I listed her name under the heading:
Eight Senior Republican Appointees Challenge Official Account of 9/11 - "Not Possible", "a Whitewash", "False"
Let's take a look at what exactly Schiavo's dissent from the government investigation is:
In the past, in the aftermath of a terrorist attack on aviation, both the NTSB and victims on the plane and on the ground were able to seek discovery to determine how it was the terrorists were able to get access to the airlines, airports or other aviation facilities. The purpose is obvious: so that those gaps could be closed and that avenue to terror be forever obstructed...
In every other aviation disaster, including those precipitated by terrorism or aviation crimes or piracy, the National Transportation Safety Board examined the tragedy and issued technical, operational and policy recommendations to our government, the airlines, airports, and others. The NTSB does this to enable us to correct the lapses that permitted the tragedy to occur. Indeed, the party most cited as causing or contributing to airline crashes is none other than our own FAA.
No such NTSB investigation occurred nor is forthcoming to examine the 9/11 crashes. Both methods of accountability and correction were lost in the government’s haste to help the carriers’ finances. The failure to deploy the two systems of examination and correction in aviation tragedies, were deliberately thwarted by our government and airline lobbyists and lawyers have doomed our citizens to suffer future repeated terrorist attacks. Our government has sent the official message that it is willing to protect the carriers and others and their corporate leadership from, and at the expense of, dead Americans, devastated families and a destroyed aviation system.
(Source:
Statement of Mary Schiavo to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States)
So, what did Schiavo think was the "Whitewash"? It was the failure to conduct an NTSB investigation to discover and close the security holes allowing terrorists to hijack US airliners. As well as the failure to assign the proper responsibility to the airlines and government for failing to properly address known security issues. And, what's "false" about the story? The part I just mentioned: The fact that the government narrative fails to properly include mention of the airlines and government's culpability in the security lapses. So, what was "Not Possible"? Well, that's not something that Schiavo has ever spoken to. The whole problem, in her eyes, is that for years, hijackings have been all
too possible. She doesn't claim that the general narrative of terrorists hijacking planes did not happen; rather, she is angry that the government isn't sufficiently critical about it's performance vis-a-vis airport security. That's
all she's spoken about.
At best, Schiavo is LIHOI. She has yet to say anything about needing a new investigation or questioning the consensus about Islamic terrorists hijacking airliners. What she's spoken about is prevention of hijackings. That pretty much demonstrates what she believes happened on September 11th. It's misleading to include her in a list of people, such as those in that OpEdNews article, who claim that events at the Pentagon couldn't have happened, or that demolitions were used at the World Trade Center. That's quite obviously not what she believes or is complaining about.
Let's be clear what she thinks about conspiracies:
... (N)ot all of us believe that everybody's coordinating, in the government is coordinating a big conspiracy. Quite frankly, from my days in the government it is difficult for the government to coordinate anything beyond a conspiracy of one. But from my position, what if then, indeed, you're dealing with colossal incompetence?...
You know, quite possibly lots of these things aren't connected at all and that various government agencies were so colossally incompetent and are covering up the fact that they're unable to do the jobs for which their tapped. And of course many people tapped into government are tapped into government without rudimentary abilities to do anything that they're assigned to do. And from my days in the government we would investigate colossal conspiracies, what we thought, and we would come up with colossal incompetence. And from my position, if the carriers, since I work in aviation, if the carriers and the aviation industry and the government is colossally incompetent I want them held accountable just as much as if they're engaged in some big conspiracy.
(Source:
Unansweredquestions.org press conference)
She is strident in her position because she does indeed want to go after the government for its failures. But the failures she identifies do not include any question of the hijackings or the ramming of jets into the Twin Towers. Problem is, too many conspiracy fantasists get confused about what she actually does dispute, so they lump her in with other people making wilder claims. Which is a mistake. Now Chris here is probably very well aware that Schiavo doesn't make claims about the towers, or doesn't dispute the hijackings narrative; he's probably just using her dissent opportunistically to demonstrate that people dispute elements of the government's narrative. So let's not include him in that group of truthers. Besides, it
is true: She does not approve of the "Official Story". But you must look closely at what exactly it is she disapproves of. When you see that, you'll see how she is misused by most of the fantasy peddlers trying to build lists of various "authorities" and "experts" disputing the "Official Story". Lurkers, new members, etc.: There's a lesson here in how to properly determine what people truly mean when they question the government, as well as a lesson to chase down original statements and determine the true stance a person has. Too many of these people, like Schiavo here, are conflated with people who claim outright falsehoods, such as demolitions use or missiles at the Pentagon. That is very unfair to Schiavo, and a complete misrepresentation of as well as a distraction from the true core of her dissent.
