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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
Cheney ordered almost all our fighters to the Arctic Circle? Haven't heard that one before. I didn't know the VP had that authority. Even so, we had fighters in the air to intercept the hijacked planes. It's just that the air traffic controllers or FAA didn't get around to making the call soon enough. And pre-9/11 how many fighters did we usually have ready and with ordnance already loaded for domestic CAP's? Probably none.
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You might call this a crack-pot website, most of the information on this topic has drifted away over time on other more legitimate sites. Weight it as you will, but I can't or don't want to believe that you have not heard about the NORAD exercise and the changes Rumsfeld made which bottle necked everything. Like I said, par for the course for those guys, it's been all about the power and the money they have made for their friends in my opinion.
This is one answer if I choose to accept it:
http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20050830185334880
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Mies remained with the civilians until after they all heard that the second WTC Tower had also been hit. (The second crash occurred at 9:03 am.) Based on the new timeline entries, it is apparently only then that Mies went to his command post, and that Global Guardian and related wargames were suspended.
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http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20050830185334880
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Rumsfeld's case is particularly flagrant, given that he had signed off on a June 1, 2001 Pentagon order that for the first time inserted the Secretary of Defense into the chain of response for issuing military intercept orders for errant planes. His story is that he reacted to news of the first and second WTC crashes by continuing his routine morning briefings, and that after the Pentagon was hit (at 9:37 or 9:41 am, depending on which official timeline one prefers), he decided to assist in rescue efforts instead of taking his place at the command center.
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Information such as the above was left out of the History Channel special, like I said it was a not very special special.
If I recall correctly - and it's still debated, there were 6 to 10 military exercises going on that day. I can't fairly fault the military or our cilvilan leaders for training and preparing for the worst can I?
Maybe I can.
