Flight 93 Crash - 4

In an interview with BeliefNet conducted circa September 11, 2006, Jefferson confirmed that underreported version of events: “on that Friday, when I went in to work, the FBI didn’t want me to mention anything to his wife until they got back in touch with me. And then Friday, they got in touch with me and told me it was okay to let her know the message that I had for her. [Lisa] called me that Saturday morning and that’s when we talked about it.” (“I Promised I Wouldn’t Hang Up,” Interview of Lisa Jefferson by Wendy Schuman for BeliefNet, circa 9-11-06) Left unanswered, of course, is the question of why, if Jefferson did in fact make a solemn promise to a dying man, she made no effort to keep that promise even after allegedly receiving clearance to do so. Also unanswered (and unasked) is the question of exactly what it was that the FBI was supposedly reviewing for some 3½ days, considering that, according to the official narrative, the phone call was not recorded, so there was no tape to listen to or transcript to read. (Some early reports erroneously assumed that normal procedures had been followed and that the alleged call had been recorded. See, for example, Jim McKinnon “GTE Operator Connects With, Uplifts Widow of Hero in Hijacking,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 19, 2006: “Nor has GTE released a transcript of the Beamer call, which, because it was to an operator, was tape-recorded.” That, of course, would have required that the call was real.)

According to the official story, Todd Beamer set the phone down at 9:58 AM, just as the passenger revolt was to begin. Lisa Jefferson purportedly remained on the line, awaiting his return. But for how long? According to early reports, based on interviews with Jefferson, she “hung up at 10 a.m. EST, realizing that the plane had gone down.” (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) Considering that Flight 93 was still officially aloft at 10 AM, that was probably not the best answer that Jefferson could have provided, so a week later it was changed: “For the next 15 minutes, Jefferson stayed on the line.” (Jim McKinnon “13-Minute Call Bonds Her Forever With Hero,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, September 22, 2001) That would have meant that she stayed on the line until approximately 10:13 AM, thirteen minutes longer than her initial claim. But then, curiously enough, on the one-year anniversary the story changed once again, as we learned that “Jefferson’s supervisors instructed her to hang up the phone when there were no other sounds audible.” (Wes Smith “Operator Can’t Forget Haunting Cries From Flight 93,” Orlando Sentinel, September 10, 2002) According to the official story and the alleged ‘black box’ recordings, there were no sounds audible after 10:03 AM, which would mean that Jefferson remained on the line only about five minutes. But as of the fifth anniversary, Jefferson had reverted back to her earlier version of events: “I held on until after the plane crashed – probably about 15 minutes longer and I never heard a crash – it just went silent … I kept calling his name and calling his name, hoping that he – just praying that anyone would come and pick up the phone. But they never did.” (“I Promised I Wouldn’t Hang Up,” Interview of Lisa Jefferson by Wendy Schuman for BeliefNet, circa 9-11-06)

The key question raised by Beamer’s alleged call, of course, is the lingering question of why he chose to spend his final minutes speaking with an anonymous operator rather than with his beloved wife. In November 2001, a trio of Newsweek reporters set out to tell the definitive tale of the final minutes of Flight 93. In a lengthy intro, the authors acknowledged that “there was that one nagging question. Why had her husband … not called her from the plane? Other passengers had called home from Flight 93 to say goodbye to their loved ones. Why not Todd?” (Karen Breslau, Eleanor Clift and Evan Thomas “The Real Story of Flight 93,” Newsweek, November 26, 2001)

“Then on Friday night, September 14, [Lisa Beamer] got a call from her crisis counselor at United Airlines. Todd Beamer, it turned out, had made a call; it had been routed to an Airphone operator in Chicago.” (Karen Breslau, Eleanor Clift and Evan Thomas “The Real Story of Flight 93,” Newsweek, November 26, 2001) The answer then was that Todd had made a call, just to someone other than his wife. But that, of course, didn’t really answer the question raised in the intro – why had he “not called her from the plane?” The best answer that the authors could come up with, after spending two months conducting interviews, was that “Beamer may have been having trouble with his credit card, or he may just have punched 0 into the airphone.” (Karen Breslau, Eleanor Clift and Evan Thomas “The Real Story of Flight 93,” Newsweek, November 26, 2001)

A year later, Lisa Jefferson was telling reporters that Beamer “told me that he had dialed zero to report his plane was being hijacked and he wanted someone to talk to.” (Wes Smith “Operator Can’t Forget Haunting Cries from Flight 93,” Orlando Sentinel, September 10, 2002) It would appear then that Jefferson somehow belatedly remembered that Beamer had deliberately called an operator. And she also remembered that she had “asked if he wanted to be connected to his wife and he said no, that he did not want to upset her as they were expecting their third child in January,’ she recalled. Instead, he asked her to call his family and let them know he loved them ‘if I don’t make it out of this.’ Jefferson promised that she would.” (Wes Smith “Operator Can’t Forget Haunting Cries From Flight 93,” Orlando Sentinel, September 10, 2002)

