It's about time. What was the Justice Department afraid we'd discover?

From the CCN article linked above:

Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act request, but the government had refused to release the video until after the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui, the convicted al Qaeda conspirator who was sentenced earlier this month to life in prison.

Sources told CNN in 2002 that the FBI confiscated a hotel security camera video that showed the attack on the Pentagon. It's not known whether that tape will be released.

Judicial Watch is "a conservative, non-partisan educational foundation, promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law," according to its Web site.

The group filed a lawsuit this year, arguing that there was "no legal basis" for the Pentagon's refusal to release the tape.

Conservatives who are Patriots, not Loyalists! Hurray!

The American authorities have played a very dirty game in which several innocent people of all religions and cultures have died. The truth about September 11th is that it had been done by the American government so that it had an excuse to attack Afghanistan, they said Osama the evil pig was hiding there- but the truth is that he wasn't there. Bush kept giving him messages and they are still in contact. Osama is a slave of Bush and is not a TRUE Muslim, instead is a kaffir just like Saddam and other slaves of the dirty American government who wants to spread hate. Dear fellow brothers and sisters here all of you should learn the truth as September 11 was not an attack on America but an attack on every innocent man and woman on earth by evil politicians and terrorists supported by them who use religion as an excuse to kill.

Sure thing buddy. Can't wait. By the way, did you take your meds this morning?

Tinfoil adjustment in ward 3, STAT!

I can tell you first hand that the conspiracy nut jobs are still saying the same thing. They just watched the video on CNN and STILL claim there is no plane, and that a missle did it. But at least the conspiracy has changed. Now they say CNN is in on it too...LOL

I was going to suggest that Muslim Unity receive the flaming, retard troll award for this quarter, but then he would probably consider that a conspiracy of the Bush-neocon-Jooo government to hurt his wittle feewings.

Banning him might be a more appropriate response.

MU:

You left out that it's also all the fault of the joooooos.

Nitwit.

Even if we give MU the benefit of the doubt and accept everything he/she wrote as gospel, how can you reconcile the very last line - "...by evil politicians and terrorists supported by them who use religion as an excuse to kill."

[Muslim] Terrorists use religion as an excuse to kill, yet they are merely the puppets of the evil politicians??? And that was written by someone calling themselves Muslim Unity???

This is a prime example of how stupidity can be terminal.

MU
Who are the seven innocents from different cultures and religions that died?

Damn. Getting the comments off to a running start with Grade A Delusional Thinking, eh MU?

Lee,
I can think of one reason not to release the tape, and it's the same reason sports teams watch footage of the games they lose: to learn why things didn't go as planned, and find a new tactic for victory. If the tape showed information that could show how the Pentagon avoided the damage the terrorists intended, they may have a case to withhold it.
Or it could just be that that the DoJ and DoD are notorious about hoarding documents...

Muslim Unity: Quit life.

Love,

Heralder

Lee said:

""It's about time. What was the Justice Department afraid we'd discover?""

Excellent question Lee, and I'll tell you the answer.

It's in the first paragraph of the article you posted.

Now that I've pointed you back to your own link, perhaps you can think about it for a sec and come up with a more sensible question.

Muslim Unity,

It is conspiracy theory nuts like you which give cause to organizations like Judicial Watch to make public videos like the above on Flight 77.

Muslim Unity? I thought it was the Judean People's Front?

Wait, or was it the People's Front of Judea?

Im sorry Muslim Unity, Your right! after viewing the video clip I noticed Osama jump off the missle right before it hit the Pentagon,and if you look really carefully you will also notice Rumsfield sneaking Him away to meet with Bush..

I learn something new everyday on here!

MU is amazing. Strange, the video showed nothing I didn't see on that day. Too bad MU wasn't around to see all of it happen. Would have been nice for him/her/it to share their opinion then.

The French people still won't buy the Pentagon story...it's a Bush plot.

""The French people still won't buy the Pentagon story...""

If the French people's impotent opinions ever mattered in the first place I'd be concerned.

What? Is that supposed to be a video making the controversy going away? This will just make the conspiracy grow.

So what is the conspiracy?

scsiwuzzy - If you've watched the video, do you think that's still the case?

This video isn't proof of anything. You can barely see anything, it's just a streak and a mark in the camera.

Furthermore, let me add that if the airliner was clear, I'd know it was fake because you can't possible get a picture that clear from a security camera.

Bush isn't gonna put one over on me.

