Some people from the military/intelligence who have been brave enough to speak out about 11 September 2001.
Pilots
Lt. Col. Jeff Latas
Awarded the Distinguish Flying Cross for Heroism, four Air Medals, four Meritorious Service Medals, and nine Aerial Achievement Medals.
Combat experience includes Desert Storm and four tours of duty in Northern and Southern Watch.
During his 20-year Air Force career, he also served as Pentagon Weapons Requirement Officer, as a member of the Pentagon’s Quadrennial Defense Review and as President, U.S. Air Force Accident Investigation Board.
Captain Jeff Latas is one of the most adept professionals in the aviation industry.
Interview with Lt. Col. Jeff Latas, former USAF accident investigation president
A member of Pilots for 9/11 Truth, Latas was interviewed by the group’s founder, commercial airline pilot, Rob Balsamo regarding the group’s documentary video, Pandora’s Black Box, Chapter 2, Flight of American 77, which focuses on the 9/11 Commission’s account of the impact of Flight 77 at the Pentagon and discrepancies with the data from the Flight Data Recorder alleged by the NTSB to be from Flight 77
After I did my own analysis of it, it’s obvious that there’s discrepancies between the two stories; between the 9/11 Commission and the flight data recorder information.
And I think that’s where we really need to focus a lot of our attention to get the help that we need in order to put pressure on government agencies to actually do a real investigation of 9/11.
And not just from a security standpoint, but from even an aviation standpoint, like any accident investigation would actually help the aviators out by finding reasons for things happening.
And I think that we Americans need to demand further investigation just to clarify the discrepancies that you’ve Pilots for 9/11 Truth found.
And I think that we need to be getting on the phone with our Congressmen and women and letting them know that we don’t accept the excuses that we’re hearing now, that we want true investigators to do a true investigation.
Major Jon I. Fox
Retired commercial airline pilot for Continental Airlines with a 35-year commercial aviation career.
On hearing the military (NORAD/NEAD) excuses for no intercepts on 9/11/2001, I knew from personal experience that they were lying. I then began re-checking other evidence and found mostly more lies from the ‘official spokesmen’. Jet fuel fires at atmospheric pressure do not get hot enough to weaken steel. Structures do not collapse through themselves in free fall time with only gravity as the powering force.
— Statement supporting Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth petition, 2007
Capt. Omar Pradhan
As a proud American, as a distinguished USAF E-3 AWACS Aircraft Commander (with 350+ hours of combat time logged over Afghanistan and Iraq), and as a former U.S. Air Force Academy Flight Instructor, I warmly endorse the professional inquiry and pursuit of comprehensive truth sought by the Pilots for 911 Truth organization and the PatriotsQuestion911 website.
— Twenty-five U.S. Military Officers Challenge Official Account of 9/11 - OpEd News
Lt. Col. Guy S. Razer, MS
Served as an instructor at the U.S. Air Force Fighter Weapons School and NATO’s Tactical Leadership Program and flew combat missions over Iraq.
After 4+ years of research since retirement in 2002, I am 100% convinced that the attacks of September 11, 2001 were planned, organized, and committed by treasonous perpetrators that have infiltrated the highest levels of our government.
It is now time to take our country back.
The ‘collapse’ of WTC Building 7 shows beyond any doubt that the demolitions were pre-planned. There is simply no way to demolish a 47-story building (on fire) over a coffee break. It is also impossible to report the building’s collapse before it happened, as BBC News did, unless it was pre-planned. Further damning evidence is Larry Silverstein’s video taped confession in which he states “they made that decision to pull [WTC 7] and we watched the building collapse”.
We cannot let the pursuit of justice fail. Those of us in the military took an oath to ‘support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic’. Just because we have retired does not make that oath invalid, so it is not just our responsibility, it is our duty to expose the real perpetrators of 9/11 and bring them to justice, no matter how hard it is, how long it takes, or how much we have to suffer to do it.
— Twenty-five U.S. Military Officers Challenge Official Account of 9/11 - OpEd News
Lt. Jeff Dahlstrom
When 9/11 occurred I bought the entire government and mainstream media story line. I was a lifelong conservative Republican that voted for Bush/Cheney, twice. Curiosity about JFK’s death, after a late night TV re-run of Oliver Stone’s movie, got me started researching and digging for the truth about his assassins.
My research led me to a much more important and timely question: the mystery of what really did happen on 9/11. Everything that seemed real, turned out to be false. The US government and the news media, once again, were lying to the world about the real terrorists and the public murder of 2,972 innocents on 9/11
The ‘Patriot Act’ was actually written prior to 9/11 with the intention of destroying the US Constitution and Bill of Rights. It was passed by Congress, based upon the government’s myth of 9/11, which was in reality a staged hoax. 9/11 was scripted and executed by rogue elements of the military, FAA, intelligence, and private contractors working for the US government.
In addition to severely curtailing fundamental rights of Americans, the 9/11 crime was then used by this administration, the one I originally voted for and supported, to justify waging two preemptive wars (and most likely a third war), killing over 4,500 American soldiers, and killing over one million innocent Afghan and Iraqi people.
It was all premeditated. Treason, a false flag military operation, and betrayal of the trust of the American people were committed on 9/11 by the highest levels of the US government and not one person responsible for the crimes, or the cover-up, has been held accountable for the last six years.
After reading fifteen well-researched books, studying eight or nine DVD documentaries, and devoting months of personal research and investigation, I have arrived at one ultimate conclusion: The American government and the US Constitution have been hijacked and subverted by a group of criminals that today are the real terrorists. They are in control of the US government and they have all violated their oaths of office and committed treason against their own citizens.
— Twenty-five U.S. Military Officers Challenge Official Account of 9/11 - OpEd News
Col. George Nelson, MBA
Also an aircraft parts authority.
Impossible to Prove a Falsehood True: Aircraft Parts as a Clue to their Identity
In all my years of direct and indirect participation, I never witnessed nor even heard of an aircraft loss, where the wreckage was accessible, that prevented investigators from finding enough hard evidence to positively identify the make, model, and specific registration number of the aircraft — and in most cases the precise cause of the accident.
The government alleges that four wide-body airliners crashed on the morning of September 11 2001, resulting in the deaths of more than 3,000 human beings, yet not one piece of hard aircraft evidence has been produced in an attempt to positively identify any of the four aircraft. On the contrary, it seems only that all potential evidence was deliberately kept hidden from public view.
