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Critique of David Ray Griffin's 9/11 Fake Calls Theory by Erik Critique of David Ray Griffin’s 9/11 Fake Calls Theory by Erik ... http://911blogger.com/news/2011-02-10/critique-david-ray-griffi... Search Paying Attention to 9/11 Related News news blogs (0 new) comments (10) tags search about us features contact us site rules faq help news feb 2011 critique of david ray griffin’s headlines 9/11 fake calls theory by erik larson Critique of David Ray Griffin’s New video released: "Inside 9/11 - 7 facts" 9/11 Fake Calls Theory by Erik Dear 9/11 First Responders Larson Bipartisan Congressional Bill Would Authorize submitted by loose nuke on thu, 02/10/2011 - 10:55pm the Use of Propaganda On Americans Living Inside America Dennis Kucinich: 911 Truth and Reconciliation Beginning with his book New Pearl Harbor (2004) David Ray Griffin raised questions DOJ Confirms Previously-Denied File Said to concerning the veracity of reports of phone Implicate US Officials in Nuclear Espionage by calls from the 9/11 hijacked airliners, Erik Larson specifically, Ted Olson’s account. Since at least 2006, he has promoted a theory that the 9/11 9/11 as sequel to Iran-Contra: Armitage, Carlucci plane passenger phone calls were faked, and and friends has speculated this was done with ‘voice- Secret Service Failures on 9/11: A Call for morphing’ technology. He’s done this in many Transparency different articles, in books, in speaking appearances, in interviews on radio 'Real-World or Exercise': Did the U.S. Military and television, and in a debate with Matt Taibbi Mistake the 9/11 Attacks for a Training Scenario? of Rolling Stone magazine. In his 1/12/10 essay, Phone Calls from the 9/11 Airliners: New 9/11 Timeline Entries: Fighters on Training Response to Questions Evoked by My Fifth Mission, Special Ops Exercise, Intercepts over Estate Interview, David Ray Griffin gives the the Atlantic, and More most comprehensive overview of this theory to Muslims did not attack the U.S. on 9/11 date, as well as a response to critics, which include people who support a new 9/11 Jon Gold's C-SPAN Collection investigation. A Professor Emeritus and skilled rhetorician, Griffin makes a case that is Saudi Arabia May Be Tied to 9/11, 2 Ex-Senators seemingly compelling. However, as I show in Say this essay, there is no actual evidence the Stratfor: Imam of “Ground Zero Mosque” is an phone calls were faked, while there is a FBI Asset substantial body of evidence demonstrating the calls were not only possible, but did happen. KuwAm and Stratesec: Directors and investors that There are many credible reasons to doubt the link 9/11 to a private intelligence network official 9/11 story and support a full The Small World of 9/11 Players: LS2, Vidient investigation, but the cause of compelling a and AMEC new 9/11 investigation is undermined by the promotion of theories that are flawed, and not 9/11 Truth Versus The BBC based on hard evidence. In addition, the claim that the phone calls were faked is 9/11 Theories: Expert vs. Expert obviously offensive to those family members The 9/11 Commission claims that “we found no who spoke with passengers before they died, evidence” and it has the potential to drive a wedge between truth and justice activists and potential 10 Youtube videos from the 9/11 Toronto allies among the family members, many of Hearings whom support a full investigation. 500,000 Views for '9/11: A Conspiracy Theory' in 5 Besides these shortcomings, Griffin himself Days pointed out in 2008 that promoting theories is not only unnecessary, but can work to the 500,000 Views for New 9/11 Mini-Documentary 1 of 456 25.6.2012 10:04 Critique of David Ray Griffin’s 9/11 Fake Calls Theory by Erik ... http://911blogger.com/news/2011-02-10/critique-david-ray-griffi... on Building 7 in 4 Weeks advantage of ‘debunkers’: One Million Viewers See Bob McIlvaine, Building 7 I made a big point of not developing on France 3 such a theory, and even encouraging members of the movement not to do ERROR: 'The Phone Calls were Fake' this ... No, you don't have to have a New Paper Refutes Pentagon 'Flyover' Claims theory. When you develop a theory, that's what the debunkers love, they more want to say, that's nonsense and take attention away from all the evidence perma-links we have marshaled to show the official story is false. Send a 9/11 Email Certainly, ‘debunker’ websites such as 9/11 On the Eleventh of Every Month - A Call to Action - Myths have easily exposed flaws in the voice truthaction.org morphing theory: For instance, though the technology existed at the time, the inventor, George Papcun, has commented that voice- health alert HELP SUPPORT THE SITE morphing a conversation in near real time Become a Monthly Donor would be more complex than fabricating a Mesothelioma & Asbestos simple recorded statement, and would require Cancer an extensive recording as a sample. 