Newly published 9/11 footage [video]

Post by 938rrhri3hirhi3 » Sat, Feb 26, 2022, 4:45 PM UTC

ethbr0 wrote: post #25

lovehashbrowns wrote: post #8

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The two other videos that got posted alongside this one makes me think it was a "forgotten tape that just got digitized" type of deal. However, I can also see there being an element of trauma and just not wanting to revisit the footage on purpose. I know I have some pictures I never want to look at again, although nothing on this scale.

As someone who watched the second plane hit live on CNN, it was... hard. People who weren't alive or were otherwise busy that morning don't remember the uncertainty after the first plane. Everyone thought it was an accident. No one could conceive it was a deliberate strike. Everyone knew terrorists hijacked airplanes to fly to third world countries, not to commit suicide into buildings. That cognitive dissonance all…

Post by kube-system » Sat, Feb 26, 2022, 4:49 PM UTC

moron4hire wrote: post #24

Invictus0 wrote: post #17

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After all these years, I've still never seen a video of the Pentagon impact. Has anything come out for that?

The road patterns were different back then (they changed them specifically because of 9/11), but if you've ever been near the Pentagon, it's pretty obvious: it's a low building, nestled in a bowl-like land formation, there aren't many good places to sit and "observe" it, and it's surrounded by highways. Most of the time, if you are looking at the Pentagon, you are probably also driving.

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Post by jlkjlkj45y » Sat, Feb 26, 2022, 4:54 PM UTC

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Post by throwrqX » Sat, Feb 26, 2022, 4:59 PM UTC

Invictus0 wrote: post #49

flycaliguy wrote: post #42

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It seems perfectly plausible to me that releasing video of the Pentagon being struck by terrorists would only serve to glorify the events that day. At the end of the day those agencies did their job and secured any footage. This gave the government the opportunity to decide what is released to the public and I think they made the right choice considering the promotional value of it to the terrorists.

That's not how this works. Classified material is not classified because it would make people feel some type of way. It's because the release of the material would have some effect on national security. With the end of the war in Afghanistan, there is no clear reason in my mind why the declassification of any existing video would be a cause of concern. https://www.archives.gov/files/isoo/training/training-reason... h…