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| 'The Great Deception' national | miscellaneous | news report  Tuesday February 05, 2002 11:40 by John Flaherty CANADIAN TV AIRS EMPEROR'S CLOTHES 'GUILTY FOR 9-11' EVIDENCE! by John Flaherty [Posted 5 February 2001] 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, [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 (1) 'The Great Deception' (1a) The sections of 'GUILTY FOR 9-11' aired on Canadian TV: * Section 1: 'Why Were None of the Hijacked Planes Intercepted?' * Update to GUILTY FOR 9-11 Section 1: * Section 2: 'Mr. Cheney's Cover Story' (2) 'Great Deception' Transcript (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' (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. (6) NTSB Report (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' 'Map & Timetable for American Airlines Flight 77' 'Map of Andrews Air Force Base' Frequently Asked Questions on 9-11 Includes: 'FAQ #1 - Nobody was prepared for 9-11' and 'Reader Says Emperor's Clothes Wrong on bin Laden, 9-11' Add Your Comments >>  printable version with comments    |
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