There are not ANY "credible 9/11 researchers" who still believe the "No Plane at the Pentagon hoax."
While there are still some people who sincerely believe it, that sincerity doesn't make them any less wrong.
Given his aggressive promotion of "no plane" and "no phone calls," David Ray Griffin isn't really a "credible researcher." He's a good writer, but not careful in his "research."
Griffin's article for Tikkun magazine earlier this year gave positive reviews for the work of white supremacist neo-Nazi Holocaust deniers (American Free Press and Eric Hufschmid), which is about the most offensive thing one could insert into a liberal Jewish publication.
It is not a coincidence that ALL of the media coverage of 9/11 truth focuses on "no plane" and "demolition," but never, ever talks about the plane-into-building exercise during 9/11, the other war games, the numerous warnings that 9/11 was imminent, the fact that Flight 77 was steered into the nearly empty, strengthened sector of the Pentagon, and other evidence that is well sourced and not subject to "dueling experts."
It suggests what is and what is not a useful strategy for the 9/11 truth movement.
www.oilempire.us/media-strategy.html
www.oilempire.us/griffin.html
Debunking David Ray Griffin and
The Truth and Lies of 9/11 Truth
"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."
- Nietzsche
On November 28, 2001, journalist Michael Ruppert (www.fromthewilderness.com) gave an incredible presentation at Portland State University that documented that the Bush administration had complete foreknowledge of 9/11. This lecture was turned into the film “Truth and Lies of 9/11†and subsequent book “Crossing the Rubicon,†and the core of the evidence has withstood more than five years of examination. While From the Wilderness has shut down as a business and is no longer selling the video, a bootleg copy of it is available at Google Video, and the basic information in the lecture is available at the FTW archives which are still on that website. In summary, Ruppert's presentation established beyond any reasonable doubt that the highest echelons of the federal government had complete foreknowledge of the events
On May 21, 2007, theologian David Ray Griffin spoke about 9/11 in the same auditorium where Ruppert gave his first 9/11 speech. Griffin’s books on 9/11 have good summaries of the evidence for complicity, but they are also marred by some false claims that he has accepted uncritically, the most important of these is the idea that the crash of Flight 77 into the Pentagon did not happen. When the Washington Post reviewed his first 9/11 book “New Pearl Harbor†in October 2004, they only focused on this false claim and ignored the rest of the book.
There was very little overlap between these two presentations, as if they were about events in parallel universes.
Ruppert spent a lot of time discussing the financial and "deep politics" background that led to 9/11: ties between Wall Street and the CIA, the role of drug money in the US economy, how the coup d'etat against President Kennedy was covered up, detailed evidence for specific foreknowledge of 9/11, and the underlying factor of Peak Oil as a primary motivation of the Cheney/Bush regime for allowing the attacks to happen. None of these points were made during Griffin's presentation - indeed, the word OIL was not mentioned at all, which is the same curious omission that the major media and the "left gatekeepers" make when discussing the War on Iraq and the broader so-called War on Terror.
Ruppert's "The Truth and Lies of 9/11" doesn't need corrections more than five years later, although subsequent research found additional material about the war games that day that were not yet public in November 2001. One of the questions posed to Griffin after his speech was about the war games (which were not even hinted at during the lecture). Griffin replied that he did not think there was anything to them, and that they were a form of limited hang out. In other words, David Ray Griffin essentially says that the fact the CIA and National Reconnaissance Office ran a "plane into building" exercise in Virginia as 9/11 unfolded should be ignored by 9/11 truth activists in favor of the claim that phone calls cannot be made from airphones on commercial jet planes.