Originally posted by ipsedixit
Craig, what is your take on Mike Walter? I believe you said you had dinner at his place. (Incidentally, I'm not sure I would have dinner at the home
of a person that I assumed was a government shill. He might order big macs in from the "specialty kitchen" at Langley.)
Is he a government shill? He's a smooth character. Was he trying to pump you for information? Please dish the dirt.
Here is the "dirt" from the Ocean County news:
"After getting a telephone call from a self-described 9/11 researcher named Russell Pickering, Walter invited Pickering and Dylan Avery, the film's
director, to his house in Fairfax, Virginia.
They showed up with a couple of other people Walter had never spoken with: Craig Ranke, a fast talker with wild eyes, and Aldo Marquis, a heavyset guy
who didn't talk much. The two said they were helping Avery and Pickering with research for their film. Walter chatted casually with the pair, and at
one point, he realized that Ranke was surreptitiously tape-recording the conversation.
That was weird, he thought. And increasingly, so was the conversation itself. Although Pickering and Avery seemed relatively normal, Ranke and Marquis
appeared to be on a mission to prove that the Pentagon plane crash never happened. They wouldn't listen to anything that contradicted this notion.
"I understand why people have certain feelings about this government," Walter says. "There are things this administration did that I'm not pleased
with, but facts are facts. I was on the road that day and saw what I saw. The plane was in my line of sight. You could see the 'AA' on the tail. You
knew it was American Airlines."
Marquis and Ranke simply refused to believe Walter saw what he saw. "They were saying things like, 'Are you sure the plane didn't land [at Reagan
airport] and they set off a bomb?' They kept coming up with all these scenarios.
"Some of those guys [at the party] were young and nice and disaffected [about] their government," Walter concludes. "And some of them were
crazy.""