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Unwitting Gillibrand Tells 9/11 Conspiracy Theorists She Backs a 'Fuller Hearing'
There's probably a lesson here for anyone new to their office, which is to steer well clear of 9/11 conspiracy theorists with cameras.
Here's Gillibrand after a May 27 event in Midtown, being interviewed by We Are Change, the guys who’ve heckled Michael Bloomberg, Joe Biden, Ed Koch and Larry Silverstein, among others.
In the interview--the interviewer identified himself as being from "GCN," and as someone who lost a family member in the attacks--she agrees to "another review, or a fuller hearing” to address what the interviewer said were unanswered questions from the relatives of the victims.
Gillibrand goes on to say she will “certainly look at the study" the interviewer refers to during their chat, which he claims offers proof that explosives were found at the World Trade Center site. The presence of explosives at the site is an integral part of the imagined scenario in which the attack wasn't carried out by airplanes alone.
Gillibrand is clearly more gullible here than substantively credulous about the 9/11 conspiracy ideas. She obviously didn't know who she was talking to, and did qualify her statements by saying that they were "based on" the premise offered by the interviewer, which is that 70 percent of victim families still have unanswered questions about the attacks. Nevertheless, it's not clear how much that matters.
The video is already in wide circulation on 9/11 conspiracy web sites.
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I know you can't really blame her for not realizing they were nutjobs... but these people do not need encouragement.
Click to viewThere's probably a lesson here for anyone new to their office, which is to steer well clear of 9/11 conspiracy theorists with cameras.
Here's Gillibrand after a May 27 event in Midtown, being interviewed by We Are Change, the guys who’ve heckled Michael Bloomberg, Joe Biden, Ed Koch and Larry Silverstein, among others.
In the interview--the interviewer identified himself as being from "GCN," and as someone who lost a family member in the attacks--she agrees to "another review, or a fuller hearing” to address what the interviewer said were unanswered questions from the relatives of the victims.
Gillibrand goes on to say she will “certainly look at the study" the interviewer refers to during their chat, which he claims offers proof that explosives were found at the World Trade Center site. The presence of explosives at the site is an integral part of the imagined scenario in which the attack wasn't carried out by airplanes alone.
Gillibrand is clearly more gullible here than substantively credulous about the 9/11 conspiracy ideas. She obviously didn't know who she was talking to, and did qualify her statements by saying that they were "based on" the premise offered by the interviewer, which is that 70 percent of victim families still have unanswered questions about the attacks. Nevertheless, it's not clear how much that matters.
The video is already in wide circulation on 9/11 conspiracy web sites.
Source
I know you can't really blame her for not realizing they were nutjobs... but these people do not need encouragement.