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 […]
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9/11/2001
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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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 […]
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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. […]
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From a response on Yahoo! Answers regarding the weather on September 11, 2001: “The morning of September 11, there literally wasn’t a cloud in the sky. I still remember the anchor on Channel 7 after the first plane hit remark that with how clear it was, he didn’t know how anyone could run into the […]
9/11/2001
Then-CIA Director George Tenet wrote: “Although in our collective gut we [CIA] knew al-Qa’ida was behind the [September 11, 2001] attacks, we needed proof, so CTC [Counterterrorist Center] requested passenger lists from the planes that had been turned into weapons that morning…’Some of these guys on one of the planes are the ones we’ve been […]
9/11/2001
According to the report from the 9/11 Commission hearing on June 17, 2004: “one of the frustrations expressed to us by President Bush in our interview with him was that he could not remain in contact with people because [on September 11, 2001] the phones on Air Force One were cutting in and out.” – […]
9/11/2001
On September 11, 2001, “Within hours of the attacks in New York and Washington, the CIA told the White House that al Qaeda was responsible and had planned the attack from its base in Afghanistan.” – Bruce Riedel, The Search for Al Qaeda, Page 78 […]
9/11/2001
President Bush said, on September 11, 2001, ” ‘The United States will hunt down and punish those responsible for these cowardly attacks… We will do whatever is necessary to protect America and Americans.’ ” – Karl Rove, Courage and Consequence, Page 260 […]