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This show seeks to find out what happened during the lesser-known event of 9/11: the Pentagon attack. Jesse Ventura says, "After all these years, there are a lot of questions about the 9/11 attacks that haven't even been asked -- especially when it comes to the Pentagon.

Ventura meets with Charles Lewis, a Buildings Safety Advisor and Airport Building Contractor from the Los Angeles, who happened to arrive in DC early in the morning on 9/11. According to Ventura, "What [Lewis] saw that morning was enough to get him on the case."

Lewis says that early on the morning of 9/11, he was able to over hear a lot of what was being said around him and that they were aware that LAX was one of the targets. They seemed to be very upset that, with all of the air traffic controllers watching those planes, no one had bothered to notify NORAD."

The North American Aerospace Defense Command is the US-Canadian airspace defense system. Lewis then says it turned out that, "Word did indeed come back that NORAD had been notified but that they were ordered to 'stand-down,'" -- or to not send fighter jets to escort the several hijacked commercial jets.

Ventura asks Lewis: "Who ordered NORAD to stand down?" Lewis replies, "Word came back that the order had come from the highest level of the White House."

Ventura says, "It couldn't have been George W. Bush who ordered it, we all know he was reading 'A Pet Goat' to a bunch of school kids. It could only be one man: Vice-President, Dick Cheney."

Lewis: "I guess they figured they had to follow orders."

Ventura: "But Charles Lewis' story doesn't end there. After he got the 'stand-down' information, he heard something else on the police radio frequency: The Pentagon had been hit -- but not by American Airline's Flight 77."

Lewis: "They said that a missile had hit the Pentagon. By the time I got home and got the television on, I was very surprised that the missile had become an airplane which hit the Pentagon."

Ventura's voiceover: "A missile? A Stand-down? There are a lot of rumors about what happened that day but this guy was in on official transmissions and he said there was even more evidence. It was high time that we looked into this and find out what the government might be hiding."

Ventura consults with his team, comparing the official story about Flight 77 taking off from Washington, DC and turning around over the State of West Virginia, to come back and crash into the Pentagon versus the radio traffic that Charles Lewis says that he heard that day.

Ventura's investigator, June meets with Independent 9/11 Investigator, Matt Sullivan and asks if there'd been a 'stand-down' order and he replies, "Norman Mineta was the Transportation Secretary during 9/11 and he testified before the 9/11 Commission in May 27, 2003 that he was in the White House bunker with Dick Cheney during the hijackings, while a young aide repeatedly came into the room to report that Flight 77 was "50 miles out. 30 miles out. 10 miles out. Does the order still stand?" and Cheney said, "Of course, the order still stands."

Mineta's testimony, both written & video was stricken from the official 9/11 Report.

Next, former NASA structural engineer, Dwain Deets explains how the damage to the Pentagon "doesn't add up to a 757."

Deets says that the first thing that is missing from the impact zone is the are the impact holes from the plane's two large engines. Also, at the area of the collision's furthest penetration into the "C-Wall" of the Pentagon, where one would expect to find evidence of a completely disintegrated Boeing nose cone, one finds instead impact evidence from a very hard object, which cleanly pierced the wall, with a radius much smaller than that of a 757.

Deets explains that transport aircraft, such as the 757 are made of light materials that could in no way account for the kind of damage that was done to the Pentagon.

Ventura says, "So why not go to the videotape to see what, in fact struck the Pentagon?" An FBI report said no less than 85 cameras were recording every inch of the building's exterior but all of the surveillance tapes belonging to private businesses surrounding the Pentagon were immediately confiscated by the FBI. It look 5 years of lawsuits to release just 5 minutes of footage, with the vital evidence occurring within 5 frames (of which, some have argued has had frames edited out).

Ventura notes as "strange," that no footage showing an airliner approaching or hitting the building has ever been released to the public.

Dwain Deets offers his opinion that the jetliner pulled up and flew off in a cloud of black smoke away from the building; it never hit the Pentagon. Ventura notes that there's another problem with the story: the terrorists did not have the expertise to fly a high-speed jet into such a low structure. This, according to former Air Force pilot, Rob Balsamo, with whom Ventura met at the Virginia flying school where one of the alleged hijackers took flying lessons.

Balsamo states that for the hijacker to have the aircraft flying at 150 knots OVER its maximum operating limit is simply not credible. Balsamo says, "That's why there are so many pilots speaking out and they're raising their BS flags." In his opinion, the alleged hijacker could not have pulled off the maneuvers claimed in the '9/11 Report' and this goes beyond his personal opinion, "It's based on facts and data." The vertical speeds were too great to be level across the lawn.

