“System Breakdown,” our story on the conspiracy theories surrounding the events of Sept. 11, 2001, generated a number of letters via e-mail, from near and far.

Thank you for publishing your 9/11 Truth article. I have done my own review of the issue and believe the government story is a lie. I would welcome continued analysis in the future. This is a story that has been blacked out by the mainstream media.
Jeff Schwartz

Really enjoyed Larry Clow’s piece about the 9/11 milieu.
Please pass this on to Larry, and give it a scan yourself if you have time; some serious criticism of the 9/11 Commission: www.gnn.tv/B12001.
Thanks, from Texas.
Allan Giles

Your words are sure to enlighten more lost sheep, and scare others deeper into their walking comas... But thank you for giving our truth movement some good ink.
Scott Ledger
Largo, Fla.

Nice work on your 9/11 story, the biggest lie/hoax of our lifetimes. It’s too bad it’s taken this long for the public to realize they cannot take the word of the government and mass- media as facts but may be complete falsehoods. The public for the most part doesn’t read, and this is also a problem. I’ve read enough to know the government/military will sacrifice/kill it’s own people and then blame it on someone else. Stay with this story as most of the real truth behind the story has yet to be told. Thanks again, let’s hear it for the truth.
Anonymous

The real “outlandish theory” about the attack on the Pentagon on 9/11 is the official one—that a novice pilot could maneuver a large commercial jet in an incredibly tight turn at high speed, evade the Pentagon’s missile defense system, skim the ground (without leaving any marks in the lawn), smash into the Pentagon wall (without collapsing the roof) and then “vaporize,” leaving no identifiable parts, but miraculously leaving the passengers’ DNA intact. Come off it!
If it really was Flight 77, all the Pentagon has to do is release the CCTV footage from the gas station. That’s what The Wire and anyone who contributes should be calling for—or launching a legal fight to have the tape released.
Paul Carline

I thought that Larry Clow’s article on the 9/11 truth movement is excellent, but one point that he makes does stand out as being unfair—or illogical. That is when he talks about the “Hunt the Boeing” Web site, “which uses a series of photographs from the attack on the Pentagon to show that Flight 77 could not have caused the damage at the building. But the site fails to address what happened to the airplane if it didn’t strike the building.” I’ve heard this argument before, but it’s invalid. The site need not address the whereabouts of the plane in order to make the case that it could not have been what hit the Pentagon. The Web site shows clearly enough that a plane of that size couldn’t have resulted in the kind or degree (relatively small) of damage done to the building. The validity of that case does not depend on proving, or even postulating, what really happened to the plane and its passengers. That would be another, separate investigation, which would make sense to conduct only after a convincing case was made that it could not have been what hit the Pentagon. (Of course, we know that any commercial airliner can be commandeered from the ground by remote control and flown anywhere—into the Atlantic, for example. But, again, that is completely irrelevant to the argument that the “Hunt the Boeing” web site makes.)
Robert Brown

Please enhance the truth content of your (good, but too American-centric) story by refraining from referring to Andreas von Bulow as a former defense minister. He was a high defense ministry official, maybe without powers, just shoved there to avoid having to put him into a big position. His title was State Secretary for the Defense Ministry.
He also was a Minister for Research and Technology, and most pertinent to you, member of the Parliamentary Commission for Oversight of Germany’s Secret Services. His job was to bring light into spook-crimes (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlamentarischer_Staatssekretär, http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_von_Bülow).
Please write an article about PEOPLE’s oversight of spooks, where you can mention this newfound knowledge.
The bottom line of that article should be:
- there is currently no oversight, it is crazy.
- the world is in danger from it.
- it is astonishing how the world survived, in spite having spooks running wild.
Paul Winter