socrates.junior, on 14 January 2013 - 08:11 PM, said:
I'm curious about something. When you talk about participation in the coverup, what does that mean? Based on previous posts, you seem to mean making false statements knowingly.
Why would someone do that? They wouldn't do it just to be a "team player", so what would motivate it?
Bear in mind, we're not talking about Wally Miller at Shanksville. We're talking about a large number of engineers here. Why would they all be attaching their name to false statements? (Bear in mind, you've done ZERO to prove that their statements are false.)
EDIT: Taking 4 years of military science isn't necessary to know what "planning" and "execution" mean. The coverup is a necessary part in the overall execution of the conspiracy. Otherwise it isn't a conspiracy. Quit playing word games.
I'm not playing word games, and we're talking about the proverbial Big Picture--Wally Miller, engineers, steel recycling merchants, airline companies, the mainstream media, various members of academia, the federal judiciary, and many many others.
Wally Miller WAS encouraged by the FBI to be a "team player", and he did. What small town coroner would not?
I'm glad you understand planning and execution, and I assume that you have not served in the military, and thus cannot appreciate the military style, regarding planning and execution. I hope you also understand the notion of "compartmentalization" as it applies to the various federal bureaucracies. In a nutshell, that means that one bureau is not always informed of the intents and activities of another bureau.
At the highest level of planning, yes, it was known that a coverup would be necessary. They knew that certain details, if made public, would expose the hoax. They knew that if they could control what the media said and knew, the hoax could be kept intact.
However the tactical end of the operation need not concern itself with the coverup so much, but OF COURSE secrecy and compartmentaliztion was critical. The tactical guys just needed to pull off the events, with secrecy and compartmentalization, but did not need to concern themselves with the coverup in the media so much, as there work was basically done when the day was over.
But to your other point, companies that derive a large part of their income, perhaps ALL of their income from DoD contracts, or other government contracts, have every reason in the world to be "team players", to cooperate and graduate, to do as they are asked. That does not mean that they were planners or involved in the tactical execution. It merely means they dance with the ones that brought them. They know by whom their bread is buttered. The DoD had a program called Blast Mitigation for Structures Program, BMSP. Greenhorne & O'Mara and others were participants in that program, and other DARPA programs.