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Make a diseases. made calls hadn’t booked their flights until the donation today. day before 9/11, meaning it would have been 9/11 alerts 9/11 Blogger receives no extremely difficult, if not impossible, to get an foundational or corporate adequate voice sample, even assuming the Kaiser, 9-11 dog running for support. Our advertisers and perpetrators could tap anyone’s phone at award - WISH donors cover 17% of our anytime: Jeremy Glick, Mark Bingham, Honor KSM Response On monthly operating cost. (May Elizabeth Wainio and possibly Ed Felt. Some, Separate Trials in the 9/11 2012). including Griffin in previous essays, have Case - Lawfare (blog) suggested that Mark Bingham’s use of his full Middle School Students name when speaking to his mother is Kicked Out Of 9/11 Memorial Site After ... - Mediaite suspicious. First, it would be very unlikely that persons faking phone calls would introduce an Experts say science lacking on 9/11 and cancer By The element that would be a red flag to their family Associated ... - Laramie and outside observers. Second, Bingham’s Boomerang mother (who has a different last name: Hoglan) School kids trash 9/11 has said that he did this on occasion; is it memorial - New York Daily realistic to think voice-morphing perps learned News this idiosyncrasy at the last minute and more Ads by Project Wonderful! Your ad exploited it, let alone base accusations on it? here, right now: $0 user login In his Response to Questions essay, Griffin doesn’t use the term voice morphing, and Username: * makes one brief claim related to this particular The Agonist theory: “… what alternative is there except to Learning Center conclude that someone fabricated at least one, Password: * Learn and probably both, of these calls, a device that, more besides replicating the impersonated persons’ online. voices, also caused their cell phone numbers to 2 of 456 25.6.2012 10:04 Critique of David Ray Griffin’s 9/11 Fake Calls Theory by Erik ... http://911blogger.com/news/2011-02-10/critique-david-ray-griffi... Log in appear?” Instead, throughout the essay, he Collecting answers focuses on making a case that the reports of Request new password for over 5 years. cell phone calls were accurate, that cell phone calls from the 9/11 planes weren’t possible and, therefore, were faked, and that this implies the air phone calls were also faked. However, this is still a theory, and one that isn’t supported by evidence, as I will show. In addition, this theory is just as offensive to the victims’ family members as the voice morphing theory, as it means that either the phone calls were faked by voice morphing, or that passengers - and/or their family members - participated in a deception. Ads by Project Wonderful! Your ad In the introduction to his Response to here, right now: $0.02 Questions essay, Griffin explains it was prompted by discussion following a 911Blogger post of a Youtube clip from his appearance on Adherents.com the CBC program Fifth Estate, and that he is addressing "the most important" "claims Your online authority contradicting [his] position": for church statistics and world religion 1. “The FBI has not admitted that cell phone geography for 15 calls from high-altitude airliners on 9/11 were years. impossible.” 2. “There is no evidence that some of the reported 9/11 phone calls were faked.” 3. “American Airlines’ [AAL] Boeing 757s, and hence its Flight 77, had onboard phones.” 4. “The FBI’s report on phone calls from the 9/11 airliners did not undermine Ted Olson’s report about receiving phone calls from his wife.” I’ve followed the same outline in this Ads by Project examination of Griffin’s essay, his fake calls Wonderful! Your ad theory in general, and related evidence.
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