via Doug Mataconis. I so didn’t want to open this can of worms, but it appears that Judge Napolitano has opened his mouth and revealed that he is in fact a skeptic of how WTC Tower 7 came down. What’s worse is that he did it on Alex Jone’s show:

JONES: OK finally, man because I’ve never raised this with you, because it’s a subject I just leave alone with folks because I don’t want to cause people problems. But you brought it up with Geraldo Rivera, who says he is concerned about building 7, and I want to put the question you put to him to you. I mean, what do you think of Geraldo Rivera coming out — what do you think of 7?

NAPOLITANO: It’s hard for me to believe that it came down by itself. I was gratified to see Geraldo Rivera investigating it. I am gratified to see that people across the board are interested.
I think twenty years from now, people will look at 9-11 the way we look at the assassination of JFK today. It couldn’t possibly have been done the way the government told us.

JONES: Well, I want to tell you this. You’ve got a lot of courage, Judge, and so does Geraldo Rivera. I don’t agree with him on some of his more liberal political views, but I do resonate with his courage, and I resonate with yours, and I already had the highest respect for you, but now the thermometer just broke. And the mercury — geysering out of it right now. Judge, you are a great American, and I just can’t wait till your show is number one on Fox Business, when you’re on regular Fox full time, because no army can stop an idea whose time has come.

Now he doesn’t explicitly say they planted bombs in it, but he also doesn’t appear to believe what the government said about it either. I am not a truther and have honestly never looked into it, so I’ll refer you to Popular Mechanics on this issue.




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steel building
steel building

Metal buildings that are being produced nowadays uses state-of-the art technology and uses clear span or open spam frames so that no support columns are required. Thus, when your metal building is finished, you have an interior that is obstacle free and it’s up to you to decide on how you want your floor or building compartmentalized or divided.

Joshua Dodd
Joshua Dodd

From your comments, you are acting just like a progressive and their is no objective reasoning in your analysis, just simple mindless name calling. BTW, as a libertarian, I find your trust in the government to be disturbing. Instead of calling people names like a "crackpot", why don't you actually research the side of the issue you disagree and find the flaws with it by comparing what each side has made claims too. BTW, Jones actually uses sources such as FOX and all other lamestream media outlets for the info he speaks about, I know because if you actually watch his telecast, he shows you the articles.

Joshua Dodd
Joshua Dodd

From your comments, you are acting just like a progressive and their is no objective reasoning in your analysis, just simple mindless name calling. BTW, as a libertarian, I find your trust in the government to be disturbing. Instead of calling people names like a "crackpot", why don't you actually research the side of the issue you disagree and find the flaws with it by comparing what each side has made claims too. BTW, Jones actually uses sources such as FOX and all other lamestream media outlets for the info he speaks about, I know because if you actually watch his telecast, he shows you the articles.

Greg
Greg

If you took a poll from those that have investigated building 7 for themselves, given that as true, you would have a super majority stating the same thing the judge did.

Paulchri
Paulchri

Not until they make the facts known that make sense, and quit lying about it.

Paulchri
Paulchri

If that's true, the reports I saw didn't mention it.

Joe the Cop
Joe the Cop

You folks might want to track down and read Charles R. Pellegrino's GHOSTS OF VESUVIUS re: downblast and WTC7.

Gskoch
Gskoch

"never looked into it" yourself but of course those who have are "wackos" right?

Paulchri
Paulchri

If you watched Alex Jones every day, you would hear from a lot of politicians, architects, engineers, witnesses, watchdogs, ex-CIA and FBI, ex-secretaries of defense and presidential administration guys, video clips of BBC reporting building seven as collapsed 1/2 hr before it did with the building in the background, people working in the buildings telling their stories, etc. He has done more comprehensive investigations than the 911 commissioners. The same people say that they commission didn't want to hear their vital testimonies, while massive amounts of video of rescue personnel testimonies was kept from the public until recently. I'm sure firefighter and police testimonies are somehow a matter of national security. Everything else is.

Paulchri
Paulchri

New video being released shows debri shooting out the top of the building, and molten metal falling from it. It must have been a couch and some carpet on fire near a 1" metal beam. Just because these buildings are built with fire resistant coating on the beams and sheet rock doesn't mean that the furniture can't do it.

