Michael Collins Piper announced on tonight's broadcast that controversial 9-11 Pentagon "witness," Sam Danner had appeared on wingtv.net with Victor Thorn and Lisa Guliani and finally admitted that his story about being at the Pentagon at the time of the 9-11 incident had been fabricated. Although many of Piper's audience had alternately urged Piper to either say nothing more about Danner or to support Danner (who was under fire from independent 9-11 investigators who questioned Danner's story), Piper insisted that he was going to follow the story to the end and that if Danner finally confessed that his story was not true, that Piper would report it. Piper pointed out that —after having had Danner on the program several times—that if he (Piper) had NOT reported Danner's confession, critics would have said that Piper was trying to cover up that confession and keep the story alive. Piper has pointed out that even Alex Jones, who has been called the leader of the 9-11 truth movement, had Danner on the program even well after Danner had been on Piper's program several times and had been seriously questioned by such 9-11 truth movement leaders as Russell Pickering. "I have no apologies for pursuing the story to its conclusion, no matter how much of a disappointment it may be to anyone," Piper has said. Piper pointed out that in his 25 years as a journalist for The Spotlight newspaper and then for American Free Press (see americanfreepress.net for information on subscribing) that he has seen many frauds and phonies come and go. They pop up in the "patriot" movement and do the talk show circuit, get interviewed in patriot publications, and sometimes even soak patriots for tens of thousands of dollars. That's one reason why Piper has said that he isn't quite anxious to have every "instant patriot celebrity" on his program and Piper noted the irony that he had actually given so much air time to Sam Danner who proved to be a false tale-spinner. Piper congratulated Danner for having had the guts to admit publicly that he had been spinning a story. Piper noted that, over the years, he and his associates at The Spotlight and American Free Press had been heartily criticized by people for not giving publicity to certain patriot celebrities for the precise reason that those persons were deemed suspicious by The SPOTLIGHT and American Free Press. In the end, however, those phonies were exposed as the frauds that they are. In response to a caller, Piper noted that American Free Press barely survives financially and only does so thanks to the contributions of grass-roots patriots. There are no secret behind-the-scenes financiers propping up the populist newsweekly.