Pinch Paisley's Truck Inspection Facility

When I once wrote that I thought I'd spotted buried missile defenses being built in the center of a clover leaf beside the Pentagon building in Arlington, Virginia in a photograph, I elicited a response from a Pinch Paisley, a military man who deigns to correct me occasionally in comments to my blog.

"Will you read what I freaking wrote?" He wrote. "That construction that was going on on the cloverleaf was for a construction access point and had a covered truck inspection facility built there. I know exactly where the remote delivery facility is on the north side. I would run by the entry to that section daily the summer of 2005. This west-side development was an additional facility to help out with the construction access on that side of the building. If you don't read what I write you'll never climb out of this morass of ignorance that is your world."

I hope he's not cross with me. Shortly thereafter, I'm not sure when exactly, I spotted an aerial view of the Pentagon that depicted what I already had a name for: Pinch's Delivery Facility, or PDF in military parlance. But it seemed odd (Yiddish accent to myself only: such a foundation!) Underneath what amounted to a Costco temporary boat shed...hmmm.

I had already found online some publicly sourced, high-resolution images of the base construction alone, so I was pretty sure that I hadn't endangered national security unduly. This very high-resolution image must have come from a government web site.

But I also found it in a version in the Corbis archives. So it had been...disseminated...as we say.

In another very high-resolution image I thought I was clever to have spotted the entrance to the remote delivery entrance, at the end of the lane from Pinch's remoter, remote, facility.

But it wasn't very interesting after all.

But what we are talking about was simply replacing access for the former exit off of Route 27 northbound into the RDF, which cut too closely to the actual building, and which was lost when the blast wall was built.

The following image left me feeling dizzy and very confused. It's amazing what certain lens can do with foreshortening.
But back to Pinch's pup tent (oops! sorry!) Nothing is adding up. The tight radii of the enclosing lane channelization isn't designed for trucks. What became of the entrance onto Route 27-northbound for the buses and cars who use this side of the Pentagon? Why would you have not designed access congruent with the ring road, separating out RDF traffic from traffic exiting onto Route 27? That pedestrian walkway is going to get people killed. Why all the wasted macadam under white cross hatchings?

"Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive."
I won't even get into the ramifications on the 9-11 Memorial. That already has to be the ugliest and most unpleasant memorial ever designed in the history of the world, which is a clear insight into the non-truth it wants us to remember. Obviously the designers never had to sit through a Craig Ranke/Aldo Marquis presentation videotaped at the nearby Citgo. If they had, they'd realize you can't hear yourself think for all the air traffic overhead. THAT part they'll get, for sure. Now sandwich this in between rushing traffic on Route 27 and the forbidding facade of the Pentagon, and that should make sitting on some cold bronze benches dangling over pools of water inviting, for the few weeks each spring and fall when it won't be too hot or cold to remember anything.

How magnificent anything made of sound-deadening glass by I.M. Pei would have been. A space at the center of the hurlyburly to experience silence. Look at the sky. Sit in chairs.

But no, you were too busy propelling the propaganda in straight lines like a cartoon POW!

By the way, I don't buy your truck delivery facility. I'm sticking with weapon installation. In fact, I think you placed another one north of the Pentagon, in a cloverleaf not yet built even.

But we've moved on past "missile battery," in any event. The physicists in the Pentagon's employ have obviously created much more interesting toys for warriors like Pinch to play with. Do you know what the buzz is in Judy Wood circles? Your directed energy weapons come with another new discovery-- an unlimited source of free energy. Now think about what a wonderful world of material abundance and blessings we'd have if we put that to work for us, instead of increasing power into the hands of a few.

The Big Lie: Operation Northwoods

I recently posted a blog about "Operation Northwoods," an unrealized military plan from 1962 to create a pretext for military action against Cuba by committing a "false flag " act of terrorism, and then blaming the Cuban government for it. One concept was to "sink ship near harbor entrance. Conduct funerals for mock victims." I began to wonder what a "mock funeral" would consist of--especially questions like, would there be degrees of connivance with surviving friends and family?

The key to unlocking the secrets of a conspiracy like September 11, is the concept of the "big lie." People cannot believe in a truth few have ever even imagined, and if the scale of an enterprise is so vast, and the idea of it so morally repugnant that the consequences of knowing would be unimaginably disruptive, then a lock will keep on the secret.

A conspiracy theory attempts to understand some unknown by assembling bits and pieces of verities into a coherent whole. Since the pieces of the official story of the attack of September 11th 2001 do not fit together, it is necessary to divine a theory of one that does. That--organized members of the U.S. government, its military, its private industry, along with the support of some international cartels and states, planned and executed the attacks of September 11th, as a false-flag pretext for what has followed--is just such an understandable and consistent theory.

