Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Reporter Sees Infamous NASA Building in Cleveland, Lives to Tell Tale

Not without a scare, though:

Nobody's going to shoot me if I take pictures of that hangar?" I ask.

Rachul laughs. "No," she says. "It'll be fine."

Stepping from the minivan, I pull a digital camera from the leather satchel slung around my left shoulder. I push the power button and walk forward, slowly, toward the hangar doors, which are closed tight. With shaky hands, I raise the Sony Cyber-shot and begin taking pictures.

As I turn back to the van, I see the guard running toward me, hand on his gun. I slip the camera back in the satchel and show him that my hands are now empty.


Regrettably, our bosses at the NWO let him live. Perhaps they knew he would go on to spoof Loose Change and the 9-11 Deniers:

This lone article remains a holy grail of sorts for Jason Bermas and his filmmaking buddies. The 26-year-old Bermas was a graphic designer in upstate New York before he began researching 9/11 for the documentary Loose Change. Sales of the 90-minute DVD have been so brisk that Bermas quit his day job. There's talk of submitting to Sundance, but in the meantime Bermas and director Dylan Avery, 22, are busy scheduling interviews with CNN and newspapers across the planet for the fifth anniversary of the attacks.

Bermas believes that the article on WCPO's Web site got it right. United 93 landed safely at Hopkins International Airport, he says, and was wheeled into a hangar at the NASA Glenn Research Center next door.


The reporter also apparently clears up the mystery of the "missing" flight.

"A KC-135 had to come back to the hangar," says Wessel, as if realizing for the first time that this aircraft may have caused some undue confusion. A team of scientists from the Johnson Space Center in Houston had flown to Cleveland on this KC-135 to conduct micro-gravity experiments. (Also known as "the vomit comet," KC-135's are used to simulate weightlessness. The plane soars to high altitudes, then falls back toward the ground, giving passengers a few seconds of zero-G experience. Scenes for the Tom Hanks movie Apollo 13 were filmed in one.)

The visiting scientists could not return to Houston as scheduled on 9/11 once the FAA ordered all planes to land. "After the facility closed, we had to take those scientists to a hotel." The scientists, dressed as civilians, were boarded onto shuttle buses.


The article is not all good; for example, the reporter repeats the canard that Kennedy "sacked Lemnitzer". In fact, as we have discussed before Lemnitzer stepped down as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs on September 30, 1962; the end of a fiscal year, as appears to be common (something like eight other Chairmen of the JC have stepped down on that date). He was subsequently appointed by Kennedy to be Supreme Allied Commander, NATO, so it's hard to argue that his services were no longer desired.

And there's this old bit of disinfo:

Marvin Bush, George W.'s younger brother, worked for the company in charge of security for Building 7 on 9/11.


Wally Miller, one of the good guys whose name got dragged through the mud by the 9-11 nutbars lets loose:

"It's all bullsh*t," says Miller. "I'm not saying I was misquoted, but the quote was taken out of context. There were pieces of people. Trust me. I cleaned it up. The plane hit the ground doing 575 miles per hour. The rest of the remains were vaporized on impact. But we did ID everyone onboard."

He has received calls from strangers demanding to know why he's covering for the government. "These people are extremely adversarial," he says. "It's just getting annoying. It speaks for the need for better regulation of the Internet. But I guess that's the sort of freedom we're fighting for." (That last sentence is soaked in sarcasm.)

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