Mikemorrison281
Mikemorrison281

I've said this before, I believe that in most downtown metro cities most of the huge skyscrapers are already rigged for implosion for just this type of scenario...bomb, earthquake, etc...I think they brought it down on purpose to stop a domino effect from happening. They can never admit it or they'd be inviting terrorists that are already here from trying to blow these buildings up on their own with our own explosives AND they'd cause a massive uproar in our society at this point...they've lied about it so long there'd be no recovering from it.

I do not believe it was an inside job--like they WANTED to bring the towers or bldg 7 down, it was just a reaction to a terrible scenario that they made provision for maybe 10-40 years ago. No way to know for sure.

Troy La Mana
Troy La Mana

I have always been with the 9/11 Truthers on this one fact: The investigation wasn't a complete one and hasn't answered to my satisfaction the questions that are out there. I don't think thermite should have been detected anywhere near the buildings and it has.

Daniel Tumser
Daniel Tumser

Beware the temptation of guilt by association.

Paulchri
Paulchri

Why has congress systematically pulled funding from the health care of 911 victims and rescue workers? You should research that. It is basically the same thing you are talking about.

Tyler
Tyler

I've said it before and I'll say it again. When did the word "truth" become associated with something bad? The original "truthers" are people like myself and apparently Napolitano here who just simply don't believe the official story. I actually think it's funny that Rivera is just now talking about the 1,300+ architects when this was something talked about years and years ago and everyone was like "Yeah...whatever, TRUTHERS."

I've also said this before. I don't really care about the 9/11 conspiracy anymore because I believe there were things left out and the public will never know about all of them AT LEAST until those of us who were alive during that time are all long dead and gone. That's just the truth of the matter...period.

Cheryl~
Cheryl~

You know if it were my relatives or friends that JUMPED out of those buildings I would want to know the truth...and we should be free to quesion our government and though sad...we should get the truth but on this topic those that MISTRUST the government for just about everything else suddenly BELIEVE them...America abandoned the so called TRUTH along time ago!

Cheryl~
Cheryl~

So if it is ok that we kill babies it is NOT POSSIBLE that anyone in the government...or whoever runs them would orchestrate anything that would harm any REAL PEOPLE?

Quite Rightly
Quite Rightly

Yep. Building demolitions start at the bottom, sort of like when the Twin Towers crashed to the ground near Building 7 with the force of several hundred tons of TNT. That's not so good for building foundations and ground floors, especially buildings like #7 that are already on fire due to burning debris falling into them.

Paulchri
Paulchri

Are you saying that you believe the firefighters who were gathered in the lobby and got blown to bits by explosions? Those that survived testified to this saying "there were multiple explosions in the lobby that went boom, boom, boom"? That must have been the boilers or something.

MooseOfReason
MooseOfReason

This is a non-story. Judge Napolitano supported going after Bin Laden. He wants to prosecute KSM, the mastermind behind the 9/11 plot, in New York (which people disagree with). He's not a truther.

Trevor Johansen
Trevor Johansen

Just by the tittle of his book "Lies the government told you" just sounds just like a truther book. But where they get in trouble is when they say lie and automatically think conspiracy with malice intent when in reality it is just incompetence and stupidly and then trying to cover that incompetence with stupid actions of not telling that it was incompetence and stupidly that made then try to cover.

We are still waiting for the wiklileak docs showing how 9-11 was done. If it was so convoluted than it should be easy to find some trace somewhere. If they can get 250,000 reports, 1 to 10 should not be all that hard. That is if it was really a inside job. But they (the truthers) should of just faked the documents to show that their inside job fake was real.

Tony
Tony

ANYBODY who gives Alex Jones two seconds of time, thoughts, concentration lowers themselves to the gutter of public dialogue.

now i feel better... :)

Formulaforfun
Formulaforfun

I guess the judge has grown tired of seeing his face on FOX news.Oh well,there's always satellite radio,the island of misfit broadcasters.

Mickey
Mickey

What's all the noise about? We clearly know this building was brought down by a missile launched from a Chinese SSBN,commanded by Marko Ramius, laying off Long Island on 9/11.

Daniel Tumser
Daniel Tumser

You and others are reading too much into his words. The Judge never asserted any cause, government or not, for the collapse of building 7. All the Judge said was that he doesn't trust the government to give people the whole truth about life changing events which are supposed to be prevented by their vigilance.

The judge's point is that you can't truth the government to now lie to you, and he's right on that point.

Cheryl~
Cheryl~

I am surprised you didn't know this!

Cheryl~
Cheryl~

I am surprised you didn't know this!

