At 8:52 a.m. on September 11, 2001, “Two F-15 fighter jets took off from Otis Air Force Base on Cape Cod [Massachusetts] in pursuit of the hijacked airplane [United Flight 175]. …They had missed stopping the first hijacked plane [American Flight 11] and now they were late for the second. No one had really thought […]
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9/11/2001
Former CIA Director George Tenet quoted President Bush’s televised speech on the evening of September 11, 2001: ” ‘I’ve directed the full resources of our intelligence and law enforcement communities to find those responsible and to bring them to justice,’ he told a global audience of some eighty million people. ‘We will make no distinction […]
9/11/2001
The 9/11 Commission report from June 17, 2004 detailed America’s air defense: “The U.S. military–the last line of defense [on September 11, 2001] against the hijacked aircraft–had nine minutes’ notice that American Airlines Flight 11 had been hijacked, two minutes’ notice that an unidentified aircraft, American 77, was headed toward Washington, and no notice at […]
9/11/2001
“Within hours of the terror attacks on Sept. 11 [2001], law enforcement officials say, F.B.I. agents intercepted telephone calls in which suspected associates of Al Qaeda in the United States were overheard celebrating the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.” – Neil A. Lewis and David Johnston, “Jubilant Calls on Sept. 11 […]
9/11/2001
Just after 9 a.m. on September 11, 2001, “a manager from the [Federal Aviation Administration’s] New York Center, on the phone with the [Air Traffic Control] Command Center in Hernon [Virginia], stated: ‘We have several situations going on here. It’s escalating big, big time. We need to get the military involved with us. …We’re…involved with […]
9/11/2001
According to a Washington Post article on March 2, 2002, on the morning of September 11, 2001, “nine of the 19 hijackers were selected for ‘special security screenings’ before they boarded their flights, including two who were singled out because of irregularities in their IDs.” – Peter Lance, Cover Up, Page 166 […]
9/11/2001
Then-President George W. Bush recalled: “One of my greatest frustrations on September 11 [2001] was the woeful communications technology on Air Force One. The plane had no satellite television. We were dependent on whatever local feeds we could pick up. After a few minutes on a given station, the screen would dissolve into static.” – […]
9/11/2001
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 […]
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 […]