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IT'S ONLY a DRILLAccording to people who were standing or sitting right where the bombs went off security men told them that there was a drill going on and to stay calm. They also took pictures of police men on roofs.This statement is a pretty good example of how poor journalistic standards rapidly devolve into self-reinforcing rumors. As I said in Round2, the source for this allegation is an interview with a single runner: University of Mobile running coach Alistair Stevenson. A news website was the first to interview Stevenson on the day of the attack.http://blog.al.com...Stevenson said he saw something he felt was unusual BEFORE the RACE BEGAN: "At the starting line this morning, they had bomb sniffing dogs and the bomb squad out there," he said. "They kept announcing to runners not to be alarmed, that they were running a training exercise." He added, "I've run a lot of races like this one, but I never saw bomb dogs at the starting line of any running event. It led me to believe that something like (a bomb detonation) might have happened." Stevenson also makes it clear that he had long since finished the race, gone back to his hotel room to take a shower, and was on his way back to the race from Copley Square at the time of the attack. Now look at how Jones reports that testimony at 9m45s of the video, "They told people 'don't be alarmed' before the bombs went off." Jones carefully omits Stevenson's report of time and place to enhance the idea that this statement was made while the bombs were going off. Jones knows that he can count on his audience to enhance his innuendo. Anthony Gucciardi's interview with Stevenson is a little clearer that any claim of a drill announcement took place at the athlete's village in the morning. Neither interview points out that the athlete's village lies 20 miles away in the town of Hopkinton, Massachusetts. Gucciardi's interview, however, invents an interesting detail that is now considered an undeniable fact by conspiracists. At the 10m mark in the video, Gucciardi claims that Stevenson saw "rooftop shooters." Notice that Stevenson has never suggested shooters and repeats at the start of the interview that he saw police "spotters" with binoculars. Four hours later, Gucciardi's article regarding the interview has upgraded his fabricated "shooters" to "snipers." http://www.infowars.com... "In an exclusive interview, I just finished speaking with key Boston Marathon eyewitness and running participant Alastair Stevenson, who has confirmed to me that drills were taking place the morning of the Boston Marathon complete with bomb squads and rooftop snipers." If anybody supposes that Gucciardi simply misheard, notice the way Gucciardi's direct quote of Stevenson has been altered. Stevenson: At the start at the event, at the Athlete’s Village, there were police spotters, or there were people on the roof with binoculars looking down onto the Village at the start. Gucciardi's altered quote: "At the start at the event, at the Athlete’s Village, there were people on the roof looking down onto the Village at the start." Gucciardi has carefully removed the testimony that might contradict his invented snipers. Any honest newsroom would have fired Gucciardi for such deliberate tampering. Look at how the a fairly mundane report by one witness has been mutated into something deeply sinister. One witness, and only one witness, has stated that 6 hours before the bombings in a town 20 miles away, there was an announcement that there would be a police drill that morning. The one witness clearly states that he was not at the race when the bombing occurred. But after infowars despicable, fraudulent reporting viewers come away with Pro's understanding of that fact: According to people who were standing or sitting right where the bombs went off security men told them that there was a drill going on and to stay calm. Then Alex Jones takes the pulpit and concludes that this is proof positive that the Boston police had foreknowledge of a bomb and deliberately tried to trick people into staying in the blast zone. After further concluding that the government deliberately hurt citizens as an excuse to limit their rights, Jones then recommends that his frightened viewers purchase $500 worth of emergency rations from (you guessed it) Alex Jones. Consider the outlook of one of those actual Boston police officers who ran into the smoke and broken glass to rescue those bloody and broken citizens those police are sworn to protect. How cruel must Jones' deliberately falsified allegation seem to that officer? How venal his willingness to profit from the pain of others? Furthermore, we can be confident that police were not standing by or trying to calm citizens because the moments after the blast were filmed and photographed by crowds of bystanders. Isn't it strange that we will refuse to believe one thousand witnesses but will insist the badly twisted testimony of one man who wasn't there must be the truth? NAVY SEALS/CRAFT INTERATIONAL People who were at the marathon took many pictures of....men with navy seal uniforms and backpacks matching the backpack that contained the explosives. Speaking of infowars.com saying nasty stuff about heroic civil servants, this accusation is just as pathetic. Here's the best known example of one of these pictures: Who are these guys? Good question. They are members of CST, the Massachusetts Civil Support Team, a team of specialists attached to each state's Army National Guard by order of President Clinton. Basically, they're job is to be that state's rapid response experts regarding any weapons of mass destruction. If somebody drops a canister of sarin gas into the subway these are the first guys to go in. By executive order, they are expected to support most large scale public events in case they are rapidly required. Here they are getting recognized for their service at the Marathon bombing. Here they are working a ballgame at Fenway Park. (The guy in the black cap above is wearing the same cap here) Alex Jones and infowars have deliberately cast suspicion on these soldiers by suggesting that they were members of the Navy Seals or perhaps agents of Craft International. They point to their black backpacks and insinuate that these somehow contained the bombs. They point to the punisher skull logos and khakis as proof that these men must be contractors with Craft International. Never mind that men's names and their job at the Marathon are public record, 2 minutes of research would show that Craft International is a firm that trains police and soldiers in weapons and civil defense. Craft does not offer security personnel for hire. 5 minutes of research would have informed infowars that the Punisher is a comic book hero who has no superpowers but instead relies on his Marine Recon, Army Airborne, and Navy Seals training to defeat his opponents which accounts for the Punisher's particular popularity in the ranks of US Armed Forces and for the prominent employment of the Punisher logo throughout the Armed Services, particularly in with Recon and Seals. Which explains why Craft International, founded by a Navy Seal, employs the skull as its logo. Craft's weapons training and civil defense classes are considered the best in the US and hundreds of clients in law enforcement and the military take a Craft class in any given week. A black cap with the punisher skull is a freebie that comes with the class. So the logo only suggests that the wearer is active military or a veteran or someone who has taken a class with Craft or a comic book fan. Besides which, looking at the full original picture quickly establishes that it was taken after the explosion, not before.