Chapter 11/E-The Pentagon September 11, 2001, 8:51 a.m.: American Airlines Flight 77, originating from Washington Dulles International Airport and headed to Los Angeles International Airport, is hijacked without incident and makes an unauthorized turn to the south three minutes later. No mayday, no hijack code, no sign of struggle. Flight 77 will fly all the way back from the Kentucky-Ohio border for another 43 minutes before crashing into the Pentagon without any military interception at 9:37 a.m. Now….the Pentagon is one of the most heavily guarded and watched sites on the planet. With radar systems capable of tracking objects right down to sea level, it is unbelievable that a rogue Boeing 757 could hit the Pentagon without warning after 2 planes already had hit the World Trade Center. That is, until you start to figure in things like Dick Cheney’s comments in the basement of the White House as the “plane” was approaching the Pentagon. The FBI arrives within minutes of the impact and the site is declared a federal crime scene, becoming their exclusive responsibility. FBI agents immediately confiscate security camera tapes from surrounding private businesses, including a Citgo gas station and the Sheraton National Hotel, among many others. Now why would they do that unless those tapes showed something the rest of the world wasn’t meant to see? Video that would contradict the official line of a passenger airliner slamming into the Pentagon possibly? Eyewitness accounts of the object that struck the Pentagon range from “it was a missile” to “it looked like a small commuter plane” to “a huge passenger jet crashed there”, so who’s to say what exactly hit the Pentagon. The one way to know for sure would be to release footage of the crash taken from the dozens of security cameras that ring the Pentagon and from Virginia Department of Transportation ("VDOT") and/or the VDOT "Smart Traffic Center" surveillance videos from the day and time of the attack. Well, you know what? Those good people working for the feds did release some footage, including the Citgo gas station tape and a video taken from a security camera from the Doubletree Inn which was also in viewing distance of the Pentagon. The tape from the Citgo shows mostly the inside of the gas station, and the camera footage of the Citgo camera that would’ve shown the plane hitting the Pentagon is conspicuously absent. The film from the Doubletree Inn only shows the explosion in a grainy image and is of no use to anyone in clearing anything up. The only other “video release” so far by the feds are some still-frame shots taken from a security camera at the entrance to the Pentagon grounds, which shows an unidentifiable object entering the camera frame in one still image, and then exploding into a fireball in the next one. The FBI has in its possession a total of 85 security tapes gathered (taken) from both public and private entities. According to an affidavit by Jacqueline Maguire, Special Agent Counterterrorism Division of the FBI, “fifty-six (56) of these videotapes did not show either the Pentagon building, the Pentagon crash site, or the impact of Flight 77 into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001.” Maguire goes on to explain that “I personally viewed the remaining twenty-nine (29) videotapes.” Yet she concluded that there was “nothing of interest” for the public to gain from having access to those tapes. 360