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.
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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.
— Aircraft Parts and the Precautionary Principle - physics911.net
Capt. Russ Wittenberg
Over 100 combat missions.
Flew for Pan Am and United Airlines for 35 years.
An Experienced Boeing 757/767 Pilot, He Says ‘No Way’ Could a Novice Fly the ‘Big Birds’ He Knew So Well
The government story they handed us about 9/11 is total B.S., plain and simple.
I flew the two actual aircraft which were involved in 9/11; the Fight number 175 and Flight 93, the 757 that allegedly went down in Shanksville and Flight 175 is the aircraft that’s alleged to have hit the South Tower.
I don’t believe it’s possible for, like I said, for a terrorist, a so-called terrorist, to train on a [Cessna] 172, then jump in a cockpit of a 757-767 class cockpit, and vertical navigate the aircraft, lateral navigate the aircraft, and fly the airplane at speeds exceeding its design limit speed by well over 100 knots, make high-speed high-banked turns, exceeding — pulling probably 5, 6, 7 G’s. And the aircraft would literally fall out of the sky. I couldn’t do it and I’m absolutely positive they couldn’t do it.
— Pilot who flew 2 planes used on 9/11 doesn’t believe official story | American Buddhist Net
[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.
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The vehicle that hit the Pentagon was not Flight 77. We think, as you may have heard before, it was a cruise missile.
Commander Ralph Kolstad
Spent more than 20 years in the US Navy flying fighters off aircraft carriers, achieving TopGun twice.
Later served as a commercial airline pilot for 27 years, flying for American Airlines and other domestic and international careers.
Spent 13 years flying Boeing 757s and 767s, mostly as an international captain for American Airlines, and has command time in tail number N644AA, the actual plane dispatched as American 77 on 11 September 2001.
Has flown a total of more than 23,000 hours in his career.
[Kolstad] started questioning the official account of 9/11 within days of the event.
It just didn’t make any sense to me.
And now 6 years after 9/11 he says
When one starts using his own mind, and not what one was told, there is very little to believe in the official story.
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At the Pentagon, the pilot of the Boeing 757 did quite a feat of flying. I have 6,000 hours of flight time in Boeing 757’s and 767’s and I could not have flown it the way the flight path was described.
I was also a Navy fighter pilot and Air Combat Instructor and have experience flying low altitude, high speed aircraft. I could not have done what these beginners did. Something stinks to high heaven!
He points to the physical evidence at the Pentagon impact site and asks in exasperation,
Where is the damage to the wall of the Pentagon from the wings? Where are the big pieces that always break away in an accident? Where is all the luggage? Where are the miles and miles of wire, cable, and lines that are part and parcel of any large aircraft? Where are the steel engine parts? Where is the steel landing gear? Where is the tail section that would have broken into large pieces?
Regarding the alleged impact site of United Airlines Flight 93 near Shanksville, PA, he asks,
Where is any of the wreckage? Of all the pictures I have seen, there is only a hole! Where is any piece of a crashed airplane? Why was the area cordoned off, and no inspection allowed by the normal accident personnel? Where is any evidence at all?
Commander Kolstad also questions many aspects of the attack on the World Trade Center.
How could a steel and concrete building collapse after being hit by a Boeing 767? Didn’t the engineers design it to withstand a direct hit from a Boeing 707, approximately the same size and weight of the 767? The evidence just doesn’t add up.
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If one were to act as an accident investigator, one would look at the evidence, and then construct a plausible scenario as to what led to the accident. In this case, we were told the story and then the evidence was built to support the story. What happened to any intelligent investigation? Every question leads to another question that has not been answered by anyone in authority. This is just the beginning as to why I don’t believe the official ‘story’ and why I want the truth to be told.
Statement of Commander Ralph Kolstad, US Navy (ret)
Lt. Col. Shelton Lankford
Over 300 combat missions.
During 20 year military career, decorations included the Distinguished Flying Cross and 32 awards of the Air Medal.
Our government has been hijacked by means of a “new Pearl Harbor” and a lot of otherwise good and decent people who are gullible enough to think that the first three steel-framed buildings in history fall down because they have some fires that the fire fighter on the scene said could be knocked down with a couple of hoses and through which people walked before they were photographed looking out the holes where the plane hit. One of these, Building 7, was never hit by a plane and even NIST is ashamed to advance a reason for its collapse. And, miracle of miracles, these three buildings just happened to be leased and insured by the same guy who is on tape saying they decided to ‘PULL’ the last one to fall.
September 11, 2001 seems destined to be the watershed event of our lives and the greatest test for our democracy in our lifetimes.
The evidence of government complicity in the lead-up to the events, the failure to respond during the event, and the astounding lack of any meaningful investigation afterwards, as well as the ignoring of evidence turned up by others that renders the official explanation impossible, may signal the end of the American experiment.
It has been used to justify all manners of measures to legalize repression at home and as a pretext for behaving as an aggressive empire abroad.
Until we demand an independent, honest, and thorough investigation and accountability for those whose action and inaction led to those events and the cover-up, our republic and our Constitution remain in the gravest danger.
— Twenty-five U.S. Military Officers Challenge Official Account of 9/11 - OpEd News
Commander Ted Muga
Commercial aircraft flown: Boeing 707 and 727.
7,500 total commercial hours flown.
Military aircraft flown: Grumman E-1 Tracer and E-2 Hawkeye.
3,800 total military hours flown.
Retired Civil Engineer.
The maneuver at the Pentagon was just a tight spiral coming down out of 7,000 feet. And a commercial aircraft, while they can in fact structurally somewhat handle that maneuver, they are very, very, very difficult. And it would take considerable training. In other words, commercial aircraft are designed for a particular purpose and that is for comfort and for passengers and it’s not for military maneuvers. And while they are structurally capable of doing them, it takes some very, very talented pilots to do that.
I just can’t imagine an amateur even being able to come close to performing a maneuver of that nature.
And as far as hijacking the airplanes, once again getting back to the nature of pilots and airplanes, there is no way that a pilot would give up an airplane to hijackers.
I mean, hell, a guy doesn’t give up a TV remote control much less a complicated 757. And so to think that pilots would allow a plane to be taken over by a couple of 5 foot 7, 150 pound guys with a one-inch blade boxcutter is ridiculous.