The portions of the attack that took place in Shanksville Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, were moreover a conspiracy to commit a covert act under the guise of an open one, then manage the media coverage of it, and manipulate its aftermath. So we first have to refine each bit of truth from its dross.

We can do that in Arlington by "outing" the participants, perceiving the artificial and synthetic quality to their performance--the "bad acting," if you will--seen in the photographs, videos and interviews; and by cross referencing their stories. Since the myth of 9-11 is about victimization and the rising above it, the narrative is largely told by victims and their corollaries--saviors and rescuers. However the victims and saviors are in fact perpetrators and enablers in disguise, so it is necessary to first see the deceit. We do this the way we always have, at least since the time of Perry Mason: by looking for inconsistencies and contradictions in their stories.

Such an inconsistency would have a commercial jetliner in a surprise strike hitting an office building filled with 25,000 occupants and having only 49 people be admitted to the hospital as a result, as is officially recorded in an amended Arlington County After-Action Report. Surely the storyboard arc of injuries was created with the planned help of volunteers, especially the most grievously hurt--the six serious burn victims.

Since the dead can't logically be both victim and perpetrator at the same time, we have to ask ourselves how a planned synthetic reality relying on volunteers for the creation of a storyboard of 186 fatalities is created. Must they really die, or can they be disappeared? Is that with or without the knowledge and consent of their loved ones? Did the attack have an internecine component, where actual deaths could occur legitimately within the military family, and still be maintained under an ethos of secrecy? Since the causalities ranged widely from the powerful and influential to the lowly and humble, were they all treated with the same standard, or did some receive special treatment? On second thought, that is a stupid question.

People ask, "If there were no planes, what happened to the people on them?" The answer is simple: They were murdered, disposed of. Gassed on board or disembarked into hangers to be lined up and shot. Get used to it. Power and politics may mean some are alive, but certainly not feeling or sentiment. The deaths in New York City were a matter of pure physics--being in the wrong place at the wrong time as the buildings were struck and fell--considered collateral damage, if they were considered at all.

But Arlington, being the true heart of the conspiracy, reveals the real Münchhausen syndrome, a psychiatric disorder in which those affected fake death, wounds and psychological trauma in return for a benefit. For the conspiracy to hold, the military family needed to be treated on a separate, privileged plane. Government workers in general, if they keep their heads down and their mouths shut, enjoy the illusion of being in a protected class.

With that metric in mind I did a Google search for "Pentagon 9 11" in the Getty image archives and came upon two pictures in rapid succession.

The first was a picture taken on August 15, 2002, of 18-year-old Chiquita Young, daughter of victim Lisa Young, a civilian army employee. My first though was one of shock that someone so young could be indentured into a lifetime of servitude like that--her only consolations being the security of her berth , and a likely status of honor as an in-house living memorial. But thinking it through, the dominant meme became "the military taking care of its own." This might indicate her mother was missing from her life, if not actually dead, or not.


The second photograph was of Rosemary Dillard on the first anniversary of her husband Eddy Dillard's death. My first reaction was that she gave new meaning to the term "black widow." Her ocelot-print coat is a striking branding for someone who was to become a top advocate for the official story.

Can we all have forgotten Mrs. Dillard's personal story? That she was an executive at American Airlines whose job was to supervise flight crews, including the crew on Flight 77--a job she had taken seven months earlier? What about Mary Jane Booth, the secretary for the American Airline's general manager at Dulles Airport who was "on the plane" that morning and was lost?

What about the pilot, Captain Charles Burlingame, who was a former Navy fighter pilot? How about"Bud" Flagg, a U.S. Navy Admiral and retired pilot with--you guess it--American Airlines, who along with his wife Darlene, was a passenger on board? Or John Yamnicky, who was an aeronautical engineer working for a defense contractor and was a retired 30-year Naval aviator. Does this sound like coincidence or incest to you?

A primary obstacle to overcome is in continuing to visualize the logistics of actual planes being used that day, when none likely were. Whenever I have been in doubt about some aspect of the plot, I've found it a useful tool to ratchet down the analysis into the moral horror. A worst case scenario here would have Mrs. Dillard, who is a clear nexus, and defender to the plot, volunteering her husband without his knowledge or consent. He wouldn't actually need to be coerced onto a plane. I'm sure that sort of thing is the easiest part to arraign in a plot like this.

Does it really matter if we understand the disposition of Bernard Brown, the eleven-year-old who was lost on board, whose father works in the Navy Command Center, but who was playing golf that day? "Was lost" becomes the most useful way to language those who were "on the plane."

