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CIT publishes response to David Chandler & Jonathan Cole's Joint Statement about the 9/11 Pentagon Attack


Editor Note: The following is a summary of an attack by David Chandler & Jonathan Cole. (Frank Legge has made his own attacks on CIT). However new attack papers just keep on rolling in...but I am pleased to report that CIT can certainly defend themselves.

One wonders if those who appear to have recently signed on to marginalize, ridicule, misrepresent and attack CIT, refuse to debate why they support the official govt. official story of the Pentagon... might possibly be part of an intelligence infiltration team?

Some of these people were considered "heros" for telling the truth about the WTC attacks and they would make great agents for the "official govt story regards the Pentagon".

Unfortunately they fool a lot of truthers who have come to trust them. The group that now controlls 911blogger has also "gone over to the dark side" I wonder how much the government cover-up department pays for this kind of work? I assume it is plenty.

"We've been put in the difficult position of having to defend ourselves against people whose work regarding the destruction of the World Trade Center we respect and appreciate. Although we had never spoken to David Chandler or Jonathan Cole prior to the publication of their "joint statement" on the Pentagon attack, we had always considered them natural allies, had never badmouthed them or had any inclination to do so, and had even praised their work.

Unfortunately they did not have the courtesy or sense to get in touch with us to see if we had any responses to their apparent serious issues with our work before publicly denouncing it. The result, as we have now documented in great detail, was a simplistic, horribly sloppy, and defamatory essay which reveals that, at best, they had barely spent any time at all on our website, let alone bothered to view our extensive catalog of video presentations to familiarize themselves with the full scope -- or even many of the basics -- of the evidence we present, or us personally, before rushing to judgment and aggressively attacking us.

Due to the frequent and extreme falsity of their claims, a very lengthy response was necessitated. Sometimes a single sentence would have multiple false and/or misleading claims requiring several paragraphs to untangle. We'd have preferred a shorter rebuttal, but there was no other way to do it if we were to remain accurate and thorough, as we strive to do in everything we publish.

While it was frankly quite obnoxious to have to spend so much time refuting a such a simplistic and shoddy essay that these two men clearly did not put much time into at all, the silver lining is that it gave us an opportunity to address their essay in the context of the dishonest and dishonorable campaign being waged against CIT by a relatively small clique which has gained control over 911Blogger.com, where we are not only "censored", but more importantly, attacked on a virtually daily basis with misinformation and disinformation and denied a "right of reply". For some reason David Chandler apparently has no problem with this situation considering that he published the "joint statement" by him and Jonathan Cole there and then further badmouthed us and our work in the comments section.

Given these circumstances, and the wide-ranging nature of our response to David Chandler and Jonathan Cole, we ask you to please set aside AT LEAST an hour or two to read our response in full so that you can hear our perspective. Unlike Chandler and Cole's essay, our response is heavily sourced, so if you can set aside extra time to REALLY dig into its contents and follow the links and sources, even if you do so over the course of several days, this will give you a MUCH more detailed look at the intricacies of what is going on here, and we feel that the reality of the situation will become that much more clear to you. This is an especially important thing for you to do if you are a regular reader of 911Blogger, since this means that you have likely spent hours over the past months or even years reading the frequent bogus attacks against us which we are forbidden from responding to.

I'd like to thank our webmaster for his critical help with writing this response and putting it together. Please pass it along to anyone you can and encourage them to read it. Thank you for paying attention to both sides of this manufactured controversy by reading our entire response":

http://www.CitizenInvestigationTeam.com/CIT-Response-to-David-Chandler-and-Jonathan-Cole-Pentagon-Statement

Sincerely,
Craig Ranke
Citizen Investigation Team

What Happened to Russell Pickering's Website Pentagonresearch.com?


* Editor note:
Both Craig Ranke and Also Marquis deserve to be "rock stars" - but they stumbled onto some "truth" that a bunch of people deeply embeded in the truth movement do NOT want you to consider. Their rock-solid evidence completely destroys the entire "official story" about the Pentagon attack (continued at the bottom of this post)...



Russell Pickering is a former 9/11 Pentagon event researcher who was present with Citizen Investigation Team (CIT) on their first research trip to Arlington, VA in 2006.