And also in all four planes, if you remember, none of the planes ever switched on their transponder to the hijack code. There’s a very, very simple code that you put in if you suspect that your plane is being hijacked. It takes literally just a split-second for you to put your hand down on the center console and flip it over. And not one of the four planes ever transponded a hijack code, which is most, most unusual.
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Commercial airplanes are very, very complex pieces of machines. And they’re designed for two pilots up there, not just two amateur pilots, but two qualified commercial pilots up there. And to think that you’re going to get an amateur up into the cockpit and fly, much less navigate, it to a designated target, the probability is so low, that it’s bordering on impossible.
Joel M. Skousen
Candidate in the 2024 United States presidential election for the Constitution Party.
After his military service, served as Chairman of the Conservative National Committee in Washington DC.
He was also the executive editor of Conservative Digest.
In the March 2005 issue, PM [Popular Mechanics] magazine singled out 16 issues or claims of the 9/11 skeptics that point to government collusion and systematically attempted to debunk each one. Of the 16, most missed the mark and almost half were straw men arguments - either ridiculous arguments that few conspiracists believed or restatements of the arguments that were highly distorted so as to make them look weaker than they really were.
I am one of those who claim there are factual arguments pointing to conspiracy, and that truth is not served by taking cheap shots at those who see gaping flaws in the government story.
There is significant evidence that the aircraft impacts did not cause the collapse [of the Twin Towers]
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The issues of the penetration hole [at the Pentagon] and the lack of large pieces of debris simply do not jive with the official story, but they are explainable if you include the parking lot video evidence that shows a huge white explosion at impact. This cannot happen with an aircraft laden only with fuel. It can only happen in the presence of high explosives.
Intelligence
Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski, PhD
Was working in the Pentagon on 11 September 2001.
Former member of the staff of the Director of the National Security Agency.
Account of Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski who was working in the Pentagon on 9/11 in her capacity as Political-Military Affairs Officer in the Office of the Secretary of Defense when Flight 77 allegedly hit the Pentagon
I believe the [9/11] Commission failed to deeply examine the topic at hand, failed to apply scientific rigor to its assessment of events leading up to and including 9/11, failed to produce a believable and unbiased summary of what happened, failed to fully examine why it happened, and even failed to include a set of unanswered questions for future research.
It is as a scientist that I have the most trouble with the official government conspiracy theory, mainly because it does not satisfy the rules of probability or physics. The collapses of the World Trade Center buildings clearly violate the laws of probability and physics.
There was a dearth of visible debris on the relatively unmarked lawn, where I stood only minutes after the impact. 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. This visible evidence or lack thereof may also have been apparent to the Secretary of Defense [Donald Rumsfeld], who in an unfortunate slip of the tongue referred to the aircraft that slammed into the Pentagon as a “missile”. [Secretary Rumsfeld also publicly referred to Flight 93 as the plane that was “shot down” over Pennsylvania.]
I saw nothing of significance at the point of impact - no airplane metal or cargo debris was blowing on the lawn in front of the damaged building as smoke billowed from within the Pentagon. … [A]ll of us staring at the Pentagon that morning were indeed looking for such debris, but what we expected to see was not evident.
The same is true with regard to the kind of damage we expected. … But I did not see this kind of damage. Rather, the facade had a rather small hole, no larger than 20 feet in diameter. Although this facade later collapsed, it remained standing for 30 or 40 minutes, with the roof line remaining relatively straight.
The scene, in short, was not what I would have expected from a strike by a large jetliner. It was, however, exactly what one would expect if a missile had struck the Pentagon.
More information is certainly needed regarding the events of 9/11 and the events leading up to that terrible day.
Ray McGovern
CIA analyst from 1963 to 1990.
In the 1980s chaired National Intelligence Estimates and participated in preparing the President’s Daily Brief.
Received the Intelligence Commendation Medal at his retirement, returning it in 2006 to protest the CIA’s involvement in torture.
I think at simplest terms, there’s a cover-up. The 9/11 Report is a joke. There are a whole bunch of unanswered questions. And the reason they’re unanswered is because this administration will not answer the questions.
— Seven CIA Veterans Challenge 9/11 Commission Report - OpEd News
It has long been clear that the Bush-Cheney administration cynically exploited the attacks of 9/11 to promote its imperial designs.
But the present volume confronts us with evidence for an even more disturbing conclusion: that the 9/11 attacks were themselves orchestrated by this administration precisely so they could be thus exploited. If this is true, it is not merely the case, as the Downing Street memos show, that the stated reason for attacking Iraq was a lie. It is also the case that the whole “war on terror” was based on a prior deception.
This book hence confronts the American people - indeed the people of the world as a whole - with an issue second to none in importance and urgency. I give this book, which in no way can be dismissed as the ravings of ‘paranoid conspiracy theorists’, my highest possible recommendation.
— Blurb for 9/11 and American Empire: Intellectuals Speak Out
There was a faux inquiry … the Commission … came up with a cover story.
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So clearly what’s necessary is an independent investigation of 9/11.
Maj. John M. Newman, PhD
Former Executive Assistant to the Director of the National Security Agency.
21 years in Army intelligence.
History professor at the University of Maryland, and in 2005 had been teaching courses in counterterrorism for ten years.
Political Science professor at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, Virginia since January 2013.
It falls to me this morning to bring to your attention the story of Saeed Sheikh, whose full name is Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, and his astonishing rise to power in Al Qaeda, his crucial role in 9/11, which is completely, utterly, missing from the 9/11 Commission report.
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The 9/11 Commission which studied US intelligence and law enforcement community performance in great detail, (maybe not so much great detail, but they did), neglected to cover the community’s performance during the weeks following the attacks to determine who was responsible for them, not a word about that in the Report.
The Report does discuss the immediate US responses but the immediate investigation is never addressed, and anyone who has closely studied the post-9/11 investigation knows that the first breakthrough came two weeks into the investigation when the money transfers from the United Arab Emirates to the hijackers were uncovered.
Furthermore, if you have studied that investigation, you know there is no disputing that while investigators may have struggled with the identity of the paymaster, they were clear about one thing, he was Al Qaeda’s finance chief. For this reason alone you have to ask why the 9/11 Commission Report never mentions the finance chief’s role as the 9/11 paymaster.
Bill Christison
Supervised over 200 analysts covering, between themselves, every region of the world.
Since then has written numerous articles on U.S. foreign policies.