Not only do the ancillary players to the plot have broad connections within the military, it is often second-, or third-generation deep at that, the better to maintain the elite traditions of secrecy, like using the Old Guard regiment to perform the dirty work at the Pentagon. Passenger William E. Caswell, who was described as a "third-generation physicist," was a senior scientist for the U.S. Navy, and also retired Army. I'm sure physicists who work for the government have their own unspoken oral traditions as well.

We can know the plotters by their fidelity to the narrative. Charles Droz III, 52, a retired Lieutenant Commander in the Navy, may be anywhere, but his widow Cynthia is a bad actress, as she keens over his tombstone before a throng of cameras in an American-flag print shirt three years after his death. Is she a patsy, a dupe, or a shill? I don't know, but she left reality some time ago, and took us with her. The great whore of Babylon is a symbol for the media, and here she has her maw opened wide, feeding.


A year later Mrs. Droz is still there making a spectacle of herself. This is not grief, it is propaganda.


(If you want to see the real deal it's here.)

The quality of the storytelling is extremely poor, but without any truth to contrast it with, it served its purpose--for awhile. April Gallup, seen in this four-minute interview, appears to have been driven insane by her lies. Originally a major player in the official narrative, she was at her desk when the attack struck. Grabbing her newborn infant, who for some reason was by her side, she supposedly escaped out the crash hole. In this Carmen L. Burgess photograph, we are told this is her son, and it may be her as well, absent all her later hair weaves.

She is an amalgam herself--part victim, part hero rescuer, she now identifies as disabled, as she identifies her son too. She hopped a ride on the charity circuit and she was utilized for a role in the aftermath as a media figure. Here, speaking for the absurdly named 9/11 Families United to Bankrupt Terrorism, a U.S. government effort at asset seizure.

Apparently, she didn't get what she thought was her share of those assets and turned, or else she was inserted into the 9-11 truth movement by her handlers just to get rid of her.

She and Rosemary Dillard, along with the likes of Lisa Jefferson and Lloyd England and many, many others, showcase the distinct role African-Americans played in the 9-11 story. Seemingly above suspicion as collaborating with the authorities in a conspiracy as dense and closed as 9-11, their presence humanized the narrative. Revealed, is just how far African Americans have come to being fully integrated into, and corrupted by, American society.

Applying a theory consistently to all aspects of a thing until it is known surely involves missteps. When I first theorized that the wounded burn victims at the Pentagon were cooperative volunteers I literally shocked myself with the thought. I had to deeply check if something might be wrong with me. But never having imagined that somebody could stoop so low was not my fault. Since then, the theory has withstood the test of time, gaining credence and traction as it fits together well with other known, or partially known aspects. Filtering out a manufactured component of falsity from the lists of the September 11th dead is an unfortunate, but necessary business .

Pentagon Renovation Crew: In On the Crime of the Millinium

The corruption inherent in the staging of a self-attack on the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001, amounts to a millennial crime, with aspects of arson, murder, false heroism, collective secrecy, the mass projection and manipulation of synthetic fear--not to mention its use as justification for illegal invasions and the ganging up of two Abrahamic religions against the third. That is one thing, but the thing that really sent me over the edge was, when I found out that not only were the renovation crew contractors key co-conspirators, but they were also falsely claiming to have renovated all of the impact area in Wedge 1, when I could tell for a fact they had not. Who can disprove a talking point like "scheduled for completion in five days," after the fact? But now, this was cheating!

Knowing that a lot of square feet would have to be sacrificed and done over, it must have galled them to burn good money. So greedily, they began to cut corners and pocket the windfall. And all that is subtlety obvious in the record now.

This plan has been in the works since at least 1999, when a decision to not outfit some renovated basement space was made (it came as no surprise to me when the Navy Command Center was able to quickly relocate there,) although I use as my starting date 1995, when Bill Clinton signed a law making the FBI the sole investigators at terrorism crime scenes.

The best way to make this case is in acknowledging the obvious fact that not all the windows in Wedge 1 had been upgraded. I don't know how they thought they could get away with not replacing the windows on the first and second floors between the crash zone and Wedge 2, when the system supposedly uses continuous vertical steel in the facade to support the frames. Maybe this can be explained by some problem in the creating of the damage, and these were meant to collapse, (from a storyboard perspective the opening always was too small,) and since several eyewitnesses express disappointment that the crash somehow didn't meet their expectations of damage, like Tim Timmerman and Dawn Vignola, this may be the answer.