Jesse Ventura's team then attempts to re-create the official events in a flight simulator and they find that neither the alleged pilot nor the plane, itself were physically capable of doing what was officially reported, certainly not at the reported speed of 500 knots.

Ventura then says that if it wasn't a plane that hit the Pentagon, what did?

On the 5th Anniversary of 9/11, Tim Roemer a 9/11 Commissioner "slipped up" on national TV when he said, "One of our fortresses [was] pried open by a missile - er - airplane."

Something hit the Pentagon but was it an airplane? The only bodies ever recovered at the scene were those of Pentagon employees, no airline passengers. The bodies from Flight 77 were all identified at Dover Air Force Base, almost 200 miles away.

Ventura's team interviews eyewitnesses who were both inside and outside the Pentagon at the time of the events. April Gallup was an Army Specialist, working in the Pentagon building when something exploded 30 feet away from her desk. This was particularly upsetting because she'd brought her 2-month old baby to work with her. She put her son's stroller next to her and was turning on her computer when she heard what "sounded like a bomb."

There was was chaos and smoke everywhere and people were screaming "Save me!" April Gallup crawled on the ground, put her infant son over her shoulder and crawled out of the opening in the building created by what she thought had been a bomb. When she later heard that it was a plane she never believed it.

Later, when Gallup and her son were in the hospital recovering form their injuries, they received a visit from military officers, who asked her to describe the events. She told them she thought it was a bomb. They denied her report and told her it was an airplane.

When Ventura asks Gallup if she has ever been threatened, she replies "Yes, I have." When asked who'd threatened her she says, "My military leaders." When asked if she felt threatened by speaking out on Ventura's show, she says, "Yes and I'm just gonna go," as she abruptly stands up and walks out of the diner where they had been shooting her interview.

Ventura's voiceover explains, "After all these years, April Gallup believes the Government is trying to silence her -- and for good reason. She filed a lawsuit against the Government, claiming that the airplane's black box would show that Flight 77 flew over the Pentagon, amid an explosion and a planted bomb - bomb and/or missile. The FBI said the box was recovered but the government said that the voice recorder was badly damaged and useless."

News cameraman, Bob Pugh started filming the Pentagon within 5 minutes of the impact. He shows his raw footage to Ventura's team. Pugh had previously shot a notorious plane crash in the Potomac, which crashed shortly after take-off. He says the main difference he noted between these 2 events was that the Potomac crash had readily identifiable parts belonging to an airplane, the tail, pieces of the fuselage and many victims recovered still strapped to their seats.

However, the scene at the Pentagon was one of a clean lawn and no sign of luggage, wheels or engines, "Nothing that resembled an airplane."

Pugh says, "There is a picture of a hole that's basically the size of a 2-car garage." Ventura's voiceover continues, this hole was *too small* to be formed by a 757. If it looked bigger, it's because of the fire and the collapse of the structure that followed."

Pugh says he was never contacted by the 9/11 Commission and he's not aware of anyone who had any footage that was taken earlier than his.

Then Ventura's team investigates the phone calls that were alleged to have been made from Flight 77, while it was headed toward the Pentagon with its transponders turned off. These calls were the "only evidence that the plane was still flying," according to the narrator.

President George W. Bush's Solicitor General, Ted Olsen claimed that he received two calls from his wife, Barbara. The narrator says: "But this story is about to be disputed, disproven -- and exposed as a cruel ploy."

Canadian Computer Science Professor, A.K. Dewdney claims that in that era, cell phone calls could not have reached ground-based cell towers from that altitude and with the airliner traveling at that speed.

Dewdney notes that Ted Olsen later changed his story to say that the call had been placed from the "back of the seat" phone. Ventura team member asks him whether there were any "back of the seat phones" on that aircraft and Dewdney's response is that, "A meticulous researcher noticed on the American Airlines website that 757s were not equipped with "back of the seat" or Airphone®s, which was the name of the branded technology available during that era.

Dewdney continues, "Then, later on, during the Matsui trial of 2006, an FBI source reported to the court that Ted Olsen, in fact, received NO PHONE CALLS FROM HIS WIFE, except possibly one, of which the connection time was approximately zero seconds."

Ventura responds, "Zero seconds? That would mean no conversation at all."

Dewdney: "We've got a pretty big contradiction" because we've got Olsen claiming that his wife told him, "We've got Arabs, armed with box cutters onboard and we have the FBI saying, "No, that call didn't happen."

Ventura says, "Wow. Is this guy saying that Olsen lied about his wife's last words?"

Dewdney: "I'd prefer to believe that Olsen is telling the truth; that he may have been duped by somebody pretending to be his wife."

