Of course, in 2001, Internet conspiracy theories are hardy shocking. What is surprising is this: Go to Shanksville and the surrounding farm fields where people actually saw or heard the jetliner go down at roughly 10:06 that morning and there are a number of people – including witnesses – who also think that Flight 93 was shot down, or at least aren’t ruling it out.  William Bunch “We Know It Crashed, But Not Why,” Philadelphia Daily News, November 15, 2001

So what really did happen to United Airlines Flight 93 on the morning of September 11, 2001? The all-too-obvious answer is that it was shot down. We have already reviewed an abundance of evidence that supports that conclusion, including the size of the debris field, the undeniable presence of an unmarked, military-type aircraft at the scene, reports of pre-‘crash’ explosions, a report from a passenger of an explosion and smoke on board the aircraft, the lack of identifiable wreckage at the supposed crash site, reports of the distinctive sound of a missile, and reports of, as one media outlet put it, “burning debris falling from the sky.” (“FBI Does Not Rule Out Shootdown of Pennsylvania Plane,” Reuters, September 13, 2001)

The only other plausible explanation for the known body of evidence is a midair explosion caused by a bomb aboard the plane, and that possibility has been ruled out by FBI investigators. According to bureau mouthpiece Bill Crowley, “The conclusion of the investigation is that no explosives were used on board the plane.” (Bill Gibb “FBI Ends Site Work, Says No Bomb Used,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 25, 2001) Of course, the FBI could have been lying, as is their custom, but it seems far more likely that the explosions that brought down Flight 93 were delivered via air-to-air missiles.

That possibility, not surprisingly, has also supposedly been ruled out. According to Matthew Rothschild – who penned one of many conspiracy-bashing articles that magically appeared on ‘progressive’ websites on the fifth anniversary of the attacks, as though every fake lefty commentator had received the same ‘talking points’ memo – a gent by the name of Matthew McCormick, who was identified as “a thirty-three-year veteran at the National Transportation Safety Board … who headed up the crash site investigation,” concluded quite authoritatively that “there was no pre-impact stress to the airplane.” (Matthew Rothschild “Enough of the 9/11 Conspiracies, Already,” The Progressive, September 11, 2006)

Taking into consideration, first of all, that the investigation wasn’t actually led by the NTSB, but rather by the FBI, which means that McCormick couldn’t possibly have “headed up” much of anything, and further taking into consideration that even if he had led the investigation, he would have necessarily had to base his supposedly definitive findings on an examination of two jagged pieces of fuselage, a portion of one engine, and tons of burnt shrapnel disbursed over fifteen square miles of terrain, it is probably safe to conclude that both Matthews, Rothschild and McCormick, are spinning yarns.

In the earliest days just after the ‘terrorist’ attacks, there were indications that the government was unsure of how to spin the events in Shanksville. At first, officials seem to have toyed with the idea of admitting to having shot down Flight 93, though they were not yet firmly committed to that tactic. Thus we had the government initially taking the ludicrous position of claiming that it didn’t know if the plane had been shot down: “Federal investigators said on Thursday they could not rule out the possibility that a United Airlines jetliner that crashed in rural Pennsylvania during this week’s attacks on New York and the Pentagon was shot down. ‘We have not ruled out that,’ FBI agent Bill Crowley told a news conference when asked about reports that a U.S. fighter jet may have fired on the hijacked Boeing 757. ‘We haven’t ruled out anything yet.’” (“FBI Does Not Rule Out Shootdown of Pennsylvania Plane,” Reuters, September 13, 2001)

After asking around for two full days, the federal government was apparently still unable to determine whether any of its own interceptors had blown Flight 93 out of the sky! Tragically, that information was simply unavailable, even though, as Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz candidly admitted on television a day or two later, “we were already tracking that plane that crashed in Pennsylvania.” Shanksville Mayor Ernie Stuhl has added that, “based on what he knows about that morning, military F-16 fighter jets were ‘very, very close.’” (William Bunch “We Know It Crashed, But Not Why,” Philadelphia Daily News, November 15, 2001)

Jeff Pillets of the Bergen Record reported that an “official at the Cleveland Air Traffic Control Center in Overland, Ohio, which tracked Flight 93 as it turned in the sky and tracked eastward from the Cleveland area, said ‘no comment’ when asked if there was any record of a second plane over the crash site.” (Jeff Pillets “In Rural Hamlet, Mystery Mounts; 5 Report Second Plane at PA Crash Site,” The Record, September 14, 2001) The Independent’s John Carlin added that those same “air-traffic controllers in Cleveland who tracked the last minutes of Flight 93 on radar have been forbidden by the authorities to speak publicly about what they saw on their screens." (John Carlin "Unanswered Questions: The Mystery of Flight 93," The Independent, August 13, 2002) Similarly, Capt. Adriane Craig, a spokeswoman for NORAD, “declined comment [when] asked if there were any military aircraft flying in the vicinity of Flight 93 or activated in response to the hijacking of the plane.” (Jonathan D. Silver “NORAD Denies Military Shot Down Flight 93,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 14, 2001)