But then I realized that even the windows I thought had been expensively upgraded, had in fact, just been backed up with safety glass. Once you see this as the explanation you can archive literally scores of images to prove this point. FEMA gave us this beauty. This is not inch-and-a half-thick specialty glass--it is of two kinds, sandwiched together and failing unevenly.

So, perhaps it was basic greed that the contractors thought they could set off some extra arson in Wedge 2, and on the roof, in order to vastly expand the amount of demolition and structural reconstruction required (qui bono? Fachina Construction!)

Screw Flickr.

Look at the windows to the right. It looks like the upgraded windows only went in the strike zone (the better to get a building collapse!) You've got melted windows, jagged edge, missing windows, and even round holes in glass. Judy Wood says that's exotic weaponry, which I think was also used on the cars.

I've posted this image to my blog previously. It shows stripped electrical outlets left in the column. That isn't blast damage and it isn't renovation either. It's unused, warehoused space, left waiting.

In this image you can look across the way to the same area, where three old-fashioned desks are parked. That space wasn't outfitted or occupied, nor was it stripped down to its concrete core and remediated. So, if it wasn't either of those, why does it pretend to be something in the middle?

This image was surely the first to plant the knowledge of irregularities in the renovation process. To have wall boarded over a still-locked cabinet definitely proves that the advertised contract of abatement down to the bare concrete was not being adhered to. A problem however--I couldn't prove it was in Wedge 1. But at least a good government or military employee was trying to get the truth out there.

Then God gave me this image! Stunning in the simple beauty of its message. It is at the expansion joint, where the building fell, well inside Wedge 1. The smoking gun is the old electrical outlet buried inside the drywall, which somebody has thoughtfully pealed back--maybe someone on the New Mexico Task Force who also signed his work "God Bless America."
I know someone like Pinch is going to come in here and say that's not what we see, like he did when calling my modular propelling charges roofing paper. Roofing paper?

I've previously posted a blog about how columns beside the collapsed area show signs of shaped charge explosives scouring their tops and bottoms, but then--God again--I came upon the queen of such images. Check out the black-colored column towards the bottom on the right, which has clean cut edges and a scoured top and bottom. Other columns have clean cut ends too.

Also, see what you think about the column at the top left. To me, it appears to be a boxed out concrete column, in which an old niche holds an antiquated brass fire extinguisher. Was it buried in previous renovations and just now exposed? If so, then this image works for both shaped charges and renovation dereliction.

When our eyes open to the totality of the plan and the completeness of the scheme--it's called the "big lie," by the way--we will know truth and a measure of peace. All of the eyewitnesses, all of the victims, all of the rescuers, all of the media who carry narrative water. If they were a part of the synthetic story than they are organically culpable. The six real heroes who made it out of the Navy Intelligence Plot section alive have never made their stories known, while Kevin Schaeffer, and his fellow matinée idol burn victim, Brian Birdwell, both have matching wedding band stories in the record. You know the kind: swimming to the surface to fight off the nurses, the, "don't cut my wedding band off my finger, I will pull it off, and all the sloughing skin that scraps along with it. It must be saved and kept whole!" How cool is that?

The Doubletree Hotel Video Shows Traffic on the Shirley Highway Is Really Humping It Into the District At the Time of the Pentagon Attack

Whenever that was.


If you focus in either of the top corners of the video frame, it's pretty clear that the traffic moving from left to right on the elevated highway is going into the District of Columbia and while you can really only see trucks and larger vehicles, it's also clear that the well-spaced traffic is moving along quickly, probably at or about the speed limit of 55 miles per hour.

The first video is 18 seconds long, if you have ADHD, and you'll get the point, but the longer video of 4:20 minutes gives some "scatter."

This traffic is either on the Shirley Highway or I-395, but both going into the District over two bridges during rush hour. The record is so replete with stories of traffic stuck at a standstill, or moving very slowly, that it's kind of fun to see it flying by.

When will we ever learn? Everything is a lie!

"One of the Most Heroic Deliverers"

One of the most lauded rescue stories to emerge from the attack on the Pentagon on September 11th, 2001, is of how Lieutenant Commander David Tarantino and Capt. David Thomas. rescued Darrell "Jerry" Henson from the Navy Command Center. Lt. Comdr. Tarantino won the Medal of Valor for his exploits, while Capt. Thomas and Mr. Henson both had the clothing they were wearing that day enter the Smithsonian Museum.

In its most recent retelling, the Defense Department book, Pentagon 9/11, calls him, "[o]ne of the most heroic deliverers," telling us that Tarantino first helped to guide dazed and confused people from Corridor 4, then,

"moving on to A-E Drive, Tarantino encountered human remains, a large hole in the C Ring wall, a large airplane tire, and smoke billowing along the roadway. Cries for help coming from trapped victims compelled response."