Why is there smoke trailing out of the back of the plane? I see the fin of the plane, but that looks waaaay too small to be an airplane.

Underwhelmed is right. This is basically the same angle as the first camera, which I think shows far more detail than this second camera (just my opinion of what I can see on these crappy media players...I hate RealPlayer...it ReallySucks).

And do I really need to see more detail of the plane going into the building to convince me that it happened? Nah. Maybe things like eyewitnesses on the ground who saw what happened and families who were murdered on the flight may not be enough for MU, Lee and a host of other tinfoil conspriacy buffs, but no amount of footage, no matter how clear will ever be enough for them.

That jetliner is a couple hundred yards away! thats why it looks small, but that building is like 70 feet tall, so the scale is accurate.

Anyone who thinks anything but an airplane hit the Pentagon has their head so far up their ass they aren't worth the waste of oxygen it would take to call them immeasureably stupid.

Lee,
My comment was made before the video was available for viewing (to me, at least-no streaming video until I am home).
So I'll fall back on my second posistion. The DoJ and DoD hoarde info, and are loathe to release it.
If that wasn't the case, we'd never need the FOIA in the first place.

scsiwuzzy - I agree.

Nick J: Why is there smoke trailing out of the back of the plane? I see the fin of the plane, but that looks waaaay too small to be an airplane.

I read reports that the plane clipped a few streetlights or stoplights as it headed in. The low altitude we see in the videos would confirm that it was just barely off the ground by the time if hit the Pentagon.

Gringo "Bush isnt gonna put one over on me"

thats great to hear Einstien!

"furthermore let me add,that if the airliner was clear id know it was fake because you cant possible get a picture that clear from a security camera."

The airliner is not clear! if it was clear we would be looking at Wonder Womans plane! geez some people.

All I see in that screencap, and forgive me that I can't see the whole video as the link won't work, is a white blur... I'm not saying that is isn't a plane, but I can't say for sure that it is, either. This is hardly conclusive evidence either way, at least not based on that screencap. I find the idea of a cruise missile to be pretty hokey, but based on that photo, I don't see a plane either.

While Im not at ALL a conspiracy theorist, a lot of people are forgetting that this "cause" that Judicial Watch is perpetuating and pushing forward is that JW is a CONSERVATIVE group. Also, there are tapes from the Citgo station, the VA Dept of Transportation and a Sheraton Hotel that all purportedly show the attack on the Pentagon. If the conspiracy theorists are to be put to bed, they should release all tapes to the public domain.

Steve, you can never put the conspiracy theorists to bed. They keep wandering into the living room, rubbing their eyes and asking for a glass of water, and X-Ray glasses.

Sensible people may have suspicions, but they will listen to the evidence and learn from it. Nutjobs won't.

If it wasn't a Boeing 757 hitting the Pentagon, why did the survivors inside smell jet fuel and why were some of them burned by flaming jet fuel? Did they (the victims) go on tv and lie about the odor of jet fuel in the building and the burning jet fuel? Did the medical doctors who worked on the burn victims lie about the burns being caused by jet fuel? Conspiracy people are pretty irrational as far as I'm concerned.

As a former Air Force officer and a consultant to the FAA, I want to know how this "video" sheds any new light. First of all, it's not a video, but a series of still images. Second, you cannot tell what the object is. Can you honestly view these images and tell me what it is?

If the object was a 757, then it was basically taxiing across the Pentagon parking lot, because it is ridiculously close to the ground. How did the FAA radar operators not see a commercial airliner going 350+ mph at a low altitude?

I am not saying there is a conspiracy. All I am saying is that the "new" images do not show that a 757 hit the Pentagon. Why don't they release the video from the other surveillance cameras (the Sheraton, the gas station, and VA Dept. of Transportation)? If it was a 757, then let's see it and settle this thing for once.

Go back to sleep sheeple!

For those of you who think logically and don't believe everything you see and hear from our media.....the real story on 9/11 will continue to be a subject of substance. For those of you who believe in the story you were told and witnessed what the media showed, will render yourself to more lies in the future.

I don't discredit those who belive in the governments version, and just because some of us question the events of that day, does not mean we should be discredited either.

My friend Chris was an eyewitness and saw a large, twin-engine airliner hit the Pentagon. But seeing it from directly underneath and behind after it flew over his van, he couldn't identify the airline or the model.

That's proof enough for me to believe that is a airliner in those videos.