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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