That was before any of the videos etc. had been released.
Go ahead and make a list.
(I actually feel sorry for you sometimes.)
Very well.
"I don't make any conclusions," Pickering adds. "I have no partisan interest in this."
False. You certainly do make conclusions, many of which are demonstrably wrong. The ability to make
informed conclusions is not related to "partisan interest."
His curiosity was piqued when friends who served on Seattle's urban search and rescue team returned from a Sept. 11 assignment in New York City, bringing questions about what they'd seen. They wondered why World Trade Center building 7 had seemingly collapsed for no reason.
Were any of those people there to see WTC 7 damaged and burning?
Another factor was an article in the 105-year-old Fire Engineering magazine in which the editor expressed outrage that debris was removed without investigating why the buildings had collapsed. The writer also questioned the handling of the investigation.
Bill Manning has never supported CT claims. His complaints were only related to the fire safety of tall buildings.
Also puzzling Pickering were reports by NYC firefighters about secondary explosions in the two towers. When 9-1-1 transcripts were released in 2005 they contained accounts of those explosions.
And had you done what I have done, you could have read and taken notes about those accounts, put them into context, and learned about what the firefighters were describing.
The evidence gave credibility to the questioners who continued their probe.
False. The CTs have shown no evidence that lends credibility to the claim that the USG was involved in planning or executing the terrorist attacks of 9/11.
In his examination of photographs from the attack on the Pentagon, Pickering says he's found only a few images showing parts of the aircraft.
Remember, this interview was in April of 2006. I wrote my guide to Loose Change – a movie that Russell boasts of contributing to – then. Dozens and dozens of photographs of flight 77 parts were available.
Further, the FBI refuses to release evidence of aircraft debris and barred the National Transportation and Safety Board from investigating the scene.
False. As required by law, the FBI was the lead investigating body into the crashes. The NTSB was also involved, and did the crucial analysis of the "black boxes."
The FBI also has 85 videos it refuses to release. One of Pickering's research partners filed a Freedom of Information Act request for them. He says the agency at first denied the existence of the videos and then, on appeal, admitted to having 85.
And in what way does the lack of access to videos preclude you from knowing what happened to flight 77?
The videos come from civilian, business and security cameras in the vicinity of the Pentagon, says Pickering, who wonders why the agency won’t share the information.
"There is no justification for not releasing it," he says, adding that anyone can go to the Pentagon's Web site and get all the details about the building. "There's absolutely no security issue whatsoever."
As we know, when proper procedures are followed, the FBI has released some videos. This can take time.
Questions about the plane persist, such as why the official passenger manifest contained neither Arab names nor names that aren't accounted for, Pickering says.
False. The flight manifests contained the names of all 19 hijackers.
Further, the government has no positive identification of the five hijackers
False. The government has overwhelming evidence of the identity of the hijackers. And Russell failed to mention that the remains of two brothers were identified by DNA at the Pentagon, and that the only brothers to die there that day were listed as hijackers on flight 77.
and barred involvement by the Virginia medical examiner.
False. They turned down the VME's offer of involvement, because the DOD's pathologists and facilities were orders of magnitude more capable of dealing with mass casualty incidents than were the state of Virginia's.
Also barred from the site were members of the American Society of Civil Engineers, who based their subsequent report on indirect examinations, he adds.
False. This has been discussed with Russell in another thread.
"There may be answers for these things, but the government hasn't put forth a single piece of evidence," Pickering says.
Pathetically and blatantly false. The 9/11 Commission report? The NIST report on WTC 1 & 2? The ASCE report on the Pentagon? No evidence there?
"As an American citizen, I'm entitled to answers."
That depends on the questions you ask and who and how you're asking. And ignoring answers based on solid evidence is a bad idea.
"Whenever possible, I've gone to the source," Pickering says.
False. And you often made unsubstantiated claims without addressing the contradictory evidence that was staring you in the face, as you do here.
He's also consulting on a movie, "Loose Change 2nd Edition." The movie is promoted at
http://www.loosechange911.com as showing a "direct connection between the attacks of Sept. 11 and the U.S. governoment."
The movie that gets every claim wrong.
Pickering's resolve was recently buoyed by wide interest in an Internet radio show in which he participated. Along with tens of thousands of Internet viewers, he says 30 federal agencies and military-industrial companies logged into the program.
"If we didn't have something important, they wouldn't be interested," Pickering says.
Your claims are not validated because some individuals at large organizations tuned into an netcast. That fallacy has been explained to you above.
Now, would you like to explain why the April, 2006 date of that article excuses your errors?
