Actually Norton1, I think your instincts about "something being wrong" with the reporting on the attack on the Pentagon are dead on. The problem is, none of us knows why we have those instincts, because of the secret nature of the Pentagon/intelligence culture, and the obsession with secrecy about the 9/11 attacks in the Bush administration.

As the Rabid Rapid Spin Control Response team of the Bush administration proved last week when confronted by a leak from their own people about "what they knew and when they knew it", the Bush administration, for some reason we (meaning the media, Congressional investigations, etc) have yet to suss out, don't want ANY investigations of the worst attack on on US soil in history.

Which presents the immediate response of: Why? What have they got that they want to hide from the American people? Especially since it is widely believed the administration was not to blame for the attacks. What are they so paranoid about?

And of course, the Bush administration cult of secrecy isn't just about 9/11. It is likely this week that one Senate committee investigating Bush administration contacts with Enron excecutives in the run up to the collapse last fall, will subpoena the White House to get the documentation of the meetings, calls, etc of White House senior officials with Enron. They have refused to cooperate with that investigation, as well as the investigations into the development of the Bush administration's energy policy making meetings with Enron and other top energy corporations to which both Bush and Cheney especially have stronger links than probably any administration in history. The administration is already fighting those subpoenas in court.

So I wouldn't worry too much about your scepticism Norton1. I'd say that with this lot of crooks and criminals and spooks in power, your intitution and feeling of things being not quite right, are right on the money (especially when you follow the money trails of this administration).