From NY911Truth & Concerned Citizen’s Across the Country
To Senator Mark Dayton;
On behalf of concerned citizens throughout the nation, we would like to thank you for pointing at the elephant in the barracks. I am referring to the completely unexplained “response” of NORAD & FAA on September 11, 2001.
You have very correctly brought up some crucial points in the 9/11 Commission’s Report that just don’t add up. One of those points is how could the NORAD jets scrambled from Langley have flown out to sea in apparent defiance of a direct order from a NEADS Commander. The report claims a “generic” scramble order was assumed to take precedence over a direct order from a Commander. How can that possibly be true? It makes absolutely no sense. But yet the report doesn’t address this issue in any substance.
Unfortunately there is much more that is very disturbing in this report. NORAD, the agency whose mandate is to “watch our skies” officially claims it “did not recognize” the threat of hijacked domestic airliners being used as weapons.
This is a complete & total 100% lie.
On April 18, 2004 in an article titled “NORAD had drills of jets as weapons,” USA Today reported a drill planned in July of 2001 and conducted “later” which posed hijacked airliners, originating in the United States, used as weapons to crash into targets – including the World Trade Center.
The footnote for this statement in the 9/11 report – chapter 1 #98 – states that NORAD’s “no recognition” claim came from an interview with General Ralph Eberhart on March 1, 2004.
I contacted the Staff Communications Director Jonathan Stull and asked for a transcript of the interview referenced in this footnote. He stated the interview was private, attended only by the commission and its staff, and the transcript would be in the National Security Archives with the rest of the 9/11 Commission’s information. A Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request is required to obtain this transcript.
The report’s lack of intense scrutiny of NORAD doesn’t end there.
On June 17, 2004, at the final public commission hearing in Washington D.C., I personally asked General Eberhart, the man heading NORAD on 9/11, who was in charge of coordinating the multiple war games running on the morning of the 9/11 attacks. He responded:
“No Comment.”
I also asked Chairman Kean, Richard Ben Veniste and Jamie Gorelick the exact same question and none of them could give an answer – they directed me to staff. I asked Staff Communications Director Jonathan Stull the exact same question. He had no answer, but finally responded by stating it was an issue the commission was very concerned about, and would address in their report.
This statement was absolutely false.
There is no “addressing” of who coordinated the multiple, confirmed, war games running on the morning of 9/11 in the Kean Commission report. In fact, only one of the war games is referenced by name, Vigilant Guardian, and it is only referenced in a footnote. Due to NORAD’s apparent “failure” on 9/11 coupled with the completely neglected aspect of the multiple war games they were running that very morning, Congress must do the following:
Arrange for the release of as much information as possible about the multiple (up to 5 different) war games NORAD & other military agencies were running on the morning of 9/11 itself. One such scenario involved the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), which was running a drill for an off course aircraft crashing into their headquarters at 8:30 the morning of 9/11 – at the exact time an identical scenario actually occurred. This drill was not mentioned at all in the 9/11 Report. This issue must be brought to light in front of the American public to ensure national security.
Hold in depth public hearings focusing solely on NORAD, FAA, NMCC (National Military Command Center), NCA (National Command Authority) & the 9/11 War Games.
Demand the 9/11 Commission explain why they didn’t do this themselves.
Declassify General Ralph Eberhart’s March 1, 2004 interview referenced in the 9/11 Commission Report.
Force General Ralph Eberhart, NORAD, and the 9/11 Commission to admit NORAD was fully aware that domestic airlines could be hijacked and used as weapons, so much so that they ran exercises for just such a scenario (as has been documented by multiple mainstream press reports).
Call all NMCC, NEADS & NORAD Commanders on duty the morning of 9/11 to testify to Congress, to finally determine what really happened.
Focus attention on the “new timeline” presented by the commission staff report, included in the final report, which contradicts every official timeline recognized prior to the final public Kean Commission hearing.
Fully address the role of Ptech, the data-blueprinting company owned by Saudi terrorist Yasin Al Qadi, in any FAA delayed responses. This company had access to the data blueprint of the FAA’s entire computer systems prior to, and on, 9/11. Ptech had offices in the basement of the FAA. This information came from Wall St. Whistleblower Indira Singh, and has been documented extensively in the mainstream press. The 9/11 Commission report blames the FAA for much of the “apparent failures” on 9/11, but never once addresses the very real possibility of cyber-terrorism in the basement of the FAA itself. Indira Singh has publicly called Ptech, “Effectively a corporate Al Qaeda cell.” This must be addressed publicly to ensure national security.
Start investigating the very real possibility of criminal negligence of U.S. officials before and during 9/11.
Since the 9/11 Commission has openly stated that there is “no one to blame” for the “failures” on 9/11 it seems they are incapable of conducting a proper investigation into what must be falsehoods and most likely are lies told by NORAD. In addition to directing NORAD, General Ralph “Ed” Eberhart is also now head of Northern Command, the highest Air Force Command in all of North America. To allow a man holding this much power to lie to the 9/11 Commission, behind closed doors, with no public oversight is a direct threat to our national security. The fact that he was sworn in under oath on June 17, 2004, and not one question was asked at that time about NORAD’s provably false claim that it had “no recognition” of domestic airliners being used as weapons speaks volumes for the commission’s credibility in regards to this matter.
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