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Release of Pentagon Strike Tape

by Open-Publishing - Tuesday 16 May 2006
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Judicial Watch to Obtain September 11 Pentagon Video at 1 p.m. Today

Department of Defense Responds to Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act Request and Related Lawsuit

(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that Department of Defense will release a videotape to Judicial Watch at 1:00 p.m. this afternoon that allegedly shows American Airlines Flight 77 striking the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. The Department of Defense is releasing the videotape in response to a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act request and related lawsuit.

“This is in response to your December 14, 2004 Freedom of Information Act Request, FOIA appeal of March 27, 2005, and complaint filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia,” wrote William Kammer, Chief of the Department of Defense, Office of Freedom of Information. “Now that the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui is over, we are able to complete your request and provide the video...”

Judicial Watch originally filed a Freedom of Information Act request on December 15, 2004, seeking all records pertaining to September 11, 2001 camera recordings of the Pentagon attack from the Sheraton National Hotel, the Nexcomm/Citgo gas station, Pentagon security cameras and the Virginia Department of Transportation. The Department of Defense admitted in a January 26, 2005 letter that it possessed a videotape responsive to Judicial Watch’s request. However, the Pentagon refused to release the videotape because it was, “part of an ongoing investigation involving Zacarias Moussaoui.” Judicial Watch filed a lawsuit on February 22, 2006 arguing that there was “no legal basis” for the Defense Department’s refusal to release the tape.

“We fought hard to obtain this video because we felt that it was very important to complete the public record with respect to the terrorist attacks of September 11,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Finally, we hope that this video will put to rest the conspiracy theories involving American Airlines Flight 77. As always, our prayers remain with all those who suffered as a result of those murderous attacks.”

A copy of the video will be made available on Judicial Watch’s Internet site, www.judicialwatch.org.

Judicial Watch is a non-partisan, educational foundation organized under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue code. Judicial Watch is dedicated to fighting government and judicial corruption and promoting a return to ethics and morality in our nation’s public life.

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Forum posts

  • FOX, of course, just aired the alleged tape of American Flight 77 hitting the Pentagon. It is, as I suspected, totally bogus and reveals absolutely nothing. There is nothing in the newly released extended stills from the same Pentagon security camera, which captured the original 5 stills -released in 2002 - that remotely resembles a Boeing 757. One FOX talking head, however, is claiming that the plane’s "nose cone" is visible in one of the new stills, and, laughably, there is a big white glare spot that makes such an identification absurd. Keep digging 911 researchers. There are no new revelations here.

    • BBC has the new video. Now you can play "Find The Boeing." Good luck. Here’s a hint; close your eyes and imagine a Boeing 757 and you’ll see it.

      http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4987716.stm

    • Where is the Virginia Department of Transportation Video? This has a much better angle of the the "Plane"/Cruise Missile. Isn’t the Depatment of Defense Legally obligated to release this?

    • As far as I’m concerned...this does nothing, but substantiate the case that the 911
      story is bogus. I see no 757 in this footage. However, i do see what looks like a
      missile.

      If what happened at the Pentagon is anything less that "exactly" what the
      Bush-Cheney administration has told us, then the whole thing, the whole 911
      story, is a lie.

      I believed the official story up until February of 06, but then I had never questioned it.
      Once I began to question it I quickly came to the conclussion that it’s all a lie. This
      footage merely amplifies that suspicion, and fear.

    • You guys can deny the truth forever. But none of you can turn back time and prove it wrong.

    • You mean you don’t buy the "official" explaination about the reason the tapes were held as secret until now is the Moussai trial (ya, right like we care about him so much)....hahahahaha.....maybe Bu$hco should hire a 12 year old girl to make up their explainations, they would undoubtedly be more believable.....I think it is hilarious listening to the official stories coming from Bu$hco....they never make a lick of sense....and only a very unquestioning mind would be able to believe them......

      As to their video, they should have had some computer generated pictures of an airplane for those who demand reality in their pictures before they accept them for what they have been described as.

    • Here is a good analysis from Alex Jones about where we stand on the issue

      http://www.infowars.com/articles/sept11/pentagon_video_is_giant_psyop.htm

  • With people like you excepting things like this we haven’t a hope in hell.....The still for this shot has been out there for years. If this is the best you can do forget it. thanks for the dance.

  • the video is bogus and proves nothing. Bush and sickos are pure evil cold blooded murderers. INSIDE JOB ALL THE WAY.

  • There is nothing new here.

    The Pentagon fraud is the touchstone of truth. Any conspiracy theorists or anti-government theorists who state a 757 hit the Pentagon are actually government disinfo agents. We’re lucky to have something so obvious as a test of fifth columnists.

  • absolutely amazing that the majority of people will not contest the official story even though it appears that the worlds biggest defence installation has less (and of a lesser quality) cctv cameras than my local high street, I agree with alex jones on this one, they will release the citco/sheraton footage and attempt to debunk the whole thing. So when the next question comes about wtc7, we will all look like madmen in the truth movement.....