Pentagon Officials Lied About 9-11?
This will surely raise the temperature in the fever swamps, but it's not the smoking gun that the 9-11 Deniers have been looking for.
For more than two years after the attacks, officials with NORAD and the FAA provided inaccurate information about the response to the hijackings in testimony and media appearances. Authorities suggested that U.S. air defenses had reacted quickly, that jets had been scrambled in response to the last two hijackings and that fighters were prepared to shoot down United Airlines Flight 93 if it threatened Washington.
In fact, the commission reported a year later, audiotapes from NORAD's Northeast headquarters and other evidence showed clearly that the military never had any of the hijacked airliners in its sights and at one point chased a phantom aircraft -- American Airlines Flight 11 -- long after it had crashed into the World Trade Center.
Maj. Gen. Larry Arnold and Col. Alan Scott told the commission that NORAD had begun tracking United 93 at 9:16 a.m., but the commission determined that the airliner was not hijacked until 12 minutes later. The military was not aware of the flight until after it had crashed in Pennsylvania.
These and other discrepancies did not become clear until the commission, forced to use subpoenas, obtained audiotapes from the FAA and NORAD, officials said. The agencies' reluctance to release the tapes -- along with e-mails, erroneous public statements and other evidence -- led some of the panel's staff members and commissioners to believe that authorities sought to mislead the commission and the public about what happened on Sept. 11.
Let's see, is any of this about how there weren't any hijacked planes on 9-11? Is any of it about how there was a "stand-down" order, or that a missile was fired into the Pentagon?
Nope it's about folks who covered up the fact that they weren't as alert as they should have been, that signals got crossed on that day, and that a lot of people were confused and made mistakes.
posted by Pat @ 8:02 AM
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13 Comments:
You hit the nail on the head.
I doubt many of even the hardest of 9/11 debunkers will say that everything went as it should have that day. There were major errors, and delays, no doubt. It was a UNIQUE attack, and a multipronged one, over 100's of miles of airspace.
Maybe a bit of devil's advocate on my part, but that doesn't really look good, IMO.
I know it's just officals covering their asses, but if the country is even a fraction as skeptical of the offical story as the CTers claim, this will only further their distrust.
It's in no way a smoking gun, but I think the spread of this news will only help numbers in the Woo Movement increase.
Same idea chf:
What are the odds that someone could fly a Cessna across the iron curtain at the height of the cold war and land in Red Square?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathias_Rust
Rog, sarcasm is not your strong suit. Why you keep it up is beyond me.
Every word of the 9/11 Commission Report is true, and you will never convince me otherwise with your nonsensical fucking lies here.
And boy, do you love strawmen.
I thought the 9/11 commission was part of the coverup?
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This raises a lot of questions, and adds credence to my suspicions that 9/11 was allowed to happen.
I was interested in the part "08:43:06FOX: I've never seen so much real-world stuff happen during an exercise."
War-game drills seem to happen at the most inopportune times. There are many other reference to 9-11-2001 drills on that morning, and throughout the past year. The Pentagon already had scenarios about flying jets into the trade center, and the Pentagon. They intensified several weeks prior. Keep in mind these are classified, and not available to the general public.
On the 7-7 bombings, it also turns out that Visor consultants were running drills on the same morning at the same train stations, and with the upside bus as well. This is also highly suspect, since these drills were also classified.
My only point is that these events are highly suspicious, and for the terrorists to pick the exact scenarios and exact days to plan the attacks seems mind-boggling.
@default.xbe Seriously, that came out afterwards. I am not claiming to know inside information. Everything I said in the last post is from news articles, search it on Google.
@apathoid yes, there are drills during non-combat times. It just seems odd that our whole air defense was rendered useless because of them. I doubt during normal flight operations NORAD would render America defenseless just for some drills.
This raises a lot of questions, and adds credence to my suspicions that 9/11 was allowed to happen.
Coming from a guy who seems to think Israel is evil incarnate (the girls signing the bombs was staged by photographers, sorry to burst your Leftie bubble) and who quotes himself (how are you? Chomsky?), I don't think it'd take too much to make you believe 9/11 was LIHOP.
It just seems odd that our whole air defense was rendered useless because of them. I doubt during normal flight operations NORAD would render America defenseless just for some drills.
That's because they weren't. This is one of those rumours which persists despite being debunked hundreds of times. NORAD was just as capable on that morning as they were on any other morning. The problem is, NORAD was designed to intercept aircraft which were inbound towards North America. NORAD surveilance systems focus on airspace outside of our borders. Once an aicraft is allowed to enter domestic space, it comes under the control of entirely different organizations. NORAD still provides intercept aircraft if/when they're requested, however, they don't generaly monitor domestic airspace.
Every day there's a new moron to have fun with.
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