Back in the 90s, I worked at a small town tv station, and one day the RCMP brought in a tape from one of the local gas stations that had been robbed to see if we could do anything with the picture quality.
Not only was it recorded on a crappy old VHS tape at EP speed, in black and white, but it was one of those systems where the feeds from 4 separate cameras were combined onto one image. The video quality was so bad that you couldn't even have reasonably said if it was a man or a woman, let alone be able to identify the person.
I'd bet that any footage from the gas station across the street from the Pentagon would have been of similar quality. Today, you might find security cameras with HD quality and digital recorders, but in 2001, you'd be lucky if the store employee even remembered to rewind the tape and start recording every 6 hours.
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