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Newsweek: Missed Terror Signs
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I expect we'll see more and more articles on this.
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Government Accounts of 9/11
Reveal Gaps, Inconsistencies Questions Arise About Who Put Nation on High Alert; A Threat to Air Force One? Panel Assembles Timeline By SCOT J. PALTROW Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL March 22, 2004; Page A1 WASHINGTON -- Shortly after a passenger jet crashed into the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, Air Force Gen. Richard Myers raced back to the military headquarters from a meeting on Capitol Hill. The four-star general, acting head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that day, went directly to the Pentagon's command center. With smoke spreading into the cavernous room, he ordered the officer in charge, Maj. Gen. W. Montague Winfield, to raise the military's alert status to Defcon III, the highest state of readiness since the 1973 Arab-Israeli war. That account is based on interviews with Gen. Winfield and a former White House official. In the months after Sept. 11, President Bush had a different public explanation about who put the military on high alert. The president said publicly at least twice that he gave the order. During a town-hall meeting in Orlando on Dec. 4, 2001, Mr. Bush said that after the attacks, "one of the first acts I did was to put our military on alert." http://online.wsj.com/article_email/...aKeBm4,00.html Long but very interesting article.:) |
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