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In this article we’ve seen Hoffman exposed as waging a subtle disinformation campaign against the stand down evidence on two fronts. First, he attempted to support the official story that jets were scrambled and didn’t get there in time. Second, he  supported Cheney’s deceit that executive authority is needed to scramble fighter jets.

 

If this claim from Hoffman were true

 

[[The June 1st order apparently gave Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld the legal authority (if not the de facto authority) to prevent intercepts of Flights 11, 175, and 77 by just doing nothing.]]

 

then the mythical scrambles which Hoffman (sometimes) believes in, had to be authorized by Rumsfeld.  If so, how could the scrambles have happened if Rumsfeld’s Sept 11 action can be accurately described as [[just doing nothing ]] ?

 

Not only are both prongs of Hoffman’s disinformation demonstrably false, they also contradict each other.

 

In conclusion, lets look at another extract from Russell’s article. What is the basic message of this disinformation ?

 

[[this discovery could somewhat diffuse the power of our movement's message about the "Stand Down", since it is now clear that it was implemented through a routine administrative memo.]]

 

“Forget about the stand down” is the basic message.

 

Lets put this message in perspective. I don’t believe that any stand down order was issued on Sept 11, because I don’t believe that there were any hijacked planes in need of interception. I am therefore confident that the “stand down order” will never be found because it doesn't exist, and that the issue is therefore a red herring in terms of material which could constitute proof in a legal sense.

 

So if anyone were to suggest that we forget about the stand down, you would expect it to be me.

 

Nevertheless, I still believe that the original stand down work - as done by TENC—not the proliferation of second rate plagiarism like Hoffman’s - is still a valuable tool in the total picture of public education, and so I still promote it - subject to the qualification above. This can be seen in my summary article and in my direct linking to the TENC articles from my site.

 

By contrast, Hoffman is adamant in defending the official story of what hit the towers and the Pentagon. Such a position mandates that one then treat the stand down issue as one of critical importance. And yet Hoffman, while pretending to support it, is pushing disinformation which prompts people to give up on it, and to be confused about it. For someone who actually believes that four planes were hijacked that morning and crashed where we were told - as Hoffman claims to believe -   then the stand down should be considered a prime piece of evidence, to be analysed respectfully and promoted properly.

 

And yet we see Hoffman trashing it through a campaign of plagiarism as the platform from which to issue subtle disinformation to misrepresent ,confuse and undermine the issue.