# 9/11 an inside US govt. job? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 25, 2005, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-an-inside-us-govt-job/327894 "2005-10-25T21:53:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![butler1850](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/779978/32.png) [@butler1850](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butler1850)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-an-inside-us-govt-job/327894/21 "2005-10-26T15:57:56Z")
> [@Stranger On A Train](#): > > I don’t think Jimmy Hoffa could fly. > > 😛 > > Stranger Come on, in the time they’ve been missing, Amilia gave Hoffa piloting lessons in atmospheric craft, and Elvis gave piloting lessons for interstellar craft. Sadly, the interstellar aircraft was actually driven by Princess Anestasia, and she got lost on her way to the White House. ---
**Author:** ![TwoTrouts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@TwoTrouts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoTrouts)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-an-inside-us-govt-job/327894/22 "2005-10-26T15:58:55Z")
For those who may not have seen them, [here](http://911research.wtc7.net/pentagon/evidence/videos/uncropped.html) are the still frame photos of the Pentagon explosion taken from the gas station. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-an-inside-us-govt-job/327894/23 "2005-10-26T16:12:26Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > And the planes were flown by Elvis, Jimmy Hoffa, D B Cooper and Amilia Earheart. Well that’s just crazy talk! Everyone knows Cooper jumped out at the last minute. ---
**Author:** ![Good\_Egg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@Good\_Egg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Good_Egg)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-an-inside-us-govt-job/327894/24 "2005-10-26T16:52:01Z")
> [@hlanelee](#): > > **Stranger** I’ll agree that the US government might not be competent to pull a stunt like that off, that’s almost a given. And thats the beauty of it. “Lets act so incompetant that people will never believe we could do anything so sinister and clever.” And you bought it. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![Duckster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/duckster/32/1244_2.png) [@Duckster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duckster)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-an-inside-us-govt-job/327894/25 "2005-10-26T18:06:47Z")
> [@TwoTrouts](#): > > For those who may not have seen them, [here](http://911research.wtc7.net/pentagon/evidence/videos/uncropped.html) are the still frame photos of the Pentagon explosion taken from the gas station. Uh huh. > [@](#): > > The famous set of five video frames **from a Pentagon security video camera in a parking structure** has been reproduced in sets with different horizontal and vertical cropping. The plane _overflew_ the gas station. While I cannot vouch for [accuracy of the the written content from this site](http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jpdesm/pentagon/pages-en/fct-videos.html), there is a photo taken from the Citgo gas station looking at the Pentagon. ---
**Author:** ![spifflog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c5a1d2/32.png) [@spifflog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spifflog)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-an-inside-us-govt-job/327894/26 "2005-10-26T19:45:59Z")
> [@TwoTrouts](#): > > For those who may not have seen them, [here](http://911research.wtc7.net/pentagon/evidence/videos/uncropped.html) are the still frame photos of the Pentagon explosion taken from the gas station. I don’t know where these were taken from (I seem to remember reading that they were from a Pentagon security camera) but they were not taken from the gas station. That station is a good 200 years across the highway from the Pentagon. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-an-inside-us-govt-job/327894/27 "2005-10-26T20:28:25Z")
It’s times like this I like to remember the words my father said about every conspiracy claim from the life of Jesus to Iran-Contra. “The first rule of a conspiracy is that someone involved in it will shoot his mouth off in a bar, and that will be the end of the secret.” ---
**Author:** ![TwoTrouts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@TwoTrouts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoTrouts)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-an-inside-us-govt-job/327894/28 "2005-10-26T20:42:09Z")
> [@spifflog](#): > > I don’t know where these were taken from (I seem to remember reading that they were from a Pentagon security camera) but they were not taken from the gas station. That station is a good 200 years across the highway from the Pentagon. You are right! I had never seen the images from the gas station and had always assumed that the ones I linked to were the gas station photos. That’s what I get for assuming! The security photos are the ones that all the conspiracy loons point to. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/9-11-an-inside-us-govt-job/327894.md?page=1)