NIST, the "scientific" organization used to substantiate the claims made in Popular Mechanics' Debunking the 9/11 Myth is a similar organization that distorted the findings, Dr. Grifin said. 'Kathleen Black, head of Hearst Magazines, which owns Popular Mechanics Magazine, is married to a former CIA and DOD official. When she came onboard, she reportedly "cleaned house," and hired her own neoconservative staff intent on promoting the political and partisan story of the Bush/Cheney administration."
"The Popular Mechanics story contains unintentionally hilarious chapters," Dr. Griffin pointed out.
Alexander Cockburn.
Alexander Cockburn of the Nation magazine labels Dr. Griffin "a conspiracy nut," he confidently shared with the seated crowd. But far from being a conspiracy nut, Dr. Griffin has attempted to get empirical about the events. "And when you get empirical," he said, "you find that September 11 was planned, organized, and committed by treasonous individuals who had penetrated the highest levels of our government. Cockburn's unempirical approach has led him to make charges that are obviously absurd," countered Dr. Griffin. "We must look at the facts and then ask which conspiracy theory fits the facts. The 9/11 Truth Movement has gotten empirical about that," he asserted.
Absurdities of the Popular Mechanics Version of 9/11:
The World Trade Center in Manhattan.
When the first plane hit the World Trade Center in Manhattan, the passport of one of the hijackers flew out and fluttered to the ground, without being burned. Incredible. Impossible, said Dr. Griffin.
Flight 93.
Flight 93, traveling at 500 mph, crashed into the ground but did not start a fire in the surrounding area. The tail of the plane was not found anywhere. How dould this have been possible? Instead, the Popular Mechanics version asserts, the plane, traveling at such a high speed, burrowed clear into the ground, tail and all. At that point, Dr. Griffin elicited the laughter of the seated audience.
Muhammad Atta's suitcase.
Muhammad Atta apparently packed his suitcase to take with him on the flight that he was allegedly planning on crashing in a suicide attack. Yet inside Muhammad Atta's suitcase, he had packed his last will and testament. "Now, it is common knowledge that if someone is going to hijack a plane and crash it into a target on a suicide mission, that person will take with them their last will and testament," Dr. Griffin concluded facetiously, obviously insinuating the reverse. Why would anyone who was planning on crashing an airplane also pack his last will and testament, to be destroyed along with the airplane? We know that his will was in his suitcase because due to an error within the airlines, the bag was not loaded on the airplane.
Pork, Alcohol and Lap-dances.
If that weren't enough, Dr. Griffin reported that several of the hijackers ate pork, drank alcohol, and received lap-dances. So much for the theory that these were devout Muslim fundamentalists.
The FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" Website.
The FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" Website, said Dr. Griffin, contains Usama bin Laden's name and photograph, but it does not list 9/11 as one of his terrorist acts. Why is this so?
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