As was previously noted, according to the official narrative there was indeed a second plane over the ‘crash’ site, supposedly a civilian plane that was called in sometime after the crash/explosion of Flight 93. Why then are air traffic controllers not allowed to talk about the publicly acknowledged second plane? The only reason to muzzle them, it would seem, is if they saw a much different scenario play out on their computer screens – which we already know to be the case based on at least a dozen consistent eyewitness accounts.

What we know with certainty is that no less an authority than Paul Wolfowitz publicly acknowledged that Flight 93 was being tracked at the time of its demise. We also know, with a reasonably high level of certainty, that Flight 93 was not only being tracked, but also shadowed by at least one curiously unmarked jet. And we know – because Dick Cheney told us that it was so, just days after the attacks – that by the time of the ‘crash’ of Flight 93, orders had been issued authorizing the downing of any suspect aircraft “if the plane would not divert … as a last resort, our pilots were authorized to take them out.” (“Meet the Press,” September 16, 2001) Finally, we know that a local pilot named Bill Wright, who claims to have been flying in the Shanksville area shortly before the ‘crash,’ and who further claims to have seen the errant United Airlines flight, has reported that he was ordered “to get as far away from it as fast as we could,” leading him to believe “that either they were expecting it to blow up or they were going to shoot it down, but that’s pure speculation.” (“Pilot Witnesses Flight 93’s Final Moments,” ThePittsburghChannel.com, September 19, 2001)

And yet despite all that, no government official was able to say, a full 48 hours after the fact, what had become of that closely monitored aircraft! No one, we are to believe, knew if it had been shot down. That all changed, however, just a few hours after Crowley’s announcement when both NORAD and the FBI issued statements vehemently denying that United Flight 93 had been shot down: “Responding to persistent rumors that have circulated around the nation, the North American Aerospace Defense Command disputed accounts yesterday that U.S. military aircraft shot down United Airlines Flight 93 in Somerset County.” Concurrently, the FBI’s Crowley informed reporters that “There was no military involvement here. I hope that ends that speculation.” (Jonathan D. Silver “NORAD Denies Military Shot Down Flight 93,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 14, 2001) In a nicely Orwellian manner, Crowley then claimed that he had never meant to suggest that there was a possibility that it had been shot down, even though he had done exactly that just hours earlier.

At that very same time, on the afternoon of September 13, 2001, Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle Corp. and ‘former’ CIA operative, was busily circulating an e-mail to Oracle employees praising the late Todd Beamer’s heroic struggle with the hijackers, even though that information would not even be released to Beamer’s own wife for another 24 hours. (Lisa Beamer and Ken Abraham “Let’s Roll: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Courage,” Tyndale House, 2002, pages 184-5)

In retrospect, this is what appears to have happened: the official narrative of the attacks was initially going to contain an acknowledgement that Flight 93 had been shot down, an admission likely prompted by the fact that the evidence for a shoot-down was overwhelming. A problem emerged almost immediately, however, as reports of the phone calls placed by passengers – phone calls that suggested that there had been a passenger revolt – began appearing in the press within hours of the attacks, and if the passenger revolt story could not be contained, then acknowledging a shoot-down was obviously out of the question.

By Wednesday morning, less than 24 hours after the demise of Flight 93, the San Francisco Chronicle had reported on the calls placed by Tom Burnett, Mark Bingham and Lauren Grandcolas (Jaxon Van Derbeken “Bay Area Man’s Last Seconds of Bravery,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 12, 2001, and Peter Hartlaub and Peter Fimrite “Victims Showed Valor Until the End,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 12, 2001), and the PittsburghChannel had referenced the calls placed by CeeCee Lyles. (“Flight 93 Passenger Said He Planned Action,” ThePittsburghChannel.com, September 12, 2001) The next day, Jeremy Glick’s phone calls were revealed by both the Chronicle and the Washington Post. (Stacy Finz, Jaxon Van Derbeken and Sam McManis “Passengers on S.F. Flight Died Heroes,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 13, 2001, and Charles Lane and John Mintz “Bid to Thwart Hijackers May Have Led to Pa. Crash,” Washington Post, September 13, 2001)

It appears as though by that Thursday, September 13, 2001, a decision had been made to scrap the shoot-down story and to instead go with a much better story that had been handed to the conspirators on a silver platter – the heroic story of ‘the flight that fought back.’ Instead of casting U.S. fighter pilots as heroes, ordinary Americans would become the heroes. All that was necessary was ensuring that the real ending of the story remain hidden from view. But there was one small problem: the powers-that-be did not have control over the passenger revolt story, which was being told independently by various surviving relatives, oftentimes with details that the conspirators found unpleasant. The solution? Gain control of the story by creating their own hero and insuring that he would thereafter take center stage, quickly eclipsing all those who were initially identified as probable heroes.

