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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 Tyndall Air Force Base
were the first ones sent to intercept the failing jet. (8) But the
Tyndall 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 Tyndall 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. (10)
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
(10) 'Newsday' 23 September 2001, "Air Attack on Pentagon Indicates
Weaknesses" by Sylvia Adcock, Brian Donovan and Craig Gordon
Web version (does not link direct to part of article with reference to closing of
air corridor) :
http://www.newsday.com/ny-uspent232380681sep23.story
Backup with direct link to reference to closing of air corridor is at:
http://emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/nd923.htm#a
'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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