- The following statement by Senator Dayton at last Friday's
Senate Government Affair Committee hearing marks a turning point in the
investigation of 911.
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- A video of his statement and the entire hearing can be
streamed from www.c-span.org. Dayton's statement comes roughly at 1hr:58min.
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- Much of what the Commisison has presented relative to
the events of that day must now be called into question as should be the
NORAD officials who may have lied to the American people, Congress and
the Commission.
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- Despite the stunning accusations and challenge to the
President, NORAD, the FAA and though not directly, to the Commission, the
Senator's comments were largely ignored having only been picked up by the
Star Tribune and Minnesota Public Radio.
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- Star Tribune: http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/4904237.html
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- It should be noted that the Committee Chair, Senator
Collins from Maine did not give the 9/11 Commission Chair or Co-Chair opportunity
to respond nor did the Commissioners insist on doing so. And none of the
other Senators on the Committee raised the issues addressed by Dayton.
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- 9/11 CitizensWatch and millions of concerned citizens
around the world, urge you to give the Commission, its report, and planned
Committee hearings greater scrutiny.
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- There are still questions to be asked, omissions to be
pointed out, and discussions of recommendations to be put off until we
get the facts straight and doubts are put to rest and we do whatever we
determine is the best course to determine the truth and a truly definitive
record that stands up to scrutiny and over which there is no cloud of scepticism
and record of deceipt.
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- Look to www.911citizenswatch.org in the coming days for
more pointed analysis of the 9/11 Commission Report. Look to www.cooperativeresearch.org
for a timeline of events on 9/11.
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- Kyle F. Hence 9/11 CitizensWatch 401-935-7715
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- Senator Dayton: Thank you Madame Chairman, and I , I
also want to commend you for holding this hearing in quick response to
the 9/11 Commissionís Report. Mr. Chairman, Mr. Co-chairman, I
want to say again to you that we are all indebted to you, to the other
eight members of the Commission and the staff for this critically important
work that you have provided the nation.
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- It is a profoundly disturbing report because it chronicles
in excruciating detail the terrible attack against our homeland, the despicable
murder of so many American citizens and the horrible destruction to countless
other lives and liberties throughout this nation.
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- And because of the utter failure to defend them [American
citizens] by their federal government, by their leaders, and the institutions
that were entrusted to do so and because of serious discrepancies between
the facts that youíve set forth and what was told to the American
people, to members of Congress, and to your own Commission by those, some
of those authorities.
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- There's way too much to cover here but I will begin.
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- According to your report the first of the four airliner
hijackings occurred on September 11th at 8:14 Eastern time. At 10:03 AM,
almost two hours later, an hour and forty-nine minutes to be exact, the
fourth and last plane crashed before reaching its intended target, the
U.S. Capitol, because of the incredible heroism of its passengers, including
Minnesota native Thomas Burnett Jr.. During those entire 109 minutes to
my reading of this report this country and its citizens were completely
undefended.
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- Yes, it was a surprise attack. It was unprecedented.
Yes, it exposed serious flaws and as you noted our imagination, our policies,
capabilities and our management designs but what I find much more shocking
and alarming were the repeated and catastrophic failures of the leaders
of the leaders in charge, and the other people responsible, to do their
jobs.
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- To follow established procedures.
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- To follow direct orders from civilian and military commanders.
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- And then they failed to tell us the truth later.
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- It doesnít matter whether they were Republicans,
Democrats or neither, it matters what they did or did not do. According
to your findings, FAA authorities failed to the inform military command,
NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, about three of the
four hijackings until after the planes had crashed into their targets at
the second World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the ground in Pennsylv"in
Pennsylvania which was not their target.
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- The direct FAA notification of the military regarding
the first plane twenty-three minutes after it was hijacked and only nine
minutes before it struck the first World Trade Tower.
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- NORAD then scrambled one of only two sets of fighter
planes on alert in the entire eastern third of the country, one in Massachusetts
and one in Virginia but it didnít know where to send them; because
the hijackers has turned off the planeís transponder so NORAD couldnít
locate them on their radar and they still looking for it when it exploded
into its target at 8:46AM.
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- The second hijacking began, according to your report,
one minute later. NORAD wasnít notified until the same minute the
same plane struck the second World Trade tower. It was five more minutes
before NORADís mission commander learned about that explosion; which
was five minutes after thousands [probably millions] of Americans saw it
on live television. By this time the third planeís transponder was
off; communication had been severed, yet it was fifteen minutes before
the flight controller decided to notify the regional FAA center which in
turn did not inform FAA headquarters for another fifteen minutes.
