*Off topic personal attacks will not be tolerated in this thread.
S.O. has agreed to let me continue the discussion started in
this thread that was
horribly derailed by individuals who had no interest in the topic.
Stephen McGraw was a former DoJ attorney of 5 years who was ordained a catholic priest 3 months before 9/11 and allegedly found himself right in front
of the Pentagon at the time of the attack supposedly after a wrong turn while being late to preside over a funeral at Arlington National Cemetery.
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CIT interviewed him at his church. Watch our 10 minute presentation including the interview here:
From the Law to the Lord
(featuring Stephen McGraw)
Here are some significant points relative to McGraw personally and his testimony:
1. McGraw claims he did not see or hear the plane until it had passed over his car and was therefore not a witness to the approach (or what side of
the citgo station it flew) at all. This means he would have only been able to see the tail end of the plane for about one second at most according
to the official speed of the plane at 535mph.
2. McGraw claims he did not see the plane hit any light poles even though if he was directly under the plane as he claims he would have been right in
the middle of the 5 downed poles. Here would be his approximate alleged point of view in relation to the official flight path:
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And here is his alleged location in relation to the official flight path:
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He would have a front row seat to the plane hitting the poles. The notion that he could miss 5 light poles falling down all around him 10's of feet
away strains credulity if the poles were in fact really hit by the plane.
Nevertheless McGraw not only claims he didn't see the poles get hit.....he indicates that he was only aware of one pole being hit and even thought
that only the top part was knocked off because that is all he saw on the ground after the fact.
How this could be the case even though all the entire poles were lying on the ground right next to the pieces I do not know.
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3. Although McGraw states that he was a DoJ attorney for 5 years and even grew up in the area.....he claims he was not aware that the building he was
next to on 9/11 was the Pentagon. This is rather curious because the Pentagon is the largest low rise structure in the world and has a rather
commanding presence. There are numerous exits labeled "Pentagon" on the highway. The notion that anyone wouldn't be able to tell what it was is
difficult to believe let alone a former DoJ attorney who grew up in the area.
4. McGraw states that he got out of his car with his holy water and stole immediately after the attack (within 45 seconds) to administer prayer to
the wounded and dying on the scene. There are two issues with this claim. Navy Times reporter Mark Faram says he witnessed McGraw cross the guardrail
with his holy water and stole in "one fluid motion" but he didn't arrive to the scene until
10 minutes later. AND.....McGraw claims he was
late to preside over a funeral at Arlington Cemetery. Why would he get out of his car at all with such an important commitment? We know for a fact
that funerals continued as scheduled at ANC.
Middleton and his co-workers at Arlington continued to work Sept. 11 as Washington offices closed and buildings emptied. The cemetery crew had no
choice.
Funerals were scheduled and burials had to be completed, chaos and all.
source
What happened to the poor family that was waiting for him as he hung around the Pentagon?
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5. McGraw has admitted to having a connection to the controversial fundamentalist catholic secret society Opus Dei.
" Invaluable too was "the spiritual and human formation that I have received over the years from priests of Opus Dei."
source
This is notable because of the political intrigue surrounding this catholic cult. It is well known to be favored by the "Washington elite" as
reported in the History Channel special "The Spy Next Door: Robert Hanssen".
Robert Hanssen is a convicted traitor who was an FBI employee that sold secrets to the Russians for years. He was a good friends and parish members
with former head of the FBI Louis Freeh who is said to have been instrumental in the Oklahoma City bombing cover-up. Both were devout members of Opus
Dei but Hanssen was exposed as a sexual deviant who had extra marital affairs with strippers and secretely video taped sex with his wife while his
friend would watch from a monitor set up in their spare room in the basement.
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The discussion in the initial thread was centered around a write up that ATS member Caustic Logic did on his blog about our interview.
Link to his write up and my complete response can be read
here.
Ironically CL lampoons us for pointing out inconsistencies in McGraw's account and suspecting his legitimacy while CL himself accuses all of the
north side witnesses (who prove 9/11 an inside job) as being deep cover government agents planted to spread disinfo!
In a nutshell CL claims that CIT has been deceptive about McGraw's account in the sense that we are supposedly trying to cover up the notion that he
is a "south side witness" meaning he saw the plane fly south of the CITGO gas station contradicting the north of the CITGO testimony.
This notion is instantly debunked by the fact that McGraw specifically claims he
did not see the plane on the approach at all but CL insisted
that there are "indicators" that point to a south side approach in his testimony.
Unfortunately for CL none of his points hold water. Here they are:
1. That McGraw claims the plane came from "behind" him which would indicate a south side approach.
McGraw made no such statement. Ever. I guess CL simply decided to make that up as he has offered no retraction.
2. That McGraw gestures that the plane came from behind him.
He did no such thing but he DID gesture that the plane traveled left to right supporting a north side approach.
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(making left to right gesture when describing the plane approach at 3:16 of the video.)
3. That the plane would be in front of him as opposed to over the top of him if it were on a north side approach.
Since the only thing we have to go off of in regards to McGraw's location is his claim that he was directly under the plane this means he would be
under the plane regardless of where it flew.
So if we are to go off of CL's "clues" it's clear that McGraw actually supports a north side approach before a south side approach due to his hand
gesture indicating a left to right flight path and the fact that he did not see any light poles getting clipped.
Although McGraw claims he witnessed the impact; due to the north side testimony it is clear to us that if he isn't a traitor/spy like fellow Opus Dei
sympathizer Robert Hanssen that he was deceived in this 1 second military sleight of hand illusion just like the CITGO witnesses were.
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[edit on 11-12-2007 by Craig Ranke CIT]
