Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet released a written statement for the Joint Inquiry Committee on October 17, 2002. It read: “By 11 September [2001], CIA (in many cases with the FBI) had rendered 70 terrorists to justice around the world.” – CIA, “Written Statement for the Record of the DCI,” (before the Joint Inquiry […]
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9/11/2001
As the events on the morning of September 11, 2001, were taking place, “Flight 175 also had been hijacked, but the New York Air Traffic Control was slow to respond, in part because the controller assigned to the flight was also assigned to Flight 11 and was busy searching for that missing plane. At 9:03 […]
9/11/2001
In his address to the nation on the evening of September 11, 2001, President Bush, “In final form, what would later be called the Bush Doctrine said, ‘We will make no distinction between those who planned these acts and those who harbor them.’ …The decision was made without consulting [Vice President Dick] Cheney, [Secretary of […]
9/11/2001
“A central element of the NORAD cover story was that air force jet fighters had heroically chased United 93 [on September 11, 2001]. Had it not crashed in Pennsylvania because of the struggle between the hijackers and passengers, the United plane would have been blown out of the sky before it reached its target in […]
9/11/2001
“The Central Intelligence Agency’s clandestine New York station was destroyed in the Sept. 11 [2001] attack on the World Trade Center, seriously disrupting United States intelligence operations while bringing the war on terrorism dangerously close to home for America’s spy agency, government officials say.” – James Risen, “Secret C.I.A. Site in New York was Destroyed […]
9/11/2001
On September 11, 2001, “At 9:24 a.m., [the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s)] Great Lakes Regional Operations Center notified FAA Headquarters of the simultaneous loss of radio communications and radar identification for American 77 [the third hijack of the day]. No one from headquarters contacted the military with this information.” – John Farmer, The Ground Truth, […]
9/11/2001
“…Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, obtained documents from the Department of Homeland Security. They showed that an additional 160 Saudis were allowed to leave on some fifty-five commercial flights [following the 9/11 attacks], and that some had taken off as early as September 11 [2001], bringing the total number of Saudis in the airlift […]
9/11/2001
Then-President George W. Bush recalled, on September 11, 2001: “I told [Secretary of Defense] Don [Rumsfeld] that I considered the attacks an act of war and approved his decision to raise the military readiness level to DefCon Three for the first time since the Arab-Israeli War of 1973. American military installations around the world heightened […]
9/11/2001
“…on September 11, 2001, President Bush signed a secret Presidential Finding authorizing the CIA to create paramilitary teams to ‘hunt, capture, detain, or kill designated terrorists almost anywhere in the world.’ Only by keeping that Executive Order secret could President Bush be shielded from responsibility.” – M. Cherif Bassiouni, The Institutionalization of Torture by the […]
9/11/2001
On September 11, 2001, “Ben Sliney arrived for his first day at work as national operations manager for the FAA [Federal Aviation Administration]. …Finally at 9:25, with Flight 77 growing more worrisome, Sliney made a bold decision. He ordered a full groundstop–all commercial and private flight activity across the country was grounded; no flights were […]