In 2009 published Palestine in Pieces: Graphic Perspectives on the Israeli Occupation, which he co-authored with his wife, and which earned high praise from Ramzy Baroud, John Pilger and Richard Falk.
I now think there is persuasive evidence that the events of September did not unfold as the Bush administration and the 9/11 Commission would have us believe.
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An airliner almost certainly did not hit The Pentagon. Hard physical evidence supports this conclusion.
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The North and South Towers of the World Trade Center almost certainly did not collapse and fall to earth because hijacked aircraft hit them.
A plane did not hit Building 7 of the Center, which also collapsed.
All three were most probably destroyed by controlled demolition charges placed in the buildings before 9/11.
A substantial volume of evidence shows that typical residues and byproducts from such demolition charges were present in the three buildings after they collapsed. The quality of the research done on this subject is quite impressive.
If [the statements above] are correct, they raise many “Who done it” questions and strongly suggest that some unnamed persons or groups either inside or with ties to the government were actively creating a “Pearl Harbor” event, most likely to gain public support for the aggressive foreign policies that followed — policies that would, first, “transform” the entire Middle East and, second, expand U.S. global domination.
— Stop Belittling the Theories About September 11 - Dissident Voice
We very seriously need an entirely new very high level and truly independent investigation of the events of 9/11. I think you almost have to look at the 9/11 Commission Report as a joke and not a serious piece of analysis at all.
I spent the first four and a half years since September 11 utterly unwilling to consider seriously the conspiracy theories surrounding the attacks of that day.
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[I]n the last half year and after considerable agony, I’ve changed my mind. The subject is a difficult one, and I fully recognize that many of you will feel that I’ve made a monstrous mistake. But I can live with such criticism, and will continue pressing to force a new and independent high level investigation of the events of 9/11. The only real investigation to date, that of the 9/11 Commission, was a joke. We can do better.
Michael Springmann
Served in the Reagan and former Bush administrations, from 1987 to 1989.
During more than 20 years of U.S. government service, worked at both the State Department and the Foreign Commercial Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Speech at the National Press Club
I used to be in charge of the visa section at the CIA’s Consulate in Jeddah. … There for a year and a half I issued visas to terrorists recruited by the CIA and its asset Osama Bin Laden. … Fifteen of the nineteen people who allegedly flew airplanes into buildings in the United States got their visas from the same CIA Consulate at Jeddah.
In Saudi Arabia I was repeatedly ordered by high level State Dept officials to issue visas to unqualified applicants. These were, essentially, people who had no ties either to Saudi Arabia or to their own country. I complained bitterly at the time there. I returned to the US, I complained to the State Dept here, to the General Accounting Office, to the Bureau of Diplomatic Security and to the Inspector General’s office. I was met with silence. … What I was protesting was, in reality, an effort to bring recruits, rounded up by Osama Bin Laden, to the US for terrorist training by the CIA. They would then be returned to Afghanistan to fight against the then-Soviets.
Melvin Goodman, PhD
Senior Analyst at the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research.
Division Chief of the CIA’s Office of Soviet Affairs and served as Senior Analyst from 1966–1990.
Professor of International Security at the National War College, 1986–2004.
Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy and Adjunct Professor of Government at Johns Hopkins University.
I want to talk about the [9/11] Commission itself, about the flawed process of the Commission and finally about the conflict of interest within the Commission that is extremely important to understand the failure of the Commission. … The final report is ultimately a cover-up. I don’t know how else to describe it.
— Testimony before a 2005 Congressional briefing on the 9/11 Commission Report
Daniel Ellsberg, PhD
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Former U.S. State Department envoy to Vietnam and Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense.
Best known for leaking the Pentagon Papers, a top-secret Pentagon study of U.S. government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, to the New York Times, The Washington Post, and other newspapers in 1971.
[T]here’s no question in my mind that there’s enough evidence there to justify a very comprehensive and hard hitting investigation of a kind that we’ve not seen, with subpoenas, general questioning of people, and raising the release of a lot of documents. There’s no question that (D.E. chuckles)— put it this way, very serious questions have been raised, about how much they knew beforehand and how much involvement there may been.
Is the— is an administration capable, humanly and physiologically of engineering such a provocation? Yes, I would say that, I worked for such an administration myself, Johnson …
— Pentagon Papers Author Daniel Ellsberg Says Government May Have Carried Out 9/11 - InfoWars
Kevin Shipp
Held several high level positions in the CIA.
Was assigned as a protective agent for the Director of Central Intelligence, a counterintelligence investigator, team leader protecting sensitive CIA assets from assassination, manager of high risk Counter Terrorism Center protective operations, lead instructor for members of allied governments, internal staff security investigator and a polygraph examiner tasked with protecting the CIA from foreign agent penetration.
He is the recipient of two CIA Meritorious Unit Citations, three Exceptional Performance Awards and a Medallion for overseas covert operations.
Also supervised the Department of State Anti Terrorism Assistance program and managed the protective detail assigned to the president of Afghanistan following the US invasion.
My opinion. As a criminal investigator, as a former CI officer, 9-11 was not the act of a bunch of poorly flight-trained terrorists that executed an unbelievably meticulous piloting of those aircraft. Even pilots— there’s pilots for 9-11 Truth now, and they say, “We could not have done that.” Experienced pilots could not have made those maneuvers. Not possible.
And then we go to the passport issue, and we go to the Tower 7, which was a controlled demolition.
Candace Owens: Obviously
You talk to any structural engineer, and I have, well, that was a controlled demolition. I mean, it was perfect.
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I do not think that it was a bunch of poorly trained or untrained terrorists that did it. I think there was another source behind it. I think it was intentional. And I’m going just from a criminal investigative perspective, just looking at the evidence, what evidence we have, that that was an intentional act.
And it would fall right into the M.O. that you and I are talking about. Horrible event. Because human life does not matter to the shadow government, deep state, or especially the CIA. It does not matter. They’re pawns on their chessboard. They don’t care that 3,000 people were horribly killed that day. But it achieved the aim of gutting the U.S. Constitution, bringing in the horrific Patriot Act, giving the CIA unthinkable authority for secret prisons and torture beyond waterboarding and secret renditions and all of that. The FBI— the ability to spy on Americans came out of the Patriot Act. So it was the perfect national security state energizer that the Patriot Act was. And 70 of the congressmen and senators that read the Patriot Act didn’t even read it. They just signed off on it without even reading the bill. So yeah, I mean, that’s my view.
