to make everything sound more spooky-scary than it really is are in reality little more than knowing how to use the automatic pilot and how to fly in a circle. Regardless of where anyone stands on the conspiracy debate, we can all agree that it doesn't take any skill whatsoever to crash an airplane. I'm sure you could do it without even trying.
Originally posted by maxella1
Turning off the auto pilot at 500 mph and navigating into something as thin as the towers were takes expert skills just like navigating into something as low as the Pentagon does. Now crashing into a field that's another story, although i personally believe it didn't crash but was shot down based on the debris fields and that the order was actually given.
a) It doesn't take expert flying skills for a pilot to see something really, really big and then aim his plane right at it, as proven by all the ships hit by Japanese Kamikaze pilots. They even had it easier than Japanese Kamikaze pilots becuase the towers weren't moving.
b) It's already been documented in the 9/11 Commission report ten years ago that Bush did issue a shoot down order for flight 93 and it was relayed by Cheney. Did you even know that?
Originally posted by InfiniteConsciousness
Originally posted by TrickoftheShade
reply to post by homervb
You think we take comfort in conspiracy theories? What kind of ass backwards psychology are you studying? Wow. Unreal.
Originally posted by InfiniteConsciousness
Yeah you've got the truth all wrapped up in a neat little package there General Radek. ROFL You must know more than the 911 commission itself, right? Because they didn't even address building 7 in the official book report. General Radek the all knowing, all seeing eye in the sky. Yeah, ok, buddy.
Originally posted by homervb
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
I will merely point out that the conspiracy movement have gotten literally nowhere with suckering the general population with this "the gov't is plotting to murder us all" abject paranoia in the last ten years, so history is already showing who has the last laugh.
Do you really believe if an independent investigation was done, the results would be the same as what is published in the 9/11 Commission Report?
Subconsciously, yes. The world's a frightening place and conspiracy theories provide a comforting framing narrative to contextualise it all.
Originally posted by GenRadek
Originally posted by InfiniteConsciousness
Yeah you've got the truth all wrapped up in a neat little package there General Radek. ROFL You must know more than the 911 commission itself, right? Because they didn't even address building 7 in the official book report. General Radek the all knowing, all seeing eye in the sky. Yeah, ok, buddy.
I'm willing to bet a steak dinner that you have no idea what the 9/11 Commission Report was tasked to do. So I find it quite amusing that you are trying to insult my intelligence, by commenting on something that obviously you have NO clue about. Way to go!
Do you even know what the 9/11 CR was suppose to do?
Originally posted by maxella1
reply to post by GoodOlDave
a) It doesn't take expert flying skills for a pilot to see something really, really big and then aim his plane right at
Kamikaze were trained to fly the same type of an airplane they were going to fly. Were these terrorists trained to to fly 767 ?
Try driving into a parking space a little wider than your car at a hundred mph and let me know how that works out for you...
Did you know that the Commission report also documented that they were unable to find anybody To back it up? Not a single person in that room with Cheney or Bush heard that conversation even though they were taking notes regarding all other communications?
Originally posted by GoodOlDave
I have no idea what a supposed "independent investigation" will yield because I have yet to see a single person promoting "independent investigations" to clarify just what an "independent investigation" actually is. Anyone with expertise on crash site forensics will be with the FAA. Anyone with detailed knowledge on how the WTC security as handled will be with the NY Port Authority. All the information concerning military defenses will need to come from NORAD, while the leading experts on building construction are going to be with NIST. Obviously, any intelligence briefings or law enforcement reports will be coming from the FBI or CIA.
Up until now, the conspiracy proponents have developed for themselves a cottage industry of excuses for why we can't believe a single thing that any of these agencies tell us. Even a guy from El Salvador watering the lawn spontaneously becomes an unbelievable witness simply because he's a "Pentagon Employee".
Why is this relevent? They didn't need to know how to take off since the original pilots did that. They didn't need to know how to land because it was a suicide attack. They didn't need to know how to communicate with air traffic controllers since they wanted to be undetected. Pus, they obviously didn't need to care about flight training that maintained the safety of the passengers. The only thing they needed to know how to do was to use the auto-pilot and general steering principles. There is a huge difference between "being able to fly securely" and "being able to fly at all".
You are changing your story to suit your purposes now. You previously said you believed the order was given to shoot down flight 93 and I told you the order was in fact documented in the 9/11 commission report so it's not anything you need to speculate on. Now to be argumentative you're saying there's no evidence of any such order given. Do you believe an order was given to shoot down flight 93 or not?
Originally posted by GenRadek
Really? What exactly is the truth movement looking for with an "independent investigation"? The "truth" about what? You are confusing two different investigations into two different aspects of 9/11. What exactly is this movie suppose to be about? The truther version? Which is, what exactly? Secretly planted explosives/thermites/nukes/death rays done by teams of secret CIA/NSA/FBI/Illuminotti/Bilderber/Rothschild/Rockerfellers/Bush-Cheney Death Squad ninja assassin demolition teams, all under the control of Bush-Cheney/Silverstein/Illuminotti/Reptillians/Wall Street Bankers/Mickey Mouse Club organizations that secretly control this entire planet and have control over every NYPD, PA, FDNY, CIA, FBI, NSA, NTSB, NIST, FEMA, ASCE person that was in, on and or around the Ground Zero area before/during/after 9/11 and faked the plane crashes and screwed over everyone else? Ya, thats gonna be one hell of a comedy. Just as funny as the Loose Change movies, or Sept. Clues.
Or is the movie going to investigate into the intel failures and @$$ covering done by all levels of our leadership?
9/11 Truthers are only interested in finding explosives and a grand mega conspiracy that implicates half of this planet. They dont care how implausible or convoluted it is, that is their ultimate goal.
And if that magical "independent investigation" finds the same thing NIST, FEMA and the 9/11CR discovered, and it does not conform with their preconceived notions, they will still not be satisfied.
Originally posted by crawdad1914
his question as to why building 7 was not addressed in the report.
Originally posted by hellobruce
Originally posted by crawdad1914
his question as to why building 7 was not addressed in the report.
Well, if you had looked at the report you would have seen
"Our mandate was sweeping.The law directed us to investigate “facts and
circumstances relating to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001,” including
those relating to intelligence agencies, law enforcement agencies, diplomacy,
immigration issues and border control, the flow of assets to terrorist
organizations, commercial aviation, the role of congressional oversight and
resource allocation, and other areas determined relevant by the Commission"
So where does the collapse of a building fit in there? And it is funny how truthers seem to ignore WTC 3, which was also destroyed in the collapse of the WTC towers.
Report: CIA Lost Office In WTC
A secret office operated by the CIA was destroyed in the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, seriously disrupting intelligence operations.
The undercover station was in 7 World Trade Center, a smaller office tower that fell several hours after the collapse of the twin towers on Sept. 11, a U.S. government official said.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that immediately after the attack, a special CIA team scoured the rubble in search of secret documents and intelligence reports stored in the station, either on paper or in computers. It was not known whether the efforts were successful.
A CIA spokesman declined to comment on the existence of the office, which was first reported in Sunday's editions of The New York Times.
The New York station was believed to have been the largest and most important CIA domestic station outside the Washington area.
Originally posted by homervb
The largest and most important CIA office outside of the Washington Area and yet it's not worthy of mentioning in the official report?