Pentagon 9/11 starts to get vague at this point--I think on purpose--placing Tarantino in a group and then saying things like "some of this group" went "through one of the holes." But Tarantino entered the Navy Command Center, and we must assume that is the hole he used.

Because a serious conflict in the narrative arises here, one that is completely internal to Pentagon 9/11, which published a previously unknown photograph with some stunning new evidence. It is of a clearly recognizable airplane tire resting in the debris pile lying outside of the "punch out" hole. However that is a different blast hole in the A-E Drive; it entered a different secure office, in a different wedge, from the Navy Command Center.

What could explain a book that includes a never-before-seen photograph showing a clearly recognizable piece of airplane tire debris lying outside of a blast hole, while simultaneously publishing a first-person account describing somebody's encounter with a large blast hole and a large airplane tire--but where the evidence suggests that it's a different hole?

Given the way that the book puts things isn't really clear maybe Tarantino's own voice should speak for itself.

An article, "Pentagon Rescuer," in the Nov.-Dec. 2001 issue of Navy Medicine magazine (Vol 92, no.6) pages 23-24, was based on an interview conducted by Dr. Gary Weir and Commander Mike McDaniel of the Naval Historical Center on 25 Sep. 2001 with Tarantino, where he had this to say:

I went back in and found myself in the open air space between the B and the C Ring on the inner aspect of the C Ring between the 4th and 5th Corridors. There was a big exploded hole in the wall that was pouring out thick black smoke, and there was a big plane tire sitting there, and evidence of human remains. I heard cries for help from inside this wall. This was not an exit through which people could come. The doors, 20 yards either way, were spewing out black smoke. A couple of people exited from there.

But [then] we heard these cries in there from people who were trapped. So a few of us - four or five people - grabbed fire extinguishers and started fighting our way in through this exploded breach.

This is so much clearer now. To sum up: Tarantino found himself in the A-E Drive, next to a big exploded hole in the wall, with a big tire sitting there, and this hole had doors 20 yards away from it on either side, from which people, and black smoke spilled out.

The lovely detail here is Tarantino calling the "punch out" hole a door because he really couldn't see it, but the incontrovertible detail is ...on either side.

I've been at this for awhile. I first wrote a blog about Tarantino over two years ago. I'm beginning to see the method to the madness now:

As the years moved on, and shifting stories not only didn't add up, they began to collide, the narrators reached back into those first heady days when their every utterance commanded emotions, and their facts still had credibility, so they plucked a diamond out of the dung heap to shine. Then they did what we all know they can do now--they doctored a photograph, or they staged a photograph, or they finally got the FBI to give them that damn photograph of the airplane tire debris, where have you been keeping it for six years? Not caring that its six years later, and nobody believed them any more. What the hell! Sargent William Lagasse made a chance anomalous remark confounding port and starboard once, but it's on the record, so lets make a whole conspiracy theory film industry out of it. We got to do something.

But they got the wrong hole. Ouch!

And there's more.

Pentagon 9/11 says there were "other volunteers" in the "rescue group," including Surgeon General of the Air Force Lieutenant General Paul Carlton, Jr., adding,

"Other members of the rescue party, including General Carlton, who witnessed Tarantino's and Thomas's heroics, helped Henson out of the Command Center, placed him on a stretcher and carried him out to the Center Court. Tarantino, while still holding up the heavy weight with his legs, called out for other victims but heard nothing."

"Later, in the A-E Drive, Tarantino and Thomas, 'coughing and retching,' wiped 'the crap off our faces and tears from our eyes.'"

The man on the right in this photograph is identified as Lieutenant General (Dr.) Paul Carlton Jr., Surgeon General of the Air Force. It was taken in the afternoon of September 11th, 2001 on Route 27/Washington Blvd, directly near the impact site. The man in the center is identified as Master Sergeant Noel Sepulveda, USAF. He was awarded the Air medal and a purple heart for his heroics that day. The man on the left is not identified but he wears a strap around his neck with the initials ICAF, which most likely stands for the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Lt. Gen. Carlton has a small stain on his shirt sleeve near his elbow, but the other men do not appear the worse for wear.

Screw Flickr.

I love the way the man is hiding behind Mr. Sepulveda. There is something particularly sinister about the way he looms--as if he thinks he took an invisible pill or something. The other man, behind Carlton, just might possibly be talking on a cell phone with his right hand, but I think he too has been asked to duck. The other man's only purpose is to hide. I wish I could read what that hat says.

