QUOTE (David G. Healy @ Oct 2 2006, 04:25 PM)

Len Colby' wrote:
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Fetzer is an at times dishonest sloppy researcher, I don’t find it surprising he would been impressed by this “movie”.
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dishonest??? Post "proof" of the above assertion -- or retract it
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.ph...ost&p=76618 I was going to let that go as an offhand comment but since Mr. Healy asked for proof I will oblige him. There is an old adage among lawyers, ‘never ask a witness a question if you don’t know the answer’.
David do you really think I would say such a thing if I didn’t have proof of your buddy being intellectually dishonest?
I already outlined some of Fetzer’s lies in another thread
http://educationforum.ipbhost.com/index.ph...ost&p=40521 Fetzer lied twice during his presentation at the “American Scholars’ Symposium (June 24 or 25 this year) an event organized by Alex Jones which was videotaped and is available on Google Video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=86...etzer&hl=en 39 minutes into it he declared “under federal law when ever there is an aircraft crash of the kind that occurred here the National Transportation Safety Board is obliged to carry out an investigation. Do you know that to this day the national Transportation Safety Board has not investigated one of the crashes on 9/11, not one”. This is incorrect because by federal law “
the Safety Board does not investigate criminal activity” and once “the Attorney General, in consultation with the Chairman of the Safety Board notifies the Board that circumstances reasonably indicate that the accident may have been caused by an intentional criminal act” “
the FBI becomes the lead federal investigative body, with the NTSB providing any requested support”
www.ntsb.gov/Abt_NTSB/invest.htm OR
http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:oPAs2M...NTSB/invest.htm OR see below
Fetzer knows this of course because he repeatedly cited (and at times misquoted) the law and NTSB policy quoted above in his book and articles about the Wellstone crash.
American Assassination, chapter 7, ‘Alternative Explainations’ section, pg 129 – 130 (1st edition) he even provided the above NTSB link as his source.
http://www.assassinationscience.com/ThompsonReview.pdf http://www.assassinationscience.com/About_...f_a_Senator.pdf www.assassinationscience.com/About_AMERICAN_ASSASSINATION.pdf http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/...ne.shtml#_edn56 Fetzer told another lie in that presentation, 20 minutes into it he said the largest item found in the wreckage of the Twin Towers was a “little tiny segment off of a phone” and indicated something about the size of a quarter with his fingers. However numerous larger items were found (
http://www.amny.com/entertainment/news/am-...allery?index=25 http://americanhistory.si.edu/september11/...&location=1 ) including a crystal globe paper weight from Tiffany’s which a FBI gave to his secretary
http://select.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.htm...20Department%20 . Fetzer knows this too because he wrote about it in his book about Wellstone, “…the FBI’s Minnesota Evidence Respones Team had been accused of stealing evidence from the World Trade Center site where they had been sent to investigate. The stolen evidence was a valuable Tiffany’s paperweight…”
American Assassination, chapter 3, ‘Crash Scene Wreckage’ section, pg 51 (1st edition)
He also lied by omission several times in the Wellstone book failing to inform his readers that 1) Conry (the pilot) told one of his oldest and closest friends who was himself a pilot that he had difficulty flying, especially taking of and landing King Airs, the accident plane was a King Air on approach (part of the landing phase), 2) Conry told his wife the other pilots at the company thought that Guess, the co-pilot, was incompetent, 3)Guess was fired from his previous piloting job (a sky diving company) for incompetence 4) one of the pilots at the company said that Guess had difficulty landing on his own 5) Conry almost certainly had far fewer flight hours than he claimed 6) most of those flight hours were accumulated before a 12 hiatus due to being sent jail and being legally blind 7) he had lasik surgery to improve his vision but was still required by the FAA to use corrective lens, his wife and friend said he didn’t and the coroner didn’t find any evidence he was 8) three days before the crash Conry screwed up so badly his co pilot suggested he retire 9) a colleague said Conry nearly crashed into the control tower when taking off 10) the pilot who said Conry was very careful had not flown with him for about 12 years 11) the plane didn’t suddenly turn off course, the plane missed a turn off and was on the wrong vector for several minutes 12) there was a problem with the beacon at the airport FAA tests carried out shortly after the crash led pilots very close to the crash location 13) Conry normally let his co-pilots fly so much that many said they could not judge his piloting skills others said he had a tendency to become distracted 14) 3 days before the crash he fell asleep between flights, the day before the crash he waken at 1:30 AM to go on a last minute flight, according to the co-pilot he looked so sick the passengers who were Red Cross personnel were afraid to go near him 15) during his biannual flight check 2 days before the crash the instructor had to coach him to respond faster to simulated engine failure, a scenario similar to a stall which the NTSB determined was the cause of the crash (All of the above is documented in the thread about the Wellstone book). This information can be found in the same NTSB and news reports he based his book on
Len
“Investigations Involving Criminal Activity
In cases of suspected criminal activity, other agencies may participate in the investigation.
The Safety Board does not investigate criminal activity; in the past, once it has been established that a transportation tragedy is, in fact, a criminal act, the FBI becomes the lead federal investigative body, with the NTSB providing any requested support.
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As the result of recent legislation, the NTSB will surrender lead status on a transportation accident only if the Attorney General,
in consultation with the Chairman of the Safety Board, notifies the Board that circumstances reasonably indicate that the accident may have been caused by an intentional criminal act.”