— Candace Owens Podcast
Robert Baer
Primarily assigned to the Middle East.
As of 2025, is Time’s intelligence columnist and has contributed to Vanity Fair, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
Speaks eight languages.
Won the CIA Career Intelligence Medal and is a frequent commentator and author about issues related to international relations, espionage, and U.S. foreign policy.
Hosted the History reality television series Hunting Hitler.
An Intelligence and Security Analyst for CNN.
His book See No Evil was adapted by the director Stephen Gaghan and used as the basis for the Academy Award-winning film Syriana, with George Clooney playing Baer’s character.
Writer and on-camera commentator for the Emmy Award-nominated documentary Cult of the Suicide Bomber.
Baer has repeatedly questioned whether al-Qaida could have accomplished 9/11 alone. The 9/11 Commission Report categorically found al-Qaida to be entirely responsible for 9/11, stating, “Similarly, we have seen no evidence that any foreign government — or government official — supplied any funding.” However, this 9/11 Commission finding directly contradicts the earlier finding of the Joint House-Senate Select Intelligence Committee’s 2002 Report (p.415) of “sources of foreign support for some of the September 11 hijackers”.
Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I’m far more certain and emphatic: no.
In subsequent interviews, Baer has suggested that support for the attacks could have come from Saudi Arabia and Iran.
In 2006, during an interview by Thom Hartmann, Baer, after commenting on the financial profits being made from 9/11, was asked: “What about political profit? There are those who suggest that … someone in that chain of command … had pretty good knowledge that 9/11 was going to happen — and really didn’t do much to stop it — or even obstructed efforts to stop it because they thought it would lend legitimacy to Bush’s … failing presidency.” Baer replied:
Absolutely.
Hartmann then asked, “So you are personally of the opinion … that there was an aspect of ‘inside job’ to 9/11 within the U.S. government?”
To which Baer replied,
There is that possibility, the evidence points at it.
When Hartmann continued, “And why is it not being investigated?” Baer replied,
Why isn’t the WMD story being investigated? Why hasn’t anybody been held accountable for 9/11? We held people accountable after Pearl Harbor. Why has there been no change in command? Why have there been no political repercussions? Why has there been no — any sort of exposure on this? It really makes you wonder.
— Seven CIA Veterans Challenge 9/11 Commission Report - OpEd News
Until we get a complete, honest, transparent investigation … we will never know what happened on 9/11.
— Blurb for Debunking 9/11 Debunking (revised edition) by David Ray Griffin
Capt. Eric H. May
Also served as an inspector and interpreter for the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty team.
Former Military Editor for The Lone Star Iconoclast.
Published numerous op-eds in the Houston Post, Houston Chronicle, The Wall Street Journal, The Lone Star Iconoclast and Veterans Today.
One of many signers of a petition requesting a reinvestigation of 9/11.
As a former Army officer, my tendency immediately after 911 was to rally ‘round the colors and defend the country against what I then thought was an insidious, malicious all-Arab entity called Al-Qaida. In fact, in April of 2002, I attempted to reactivate my then-retired commission to return to serve my country in its time of peril. …
Now I view the 911 event as Professor David Griffin, author of The The New Pearl Harbor, views it: as a matter that implies either
a. passive participation by the Bush White House through a deliberate stand-down of proper defense procedures that (if followed) would have led US air assets to a quick identification and confrontation of the passenger aircraft that impacted WTC 1 and WTC 2, or worse …
b. 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 …
Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer
Became known for his claims about mishandled intelligence before the September 11 attacks, and for the censoring of his ghost written book Operation Dark Heart.
Was a member of the Able Danger project, having joined in 1999.
Former Chief of the Army’s Controlled HUMINT (Human Intelligence) Program, overseeing Army Intelligence and Security Command’s global controlled HUMINT efforts.
23-year military intelligence veteran.
Awarded the Bronze Star for bravery in Afghanistan.
Following a Defense Intelligence Agency investigation into Shaffer, his access to classified information was revoked in September 2005 and his security clearance was revoked in February 2006. That revocation essentially ended Shaffer’s career as an intelligence officer, both at DIA and in the Army Reserve.
Currently, as of 2025, the president of the London Center for Policy Research.
[B]asic law enforcement investigative techniques, with 21st Century data mining and analytical tools … resulted in the establishment of a new form of intelligence collection – and the identification of Mohammed Atta and several other of the 9-11 terrorists as having links to Al Qaeda leadership a full year in advance of the attacks.
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After contact by two separate members of the ABLE DANGER team, … the 9-11 [Commission] staff refused to perform any in-depth review or investigation of the issues that were identified to them. … It was their job to do a thorough investigation of these claims – to not simply dismiss them based on what many now believe was a ‘preconceived’ conclusion to the 9-11 story they wished to tell. … I consider this a failure of the 9-11 staff – a failure that the 9-11 Commissioners themselves were victimized by – and continue to have perpetrated on them by the staff as is evidenced by their recent, groundless conclusion that ABLE DANGER’s findings were ‘urban legend’.
— Testimony before the Armed Services Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, Feb. 15, 2006
Why did this operation, which was created in ‘99 to target Al Qaeda globally, offensively, why was that turned off in the Spring of 2001, four months before we were attacked? I can’t answer that, either. I can tell you I was ordered out of the operation directly by a two-star general.
Capt. Gregory M. Zeigler, PhD
I knew from September 18, 2001, that the official story about 9/11 was false. That was when I realized that the perpetrators had made a colossal blunder in collapsing the South Tower first, rather than the North Tower, which had been hit more directly and earlier.
Other anomalies poured in rapidly: the hijackers’ names appearing in none of the published flight passenger lists, BBC reports of stolen identities of the alleged hijackers or the alleged hijackers being found alive, the obvious demolitions of WTC 1 and 2 and WTC 7, the lack of identifiable Boeing 757 wreckage at the Pentagon, the impossibility of ordinary cell phone (as opposed to Airfone) calls being made consistently from passenger aircraft at cruising altitude, etc., etc., etc.
I have taken off my uniform as a US Army intelligence officer, but I have not taken back my oath of loyalty to the United States of America and its Constitution. If it comes to a fight to the finish for my nation: count me in!