(For a fuller, first-person account of Lieutenant Commander David Tarantino, of the US Navy Medical Corps, who was assigned to the Secretary of Defense in the Office of Peacekeeping and Humanitarian Affairs, see his recollections in Oral Histories: War Against Terrorism, September 11, 2001 to present.)

A Quick Question About the Punch Out Hole

I just spotted this on a visit to 911review.org (is that Jim Hoffman's site?) and I'd like to ask others for an opinion. Click on the expanded view and tell me what you make of the little squiggly paint mark on the brick wall at left.

That's not supposed to be there, is it--a military setting shouldn't tolerate graffiti, or errant marks like that of any kind. I think I got a little paranoid after Katrina, with the markings on the doorways signaling whether or not the lamb's blood had worked, and this one definitely gives off the "meaning" vibe to me. It's a tiny arrow pointing to what wants to be a circle, but was too small to spray paint right. Plus, it is so very, very small and discrete, it would never be taken for something as vulgar as a signal, like the big circle with the V in it for victory, with the words "Punch Out" alongside for the coded-meaning-illiterate among us.

I found that I had downloaded it to flickr sometime in the past without cognition, but there's nothing else like it in the record that I know about. Maybe I'm just too high on trusting 911review.org right now.

Anyway, doesn't it just scream at you: Here!, Here! Punch me out here!

How Lies Can Be Plausibly Established.

An off-hand comment made in the Defense Department book Pentagon 9/11, serves as a good example of the current crop of disinformation being fed us. On page 25:

[o]ther main escape exits from the impact area were through...[t]hree openings in the C Ring wall between Corridors 4 and 5, one of them the blown doors of the C-4 electrical vault..."

This is the first mention anywhere in the official record explaining the second of two blast exit holes through the masonry walls of the C Ring into the A & E Drive, as seen in the photographic record, but never discussed in the written record. It's cousin, an explosive blast hole labeled "punch out," sixty or so feet away in the Drive, has been endlessly photographed and debated, with multiple official explanations offered that are still far from being reconciled with a plausible story line.


Somewhere along the line, an earlier 9-11 web site that covers the same ground I do, Russel Pickering's pentagon911research.com, posted a Michael Pendergrass photograph of the blast damage with a notation describing it as a "roll up" door.

This seemed to satisfy everybody until recently, when I began to question the likelihood of a roll-up door entryway into the Navy Command Center. The deeper question of how could such damage be publicly ignored by the engineers mandated to explain it, was set aside.

Pentagon 9/11 mentions in passing the blast damage as blown-out electrical doors several pages before a discussion about survivor's experiences inside the Navy Command Center. Of the eight people the book mentions who survived from within the command center, seven of them escaped, or were rescued, via this hole (one of them, Jesse Polasek, said a blast of air expelled him through the hole into the drive as he was still seated in his chair!)

I know of at least one other survivor from within the Navy Command Center not mentioned in Pentagon 9/11, so apparently the book doesn't strive to be a comprehensive account. Jerry Henson, a civilian employee, was also rescued via a blast exit hole into the A-E Drive, although his rescuer, Dave Tarentino, is quite clear in his telling that he came in and out via the round "punch out" hole.

On edit: My bad! They gave them almost a whole chapter further in! It gets more interesting!

This attempt to introduce into the record a key fact is especially offensive to me because I can see how such a lie can be plausibly established. The seed was an illustration used to depict damage that was based on a structural floor plan, which must date from 1945. An electrical vault is indicated on the plan alongside the A-E Drive, and directly to the right of a single doorway.

We can make a comparison of that plan with another, which we know dates from the current renovation because the Navy Command Center is indicated on it. None of the mechanical rooms or electrical vaults depicted in the earlier plan are seen on the 2001-era plan.

This point is moot however, because the electrical vault depicted on the earlier plan lies between column lines 13 and 15, while the blast opening shown in the photographic record is between column lines 5 and 7. But it is in just this way that kernels of truth are used to sow doubt in the field of our collective subconscious.

Two good things have resulted from this little study. One, is an awareness that whatever value Russel Pickering ever had as a truth seeker is lost given the incontrovertible proof he disseminated the "roll up" door canard. We all can make mistakes and get off on the wrong track but this isn't that.

Second, the web site 911review.org posted a series of photographs that directs our attention to the matter of this 20-foot wide, square-shaped, pillar-to-pillar blast opening. The images seem spookily prescient to me now and if this site is a gatekeeper than it's for the good guys. Looking again with trusting eyes, I see this early website got it right. The ability to recognize honest mistakes from manipulative errors is a developing gift.




