[NativeNewYorker]

There have been several more thoughtful and critical commentaries by security analysts and missile experts who have not bought into the official Pentagon cover story, now generally accepted by the US corporate media. MIT professor Theodore Postol, a trenchant critic of Pentagon antimissile programs going back to the Reagan administration’s “Star Wars” fantasies, gave an extended rebuttal of the official cover story that an airplane made the contrail.

He told the Christian Science Monitor, “It’s not an aircraft contrail. That I’m confident of. It looks like a big missile, but who knows what a contrail looks like from long range.” He told the newspaper that a review of the video shows twisting movements consistent with maneuvers that long-range ICBMs perform. The contrail “has the spirals you would see in an advanced solid-rocket missile,” he said.

Postol explained that the failure of FAA air-traffic radar to detect the source of the contrail suggested that it was a missile, which would move so fast that it would appear only as a single blip on the screen. On the other hand, he said, NORAD would certainly have detected a missile: “There is no doubt that the North American Air Defense Command early-warning satellites would observe this,” he told the Monitor.

Naval analyst Raymond Pritchett told Wired.com, “When someone makes an unannounced launch what looks to be a ballistic missile 35 miles from the nation’s second largest city (at sea in international waters), and 18 hours later NORAD still doesn’t have any answers at all—that complete lack of information represents a credible threat to national security. If NORAD can’t answer the first and last question, then I believe it is time to question every single penny of ballistic missile defense funding in the defense budget.

NORTHCOM needs to start talking about what they do know, rather than leaving the focus on what they don’t know.”

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[ArrogantBustard]

MIT professor Theodore Postol,

Ted Postol is a moron who insists it's impossible to intercept a ballistic missile ... this insistence in the face of the facts that both USA and USSR demonstrated the ability to do so in the late 1960s.

Now, we're supposed to believe something he says about missiles why???

[ArrogantBustard]

MIT professor Theodore Postol,

Ted Postol is a moron who insists it's impossible to intercept a ballistic missile ... this insistence in the face of the facts that both USA and USSR demonstrated the ability to do so in the late 1960s.

Now, we're supposed to believe something he says about missiles why???

[bkepley]

now generally accepted by the US corporate media.

Well if those rascals in the US corporate media are accepting it I ain't buyin' it.

[D-fendr]

False premise, false conclusion:

“When someone makes an unannounced launch what looks to be a ballistic missile 35 miles from the nation’s second largest city (at sea in international waters), and 18 hours later NORAD still doesn’t have any answers at all—that complete lack of information represents a credible threat to national security.

NORAD detects missile launches; no launch, no detection, no "credible threat to national security". They're not responsible for info on commercial airline activity.