So in the revised version, served up a year after the fact, we suddenly had a Todd Beamer concerned with upsetting his wife in her presumably vulnerable condition – although it should be noted that her condition did not prevent Ms. Beamer from converting herself, almost immediately, into a truly world-class media whore. And also in the revised version, we suddenly had a Todd Beamer who seemed hopeful that he would make it home alive, instructing Jefferson to call his wife only if he didn’t “make it out of this.” A year earlier, however, Jefferson had presented a slightly different scenario: “’Oh, my God,’ said Beamer, ‘I don’t think we’re going to get out of this thing. I’m going to have to go out on faith.’” (Karen Breslau, Eleanor Clift and Evan Thomas “The Real Story of Flight 93,” Newsweek, November 26, 2001)

In addition to the inconsistencies in Jefferson’s various accounts of the alleged phone call, there are a number of improbabilities as well, casting further doubt on the validity of the fabled Todd Beamer phone call. One notable example appears in an early account in which Jefferson claimed that “Beamer said he could account for 37 of the plane’s 38 passengers. The hijackers had forced 27 of them into the first-class compartment near the front. Beamer, nine other passengers and five flight attendants were ordered to sit on the floor in the rear of the plane.” (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)

The all-too-obvious question here is how Beamer could have possibly gotten an accurate headcount on the group in first class when they were in the very front of the aircraft and he was purportedly huddled in the very back. And why, while we’re on this topic, was such a curious little factoid included in the story at all? Probably because, as it turns out, Beamer’s improbable headcount just happens to bolster an obscure but possibly crucially important aspect of the official story (as will be discussed later, probably in Part 6 … had I mentioned, by the way, that there is going to be a Part 6 to this odyssey?).

In that same early account, it was claimed that “Beamer mentioned Glick by his first name in the call to Jefferson.” (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) There is, alas, a bit of a problem with this aspect of the tale: Jeremy Glick, you see, was a business-class passenger, so he presumably would have been huddled with the group in the front of the plane (according to the scenario presented by Todd Beamer/Lisa Jefferson), while Todd Beamer, a lowly coach-class passenger, was huddled in the back. In fact, most of the men initially identified as probable heroes – including Tom Burnett, Mark Bingham, Jeremy Glick and Louis Nacke – were sitting in either first-class or business-class seats (Karen Breslau “The Final Moments of United Flight 93,” Newsweek Web Exclusive, September 22, 2001), so we can assume that they would have all been in the group in the front of the aircraft. How then did Todd Beamer lead them on a revolt from his position at the rear of the plane? How, for that matter, did he have any interaction with them at all, either before or after the plane was commandeered? And when he supposedly uttered his infamous words, “Are you guys ready? OK, let’s roll,” who exactly were the “guys” he was speaking to? Was it the guys who were separated from him by about 100 feet of airplane?

Speaking of the passenger revolt, Jefferson’s initial account seemed to portray Beamer as more of a bystander and then belated participant than a leader: “Beamer then told Jefferson that he and the others had decided to ‘jump on’ the hijacker wearing the bomb. Jefferson could hear shouts and commotion and then Beamer asked her to pray with him. They recited the 23^rd Psalm. He got Jefferson to promise that she would call his family, then dropped the phone, leaving the line open.” (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) Apparently Beamer’s leadership style involved praying into a telephone receiver while others engaged in some type of struggle.

Yet another curious fact about the alleged phone call is that, though it is never mentioned in news reports, emergency protocols call for Airphone operators to attempt, whenever possible, to speak with a crew member, for the obvious reason that a crew member would be far more knowledgeable about the status of the aircraft and its crew and passengers than a random passenger would be. In this case, there would have been no problem locating a crew member, since according to Beamer’s alleged account, he was huddled in the rear of the plane with no less than five flight attendants. In fact, one was sitting right next to him the entire time that he chatted with Jefferson: “With the help of a flight attendant seated next to him, Beamer gave Jefferson a report on how many passengers and crew were aboard.” (Wes Smith “Operator Can’t Forget Haunting Cries From Flight 93,” Orlando Sentinel, September 10, 2002) Jefferson later confirmed that scenario: “There was a flight attendant that sat next to Todd that gave us all the information that we needed … She was sitting right next to him, and I could hear everything she was saying because she was speaking loud enough for me to hear her through the phone.” (“I Promised I Wouldn’t Hang Up,” Interview of Lisa Jefferson by Wendy Schuman for BeliefNet, circa 9-11-06)

