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Conspiracy theorists say they detect a pattern of behavior on the part of officials investigating the September 11 attack
meant to suppress the emergence of evidence that might contradict the mainstream account. They associated news stories from
several different sources with that pattern.
Cockpit flight and voice recorders
According to the 9/11 Commission Report, the cockpit voice recorders (CVR) or flight data recorders (FDR), or "black
boxes", from Flights 11 and 175 were not recovered from the remains of the WTC attack; however, two men who worked extensively
in the wreckage of the World Trade Center say they helped federal agents find three of the four "black boxes" from
the jetliners:
"At one point I was assigned to take Federal Agents around the site to search for the black boxes from the planes.
We were getting ready to go out. My ATV was parked at the top of the stairs at the Brooks Brothers entrance area. We loaded
up about a million dollars worth of equipment and strapped it into the ATV. There were a total of four black boxes. We found
three."
Ted Lopatkiewicz, spokesman for the National Transportation Safety Board, remarked that "It's extremely rare that
we don't get the recorders back. I can't recall another domestic case in which we did not recover the recorders."
Except for the CVR from Flight 93, the black boxes from Flights 77 and 93 were either never recovered or were said to
be too damaged to yield data. On April 18, 2002, the FBI allowed the families of victims from Flight 93 to listen to the voice
recordings.In April 2006, a transcript of the CVR was released as part of the Zacarias Moussaoui trial. Some conspiracy theorists
do not believe that the black boxes were damaged and that instead there has been a cover up of evidence.
A June 2007 video, attributed to researcher Calum Douglas of Pilots for 9/11 Truth, presents an analysis of alleged Flight
77 black box data,said to have been obtained from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) after a Freedom of Information
Act petition. It states that the approach path and altitude on the Flight Path Animation differs from the mainstream account
of the path of Flight 77.
Bin Laden tapes
A series of audio and videotapes have been released since the 9/11 attacks that have been reported to be from Osama Bin
Laden. At first the speaker denied responsibility for the attacks but over the years has taken increasing responsibility for
them culminating in a November 2007 videotape in which the speaker claimed sole responsibility for the attacks and denied
the Taliban and the Afghan government or people had any prior knowledge of the attacks. The Central Intelligence Agency has
confirmed the speaker was or was likely to be Osama Bin Laden, a view disputed by several independent studies. There is growing
doubt about the authenticity of that tape in the Muslim World.Steve and Paul Watson of Infowars.net claim that the organization
handling the tapes is a front for the Pentagon and that the tapes are "highly suspect."
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