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[The gov't could lay to rest many otherwise unprovable "conspiracy
theories" by merely releasing these recordings. Nonetheless, in its
condescending arrogance, gov't (which it chooses to describe as
"sensitivity") it refuses to do so. Assuming the more bizarre
conspiracy theories are completely untrue, one can only assume that
the gov't feels it has something to gain to allowing conspiracy
theories to proliferate. Either way gov't proves again that it sees
itself as God Almighty and in no way a servant of the people ICE]
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From: "Dick Eastman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 7:47 PM
Subject: [piml] FBI withholds Flight 93 cockpit voice recordings
against world suspicion that hijackers lost cockpit control to
remote controllers who crashed the plane.
FBI withholds Flight 93 cockpit voice recordings against world
suspicion that control of plane was taken from double-crossed
hijackers in cockpit in order to make sure all aboard perished in
Pennsylvania crash, as the 3 other planes were remotely directed to
WTC and Pentagon, possibly without any hijackers at all.
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FBI Declines to Release Hijack Flight Cockpit Tape Thursday December
20 8:17 PM ET SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The FBI has turned down
family requests that it release the cockpit voice recording from an
airliner hijacked on Sept. 11 that crashed in a Pennsylvania field,
saying the horror captured on the tape would do little to assuage
their grief.
"(FBI) Director (Robert) Mueller has personally listened to the
recording from the hijacked flight and advised that the FBI will not
be releasing the tape at this time,'' FBI spokesman John Collingwood
said in a letter to U.S. Rep. Ellen Tauscher that the
congresswoman's office released on Thursday.
"While we empathize with the grieving families, we do not believe
that the horror captured on the cockpit voice recording will console
them in any way," Collingwood said.
Tauscher, a California Democrat, had written to the FBI on behalf of
Deena Burnett, whose husband Thomas was among those aboard the plane
when it was hijacked on Sept. 11.
Unlike three other passenger jets hijacked that day that crashed
into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, United Flight 93
crashed into a field in Pennsylvania, apparently brought down amid a
passenger revolt against the hijackers.
Burnett and several other relatives of Flight 93 passengers have
asked the government to release the cockpit voice recorder, saying
they hoped it would reveal what really happened during the final
minutes before the plane crashed, killing all 45 people aboard.
The Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation
declined to release even an edited transcript of Flight 93's cockpit
voice recorder, saying that it is evidence in a criminal
investigation.
The FBI's Collingwood repeated that the tape was being held as
evidence, and said Mueller believed that the families would gain
nothing from listening to the tape.
"While we share your interest in providing Mrs. Burnett with peace
of mind, we do not believe that any of the victim's families would
find comfort in the recording,'' Collingwood said. "Furthermore,
the voices are, for the most part, indistinguishable.'' A number of
other recordings, made by other aircraft and air traffic control,
have surfaced that appear to support the belief that passengers
clashed with the hijackers in the final minutes of the flight.
Collingwood said that while the FBI would not accede to the
families' request for the tape, "we hope that they will take comfort
in knowing that all of America embraces the passengers and flight
crew of Flight 93 as heroes.''
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20011220/ts/attack_hijack_recording_
dc_1.htm l
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"The individual is handicapped by coming face to face with a
conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists".
-- J. Edgar Hoover
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