— Twenty-five U.S. Military Officers Challenge Official Account of 9/11 - OpEd News
Senior military officers
Dr. Robert M. Bowman
Served under Ford and Carter.
101 combat missions.
Head of the Department of Aeronautical Engineering and Assistant Dean at the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology.
Doctorate degrees in aeronautics and nuclear engineering from the California Institute of Technology.
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. Taken together these things prove that high levels of our government don’t want us to know what happened and who’s responsible. Who gained from 9/11? Who covered up crucial information about 9/11? And who put out the patently false stories about 9/11 in the first place?
When you take those three things together, I think the case is pretty clear that it’s highly placed individuals in the administration with all roads passing through Dick Cheney.
There are conspiracy theories flying around the internet like seagulls around a landfill. Many people are convinced that George W. Bush knew what was going to happen and purposely allowed it to happen so he and his neo-conservative buddies could have the “new Pearl Harbor” they needed to justify their wars against Afghanistan and Iraq. Others go further. They are absolutely sure Cheney and company actually planned and carried out the attack (usually along with the Mossad). These folks don’t think there were ever any Arab hijackers at all.
What is so disturbing is that their arguments are quite convincing. If an enormous cloud of suspicion is not to be permanently over the head of our government, the Bush Administration must “come clean”, releasing information thus far withheld from the American people.
— What Really Happened on 9/11? Why All the Secrecy? - rmbowman.com
If our government had merely done nothing, and allowed normal procedures to happen on that morning of 9/11, the twin towers would still be standing, and thousands of dead Americans would still be alive. My sisters and brothers, that is treason.
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It’s time for George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleeza Rice and the whole oil mafia to be removed from office and indicted for treason.
Bowman stated that at the bare minimum if Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda were involved in 9/11 then the government stood down and allowed the attacks to happen. He said it is plausible that the entire chain of military command were unaware of what was taking place and were used as tools by the people pulling the strings behind the attack.
Bowman outlined how the drills on the morning of 9/11 that simulated planes crashing into buildings on the east coast were used as a cover to dupe unwitting air defense personnel into not responding quickly enough to stop the attack.
The exercises that went on that morning simulating the exact kind of thing that was happening so confused the people in the FAA and NORAD…that they didn’t they didn’t know what was real and what was part of the exercise.
I think the people who planned and carried out those exercises, they’re the ones that should be the object of investigation.
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If I had to narrow it down to one person … I think my prime suspect would be Dick Cheney.
Bowman said that privately his military fighter pilot peers and colleagues did not disagree with his sentiments about the real story behind 9/11.
The 9/11 Commission omitted anything that might be the least bit suspicious or embarrassing or in any way detract from the official conspiracy so it was a total whitewash.
There needs to be a true investigation, not the kind of sham investigations we have had with the 9/11 omission and all the rest of that junk.
— Former Head Of Star Wars Program Says Cheney Main 9/11 Suspect - Prison Planet
Col. Donn de Grand-Pre
Chief arms negotiator for the Middle East.
A Portugal-based investigative journalist has presented THE NEWS with version of the September 11th attacks that has to date failed to attract the attention of the international press. The report, compiled by an independent inquiry into the September 11th, World Trade Centre attack, warns the American public that the government’s official version of events does not stand up to scrutiny.
A group of military and civilian US Pilots, under the chairmanship of Colonel Donn de Grand, after deliberating non-stop for 72 hours, has concluded that the flight crews of the four passenger airliners involved in September 11th tragedy had no control over their aircraft.
In a detailed press communiqué the inquiry stated:
The so-called terrorist attack was in fact a superbly executed military operation carried out against the USA, requiring the utmost professional military skill in command, communications and control. It was flawless in timing, in the choice of selected aircraft to be used as guided missiles and in the coordinated delivery of those missiles to their pre-selected targets.
The report seriously questions whether or not the suspect hijackers, supposedly trained on Cessna light aircraft, could have located a target dead-on 200 miles from take off point. It further throws into doubt their ability to master the intricacies of the instrument flight rules (IFR) in the 45 minutes from take off to the point of impact. Colonel de Grand said that it would be impossible for novices to have taken control of the four aircraft and orchestrated such a terrible act requiring military precision of the highest order.
*A member of the inquiry team, a US Air Force officer who flew over 100 sorties during the Vietnam war, told the press conference: *
Those birds (commercial airliners) either had a crack fighter pilot in the left seat, or they were being manoeuvred by remote control.
In evidence given to the enquiry, Captain Kent Hill (retd.) of the US Air Force, and friend of Chic Burlingame, the pilot of the plane that crashed into the Pentagon, stated that the US had on several occasions flown an unmanned aircraft, similar in size to a Boeing 737, across the Pacific from Edwards Air Force base in California to South Australia. According to Hill it had flown on a pre programmed flight path under the control of a pilot in an outside station.
Hill also quoted Bob Ayling, former British Airways boss, in an interview given to the London Economist on September 20th, 2001. Ayling admitted that it was now possible to control an aircraft in flight from either the ground or in the air. This was confirmed by expert witnesses at the inquiry who testified that airliners could be controlled by electro-magnetic pulse or radio frequency instrumentation from command and control platforms based either in the air or at ground level.
All members of the inquiry team agreed that even if guns were held to their heads none of them would fly a plane into a building. Their reaction would be to ditch the plane into a river or a field, thereby safeguarding the lives of those on the ground.
A further question raised by the inquiry was why none of the pilots concerned had alerted ground control. It stated that all pilots are trained to punch a four-digit code into the flight control’s transponder to warn ground control crews of a hijacking - but this did not happen.
During the press conference Captain Hill maintained that the four airliners must have been choreographed by an Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS). This system can engage several aircraft simultaneously by knocking out their on-board flight controls. He said that all the evidence points to the fact that the pilots and their crews had not taken any evasive action to resist the supposed hijackers. They had not attempted any sudden changes in flight path or nose-dive procedures - which led him to believe that they had no control over their aircraft.
THE NEWS, in an attempt to further substantiate the potential veracity of these findings, spoke to an Algarave-based airline pilot, who has more than 20 years of experience in flying passenger planes, to seek his views. Captain Colin McHattie, currently flying with Cathay Pacific, agreed with the independent commission’s findings. However he explained that while it is possible to fly a plane from the ground the installation of the necessary equipment is a time-consuming process, and needs extensive planning.