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- So at that point 9:25 AM FAAís National Command
Center knew that there were two hijacked planes that had crashed into the
two World Trade Centers and a third plane had stopped communicating and
disappeared from its primary radar yet no one in FAA headquarters asked
for military assistance with that plane either. NORAD was unaware that
the plane had even been hijacked until after it crashed into the Pentagon
at 9:34.
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- This is just unbelievable negligence. It doesn't matter
if we spend $550 billion annually on our national defense, if we reorganize
our intelligence or if we restructure congressional oversight if people
don't pick up the phone to call one another. If weíre not told if
somebody needs a new radar system and doesnít stall it when itís
provided. And this was not an occasional human or failure. This is nothing
but human error and failure to follow established procedures and to use
common sense.
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- Unfortunately, the chronicle is not over. The NORAD
mission commander ordered his only three other planes on alert in Virginia
to scramble and fly north to Baltimore. Minutes later when he was told
that a plane was approaching Washington he learned that the planes were
flying East over the Atlantic Ocean away from Baltimore and Washington
so that when the third plane struck the Pentagon NORADís fighters
were 150 miles away, farther than they were before they took off.
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- By then FAAís Command Center had learned of the
fourth hijacking and called FAA Headquarters specifically asking that they
contact the military at 9:36AM and at 9:46AM the FAA Command Center updated
FAA headquarters that United Flight 93 was "29 minutes out of Washington,
D.C." Three minutes later your document records this following conversation
between the Command Center and FAA headquarters.
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- Command center - 'Uh, do we want to, uh, think about
scrambling aircraft?' - FAA headquarters - 'Oh God, I don't know.' - Command
center - 'Uh, that's a decision somebody's going to have to make probably
in the next 10 minutes.' - FAA headquarters - 'Uh, yeah, you know, everybody
just left the room."
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- At 10:03 United Flight 93 crashed into the Pennsylvania
farm soil and nobody from the FAA headquarters had contacted the military.
NORAD didnít know that this fourth plane was hijacked until after
it crashed 35 minutes later. The fighter planes that reached Washington
seven minutes after that crash they were told by the Mission Commander,
"negative clearance to shoot the aircraft" over the Nationís
Capitol.
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- Yet one week, yet one week after 9/11, in response to
initial reports that the military failed to defend our domestic airspace
during the hijacks NORAD issued an official chronology that stated that
the FAA notified NORAD of the second hijacking at 8:43, wrong, FAA notified
NORAD of the third hijacking at 9:24, according to your report wrong, FAA
notified NORAD of the fourth hijacking at an unspecified time and that
prior to the crash in Pennsylvania Langley F-16 combat air patrol planes
were in place, remaining in place, to protect Washington, D.C..
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- All untrue.
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- In public testimony before your 9/11 Commission in May
of 2003 NORAD officials stated, I assume under oath [ED; they were NOT
UNDER OATH], that at 9:16 they had received the hijack notification of
United Flight 93 from the FAA. That hijacking did not occur until 9:28;
there was a routine cockpit transmission recovered at 9:27.
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- And in that testimony before you NORAD officials stated
also that at 9:24 they received notice of the hijacking of the third plane,
American flight 77, also untrue according to your report; which states
that NORAD was never notified that flight was hijacked.
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- NORAD officials testified that they scrambled the Langley,
Virginia fighters to respond to those two hijackings yet taped recordings
of both NORAD and FAA both reportedly documented that the order to scramble
was a response to an inaccurate FAA report that American Flight 11 had
not hit the first World Trade tower and was headed to Washington. That
erroneous alert was transmitted by the FAA at 9:24AM, thirty-eight minutes
after that airplane had exploded into the World Trade tower. Yet NORADís
public chronology of 9/18/01 and their Commission testimony 20 months later
covered up those truths. They lied to the American people, they lied to
Congress and they lied to your 9/11 Commission to create a false impression
of competence, communication, coordination and protection of the American
people.
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- And we can set up all the oversight possible at great
additional cost to the American taxpayers and it wonít be worth
an Enron pension if the people responsible lie to us; if they take the
records and doctor them into falsehoods, and if they get away with it.
For almost three years now NORAD officials and FAA officials have been
able to hide their critical failures that left this country defenseless
during two of the worst hours in our history.
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- And I believe that President Bush must call them, those
responsible for those representations to account. [clapping in gallery]
If the Commissionís accounts are correct, he should fire whoever
at FAA, at NORAD or anywhere else who betrayed the public trust by not
telling us the truth.
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- And then he should clear up a few discrepancies of his
own.
