Pentagon

DOSSIER ON GENERAL MYERS' ACTIVITIES ON THE MORNING OF SEPT. 11 Comments by "Stickdog" General Myers was acting head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on September 11th. On September 13th, he is going for a...

On the morning of September 11, Secretary Rumsfeld was having breakfast at the Pentagon with a group of members of Congress. He then returned to his office for his daily intelligence briefing. The Secretary ...

9/15/01: Assistant Defense Secretary Victoria Clarke, WBZ Boston interview with Jim Mitchell: Mitchell: Can you describe that terrible moment for us? Clarke: Well, the terrible moment was actually earlier at about 8:40, 8:45 when we realized...

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?

"I don't think anybody could have predicted that these people would take an airplane and slam it into the World Trade Center, take another one and slam it into the Pentagon, that they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile."

--Condoleezza Rice, May 16, 2002