The FBI also came in for criticism for the various pieces of contradictory evidence it has published regarding the suspects. Questions are now being asked as to how incorrect information was given out regarding the ID cards of the suspects, and the seat numbers they supposedly occupied after boarding the flights.
None of the suspects named by the FBI appeared on any of the official passenger lists. A further point was how the FBI had managed to retrieve the passport of one of the suspects amid the molten and twisted remains of thousands of tons of steel and rubble brought about by the Twin Towers collapse.
Dr. Paul Roberts, former Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury, and presently Senior Research Fellow at Stamford University, has lent his support to the independent inquiry findings. He also claims that Osama Bin Laden was not responsible for September 11th. The doctor has challenged President Bush to, make public the so-called “irrefutable evidence” incriminating Bin Laden.
Colonel Donn de Grand said that if President Bush is lying it would not be the first time that the American people had been mislead by its government. He cited the recently published official government archives describing President Roosevelt’s duplicity in deceiving Americans about the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, which triggered the US entry into WWII.
He also highlighted the role of the country’s government in misleading its citizens in respect of the Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba, and the events that brought about the Spanish American war in the late 19th, century.
Whilst considering who committed this act of war on September 11th, [be it] Russia, China, an Islamic country or NATO, we must also consider that the enemy may well be within the gates.
Not for the first time the American public might be being mislead, by those with ulterior motives, into lending its support to a war, this time against Iraq, that has no bearing whatsoever on the interests of the people of the USA.
So far the mainstream American news media has failed to publish or broadcast any details regarding the independent inquiry. Similarly, the White House, whilst having received a copy of the report, has remained silent on its findings.
— September 11 - US Government accused - THE NEWS (Portugal), 3 Aug 2002 - Front page story
I continue to work with several airline pilots, who, among other things, are stressing the fact that prior to 11 September, the four major transcontinental lines (two UAL, two AA) were averaging 220 passengers a flight. Suddenly, on 11 Sep, here is the official and confirmed tally:
AA Flight 77 - 56 passengers, 6 crew
UAL flight 93 - 33 passengers, 7 crew
AA flight 11 - 76 passengers, 11 crew
UAL Flight 175 - 47 passengers, 9 crewI have an authentic listing (dated 12 September 01) of all the passengers by alphabetical order; I repeat it because I said it before — there were no hijackers, Arab or otherwise; there were no — repeat no — cell phone contacts or other transmissions of any kind. I have no doubt that the manifests were accurate.
These are facts; I can only speculate as to the “why’ of it (or the “how”).
However, it is dead-ended… as it was meant to be. The FBI arranged for those “additions’ to the passenger listings to reflect (after the fact) that “19 Middle East hijackers” were on board the ‘hijacked” airplanes — complete with their photos! (dated 27 September). The reason (accepted as “official”) for not listing the alleged hijackers on the passenger manifests was “national security”.
The pilots (I have at least 4 AA captains) who could attest as to under-capacity, but not in writing, nor who wish to have their names revealed. So, that too becomes a dead-end… for now. But, recall Yogi Berra’s stirring words … it ain’t over ‘til it’s over.
I remain eternally optimistic that the unending series of lies and damned lies perpetuated by the “intelligence community”, and coupled to the political prevaricators, will eventually come unglued, and that the truth will out.
I called together from 16 to 19 September, in the Pentagon area, not in the Pentagon, a group of military, civilian and general aviation pilots. And for three days, we kicked around what actually happened on 11 September. And then the investigator journalists covered that and it was reported in the Portugal news and very accurate.
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after three days, the decisions were unanimous. And I wrote my 24-page report up and submitted it to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. And that report ultimately got into the hands of the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs on 23 January, 2002.
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And as we delved into that, we found that the culprits, including Rumsfeld, were part of a neocon group that had been planning this thing for literally years prior to September 11th.
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the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs himself has agreed, there were no hijackers. There were no cell phone calls. Everybody aboard that aircraft, pilots and crew, were unconscious within 8 to 18 minutes after take-off. And you can take it from there.
[AJ]: So, they’re knocked out and then the remote control takes place and the rest is history.
Yeah, there was remote control and .. yes.
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[John - calling in]: Colonel, did a cruise missile hit the Pentagon or a Global Hawk or a drone business jet?
You are talking about what hit the Pentagon, right John? It was a cruise missile. It could have been a Global Hawk. It was not a commercial aircraft.
[John]: And was United Airlines Flight 93 shot down in Pennsylvania by a U.S. or NATO pilot and was that what was supposed to hit the Pentagon?
No, that was hit at 10:00 hours. It was taken out by the North Dakota Air Guard. I know the pilot who fired those two missiles to take down 93.
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Cheney is closest to the action. He was probably most involved in all of the details of September 11th … he knows exactly what happened.
Colonel Donn de Grand Pres Revelations On 911 - pdf
Dear General Pace:
Regarding the 9-11 “incident”, I was assisted in my analysis by friends of impeccable credentials, who actually believe in Duty - Honor - Country. They are in accord with the analysis.
Believe me, it was no accident!
There were no hijackers; there were no box cutters; there were no cell phone calls to “hijacked” passengers; in fact, all personnel on board were rendered instantly unconscious (within 18 minutes at most) by controlled decompression. All commercial planes were controlled remotely by aircraft with EMP and/or other radio frequency weapons.
The actual plot of the of 9-11 events was exceptionally well-planned in advance and was executed under the guise of “terrorism”. …
— Letter to General Peter Pace, USMC, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff | 23 Jan 2002
Major General Albert Stubblebine
United States Army major general whose active-duty career spanned 32 years.
Beginning as an armor officer, he later transferred to intelligence.
Credited with redesigning the U.S. Army intelligence architecture during his time as commanding general of the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) from 1981 to 1984.
Inducted into the Military Intelligence Hall of Fame.
One of my experiences in the Army was being in charge of the Army’s Imagery Interpretation for Scientific and Technical Intelligence during the Cold War. I measured pieces of Soviet equipment from photographs. It was my job.
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?
Col. Ann Wright
One of three U.S. State Department officials to publicly resign in direct protest of the invasion of Iraq in March, 2003.
In the US military for 29 years, retiring as a colonel.
Taught the law of land warfare and Geneva Conventions at the JFK Center for Land Warfare and at the U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School (SWCS) at Fort Bragg.
Was in the US army during the US wars on Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Grenada, Panama, and the Central American wars in El Salvador, Honduras, Panama and Nicaragua.