Craig Ranke, CIT: "This bit of history explains how he eventually let it slip that he initially withheld from us the information about the north of the Citgo witness account of station employee Robert Turcios.

When he realized we would likely find out about Robert on our own when we visited the station the next day, Russell hastily informed us of the witness at the last minute but tried casting doubt on the source (the station manager) by falsely suggesting she bizarrely changed her story within minutes, having allegedly claimed Robert was a female at first."

For some more interesting details, please read the following article by Citizen's Investigation Team,
January 27, 2012 (also reprinted below):

What Happened to Russell Pickering's Website Pentagonresearch.com?

Russell Pickering was arguably the most well known 9/11 Pentagon event researcher for a few years prior to December 2007 when he dramatically "quit" the truth movement as documented here. He was the creator and owner of the now defunct website pentagonresearch.com that is cited numerous times in David Ray Griffin's book "Debunking 9/11 Debunking". An archive of his site from February 2007 can be found here:

www.web.archive.org/web/20070207221439/http://pentagonresearch.com -cached backup

Citizen Investigation Team (CIT) spent a few days with Russell in person during our very first research trip to Arlington, VA in late August 2006 while we were volunteering as research consultants to the 9/11 documentary "Loose Change Final Cut" by Dylan Avery.

We respected some of Russell's work that he had already published at the time even if we disagreed with his conclusions. The relationship started out amicable but turned progressively ugly after we returned to Arlington a second time (without him and Dylan) in November of 2006 to obtain the witness interviews at the former Citgo proving that the plane flew north of the gas station and therefore did not hit the light poles or Pentagon.

Russell had a reputation for being professional, logical, and even-tempered, but after we obtained this evidence he started emotionally spiraling out of control while desperately working to cast doubt on our findings with an aggressive campaign against us personally.

Before we met Russell in person on our first research trip he had already proclaimed to us his belief that a large airplane hit the Pentagon. He suggested that it was not piloted by alleged hijacker Hani Hanjour as claimed by the government but that it was likely "remote controlled" into the building. He had no evidence to support this claim and merely asserted it as his unsubstantiated belief.

During this 2006 research trip Russell started expressing concern and frustration with his research as he states in the following two minute video:

Listen to audio here (1.81 mb).

Download video here (28.5 mb).

Despite this dramatically expressed extreme uncertainty with his findings and conclusions, only a few days after we returned he was all of the sudden more sure than ever of a large plane impact. September 18th, 2006 he said:

"My official statement now on the Pentagon is that something with a wingspan of greater than 100 feet but less than 140 hit the building. [...] If I were asked what my belief is, it is that a 757 hit the building..."

-screenshot
-original source -cached backup

Notice how Russell does not cite anything new to explain what lifted the frustration he expressed in the video less than 30 days prior. His certainty in the official impact narrative only continued to grow as we proceeded to uncover overwhelming evidence proving otherwise. Instead of providing counter-evidence, he responded with steadily increased personal attacks against us, a reaction that discredits him as a logical 9/11 truth seeker.

He was further discredited in August 2007 when he let it slip that he found out about the north side witness a day before we all visited the Citgo station together. This is explained and sourced here. This is significant because all of us (including Dylan) remembered that Russell first mentioned the witness after we arrived at the station.

This means he withheld that information for a day until he knew we would likely find out about it ourselves and he felt he had no choice but to tell us. We were supposed to share all of our findings with each other as the trip progressed in order to keep each other honest, yet Russell withheld key information likely hoping that we would go home the next day without ever discovering it.

Russell was well aware that a plane on the north side could not possibly have created the damage trail, obviously making this critical information that he should have immediately shared with us.

Pickering eventually removed his entire website with all of his "research" from the internet and, as already mentioned and sourced in the beginning of this essay, he quit 9/11 research all together. The only thing we are aware that he has published regarding 9/11 since then was titled "My Pentagon Manifesto (In Retrospect)" which was published in the beginning of 2011 at a variety of websites (archived here).

If you search the title you may notice that in some places his name has been removed. It seems as though Russell has made an effort within the last few weeks to erase his name from the internet in an attempt to hide his significant history with the 9/11 truth movement.

