On September 11, 2001, the CAPPS (Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening System) had “only twenty names of potential terrorists in the computer database–none belonging to any of the nineteen hijackers.” – James Bamford, The Shadow Factory, Page 83 […]
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9/11/2001
On September 11, 2001, “At 10:39 AM, [Vice President Dick] Cheney spoke to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld for the first time [following the terrorist attacks]. He reviewed the events of the past hour. ‘There’s been at least three instances here where we’ve had reports of aircraft approaching Washington,’ said Cheney. ‘A couple were confirmed […]
9/11/2001
” ‘There’s been at least three instances here where we’ve had reports of aircraft approaching Washington–a couple were confirmed hijack,’ [Vice President Dick] Cheney told [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld [on the morning of September 11, 2001]… ‘And pursuant to the President’s [Bush’s] instructions I gave authorization for them to be taken out.’ Actually, the […]
9/11/2001
On the afternoon of September 11, 2001, President Bush spoke from Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska with his advisers in Washington, D.C., via videoconference. “Bush understood it [the terror threat] was not going to end and that his presidency as he knew it was over. ‘We are at a war against terror,’ he declared. […]
9/11/2001
From a response on Yahoo! Answers regarding the weather on September 11, 2001: “In the NYC area it was clear and in the 70s, with excellent visibility. I could see the smoke from the WTC from my house which is about 35 miles from downtown Manhattan.” – Flyboy, “What was the exact forecast and actual […]
9/11/2001
On the morning of September 11, 2001, after learning of the attacks and assuming Osama bin Laden’s responsibility, CIA director George Tenet “also had another reaction, one that raised the real possibility that the CIA and the FBI had not done all that could have been done to prevent the terrorist attack. ‘I wonder,’ Tenet […]
9/11/2001
According to a Washington Post article on March 1, 2002, on September 11, 2001, Vice President Dick “Cheney became in effect the leader of a U.S. ‘shadow government.’: President Bush had dispatched a shadow government of about 100 senior civilian managers to live and work secretly outside Washington, activating for the first time long-standing plans […]
9/11/2001
The 9/11 Commission’s report “reduced to a footnote details of the three major war games being conducted on 9/11 [2001], including an exercise by the Northeast Air Defense Sector of NORAD that initially confused officials responsible for protecting New York. Worse, it ignored a remarkable account cited earlier by the commission’s own chairman, [former New […]
9/11/2001
According to presidential advisor Karl Rove, the head of the Secret Service detail “Eddie Marinzel later remembered Bush’s first words when he entered the cabin [on Air Force One on September 11, 2001] were ‘Gentlemen, we’re at war.’ I [Rove] knew we were before Bush uttered those words; but hearing those words said by the […]
9/11/2001
On the morning of September 11, 2001, as hijackers Khalid al- “Mihdhar and [Majed] Moqed entered Dulles Airport’s [Washington, D.C.] west security screening checkpoint, where they placed their carry-on bags on the belt of the x-ray machine and proceeded through the arched magnetometer. Both set off the alarm, and they were directed to a second […]