What is the best way to answer this? (pentagon cameras)

[Caper]

2. Why were the tapes from the surrounding hotel and gas station collected and never returned?

I take it the answer is that they are or were being held as evidence in a criminal trial and thus not going to be released... But I get that question alot and have never fully been able to answer it.

[DGM]

2. Why were the tapes from the surrounding hotel and gas station collected and never returned?

I take it the answer is that they are or were being held as evidence in a criminal trial and thus not going to be released... But I get that question alot and have never fully been able to answer it.
How do you know they were not returned?

[defaultdotxbe]

2. Why were the tapes from the surrounding hotel and gas station collected and never returned?

I take it the answer is that they are or were being held as evidence in a criminal trial and thus not going to be released... But I get that question alot and have never fully been able to answer it.
not returned or not released? im not sure if the physical tapes were returned or not, but the video from then has been released

[theauthor]

I don't know if they have been returned now or not but the whole idea that they were being kept as evidence in a trial is ridiculous.

[Skeptic Guy]

Why would you return the tape to the gas station and hotel? What would they need it for?

I know that at least one video clip was released of security camera that caught the plane, but IIRC it was from a parking lot/garage.

[jhunter1163]

The Doubletree and Citgo videos have been released. Neither showed much, as the cameras were focused on the Doubletree and Citgo, not the Pentagon. The video from the security camera in the Pentagon parking lot showed the explosion but not much else, as it was only recording at one or two FPS.

[DGM]

Why would you return the tape to the gas station and hotel? What would they need it for?

I know that at least one video clip was released of security camera that caught the plane, but IIRC it was from a parking lot/garage.
Because it's their property?

[Calcas]

The other half of the question is akin to this:

"Why were 85 tapes (or similar numbers) of the Pentagon and surrounding area never released"?

[Reality Believer]

The other half of the question is akin to this:

"Why were 85 tapes (or similar numbers) of the Pentagon and surrounding area never released"?

From: http://flight77.info/documents.htm


FBI Special Agent, Jacqueline Maguire responded (see below) to a request from Scott Bingham.
In Summary:
She determined that the FBI had 85 videotaptes that might be relevant. Of those, 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 September 11."
Of the 29 remaining videotapes, 16 "did not show the Pentagon crash site and did not show the impact of Flight 77 into the Pentagon."
Of the 13 remaining tapes which showed the Pentagon crash site, 12 "only showed after the impact of Flight 77."
The videotape taken from the Citgo gas station did not show the impact.
No videotapes were located from the Sheraton Hotel, though she located a videotape from the Doubletree Hotel.

[LashL]

From: http://flight77.info/documents.htm


FBI Special Agent, Jacqueline Maguire responded (see below) to a request from Scott Bingham.
In Summary:
She determined that the FBI had 85 videotaptes that might be relevant. Of those, 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 September 11."
Of the 29 remaining videotapes, 16 "did not show the Pentagon crash site and did not show the impact of Flight 77 into the Pentagon."
Of the 13 remaining tapes which showed the Pentagon crash site, 12 "only showed after the impact of Flight 77."
The videotape taken from the Citgo gas station did not show the impact.
No videotapes were located from the Sheraton Hotel, though she located a videotape from the Doubletree Hotel.



And many of those "85 videos" weren't even videos filmed anywhere near the Pentagon. Yet, tinhatters pretend otherwise. Perhaps it is because they are incapable of reading more than a paragraph or two at any one sitting. If they bothered to read more than that, they would know better than to continue to make such silly claims.

http://flight77.info/85videos.html