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- Four months after September 11th on January 27th 2002,
the Washington Postís Dan Balls and Bob Woodward authored an insiderís
retrospective on top administration officialsí actions on 9/11 and
thereafter. They reported that very shortly after the Pentagon was struck
at 9:34 quote Pentagon officials ordered up the airborne command post used
only in national emergencies; they sent up combat air patrol in the Washington
area and a fighter escort for Air Force One. Secretary Rumsfeld was portrayed
as "taking up his post at the National Military Command Center."
And all that reportedly occurred before 9:55AM. Right thereafter "Bush
then talked to Rumsfeld to clarify the procedures military pilots should
follow before firing on attack planes. With Bushís approval Rumsfeld
passed the order down the chain of command."
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- This was supposedly taking place according to that article
before the fourth plane crashed in Pennsylvania at 10:03. Looks very impressive.
The President acting swiftly and decisively; giving orders to the Secretary
of Defense and on down the chain of command, combat air patrol planes are
patrolling Washington directed by an airborne command post all before 10:03AM;
however, according to your commission, President Bush spoke to Secretary
Rumsfeld for the first time that morning shortly after 10AM. Based on
White House notes and Ari Fliescher notes of the conversation the Commissionís
report states that it was a brief call in which the subject of the shootdown
authority was not discussed.
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- The Commission then states that the Secretary of Defense
did not join the NMCCís [air threat] conference call until just
before 10:30AM. The Secretary of Defense himself told the Commission he
was just gaining situation awareness when he spoke with the Vice-President
at 10:39AM. That transcript is on page 23, page 43. My time is out but
it reflects the Vice-Presidentís honest mistaken(ly) belief that
he had been given an order, after talking with the President, to shoot
down any plane that would not divert, yet incredibly"the NORAD commander
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- Senator Collins (Chairwomen): The Senatorís time
has expired.
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- Senator Dayton: I am just going to finish this if I may"yet
incredibly the NORAD commander did not pass that order to the fighter planes
because he was "unsure how the pilots would or should proceed with
this guidance." As you say Mr. Chairman, 'the situation is urgent'
but we donít get protected in those circumstances but itís
even worse when itís covered-up.
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- TO RESEARCH FURTHER DISCREPENCIES:
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- See also at www.911citizenswatch.org: Laura Brown issued
FAA statement, May 22, 2003; pages 1-8 of Against All Enemies by Richard
Clarke.
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- NOTE: Richard Clarke's account has General Myers participating
in a White House originated video conference beginning at around 9:10AM
and being directly engaged in that conference at the latest by 9:26AM.
While the Commission places him in his car driving to the Pentagon when
he sees smoke from the strike there.
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- Similarly, Clarke places Rumsfeld on the video conference
call at 9:10 or so for the 'roll'. And at the time of the strike on the
Pentagon (9:37AM) when Clarke and White House staffers look to the video
screen to see if Rumsfeld survived the attack.
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- SMOKING GUN LEAD (?): Refusal by Langley Jets to follow
NEADS Order
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- This from investigative reporter Michael Kane -- applying
scrutiny...
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- [snip] The point is NOT just that NORAD has to explain
the old timeline, the point is also that the commission's report has a
HUGE gaping hole in it. Here it is, excerpted from THE FINAL FRAUD: - the
*key* issue is why didn't the LANGLEY jets follow a direct order from a
NEADS Commander
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- Orders were issued from the Mission Crew Commander at
NEADS at 9:23:
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- "Okay " scramble Langley. Head them towards
the Washington area."
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- The order to scramble was given to fighters out of Langley
Air Force base in Virginia, leaving the fighters scrambled from Otis over
New York. However, the Langley fighters were headed east, not north, because
they followed a "generic" scramble order. This sent them over
the ocean, out of local airspace, because the lead pilot and local FAA
controller incorrectly assumed the flight plan instruction to go east was
newer guidance that superseded the original scramble order.
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- Why didn't they follow the scramble order as issued from
the Mission Crew Commander at NEADS? A direct order from a Commander most
certainly supercedes any "generic" plan.
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- It is claimed the Langley pilots were never briefed about
the reason they were scrambled. As the lead pilot explained, "I reverted
to the Russian threat" I'm thinking cruise missile threat from the
sea. You know, you look down and see the Pentagon burning and I thought
the bastards snuck one by us."
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- Seeing how the Langley jets were scrambled out to sea,
this "generic" scramble plan must have been assuming an external
attack coming from across the Atlantic. But how is it conceivable that
well after both Twin Towers are struck, fighter pilots were still thinking
of a generic "Russian threat"?
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- It is claimed the pilots were never made aware that the
threat was from hijacked airliners. Wouldn't that information have been
included in the NEADS scramble order at 9:23 or shortly thereafter? Two
towers are burning and no one tells the fighter jocks?
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- http://www.fromthewilderness.com/members/071204_final_fraud.shtml
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