NORAD

CBC.ca Image: CBC News: Sunday's Evan Solomon interviews Lee Hamilton , 9/11 Commission co-chair and co-author of the book "Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the...

georgewashington.blogspot.com When the 9/11 Commission was wrapped up, the Federal Aviatiation Agency (FAA) was blamed for failing to quickly relay information of the hijackings to the military. Now, years later, the finger is being pointed at...

Yes, this 'NORAD lied!' story has been all over the news for the last 24 hours, and no, we still don't know what to make of it all. Most of the NORAD lies referred to were either loudly cited by Sen. Dayton in a congressional hearing over two years ago or reported to Congress in May of last year. So why the fuss now? One superficial trigger seems to be the Vanity Fair piece (linked below) with embedded sound recordings of NORAD internal communications on 9/11 morning that were inexplicably awarded to Michael Bronner, the article's author and associate producer of "United 93." It will take a little research time to parse all the logical feints and contradictions it contains, not to mention the tech wizardry that reportedly packed 30 hours of uncompressed sound files into three ordinary CDs. For now we simply invite you to scan these stories with your own BS detecter and devote some critical thought to the enormous role the 9/11 Commission- ignored aerial war games seemed to play that day.

Allegations Brought to Inspectors General By Dan Eggen Washington Post Staff Writer Washingtonpost.com Some staff members and commissioners of the Sept. 11 panel concluded that the Pentagon's initial story of how it reacted...