CNN Archivist On BBC’s Absurd Lost 9/11 Tapes Claim

March 1st, 2007

Via: Infowars:

“I’m an archivist with the CNN News Library in Atlanta, and I can tell you with absolute certainty, the mere idea that news agencies such as ours would “misplace” any airchecks from 9/11 is preposterous . CNN has these tapes locked away from all the others. People like myself, who normally would have access to any tapes in our library, must ask special permission in order to view airchecks from that day. Multiple tapes would have been recording their broadcast that day, and there are also private agencies that record all broadcasts from all channels – constantly – in the event that a news agency missed something or needs something . They don’t just have one copy… they have several. It’s standard procedure, and as soon as the second plane hit, they would start recording several copies on other tapes machines all day long.

The only information they need to give out is the source of the collapse claim. No one is saying the BBC is “part of the conspiracy,” we’re saying that someone gave that reporter the information ahead of time. The source of that information is the only thing they can reveal that would be meaningful.”

5 Responses to “CNN Archivist On BBC’s Absurd Lost 9/11 Tapes Claim”

  1. Dendrite says:

    I am just curious how long it actually takes after the decision has been made that the building (7WTC) is no longer safe, to send someone off to the explosives shop, get the shopping list, analyze the structure of the steel supports and any other masonry and then send in a specialized team, whilst the building is in danger if imminent collapse, to place the charges, clear the site and bring the structure down.

  2. Axon says:

    47 stories, 25 core columns, 58 outer columns…I’d guess 20, maybe 30 minutes?

  3. Dendrite says:

    Axon, I shall accept your time estimate because it is not my subject and I really know no different. The thing which prompted my comment was a TV program I saw in the UK many years ago by one of the national senders, probably ITV or BBC. The subject was the demolition of a giant crane at the defunct Merseyside former shipbuilder Cammell Laird. Since conventional deconstruction would have involved the hiring of an even bigger crane it was decided to bring it down with explosives. For whatever reason, the job became behind schedule and extra shift teams had to be put on to work through the night placing the charges in order to bring the job back on time.
    Maybe bringing down tall buildings is a bit like driving a car, in that once you know how to do it all cars are more or less the same. Perhaps you need the equivalent of a track laying conversion course to be able to do open structures.
    Anyway, one way or another, it is handy these people were around 7WTC just when they were needed.

  4. fallout11 says:

    If anyone ever watched any of the Discovery Channel documentaries where they followed the work and projects of Maryland-baded C.D.I. (Controlled Demolition Inc.), you would note that it takes weeks to prepare the structure, and days just to place and wire the shaped charges.
    http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg18324575.700-baltimore-blasters.html
    http://www.controlled-demolition.com/

  5. p says:

    It has been my suspicion for a long time that WTC7 was pre-wired for collapse. I have doubts about CD on the other two, but WTC7 housed some very sensitive information:

    “All the evidence that we stored at 7 World Trade, in all our cases, went down with the building,” according to US Secret Service Special Agent David Curran — the number three guy in that office. “We lost our network, we lost all our computers, we lost all the equipment that we use as Secret Service Agents. Everything from machine guns to our shotguns to our electronic equipment that we use.”

    Also, the SEC:
    The office, which enforces SEC regulations, lost files on about 300 pending investigations, including a major inquiry into the manner in which investment banks divvied up hot shares of initial public offerings during the high-tech boom.

    And Citigroup:
    “But Citigroup says some information that the committee is seeking was destroyed in the Sept. 11 terror attack on the World Trade Center. Salomon had offices in 7 World Trade Center, one of the buildings that collapsed in the aftermath of the attack. The bank says that back-up tapes of corporate emails from September 1998 through December 2000 were stored at the building and destroyed in the attack.”

    And there’s a lot more interesting data that is claimed to have been lost in WTC7.

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