Air Defense Failures

FAA Communications with NORAD On September 11, 2001

FAA clarification memo to 9/11 Independent Commission May 22, 2003 Within minutes after the first aircraft hit the World Trade Center, the FAA immediately established several phone bridges that included FAA field facilities, the FAA Command...

Transcript of Sen. Dayton’s remarks on NORAD

Friday, July 31, 2004 at Congressional hearings on "The 9/11 Commission Report" (Transcribed by Kyle Hence of 9/11 Citizens' Watch) Senator Dayton: Thank you Madame Chairman, and I , I also want to commend you for...

Senator Dayton: NORAD Lied About 9/11

In hearings last Friday, Sen. Dayton (D-MN) raised an obvious point: if the timeline of air defense response promoted in the 9/11 Commission Report is correct, then the timeline presented repeatedly by NORAD during the previous two years was wrong. Yet no one at NORAD was willing to explain the contradiction.

The Condoleezza Rice-Philip Zelikow Connection: The Kean Commission and its Conflicts of Interest

Condoleezza Rice is a household name. But most Americans still have never heard of the man who wrote a book with her, Philip Zelikow. As the executive director of the Kean Commission, Zelikow is responsible...

Paul Lannoye – European Parliamentarian

Dear World Legislators, Parliamentarians, and World Citizens, We have watched with alarm that the sad and tragic events of 9-11 (11 September, 2001) have resulted in two wars and a global rollback in civil liberties....

The Total Failure of the Kean Commission

ISSUE #1: On the morning of September 11, 2001, NORAD was running war games involving the scenario of hijacked airliners, while the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) was running a drill for the scenario of an errant aircraft crashing into a government building, at the exact same time as an identical scenario was perpetrated in reality. What role, if any, did Secretary Rumsfeld, Undersecretary Wolfowitz, and acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers play in any war game scenario on the morning of September 11, 2001? What briefings did they receive about these wargames before, during, and after the morning in question?

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