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CIT publishes response
to David Chandler & Jonathan Cole's Joint Statement about the 9/11
Pentagon Attack
Posted Tuesday, Feb 3, 2011
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
P.S. There will also be a
podcast forthcoming to address some of the additional points
discussed by David Chandler in his recent interview with John
Bursill on this topic.
Index and "jump to" links for our
response:
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