“According to [Vice President Dick] Cheney’s Meet the Press interview with Tim Russert on September 16 [2001], [on the morning of September 11, 2001] the Secret Service evacuated him from his office in response to ‘a report that an airplane was headed for the White House…which turned out to be Flight 77.’ As Cheney told […]
9/11/2001
On September 11, 2001, President Bush dictated to diary: “The Pearl Harbor of the 21st Century took place today.” – Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack, Page 24 […]
9/11/2001
“The attacks of 9/11, as all have come to know those events, also marked the second most violent day in U.S. history, with 2,793 deaths.” – Bruce Riedel, The Search for Al Qaeda, Page 1 […]
9/11/2001
Former CIA analyst Bruce Riedel wrote, on September 11, 2001, “The attacks had all the hallmarks of al Qaeda and were preceded by months of warning that an assault on America was coming. Gary Schroen, one of my colleagues who led the first CIA team into Afghanistan after 9/11 to hunt for bin Laden, remembers […]
9/11/2001
FBI Director Louis Freeh wrote: “I regret that I was never able to convince Congress to fully fund our technological initiatives. I’m embarrassed that on the afternoon and evening of September 11, 2001, FBI agents had to send photos of the suspected terrorists via express mail service because they still lacked the computing power to […]
9/11/2001
According to The Los Angeles Times on January 28, 2003, “the FBI’s [computer database] system was so antiquated that, immediately after 9/11 [2001], frustrated agents in Tampa [Florida] were unable even to e-mail photos of the nineteen hijackers to the Bureau’s regional offices. They had to resort to overnight mail. The 1980s-era technology at the […]
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
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
On September 11, 2001, speaking from Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana, President Bush recorded his second video statement of the day. ” ‘Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward,’ said Bush, who appeared tense.” – Der Spiegel, Inside 9-11, Pages 148-149 […]
9/11/2001
“The earliest written confirmation of President Bush’s shoot-down order for any hijacked plane headed toward the capital came at 10:20 a.m. [on September 11, 2001] when White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, on Air Force One, recorded that the president had issued the directive. That was a full 17 minutes after Flight 93’s demise concluded […]