Was also a U.S. diplomat for 16 years and served in U.S. embassies in Nicaragua, Grenada, Somalia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan and Mongolia.
Helped reopen the US Embassy in Afghanistan in December 2001.
Was a part of the United Nations operation in Somalia in 1993 and ‘94 as head of the Justice Division for UNOSOM for almost 6 months, attempting to recreate the Somali police, judicial, and prison system.
In 2003, one of three U.S. State Department officials to publicly resign from the federal government in opposition to the war on Iraq.
Since then has been working with groups around the world to say that “war is not the answer, that we’ve got to use diplomacy, that we’ve got to stop killing people and work to control weapons”.
It’s incredible some of these things that still are unanswered. The 9/11 Report — that was totally inadequate. I mean the questions that anybody has after reading that.
How could our national intelligence and defense operations be so inept that they could not communicate; that they could not scramble jets; that they could not take defensive action? And I totally agree. I always thought the Pentagon had all sorts of air defense sort of equipment around it; that they could take out anything that was coming at it. And for a plane to be able to just fly low right over Washington and slam into that thing is just — I mean, you still just shake your head. How in the world could that happen?
— 2007 interview with Richard Greene - Air America Radio (mp3)
Maj. Douglas Rokke, PhD
Served after the Gulf War. Victim of DU contamination.
Appears in the DVD Beyond Treason, an 89-minute film that presents comprehensive documentation from United States Government archives of a massive cover-up, including military and civilian experimentation, dating back more than 60 years.
30-year veteran.
High-Ranking Army Officer Claims Missile Used at Pentagon, Not Commercial Airliner
When you look at the whole thing, especially the crash site void of airplane parts, the size of the hole left in the building and the fact the projectile’s impact penetrated numerous concrete walls, it looks like the work of a missile. And when you look at the damage, it was obviously a missile.
Capt. Scott J. Phillpott
Commanding Officer of the guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55), the USS Typhoon (PC 5), USS Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG 13) and USS ESTOCIN (FFG-15).
Came to prominence after informing the 2004 9/11 Commission that a data-mining project named Able Danger had identified hijack leader Mohamed Atta as a threat tied to al-Qaeda. Atta was living in Brooklyn as early as January 2000.
Phillpott and a civilian technician identified as “JD Smith” were the two sources for Army Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer’s claims of an intelligence failure.
During his 23 years of Navy service, has been awarded the Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, three Meritorious Service Medals, the Joint Service Commendation Medal, two Navy Commendation Medals and the Navy Achievement Medal.
I will not discuss this outside of my chain of command. I have briefed the Department of the Army, the Special Operations Command and the office of (Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence) Dr. Cambone as well as the 9/11 Commission. My story has remained consistent. Atta was identified by Able Danger in January/February 2000.
— Third Source Backs ‘Able Danger’ Claims About Atta - Fox News
James Cameron Clow
Master’s Degree in Environmental Engineering from Michigan University.
Served in the US Coast Guard for 21 years.
Chief of the USCG National Response Center, Washington, DC.
Creator and bassist of “The Gents”, the first and only US Coast Guard Academy rock and roll band - a band that endured to become an official Coast Guard legacy, stretching over more than half a century.
As a civilian: Manager, Texaco Worldwide Response Team, Beacon, NY Regional Response Manager, Equiva Services Crisis Management, Houston, TX. Regional Response Manager, Shell Oil Products, Houston, TX. Chair, American Petroleum Spills Task Force, Washington, DC. Chair, American Petroleum Spills Advisory Group, Washington, DC.
No matter how one views the videos of the Towers and Building 7 collapsing, the laws of physics MUST hold true. If
F=maappears to have been violated (e.g., free-fall collapse of the buildings at nearly 9.8 m/sec/sec), then something is seriously amiss and one must start looking for the “other hand” hidden beneath the table to discover what is really happening. Your video does a good job of pointing out the fallacies and ineptitude advanced by the government investigators.— Statement supporting Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth petition
Capt. Daniel Davis
Decorated with the Bronze Star and the Soldiers Medal for bravery under fire and the Purple Heart for injuries sustained in Vietnam.
Served in the Army Air Defense Command as Nike Missile Battery Control Officer for the Chicago-Milwaukee Defense Area.
Founder and former CEO of Turbine Technology Services Corp., a turbine (jet engine) services and maintenance company (15 years).
Former Senior Manager at General Electric Turbine (jet) Engine Division (15 years).
Private pilot.
As a former General Electric Turbine engineering specialist and manager and then CEO of a turbine engineering company, I can guarantee that none of the high tech, high temperature alloy engines on any of the four planes that crashed on 9/11 would be completely destroyed, burned, shattered or melted in any crash or fire. Wrecked, yes, but not destroyed. Where are all of those engines, particularly at the Pentagon? If jet powered aircraft crashed on 9/11, those engines, plus wings and tail assembly, would be there.
Additionally, in my experience as an officer in NORAD as a Tactical Director for the Chicago-Milwaukee Air Defense and as a current private pilot, there is no way that an aircraft on instrument flight plans (all commercial flights are IFR) would not be intercepted when they deviate from their flight plan, turn off their transponders, or stop communication with Air Traffic Control. No way! With very bad luck, perhaps one could slip by, but no there’s no way all four of them could!
Finally, going over the hill and highway and crashing into the Pentagon right at the wall/ground interface is nearly impossible for even a small slow single engine airplane and no way for a 757. Maybe the best pilot in the world could accomplish that but not these unskilled “terrorists”.
Attempts to obscure facts by calling them a “Conspiracy Theory” does not change the truth. It seems, “Something is rotten in the State.”
Col. James R. Uhl, MD
Served in several theatres of operations, from Vietnam through to Iraq.
There is a well-organized cover-up of the events of 11 Sep 2001. The 9/11 Commission was a white-washed farce. There is evidence that US Government officials had advance knowledge of and are probably implicated in the events of 9/11.
A huge body of physical evidence has been ignored, suppressed, and ridiculed by the media and by our Government.
Why did WTC 7 collapse? It was never hit by an airplane and was apparently brought down by explosives. How could Al-Qaida terrorists have had access and time to plant bombs in a top secret installation? Why did the 9/11 Commission fail to seek the reason for the WTC 7 collapse?
— Twenty-five U.S. Military Officers Challenge Official Account of 9/11 - OpEd News