In light of this effort, this essay is meant to document for the historical record our experience dealing with his subversive behavior. As made clear in his "manifesto", Russell authoritatively states that be believes with "100% certainty an aircraft hit the Pentagon" and even goes so far as to call it a "physical fact".

Of course he ignores the fact that we have continued our investigation and have provided an overwhelming amount of additional evidence validating our initial findings since he "quit" at the end of 2007.

Since Russell has removed himself from the discussion we have had to deal with several other entities who claim to be part of the 9/11 truth movement but dedicate a significant amount of energy to fraudulently casting aspersions on our findings and our characters.

Details regarding much of that and responses to their arguments are provided in a comprehensive essay that can be found here. We highly recommend that everyone who may have heard about these accusations takes the time to read that essay in full in order to get both sides of the argument. This will help you to understand the scope and context of the numerous attacks against us from those who have followed Russell Pickering's lead.

The fact that CIT is still around exposing the 9/11 deception while our detractors keep falling by the wayside only to be replaced by other shadowy entities says it all. Respected media critic Barrie Zwicker put it best in his endorsement of our work:

"Arguably no single group is being targeted more toxically than the honest citizen detectives of CIT. That this disinformation campaign is being waged is a signal tribute to the historic importance of CIT’s work -- work that must be supported unflaggingly."

*Editor note continued: The thing we find bizarre is that many of CIT’s detractors support the official government claim that a 757 did hit the Pentagon on 9/11. This ignores most of the physical evidence: Where’s the wreckage? Where’s the damage caused by the wings hitting the building? Where are the wings? What caused the punch-out hole? What caused the destruction and deaths in the Pentagon’s innermost ring?

We have strong evidence that explosives were planted inside, and, according to the Flight Data Recorder that was supposedly found inside the building, the plane would have been too high to hit the building and its trajectory would also have had it missing the five downed light poles.

Both Ranke and Marquis (CIT) have turned up numerous credible eyewitness testimony that proves the "official story" wrong - and consequently they have been banned from 911Blogger so they can never answer the constant stream of attacks (many personal) levelled at them.

Is this criticism out of proportion with the facts? Does it ring true? Or is there another agenda? Who are the CIT detractors really working for? It does not appear to be the TRUTH.

This is an excellent video that explains how CIT began (and thank heavens it did).

Interview with Craig Ranke of Citizen Investigation Team - Parts 1 and 2

Part 1



Part 2



A Message from interviewer Adam Ruff:

"This is my two part video interview with Craig Ranke of Citizen Investigation Team (CIT) conducted on Oct 10th, 2010. This interview discusses CIT's groundbreaking research into what really happened at the pentagon on 9/11.

We also discuss CIT's remarkable presentation National Security Alert and the stunning eye witness testimony revealed in it which conclusively proves the official story of what happened at the pentagon on 9/11 to be false.

We discuss the ongoing disinformation and suppression campaign directed against CIT by the likes of 911Blogger and their chief detractors such as Victoria Ashley, Jim Hoffman, Michael Wolsey, Mike Rivero, and the anonymous entity Arabesque.
"

The following video is the research by CIT:



Praise for Citizen Investigation Team (CIT) and the video National Security Alert here includes the following people:

Barrie Zwicker
Author, Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-Up of 9/11
Producer of The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw

Richard Gage, AIA, Architect
Founder of Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth

Dr. David Ray Griffin
Author of The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Exposé and many other ground-breaking books.

Dwain Deets
Former Director, Aerospace Projects, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
Former Director, Research Engineering Division at Dryden
Creator of www.7problemswithbuilding7.info See Deet's endorsement here.

Dr. Peter Dale Scott
Former Canadian diplomat and English Professor at the University of California, Berkeley
Author, The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire, and the Future of America

Robert Balsamo, FAA Certified Pilot
Founder of Pilots for 9/11 Truth

Lt. Colonel Shelton F. Lankford
Pilot, United States Marine Corp. (Ret.)
10,000+ Hours Total Flight Time, 303 Combat Missions

Sheila Casey, Washington DC based journalist
Her work has appeared in The Denver Post, Reuters, Chicago Sun-Times, Dissident Voice, Rock Creek Free Press, and Common Dreams

Edward Asner, Emmy Award Winning Actor
Former President of the Screen Actors Guild

Kevin Barrett, Ph.D.
Scholar, Author, Radio Host
Co-Founder, Muslim-Christian-Jewish Alliance for 9/11 Truth

Scott McKinsey
Award-Winning Television & Film Director

Commander James R. Compton, III
United States Navy (Ret.)