Ventura's investigator asks Dewdney, "What kind of technology would be needed to fake a phone call?" and Ventura follows-up with the comment, "Better yet, what kind of a guy doesn't know what his wife's voice sounds like?"

Ventura then says, apparently this would be quite easy to fake, calling upon the expertise of Forensic Audio Technician, Kent Gibson, who explains that cellphones have a lot of "extraneous noise," such as snapping and crackling sounds that make such calls easy to fake.

First, Gibson proceeds to show how he can make anybody's voice sound like somebody else's. The fact that Barbara Olsen had been a TV personality meant that there were many samples of her voice available from which to draw.

Professor Dewdney continues: "There's no question that there are some serious, serious problems with the interpretation of the events of 9/11 by the White House."

Ventura then asks: "So, if it wasn't Al-Qaeda terrorists who hit the Pentagon, who did?"

Ventura asks whether this was an inside job by the Defense Department to cover up for the $2.3 trillion that had "gone missing" from the Defense Department's budget?

On September 10, 2001, Secretary of State, Donald Rumsfeld held a press conference admitting as much. As it happens, the portion of the Pentagon building that was destroyed by "Flight 77" was the precise office that housed the computers which stored the records pertaining to the $2.3 trillion irregularities in the DoD's accounting.

Ventura quips, "It's unthinkable -- until you think about it." He says one Army office lost 34 of its 65 of its employees. The office was called 'Resources Services, Washington.' Most of the employees were civilian accountants who would know the most about who was stealing the money.

Ventura expresses his opinion that the attack on the Pentagon was an extra bonus of the WTC attacks, which were staged or allowed to occur because the George W. Bush regime needed a motive to invade Iraq and to pass draconian, anti-Civil Rights and anti-Constitutional laws. Venture opines that with the World Trade Center Towers demolished, who would ever ask about Don Rumsfeld's loss of $2.3 trillion again?

Ventura then confronts 9/11 Commissioner, Janice Kephart. He says that one thing that troubles him greatly is that one day before 9/11, Secretary Rumsfeld announced that $2.3 trillion dollars had gone missing from the DoD budget. Ventura asks Kephart if she recalls that. She says, "No." Then he tells her, then it so happens, that the office where those financial records were being kept happened to be the exact office where the Pentagon was struck.

"Isn't that a bit -- MUCH?" Ventura asks. "I have no idea," Kephart replies.

Then he asks her point-blank: "Why have all the tapes of the plane hitting the Pentagon been confiscated and why we can't view them -- and don't come back and say, 'we did.' You saw that little flash of 5 frames..."

Again, she says, "I have no idea...you know, the Government has a very tremendous propensity for secrecy and the Defense Department and others do, as well."

Ventura's voiceover: "Do you believe that? The lawyer admits the Government's still hiding the truth from you and me."

Kephart then leans forward and says, "Governor, you've asked me a lot of questions, that indicate that you do not believe that 9/11 happened the way it did. So what exactly is your bottom line and where are you going with this?"

He replies, "My bottom line is the truth." Kephart's face drops. She replies, "I mean, I don't know if you believe the 9/11 Commission was duped or if you believe the 9/11 Commission was part of the problem?"

Ventura: "Oh, I believe the 9/11 Commission was duped. I don't think you got all of the information. I think information was withheld from you, much the same as with the Warren Commission, in the murder of John Kennedy. Tons of information was withheld and that's what it comes down to."

Now narrating, Ventura says, "Janice Kephart told me that the 9/11 Commission was kept in a time crunch, it was not allowed to publish any dissenting opinions and it was given no cooperation by the White House."

Kephardt says, "We only had to do subpoenas in a couple of areas." Ventura responds, "Subpoenas would be required in such an investigation. Why would someone in Government *not* want to come tell you what they know, when 3,000 people were murdered on that day?"

Kephart: "Because it's always about protection of the Institution, at the end."

Ventura: "Wow. That's really eye-opening, for me to learn that 'protecting the institution' is more important than the truth." Kephart winces.

Ventura closes the program by saying, "It'll take more than a 400-page report to put all these conspiracy theories to rest. And do you know what's worse? The people behind the conspiracy, behind the cover-up -- they're still running the government. Still lying, still hiding the truth.

"Was it a missile that hit the Pentagon? Was it a bomb? Was it what they told us? It's been almost 10 years and I wouldn't be asking these questions if the Government would play straight with us. If they have the footage from all those surveillance cameras, let us see it! And if there was no 'stand-down' order, then prove it and don't question my patriotism because I'm looking for answers!

"One thing I've learned is that if you don't hold their feet to the fire, everybody gets burned."