Post by Boomer Chick on Aug 2, 2004 11:25:52 GMT -5
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Senator Dayton: NORAD Lied About 9/11
Sunday, August 1, 2004
Introduction
Mark Dayton has become the first U.S. senator to challenge the
establishment consensus that "The 9/11 Commission Report" settles the
open questions of Sept. 11, 2001.
In Senate hearings last Friday Dayton (D-MN) raised an obvious point:
if the timeline of air defense response as promoted in the Kean
Commission's best-selling book is correct, then the timeline presented
repeatedly by NORAD during the last two years was completely wrong.
Yet now no one at NORAD is willing to comment on their own timeline!
When the official story of 9/11 can be changed repeatedly without
anyone ever being held accountable, we have no right to ever again
expect honest government. Please read the following story and do your
part to support Sen. Dayton for highlighting the contradiction, and to
encourage the media to follow up. (...)
Background: Evolution of the Official Story
>From the beginning, the 9/11 investigations, official and alternative,
have been about timelines: what happened, who knew and who did what,
when, where and how.
Written by the government's Kean Commission, the just-published "9/11
Commission Report" presents a timeline of air defense response that
differs radically from all of the previous official stories.
Since Sept. 11 government representatives have in fact promoted a
series of mutually contradictory narratives of how the nation's air
defenses responded to the unfolding attacks. Various chronologies were
presented at different times by the high military command, the North
American Air Defense command (NORAD), the Federal Aviation
Administration, and now the Kean Commission.
Little noticed, the original story was delivered by Gen. Richard
Myers, the acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on 9/11. Just
two days after the events, Myers appeared before the Senate for
hearings, scheduled many weeks earlier, to consider his appointment as
the nation's supreme military officer. Myers told the Senate that no
fighter jets were scrambled to intercept any of the 9/11 flights until
after the Pentagon was struck.
The Pentagon attack occurred at 9:38 a.m., a full 1 hour 20 minutes
after the first of the 9/11 flights was diverted from its designated
flight path.
Myers's statement to the Senate was incredible, given the standard
U.S. air defense protocols for dealing with errant instrument flights
(including off-course passenger planes). In place many years before
Sept. 11, these procedures are automatic and require no special order.
Within minutes after a flight ceases to respond to ground control, the
FAA is expected to alert NORAD - which scrambles jet fighters to
intercept the errant flight for reconnaissance purposes. These are
supposed to be airborne within 10 minutes of the problem arising.
This routine was activated on at least 67 occasions in the year prior
to Sept. 11, 2001. Exceptional as the events of 9/11 proved to be, the
procedures should have also been activated automatically within
minutes of each flight diversion on that day.
Before Myers's disturbing admission to the Senate received much
notice, NORAD under General Ralph Eberhard effectively put the lie to
his statement. A partial timeline of U.S. air defense response
published on Sept. 18, 2001 presented the times at which NORAD was
alerted about each flight diversion by the FAA. In its statement,
NORAD claimed to have responded to the alerts by scrambling two squads
of interceptors. These, however, never reached any of their targets in
time to intercept, let alone prepare for a possible shootdown.
As late as May 2003, General Arnold of NORAD, sitting alongside Gen.
Myers, presented a slightly revised version of NORAD's Sept. 2001
timeline, in testimony to the Kean Commission.
Senator Dayton: NORAD Lied About 9/11
Sunday, August 1, 2004
Introduction
Mark Dayton has become the first U.S. senator to challenge the
establishment consensus that "The 9/11 Commission Report" settles the
open questions of Sept. 11, 2001.
In Senate hearings last Friday Dayton (D-MN) raised an obvious point:
if the timeline of air defense response as promoted in the Kean
Commission's best-selling book is correct, then the timeline presented
repeatedly by NORAD during the last two years was completely wrong.
Yet now no one at NORAD is willing to comment on their own timeline!
When the official story of 9/11 can be changed repeatedly without
anyone ever being held accountable, we have no right to ever again
expect honest government. Please read the following story and do your
part to support Sen. Dayton for highlighting the contradiction, and to
encourage the media to follow up. (...)
Background: Evolution of the Official Story
>From the beginning, the 9/11 investigations, official and alternative,
have been about timelines: what happened, who knew and who did what,
when, where and how.
Written by the government's Kean Commission, the just-published "9/11
Commission Report" presents a timeline of air defense response that
differs radically from all of the previous official stories.
Since Sept. 11 government representatives have in fact promoted a
series of mutually contradictory narratives of how the nation's air
defenses responded to the unfolding attacks. Various chronologies were
presented at different times by the high military command, the North
American Air Defense command (NORAD), the Federal Aviation
Administration, and now the Kean Commission.
Little noticed, the original story was delivered by Gen. Richard
Myers, the acting Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on 9/11. Just
two days after the events, Myers appeared before the Senate for
hearings, scheduled many weeks earlier, to consider his appointment as
the nation's supreme military officer. Myers told the Senate that no
fighter jets were scrambled to intercept any of the 9/11 flights until
after the Pentagon was struck.
The Pentagon attack occurred at 9:38 a.m., a full 1 hour 20 minutes
after the first of the 9/11 flights was diverted from its designated
flight path.
Myers's statement to the Senate was incredible, given the standard
U.S. air defense protocols for dealing with errant instrument flights
(including off-course passenger planes). In place many years before
Sept. 11, these procedures are automatic and require no special order.
Within minutes after a flight ceases to respond to ground control, the
FAA is expected to alert NORAD - which scrambles jet fighters to
intercept the errant flight for reconnaissance purposes. These are
supposed to be airborne within 10 minutes of the problem arising.
This routine was activated on at least 67 occasions in the year prior
to Sept. 11, 2001. Exceptional as the events of 9/11 proved to be, the
procedures should have also been activated automatically within
minutes of each flight diversion on that day.
Before Myers's disturbing admission to the Senate received much
notice, NORAD under General Ralph Eberhard effectively put the lie to
his statement. A partial timeline of U.S. air defense response
published on Sept. 18, 2001 presented the times at which NORAD was
alerted about each flight diversion by the FAA. In its statement,
NORAD claimed to have responded to the alerts by scrambling two squads
of interceptors. These, however, never reached any of their targets in
time to intercept, let alone prepare for a possible shootdown.
As late as May 2003, General Arnold of NORAD, sitting alongside Gen.
Myers, presented a slightly revised version of NORAD's Sept. 2001
timeline, in testimony to the Kean Commission.