Sander Hicks
Author, The Big Wedding: 9/11, the Whistle-Blowers, and the Cover-Up

Steve Martin
Host, The Aroostook Watchmen Radio Program
WXME-AM Monticello, Maine

Aidan Monaghan
Researcher

Chris Meagher
Concerned citizen

Bruno Bruhwiler
We Are Change LA

Brad Kline
Concerned Citizen

Dr. Christof Lehmann
Clinical Psychologist

And NH Truther, the author of this blog.

Other relevant links to this subject:

Citizen Investigation Team - http://www.citizeninvestigationteam.com/
National Security Alert - http://www.citizeninvestigationteam.com
Pilots for 9/11 Truth - http://www.pilotsfor911truth.org/


Dwain Deets Endorses CIT's National Security Alert, and the Flyover Conclusion


So, who is Dwain Deets?

Glad you asked.

Dwain is currently retired after 37 years with NASA, where he worked as an aeronautical engineer and flight director for Aerospace Projects. In other words:
"Dwain Deets is that Rocket Scientist who understands complicated & technical things."




QUOTE:

"Although my involvement in the 9/11 issue has focused primarily on the problems with the "collapse" hypothesis for World Trade Center Building 7, my background as a retired NASA aeronautical engineer has often brought questions my way regarding the airplanes, including, of course, the flight that allegedly struck the Pentagon.

Examination of the official flight profile raised serious technical questions in my mind -- questions which led me to the view that it is highly unlikely such a profile could have been flown as reported. In other words, it seemed to be physically and aeronautically impossible.

My skepticism proved to be well-founded when I watched National Security Alert, the most recent video from the Citizen Investigation Team, or CIT. More importantly, I now realize that the flight profile data released by the government was a spurious smokescreen, and that the answer to the question of what really happened at the Pentagon on 9/11 comes from applying logic, with very little involvement of aeronautical principals.

To be more precise, the answer comes from eyewitness accounts collected from individuals who had clear views of where the plane flew in relation to the Citgo gas station across the highway from the Pentagon. Several of these witnesses were recorded by the Center for Military History or by the Library of Congress shortly after 9/11/01. CIT followed up on this testimony, doing investigative video interviews at the various sites where each person made their observations, or, when this couldn’t be done, by audio recording.

In a nutshell, these key eyewitnesses independently agree that the plane flew north of the Citgo gas station as it headed toward the Pentagon. It is clear from viewing their interviews that it is simply not a reasonable consideration that all of the witnesses presented are incorrect about this simple detail. The plane was most definitely on the north side of the station.

The problem with this is that the official flight path requires the plane to have flown to the south of the station. The observed damage is wholly inconsistent with an approach from the north-side. This not only includes the damage inside the building leading to the round hole in the C-ring, but also five light poles which were supposedly hit by the airplane which were also in alignment with a south-side path. Given that the plane was on the north-side of the station, these light poles simply could not have been knocked over by it.

The only possible conclusion, if logic is your guide, is that the plane did not hit the Pentagon and did not cause the damage; that the south-path downed light poles were staged; and that the internal damage was done by other means, specifically internal explosives.

I am aware of efforts by a few to censor and marginalize the work of Citizen Investigation Team. Some have stated it’s because they feel the notion of a flyover at the Pentagon would be bad for the truth movement even if true because it would be off-putting to the public at large. This is contradictory logic since the very notion that 9/11 was an inside job is off-putting to the public. I strongly feel it’s important to follow evidence wherever it leads us and stand firmly against any effort to hide or control information that exposes the 9/11 deception.

I thank CIT for bringing this story together in a clear manner, and I endorse CIT as the best source of information on this matter. Furthermore, I agree with their conclusion -- the plane flew over the Pentagon."

