First of all, no, I'm not dead (yet); second of all, don't get me started on Popular Mechanics magazine! I've sent loads of comments to their Webmaster asking them to explain why the guy who wrote this propagandistic 'hit-piece' (Benjamin Chertoff) was related to Michael Chertoff, a former Assistant Attorney General and the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). So far no viewers comments have been published on their site or in any of their material. In fact, hundreds of people's comments haven?t been published. It just shows that the 'Hard Facts' can't live up to the 'Conspiracy Theories'.
I even dared to say to these buffoons that they ought to stick to fixing car engines and such because their analysis of the '9/11 conspiracy theories' was completely devoid of all the factual detail submitted by many top officials, fire-fighters, and other insiders which proves without doubt that the Bush Administration was actively involved in the incident even prior to September 11th.
I have here a lengthy article you should read before you become disillusioned by Popular Mechanics magazine:
Chertoff's Cousin Penned Popular Mechanics 9/11 Hit Piece
American Free Press | March 7, 2005
By Christopher Bollyn
Dictators like Saddam Hussein have always used nepotism to protect their secrets and maintain control. Like a dictatorship, the inner cabal that directs the actions of the Bush administration uses the same tactics to confuse the public and conceal the truth of 9/11.
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The Defence Department defines nepotism as the situation when relatives are in the same chain-of-command.
An egregious example of dictatorial-style nepotism occurred when George W. Bush won the White House? Twice? Thanks to the key "swing state" of Florida, where the presidential candidate's younger brother is governor. In 2000 and 2004, against all odds, Florida swung decisively, the Bush way.
With high federal offices being given to the wives, sons and daughters of senior members of the Bush administration, the Hearst Corporation executives that publish Popular Mechanics magazine probably didn't worry about the ethical considerations of hiring a cousin of Michael Chertoff, a former Assistant Attorney General and the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), as senior researcher.
But the March 2005 issue of Popular Mechanics (PM) plumbs new depths of nepotism and Hearst-style "yellow journalism" with its cover story about 9/11. PM's senior researcher, 25-year-old Benjamin Chertoff, authored a propagandistic cover story entitled "Debunking 9/11 Lies" which seeks to discredit all independent 9/11 research that challenges the official version of events.
"Conspiracy theories can't stand up to the hard facts," the cover reads. "After an in-depth investigation, PM answers with the truth," it says. But the article fails to provide evidence to support its claims and doesn't answer the key question: What caused the collapses of the twin towers and the 47-story World Trade Center 7?
The Chertoff article goes on to confront the "poisonous claims" of 16 "myths" spun by "extremist" 9/11 researchers like myself with "irrefutable facts," mostly provided by individuals in the employ of the U.S. government.
But who is Benjamin Chertoff, the "senior researcher" at Popular Mechanics who is behind the article? American Free Press has learned that he is none other than a cousin of Michael Chertoff, the new Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
This means that Hearst paid Benjamin Chertoff to write an article supporting the seriously flawed explanation that is based on a practically non-existent investigation of the terror event that directly led to the creation of the massive national security department his "cousin" now heads. This is exactly the kind of "journalism" one would expect to find in a dictatorship like that of Saddam Hussein's Iraq.
Because the manager of public relations for Popular Mechanics didn't respond to repeated calls from American Free Press, I called Benjamin Chertoff, the magazine's "senior researcher," directly.
Chertoff said he was the "senior researcher" of the piece. When asked if he was related to Michael Chertoff, he said, "I don't know." Clearly uncomfortable about discussing the matter further, he told me that all questions about the article should be put to the publicist? The one who never answers the phone.
Benjamin's mother in Pelham, New York, however, was more willing to talk. Asked if Benjamin was related to the new Secretary of Homeland Security, Judy said, "Yes, of course, he is a cousin."
P.s. When Benjamin Chertoff was asked by Alex Jones about why he didn't mention any of the smoking gun incidents and bizarre occurrences such as Operation Northwood?s (the simulated terror attack on the WTC building prior to 9/11) and the engineers told to 'shut their mouths' after discovering the black box in the WTC building wreckage (which by the way should have been the most pivotal point in any investigation of an aeroplane involved disaster but was somehow avoided), they didn?t mention the fact that WTC building 7 was deliberately 'pulled' (detonated) because it was essentially the command centre of the entire 9/11 operation, they didn?t mention the fact that Osama Bin Laden has direct connections with the Bush family and the Saudi Royals through the Carlyle Oil Group, they didn?t mention the fact that al Qaeda were trained and funded in America and that the Pakistani ISI (founded by the CIA) also aided al CIAeada, they DID mention NORAD but failed to realise that it is official policy to intercept any unauthorised aircraft in restricted airspace given the fact that an hour after the WTC buildings were struck the Pentagon was struck. (The planes had literally been flying all over the place during the course of the day but not one fighter jet intercepted.)
It's truly bizarre, and unfortunately there are some people who take advantage of it and create ridiculous 'no plane' theories or 'drone' theories that are just not provable. This type of behaviour, whether deliberate or not, hinders any investigative progress that could eventually be made when such unanswered questions and reasonable evidence are presented in a public court hearing. For the sake of the victims of the incident, many of whom are part of the 9/11 truth movement, I think justice should be served and I think questions should be answered.