Oh! I thought of a third good thing, if you made it this far! Telling the good guys from the bad guys has been an extremely difficult job so far, and often the designations must remain tentative. At first, I thought Kevin Schaffer must be a hero to have survived the Navy Command Center. Later, I realized he was just another volunteer burn-victim poster child. But even though the mechanics aren't clear to me yet, the fact that six out of 13 occupants of the most super secret and secure part of the Navy Command Center, the beautifully named Intelligence Plot section, survived the attack, is cause for celebration. None of these true heroes were used in the tacky media parade of faux feeling that was itself a part of the conspiracy, and this further vouchsafes them in my eyes. Doing this sort of work can make me feel kind of venomous sometimes, so it's nice to have a hero to look up to again. All I can say is thank you.

"Pentagon 9/11," published by the Historical Office of the Secretary of Defense in 2007 as part of the Defense Studies Series

is the most serious attempt yet made to tell the official story of the attack. Published as a quality softcover, it is slick, like advertising. Although footnoted, indexed, and with a bibliography, it reads more as a neuro-linguistically challenged soap opera than an historical synthesis. The writing sounds besieged. A preface acknowledges the trouble with the truth they encounter. Topping its list of problems, "the most difficult was to establish an exact timeline for 11 September." Since crashing a jetliner into a fortress wasn't distinctively singular enough to prevent a 30 minute spread in the reported time of the strike, and since the Arlington County After-Action Report got the time of the building collapse wrong by 18 minutes, I can see their point.

It can not have been easy walking the thin line of official narrative that it does. The events in Arlington on September 11th took place in one of the most highly secured environments in America. All access and oversight to the area was restricted and controlled. Essentially, it was a private matter, which was then regurgitated through a media lens to become part of the collective experience known as 9-11.

Proving such a synthetic, second-hand reality is as difficult as disproving a negative. The story of 9-11 is now more about the story of the story, and how it unfolded. Inconvenient facts just don't go away in the internet age. New facts must be judged in the context of how they emerge and the response they elicit. Coming at a point when authorities still haven't released technical reports related to the destruction of Building 7, the attempt at writing a definitive history of the Pentagon attack is premature. The record is full of anomalous, inconsistent or inconvenient details that don't want pinning down yet

To me the attack on the Pentagon was a billion-dollar arson scam. It was the foundational crime that led to all the other crimes of the new American century--such as outrageous invasions, and endless war on "terror." Pentagon 9/11 functions then as a cover up and can be used as evidence to prove such.

Lets start with an example, the graphics in Pentagon 9/11 that illustrate the extent of the damage to the building from impact, fire, smoke and water. On page 81, is a first-floor plan illustrating the damage from the attack.



And on page 88, is an illustration of the second-floor plan of the Pentagon overlaid with the exact same pattern of damage.



According to these graphics, the entirety of Wedges 1 and 2 suffered damage in the attack. However, that information--along with the color scheme used to express it--was lifted straight out of a handout distributed at a DoD press conference on September 13, 2001, labeled, "Real Estate & Facilities Initial Damage Assessment."



I stress the word initial-- meaning preliminary--which should never be the basis for any considered draft of history, especially when the historians ignore several subsequent official reports that speak directly to the matter. We'll have to judge for ourselves the politics of these various reports. Since none of them touch on the issues I discuss here, they all are employed in some degree as enemies of the truth. Still, there are facts to the matter, unlike the greatly exaggerated stories of martyrdom and suffering, and their corollary's, the equally imagined tales of rescue and heroism, the bricks-and-mortar narrative has some grounding in physics. It is more than just the bad acting found in the record, and it has been a sham from the start.

One fire-science and engineering report was undertaken by Hughes Associates. It can be found online in an undated PDF titled "Review of 9/11 Pentagon Scenario from the Fire Fighter's, Fire Marshal's, and Fire Engineer's Perspectives." It was put together by associates Eric Rosenbaum and Sean P. Hunt, assisted by someone from the Department of Homeland Security named Diane Pitts. It appears to have been undertaken as an effort to tie up a few loose strings left by the extensive Arlington County After-Action Report. I can't imagine who commissioned it, but they didn't pay much.

The graphics published in the Hughes report illustrate damage to the building from the attack that is fundamentally at odds with the assessments found in Pentagon 9/11, where blanket claims of extensive building damage are made without supporting evidence. I would estimate the difference between the two reports as expressing a factor of a full decimal point--200,000 square feet of damage in one, verses 2 million square feet of damage in the other.

You'll have to do the math for yourself.

Hughes Associates includes a second graphic indicating extremely minor damage to the upper three floors in renovated Wedge 1. The extensive smoke and water damage indicated in Wedge 2 is inexplicable, as two firewalls would have impeded its progress--however, it is a wash, as Wedge 2 was scheduled for an upcoming renovation anyway.