And so was born the legend of Todd “Let’s Roll” Beamer. As a few reporters have gently pointed out, Beamer was not the most likely candidate, physically or otherwise, to lead a passenger revolt. Not as likely as, say, Jeremy Glick, reportedly a 220-pound, 6’1” former national judo champion. Or Mark Bingham, a 6’5” former champion rugby player. Or Tom Burnett, a natural leader and former college football quarterback. Or Louis Nacke, a powerfully built, 200-pound weightlifter. Or CeeCee Lyles, a street-smart former police detective. Or Richard Guadagno, an enforcement officer who had received training in hand-to-hand combat. Or Alan Beaven, a 6’3” rock climber. Or William Cashman, a former paratrooper with the fabled 101^st Airborne.

Why then Todd Beamer? The most likely answer is that Beamer had something that none of the other passengers had: a personnel file at the Oracle Corporation – as did his wife, Lisa, since, as one reporter noted, “both [Lisa and Todd] took jobs at Oracle before starting a family.” (Jim McKinnon “The Phone Line from Flight 93 Was Still Open When a GTE Operator Heard Todd Beamer Say: Are You Guys Ready? Let’s Roll,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 16, 2001) How difficult would it have been, one wonders, for members of the intelligence community to gain access to those files, given that Oracle is little more than a thinly disguised CIA front led by a ‘former’ company man? And how difficult would it have been to use that information to create the basic outlines of a plausible phone call placed by Todd Beamer, complete with references to immediate family members? There would not be enough information, of course, to create a believable transcript, but certainly enough to create a reasonably convincing “summary.” And that, as it turns out, was all that was needed.

The answer then to the question posed by Lisa Beamer (in her book, “Let’s Roll”) – “How did Larry know that?” – is likely that Mr. Ellison was tipped off when someone contacted him sometime between September 11 and September 13, 2001 seeking information on Todd Beamer’s background and family history. Having acquired that information, a phone call supposedly placed by a doomed Todd Beamer was then fabricated. The alleged details of that purported call were revealed to the world over the weekend of September 15-16. Just four days later, on September 20, 2001, Lisa Beamer stood proudly in attendance as George W. Bush, after singling out Todd Beamer for praise, proclaimed the necessity of embarking on a campaign of endless war. At a later date, the same Lisa Beamer would be photographed unveiling a decal of the “Let’s Roll” catchphrase on the side of an F-16 fighter jet, an airplane not unlike the one that almost certainly blew her husband’s plane out of the sky.

The details of that most famous of Flight 93 calls, as reported by the alleged recipient, Lisa Jefferson, have proven to be wildly inconsistent. One particularly notable example of this is that one of her first accounts of the call was missing a certain key phrase: “She heard Beamer saying, ‘God help me. Jesus help me.’ He addressed his cohorts, still calm, saying, ‘Are you ready? OK,’ Jefferson said … ‘That’s the last I heard from Todd Beamer.’” (Jim McKinnon “13-Minute Call Bonds Her Forever With Hero,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 22, 2001) Later accounts, of course, invariably contained the two additional final words that all Americans remember from that alleged call: “Let’s roll.”

One ‘fact’ that has been consistently included in accounts of the call is that “Beamer made [Jefferson] promise to call his wife and their two boys, David, 3, and Andrew, 1.” (Jim McKinnon “The Phone Line from Flight 93 Was Still Open When a GTE Operator Heard Todd Beamer Say: Are You Guys Ready? Let’s Roll,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 16, 2001) Also widely reported was that “Jefferson kept her promise Friday [September 14, 2001],” and would have done so sooner had she not had to wait for FBI clearance. (“’Let’s Roll,’ Flight 93 Victim Heard to Say Before Crash,” ThePittsburghChannel.com, September 16, 2001) The reality, however, is that Jefferson did not keep her supposed promise. What really happened was that Jefferson’s “office sent [Lisa Beamer] a letter on Friday when the FBI gave us the okay to talk and it said she could call me or I could call her when she was ready to talk. She ended up calling me at home on Saturday morning. I was caught off guard, … At first she was upset but later she thanked me for comforting [Todd].” (Wes Smith “Operator Can’t Forget Haunting Cries From Flight 93,” Orlando Sentinel, September 10, 2002)

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