The conspiranoids at Citizens for Legitimate Government note reports on DC's NBC TV Feb. 2 and WTOP Radio Feb. 24 that Washington's Metro police conducted drills under a program called Blue TIDE (Terrorism Identification and Deterrence Effort) that simulated shootings at subway stations and other attacks on mass transit. This recalls claims of terrorism drills that more or less coincided with the 2005 London attacks and even 9-11. But the DC drills appear to have been well over by the time of the Pentagon attack, and none of the accounts mention the Pentagon as a target in the drills. Moreover, the wise will ask how often such drills are held without being immediately followed by a real attack—and therefore drawing no notice from the conspiracy crowd.

Mr. Weinberg,

The verbiage you use to describe 9/11 Truth members is offensive and grossly misguided. You should be aware of the blatant contradiction to your description as compared to the actual people who align themselves with the 9/11 Truth movement.

Would you consider all of the people belonging to the following groups 'conspiranoids'?
http://patriotsquestion911.com/
http://stj911.org/members/index.html
http://pilotsfor911truth.org/core.html
http://www.ae911truth.org/signpetition.php
A list of many more.

It would seem that 'the wacky world of cosnpiranoia' has a fairly large population. A great many of the members of the 9/11 Truth movement are professionals from several various fields including scholars, professors, and active and retired military.

What would you admit to if you were water boarded more than 100 times? This is from your website: http://classic.countervortex.org/node/7221 -
"President Barack Obama, making his first trip to CIA headquarters April 20, acknowledged that agency officials had expressed what he called "understandable anxiety and concern" about his decision to release confidential memos detailing brutal interrogation techniques used by agency operatives. Obama said it was time to admit "mistakes" and "move forward." Among other things, the memos revealed that two captured al-Qaeda operatives—Abu Zubaydah and Khalid Sheikh Mohammed—were subjected to water boarding a total of 266 times."

From: timesonline.co.uk
"Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the self-confessed mastermind of 9/11, was water boarded 183 times in one month, and “confessed” to murdering the journalist Daniel Pearl, which he did not. There could hardly be more compelling evidence that such techniques are neither swift, nor efficient, nor reliable. "

So the 'confessed mastermind' of 9/11 had to be coerced into admitting it. I find that strange since it is reported that he also believes that if he is martyred, he has a one way ticket to paradise. That would lead one to believe that if he were the mastermind, he'd be bragging about it, not trying to hide it.

I would like to challenge you, Mr. Wienberg, to actually research the topic of 9/11 truth...read the articles, watch the movies, listen to the lectures...then, write a new article based on what you discover. This ad hominem, sophmoric attack peice is disgraceful at best, dishonest at worst.

Let's see. You mis-spell my name. You use quotation marks incorrectly. You don't know what "ad hominem" means. You accuse me of dishonesty when your entire enterprise is an exercise in intellectual dishonesty. You ignore Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's unseemly boasting that he was "responsible for the 9-11 operation from A to Z." You act as if the only possible alternative to the conspiranoid wackiness is the case the government has assembled. You assume that I haven't "researched" the Truth movement's claims, when in fact I have spent all too much time chasing down that intellectual dead end, and have debunked the conspiracy theories at length.

All too typical. I don't care how many of you there are, or how may professional fields you work in. You Truthies are overwhelmingly incapable of reading, writing or thinking, and I have yet to meet even one of you who can argue honestly.

Next.

Look for Richard Gage's "Blueprint for Truth" on Google Video. Gage is an architect from California with over 1,000 of his peers putting their reputations on the line with a very simple, non-theoretical premise: a new investigation of the September 11th attacks is needed. Much new information has been uncovered over the last eight years, particularly the finding of unreacted nano-thermite detected in a peer-reviewed study of collected dust samples from Ground Zero.

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."