But even the findings in the Hughes Associates' review were surpassed in the more comprehensive Arlington County After-Action Report, exacerbating the discrepancy with the DoD's POV contained in Pentagon 9/11. In a little-discussed appendix titled, "Pentagon Penetration Damage Diagrams," we find high-quality damage-assessment illustrations that are credited to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Evidence Recovery Team. All five floors are broken down individually, which allows us to glean a wealth of information not available elsewhere. For instance, a firewall on the second floor kept fire damage from spreading into Wedge 2.

Why were such barriers not in place between the wedges on other floors? Why do both of the other reports indicate fire damage to the second floor of Wedge 2? These are the sorts of questions not even asked, let alone answered, anywhere in the official record.











In the appendix diagrams all of the space on the 4rth and 5th floors between Corridor 4 and the line separating Wedge 1 and 2, (the area immediately targeted in the attack) is noted as being "NA," which I believe stands for "Not Assigned." The same area on the 3rd floor is marked as "AR," which might stand for "Army/Reserved." In any event, these areas lack the specific tenancy notations we see elsewhere on the diagram.

My suspicion is: that when they said Wedge 1 wasn't fully occupied yet, they meant this target area specifically--the three outer rings between Corridors 4 and 4.5. This should make the tenets who were relocated there--the Navy Command Center and the army personnel and accounting offices--feel even more targeted. And how unlucky of Hani Hanjor to execute such a precision move into the only fortified and empty part of the Pentagon?

The seven fatalities that occurred in the offices of the Defense Intelligence Agency represent some sort of special category of wrongful death in my opinion. They should have been safe behind masonry firewalls in Wedge 2. Perhaps they were piggy-backed onto the plot by Jewish elements hostile to DIA monitoring of Israeli spying within the Pentagon. That would explain the "punch out" hole into those offices. I should think it was just that: punched out to open a rescue route for the DIA staffers inside.

The renovations to Corridor 4 provided a fully up-to-code firewall protection for the remainder of the renovated areas. To the north, the fires should have been contained by the intrinsic barrier which separates Wedge 1 from Wedge 2.

The wedges were originally constructed as independent, stand alone masonry buildings-they didn't share any mechanical services, like pipes or ducts. Any passageways between the two would have been sealed up as a consequence of the ongoing renovations, if for no other reason. Understanding how the fire behaved in these building conditions is a proper purpose of these studies. The severe fire conditions seen out the third-story windows of Wedge 2 on the afternoon of September 1th, are inexplicable in the extreme.

In some cases, bullet-proof glass melted into puddles and it is unclear if the fire was coming from inside or outside of the building. How such hot fires could be allowed to develop given the relative ease in accessing this portion of the building, coupled with the enormous resources on hand to suppress it--is another mystery.

Likewise, the roof fires which sprang up in the middle of the night--on top of the poured concrete roof mind you--are even more inexplicable. Supposedly fed by only a thin layer of wood sandwiched between concrete and slate, these gave off bright "rocket's red glare" effects--a shock and awe which looks more likely to have resulted from high-powered incendiaries or pyrotechnics to me. We have the photographs and can let the grand jury decide.


The book Pentagon 9/11 makes a mention of the roof fires, but the Hughes' review appears specifically designed to address the issue, which was only mentioned in passing in the Arlington County report. They come to the wrong conclusion of course, making a big point about the need for fire breaks within this decorative element, but without ever asking how the fire got up there in the first place.

(From Pentagon 9/11)

And Pentagon 9/11 loves its roof damage! They just don't want you to know the damage was cosmetic.

Not only were these impossible-to-believe roof fires staged for a DoD public-relations benefit of maximum catastrophic value (the better to get you to invade foreign nations, my dear,) they also served the corrupt agendas of the incestuous Pentagon renovation contractors--sticking it to the American taxpayer to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars. In the aftermath of 9-11, Congress even authorized an extra $300 million just to accelerate the time table of the renovation!

Since 9-11, many of us self-identify as being defined by the shock and dismay we felt that day, and the transformation which followed as we set out to find meaning in the events. The compilers of this history don't even seem real to me themselves. In their publicity photograph they look like unhappy wax dolls. They can't hide the endless strings of absurdities and contradictions that make up the official narrative; their "history" has no internal logic to hold it together. It has no meaning and it is in this way that I can tell us apart.
high-resolution image Sarandis Papadopoulos, Diane Putney, Nancy Berlage, who along with Alfred Goldberg and Rebecca Welch, are the historians whose names are attached to this book.