As the hijackers checked in at Dulles International Airport on the morning of September 11, 2001, “Both [Khalid al-] Mihdhar and [Majed] Moqed were flagged by CAPPS [Computer-Assisted Passenger Prescreening System], but since Mihdhar had no checked luggage and Moqed wasn’t carrying any explosives, the procedures had no effect on their mission.” – James Bamford, […]
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9/11/2001
“According to the government, UA [United Airlines Flight] 93 crashes at 10:03 [on September 11, 2001], just north of the Somerset County Airport, about eighty miles southeast of Pittsburgh [Pennsylvania], 124 miles or fifteen minutes from Washington, D.C. The [cockpit voice] recording appears to end a minute before the official crash time. But a U.S. […]
9/11/2001
“In a brief televised press conference at 6:40 that evening [September 11, 2001], in which [Secretary of Defense Donald] Rumsfeld’s calm demeanor impressed viewers, veteran Reuters Pentagon correspondent Charlie Aldinger asked, ‘Mr. Secretary, did you have any inkling at all, in any way, that something of this nature and something of this scope might be […]
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. CIA Director George “Tenet told him it did indeed look as if al-Qaeda were responsible [for the terrorist attacks]. A check of the manifests of the four hijacked planes had […]
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 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 […]