Are the new Pentagon videos simply part of a giant psy-op?

Jim Hoffman over at 9-11 Research (the paragon of scientific analysis in the 911 Truth Movement) has posted an article about the recently-released Flight 77 Pentagon videos. If you've seen them, you know that they aren't all that revealing:

The refusal of authorities to release video evidence has been cited by supporters of Pentagon no-jetliner theories as evidence that Flight 77 wasn't there. If the government has proof that Flight 77 hit the Pentagon, why doesn't it make it public? Perhaps because it serves the cover-up to keep the sideshow debate about what hit the Pentagon going. In 2004, I suggested that the question of what hit the Pentagon was a huge distraction. Analysis of physical evidence of the attack shows that what's known of the damage and debris fits the crash of Flight 77.

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The no-jetliner theories may be the primary manifestation of a psychological operation designed to prevent rational examination of the attack by polarizing people around the issue of what hit the Pentagon. The many (easily explained) perceived anomalies that flourish in the evidence vacuum give the issue an X-Files-type intrigue. The implication of such theories that Flight 77 and its passengers disappeared is reflexively offensive to people who identify with the victims, and feeds stereotypes that all questioning of the official story is the product of irrational "conspiratorial thinking."

Link: http://911research.wtc7.net/essays/pentagon/video.html

Over at prisonplanet.com they're also theorizing that it's all a giant psy-op:

For over four years we have remained neutral on the subject, agreeing that unanswered questions need to be explored but warning against the Pentagon issue becoming the core focus of the 9/11 truth movement.

The danger is clearly that the government will use its media mouthpieces in particular Fox News to hype this until it becomes the de facto keystone of alternative explanations behind 9/11.

At the point when that crescendo reaches its peak crystal clear footage of Flight 77 hitting the Pentagon will be released, knocking down the straw man argument that the establishment itself erected.

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