Tim
Tim

The judge shows that he has a critical flaw in his mind. He is worthless now in my opinion. I tend to be old fashion in the thought, that a man can say intelligent things 90% of the time, but if tells me the other ten percent about how Elvis is alive and working a Circle K in Nevada, he's nuts.

Steven Valdez
Steven Valdez

fire has never brought down a steel building... ever!!!

Tony
Tony

Hey another friggin idiot... yey

Steven Valdez
Steven Valdez

are you calling the 9/11 victims idiots???

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Or-1GVknJjo

In addition to the Twin Towers and Building 7, the World Trade Center complex included buildings 3, 4, 5, and 6. Compared to Building 7, all of these buildings were severely damaged, first by falling rubble from the tower collapses, then by fires that burned for hours. Although these buildings were in critical condition, none of them collapsed.

If fire caused Building 7 to collapse, it would be the first ever fire-induced collapse of a steel-frame high-rise.

Paulchri
Paulchri

Someone once argued that "pull it" meant using cables to bring the building down, not explosions. So they had a few hours to engineer, set up, and pull down the buildings with cables in the midst of everything else. It seems like there is always an answer for everything that makes no sense. The problem is the answer doesn't either.

Tony
Tony

no look again. I am calling YOU an idiot. lol

Chris G.
Chris G.

You remind me of how the progressives behave when they come across someone that has an opinion that is different from theirs, a la Saul Alinsky: insult them. Call them names. Make them out to look like fools.

Chris G.
Chris G.

Considering the source, I'll take that as a compliment. Thank you.

Tony
Tony

Chris G. Go ahead and attack me for calling a 9/11 truther an idiot. You are about to assume the same label.

Tony
Tony

Judge Napolitano is now a friggin idiot in my book. Alex Jones always was... What a stupid and inconsistent move by Napolitano.

Paulchri
Paulchri

Geraldo has been one of the biggest truther bashers, and is now reconsidering the building 7 issue due to what the "Architects and Engineers" are saying, along with the video evidence.

Chris G.
Chris G.

What ever happened to Thomas Jefferson's phrase "QUESTION WITH BOLDNESS"? Glenn Beck uses it all the time, & I think it is worthy here, too.

Another phrase I use regularly is TRUST NO ONE. The truth will set you free, & that is what we should earnestly search for, regardless whether we like what it tells us or not. I have no idea on who is right on this issue, but I refuse to start calling a group of people a bunch of negative names (for example, "truthers" or "birthers") simply 'cuz I am willing to question with boldness what they have to say.

Mickey
Mickey

You do know that Thomas Jeffeson said that in realtion to wheather religion was a true system of beliefs or a series of myths created by men to control men? He was writing to his nephew Peter Carr and offered him advice on life and growing into a mature person.Jefferson was not instructing Carr to question trooferism,birferism,or insane government conpiracies,but rather to study religion and decide for himself if god was real or if it was all a lie and that there is no god.It's all Jefferson meant.Nothing more,nothing less.

http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=802&chapter=86673&layout=html#a_1991558

There's no need to drag Jefferson's name into the mud.

Paulchri
Paulchri

Not only is it proper, but required to secure our freedoms in my opinion. If the public knows that they are not being told the truth, and they do nothing about it, then government will use that to their advantage in the future. It will only get worse unless we hold them accountable. Lets say that it wasn't coincidence that NORAD was training for the very same event the day it happened, which supposedly threw them off and stood them down. It would be good no make sure that didn't happen again. We are expected to believe that it was just a HUGE mistake, every time.

Chris G.
Chris G.

Yes Mickey, I'm aware of that. But if it's OK to question w/ boldness the very existence of God, is not not also OK to question much smaller things, such as whether or not we are being told the truth about 9-11?

I have no idea if the 9-11 truthers are right or not, 'cuz I haven't done my own research. But I think it is proper in a free society to question EVERYTHING.

Daniel Tumser
Daniel Tumser

You're being deliberately obtuse, his point in referencing Jefferson is easily apparent to any reader. He was channeling Jefferson to say that just as one boldly questions religious claims so to are we required to not grant the government our trust of every word they say simply because they are the government.

Chris G.
Chris G.

Hey Tony....

Glenn Beck's show just came on, & what is he talking about right now? The theme is this (& these are Glenn's words):

DON'T TRUST THE GOVERNMENT!!!!

He said that just as I was typing the comments above.