ITN:
You and I have been through all of this already, I'm thinking...and I apologize for my belated response, but I try to avoid having a battle of wits with one so inadequately armed...but I was asked some time ago, by one whom I consider a friend to take up this challenge...at the time, I had no time...and I still don't, but I'm here anyway, so I hope you appreciate it...
Some sites have already been posted by others that address the factual discrepancies and outright lies of the article in question, so I'll not address that at this time...
I do seem to recall though that some time ago, you and I got into this this matter of the Popular Mechanics propagandist peice of crap and it was revealed that the Senior researcher for the PM article was none other than Benjamin Chertoff, cousin to the Secretary of Homeland Security during the time of 911, Michael Chertoff, man of FEMA fame and New Orleans misfortune...
A remarkable coincidence that...and you know me, I like to look into the background of the authors and their possible motives...
I wonder what would have motivated Chertoff?
Chertoff's Cousin Penned Popular Mechanics 9/11 Hit Piece
You can't possibly hope to blow off the ever growing movement of 911 skeptics with an irrelevant bit of tripe such as this oft-touted PM drivel.
None of the pertinent questions were answered by that peice, such as:
Top 500 Questions Concerning the Events of 911
These are not questions by crackpots, but questions asked by family members of 911 victims. Questions that need answering and that your administration has taken no steps to adequately answer.
The 911 Commission Report created just as many questions as answers, and reeks of coverup, failing almost entirely to answer some of the most compelling questions, such as:
The 9/11 Commission Report: A 571 Page Lie
Please forgive the overlap of questions...
The way I see it, concerning 911, there are two camps: those that support the official account of the events leading up to and occuring on 911, and those that don't.
Those that don't buy into the story are relegated to the realm of conspiracy whack-jobs because they ask difficult questions of those that do support the "official story". Those that do continue to refuse to answer those questions, and are shocked and aghast when the skeptics mutter about coverups and conspiracy.
If there is no conspiracy, what do they stand to lose by answering the questions?
We, the people of this good Earth need to have a truly independent commission, one that your administration has no influence over, to answer to the satisfaction of the skeptics, some of those important questions, and to allow for public scrutiny and cross-examination. Let the truth of this or that be revealed, and we can either lay the conspiracy to rest, or put the boots to those that are responsible.
Either way would be better than just not knowing...