Thursday, April 06, 2006

Flight 93 Tapes To Be Played in Moussaoui Sentencing Trial

The Washington Post perpetuates the "lets roll" myth today with the following questionable assertion:

The cockpit voice recording from the flight on which passengers wrested control from hijackers Sept. 11, 2001, will be played publicly for the first time at the sentencing trial of al-Qaeda conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui, a judge ruled yesterday.

U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema also ordered that the tape be made available to the public after the jury hears it in court unless family members of Flight 93 victims file a written objection by Tuesday.

The families will refuse to allow these tapes to be made public for one important reason.

The tapes do not contain any evidence that the passengers made it into the barracaded cockpit. This information leaked out when the families were allowed to hear the tapes and were sworn to secrecy about their content.

Also, the families of the victims of 9-11 are being given unusually great deference in this case.

Under federal law, family members of those killed or injured Sept. 11 also are considered victims, entitling them to such rights as being notified of developments in the case.

That's really a stretch, considering the family of a victim to officially be a victim too. As many as 40 of these "victims" are going to be allowed to testify in the sentencing trial.

Until the past 15 years, victims rarely testified in criminal cases. A series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions said their testimony would violate the constitutional rights of the defendant. But a 1991 Supreme Court decision reversed the prohibition. A victims rights movement that had been building since the 1960s gained more steam, and victim impact testimony is today a regular part of federal death penalty cases...

To find family members and Sept. 11 survivors to testify against Moussaoui, prosecutors mounted a massive outreach. They compiled a database of more than 8,000 Sept. 11 victims, talked to nearly all of them by phone and have regularly alerted them to developments in the case. They traveled across the country to interview more than 1,000 people in person.

The "victim impact project" created a historical record of the attacks, officials have said, and cast prosecutors and FBI agents in the unusual roles of therapists and grief counselors. Prosecutors and agents cried during interviews, talked to family members late into the night and helped them with such things as arranging quick security clearances when family members wanted to visit the victims' memorial at the Pentagon.

The government has a highly vested interest in keeping the official narrative of the events of 9-11 afloat. That's why they are coddling the families so effusively.

Some defense lawyers call the effort excessive. "It is entirely fitting that victim survivors be heard in the criminal justice system, but a criminal trial is not an occasion for national grief and mourning," said David Bruck, a death penalty expert who heads the Virginia Capital Case Clearinghouse at Washington and Lee University. "We need to separate national catharsis from the criminal justice system, otherwise we have the justice of the mob."

It is interesting that the government decided to feature Flight 93 instead of any of the other ill-fated flights of that day.

The "lets roll" bullshittery plays it's important role in the scenario that must be accepted if the established story is to be believed.

The bigger reason to showcase the "heroic passengers" is to continue the cover-up of the shootdown of Flight 93 over Pennsylvania.

8 Comments:

Blogger M1 said...

Neat isn't it how all this hitherto unreleased testimony and various forensic trace evidence that supposedly supports the officially condoned conspiracy theory is coming out now - and in something tantamount to concert.

Like you said... Let's Roll Bullshittery.

4/06/2006 4:14 PM  
Blogger Effwit said...

M1:

Yeah, I though it was too cute that they are emphasizing Flt. 93. They gotta be worried about the legality of the V.P.'s shootdown order.

The tape that they are going to play (if legit) will be truncated. I have been told that if the ANG smoked one of the engines with an A to A--which would be SOP in such a case--there would have been all sorts of audible alarms going off, and would be on the cockpit voice recorder.

The malefactors cannot afford the truth to come out. Now or ever.

4/06/2006 5:42 PM  
Blogger DrewL said...

So what is keeping the families from divulging what they know? Or do they know the truth?

If they do know, I suppose millions of dollars each could buy a lot of silence, eh?

4/06/2006 11:14 PM  
Blogger Effwit said...

DrewL:

All the families know is what they heard on the tapes that were played to them a year or two ago. These tapes show no successful entry by the passengers into the cockpit--kinda scotching the heroic passengers bringing the plane down before it could be used on a Washington target.

The Flight 93 families were expressly told not to talk about what they heard on the tapes. Sworn to secrecy according to some of them. They still are emotionally (and financially, as you point out) tied to the "heroes" story.

That's all that any of the families know that differs from the official narrative. AFAIK.

The whole reason for the big payoff in the first place was to force the victim's families to sign away their rights to sue the government and the airlines.

No lawsuits, no discovery phase of a trial. Simplifies the cover-up enormously.

The malefactors weren't spending their money anyway. It was the taxpayers' dollars.

4/07/2006 8:09 AM  
Blogger M1 said...

The malefactors weren't spending their money anyway. It was the taxpayers' dollars.

This statement is the clincher for me. The 911 crime cost very little to perpetuate, a bit more to mop up,and a fortune for the unfortunate in its Satanic exploitation. And all this money - from the little to the fortune - came out of U.S. taxpayers pockets in one way or another.

Yet all of the narrow but deep benefits generated by this taxpayer investment has fallen into the hands of the nation's greatest tax absconders. Not a penny back to the investors.

Is Iraq a failure? Sure, for the soldiers and the taxpayers - but not for the beneficiaries. The beneficiaries don't care what it costs to get their presents cause they ain't paying for them.

People still assume we all sit in the same boat. Iraq is a success on the deepest of fronts - otherwise Israel , big oil, and Meatball One wouldn't be clamouring for Iran next and hard.

4/08/2006 4:37 AM  
Blogger Effwit said...

M1:

I view the question of whodunit as being a "chicken or the egg?" type of question.

The beneficiaries would have taken advantage of the situation regardless of who is actually behind the attack. (The smart money is on a plot encompassing both influential domestic perps and their long-time foreign anti-communist associates.)

You are indeed right that the usual suspects are in favor of the Iran leg of the "war on terror" heating up soon.

4/08/2006 7:54 AM  
Blogger M1 said...

chicken or egg...I couldn't agree more.

While everyone is divvying on about one or the other bearing the blame the horny Rooster is smirking and well on his way to the next henhouse.

4/08/2006 9:43 AM  
Blogger Effwit said...

M1:

Excellent barnyard symbolism.

Accurate too.

4/08/2006 10:14 AM  

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