This, like other aspects of this ever-shifting story, appears to be an element that was belatedly added, on the first anniversary of the attacks, to ward off criticism of various flaws in the original telling of the story. This added element, however, does not answer the question of why standard procedures were not followed. In the real world, both Jefferson and the flight attendant – who has, of course, never been named, although Jefferson would surely have gotten this person’s name – would have insisted that Beamer hand off the phone so that Jefferson could have obtained the most accurate available information (including information that crew members may not have wanted passengers to know), thus freeing Todd to do what everyone else was trying to do: get in touch with loved ones.

Given the inconsistencies and improbabilities in this story, coupled with the complete lack of documentation, foreknowledge by a well-connected ‘former’ intelligence operative, the seemingly deliberate insertion of certain elements designed to bolster aspects of the official story, and, finally, Todd Beamer’s still inadequately explained failure to talk to his wife (or any other family member who could have verified the call), it is nearly impossible not to conclude that the legendary “Let’s roll” phone call was a complete fraud. But if that is true, and if the call was manufactured after the fact, as postulated here, then that means that Lisa Jefferson is an active participant in perpetrating this fraud. But why?

There is, alas, an answer to that question, but it is not one that will likely be palatable to some readers, so I’ll just drop a few of the puzzle pieces on the table and let each of you assemble them as you see fit.

In the interview with BeliefNet, Jefferson noted that she belongs “to Greater St. John’s Bible Church … on the west [side] of Chicago.” (“I Promised I Wouldn’t Hang Up,” Interview of Lisa Jefferson by Wendy Schuman for BeliefNet, circa 9-11-06) She also mentioned that since the events of 9-11, she has become much more involved. Greater St. John’s Bible Church, in turn, is affiliated with – and this may be my favorite part of this story – World Vision.

World Vision, which pretends to be a Christian group involved in worldwide humanitarian missions, has in reality been involved in conducting covert operations in conjunction with the CIA since at least the 1960s, when it was active in a little place known as Southeast Asia. Since then, the group has been directly connected to various other covert operations – including the operations of those legendary ‘freedom fighters,’ the Contras – as well as to such notable Americans as Mark David Chapman and John Hinckley, Jr. The organization has a keen interest in African-American churches dating back at least to the days of its association with the notorious Reverend Jim Jones, whose People’s Temple was composed primarily of African-American women.

Now, maybe it’s just me, but when I scratch a little bit below the surface of a story and find the tentacles of both the Oracle Corp. and World Vision, I get a sense that there is some serious skullduggery afoot. And no, as a matter of fact, I do not know exactly what “skullduggery afoot” means, but it sounded good so I went with it. The real question here, I guess, is what are the odds that it is merely coincidence that both the alleged caller and the alleged recipient were linked to entities widely recognized as intelligence fronts?

One final note on Lisa Jefferson: she has said that after she allegedly took the call on Tuesday morning, she “went back to work on that Wednesday, Thursday, just like as if nothing had ever happened.” She did the same on Friday, acting for all the world as if, by her own account, “nothing had ever happened.” Why would she do that? The most likely answer is the obvious one: because nothing involving her had yet happened. But then, after the Todd Beamer story broke over the weekend, she “couldn’t go into work for two days after that.” Following that, she “was in therapy for a while.” (“I Promised I Wouldn’t Hang Up,” Interview of Lisa Jefferson by Wendy Schuman for BeliefNet, circa 9-11-06)

Inquiring minds, needless to say, are still awaiting word on who the therapist was. Drs. West, Cameron, Orne, Gottlieb and other notables on the CIA honor roll are no longer with us, of course, but surely there is no shortage of replacements.

Thus far, we have established, by my reckoning at least, that Flight 93 was shot down near Shanksville, Pennsylvania (after all, newly-departed Defense chief Donald Rumsfeld said so himself, in one of his infamous Freudian slips). We have also established that the legendary phone calls, with one notable exception, appear to have been real phone calls made to real people. Finally, we have established that the Todd Beamer phone call was a fraud – a fraud perpetrated so that the powers-that-be could gain control over a cover story that was too good to pass up, although they did need to change the ending of the story.

We are still left with, however, a number of unanswered questions, such as: what happened to the rest of the plane? And what caused that supposed crash crater? And what time exactly did the shoot-down occur? And, perhaps most importantly, how was this hijacking pulled off? More specifically, how was the cockpit breached? In Part 6, we will seek answers to those questions.

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