-Dwain Deets

Former Director, Aerospace Projects, NASA Dryden Flight Research Center
Served as Director, Research Engineering Division at Dryden
Creator of www.7problemswithbuilding7.info

ALERT: Infiltration at 911Blogger and TruthAction has Compromised These Websites


TO: All Truth Movement Members,


I have a very important message for your attention today concerning our movement and an attempt to bring it down.

Barry Zwicker, author of Towers Of Deception and producer of numerous outstanding and informative 9/11 truth videos and articles weighs in on the compelling Pentagon evidence presented by the Citizens Investigation Team (CIT) and he addresses the controversy in some circles of the 9/11 truth movement about this vital evidence.

For over two years now CIT has been struggling to get their evidence recognized by the larger truth community only to have run into staunch resistance and a concerted disinformation campaign from a few (mainly the owners of 911Blogger and Truthaction) in the truth movement.

911Blogger has recently purged (Stalin style) a large number of truthers from it's blog simply for vocally supporting CIT's work.

They have also mass deleted numerous comments supportive of CIT from discussion threads about this issue so that now a completely false impression has been created about the support and strength of this evidence and a false impression has been created about the true numbers of the opposition which are in reality very small.

Any truth site engaging in mass purges and essentially engaging in book burning should give all in the truth movement serious concern.


Mr. Zwicker explains his reasons for CIT in this video and talks about the shadowy disinformation effort going on to suppress it. Thank you Barry!

For anyone unfamiliar with CIT's evidence consider viewing their presentation called National Security Alert to be vitally important for your ongoing education about the 9/11 false flag attack.

Also voicing your opposition to 911Blogger and Truthaction directly about their extreme suppression and disinformation tactics would be appreciated.

Please watch Barry's report at the link below and get involved taking on those who spread disinformation and misinformation within our movement.

Barrie Zwicker endorses Citizen Investigation Team's presentation "National Security Alert."

Sincerely,
Adam Ruff



FROM BARRIE ZWICKER:

"It's no exaggeration to state that the findings of the Citizen Investigation Team concerning what really happened at the Pentagon on 9/11 are reliable, undeniable, conclusive, and of immense historical importance.

The evidence now shows, well past reasonable doubt, what happened: it was a detonation of explosives within the building, timed to coincide with a flyover by a large jet plane, thus producing the clever illusion that Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon, and that is the heart of the official 9/11 Pentagon lie.

Primary credit for dispelling this illusion must go to CIT. The team members, with only truth-seeking as their motive, and with few resources, succeeded in finding 13 eyewitnesses, whom they interviewed fairly and transparently.

The heavy convergence of honest reports by these eyewitnesses, and other compelling evidence, can be seen in CIT's highly revealing DVD "National Security Alert." The evidence fails entirely to support the official story's alleged flight path of alleged Flight 77. The evidence does, on the all-important other hand, support a flyover flight path.

To add insult to insult, the same perpetrators of the events of 9/11 at the Pentagon have assigned disinformation specialists to attack the honest citizen detectives of CIT. This suggests, to me at least, that hidden behind and within the dark and treasonous false flag deception carried out at the Pentagon on 9/11 are probably even darker secrets.

To me, two most important questions now, almost nine years after the events, urgently call out for investigation. First, who are those behind the vicious attempts to discredit the work of the Citizen Investigation Team? Second, what are the motives of the would-be discreditors and those behind them? And I say "attempts" - because careful examination of the arguments of CIT's tormentors show them to be tricky and unreliable - in fact as flimsy as the official story they try to defend.

So, twin tasks lie ahead for honest citizens of all countries. First, to continue to learn more about all the events of 9/11, and the false flag operation of 9/11. Second, to learn more about -- and unmask for all to see who are willing to see -- the cadre of disinformation agents who are in the business of attempting to mislead and confuse honest authentic people everywhere about 9/11. Arguably, no single group is being targeted more toxically than the honest citizen detectives of CIT. This is a signal tribute to the historic importance of CIT's work -- work that must be supported unflaggingly.

-- Barrie Zwicker, author, Towers of Deception: The Media Cover-Up of 9/11 and producer of The Great Conspiracy: The 9/11 News Special You Never Saw.