The questions I asked in the first year after 9/11 have still not been answered. (WARNING: Many of the links are no longer valid, but a surprising number still are. There’s enough information associated with each excerpt for those who have Lexis-Nexis to be able to find the articles with bad links.)

From MakeThemAccountable.com:

What Did They Know and When Did They Know It?

What did George Bush himself know, prior to the attacks?

What Bush Knew Before Sept. 11, CBS News, May 16, 2002:
“President Bush was told in the months before the Sept. 11 attacks that Osama bin Laden's terrorist network might hijack U.S. passenger planes - information which prompted the administration to issue an alert to federal agencies - but not the American public.”

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Why were certain people warned not to fly on or about September 11 (or even earlier), and not the rest of us?

Willie Brown got low-key early warning about air travel, Phillip Matier and Andrew Ross, San Francisco Chronicle, September 12, 2001:
“For Mayor Willie Brown, the first signs that something was amiss came late Monday when he got a call from what he described as his airport security - - a full eight hours before yesterday's string of terrorist attacks -- advising him that Americans should be cautious about their air travel.”

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Did the U.S. know that the attacks were going to happen?

THE COUNTER-TERRORIST, Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, Issue of January 14, 2002:
“[I]intelligence had been streaming in concerning a likely Al Qaeda attack. ‘It all came together in the third week in June [2001],’ Clarke said. ‘The C.I.A.'s view was that a major terrorist attack was coming in the next several weeks.’ On July 5th, Clarke summoned all the domestic security agencies—the Federal Aviation Administration, the Coast Guard, Customs, the Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the F.B.I.—and told them to increase their security in light of an impending attack.”

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Why didn't the Air Force scramble fighters before the third attack plane hit the Pentagon?

My Country Right Or Wrong: Questioning September 11th, Mark Elsis, AttackOnAmerica.net, undated:
“1. The North American Aerospace Defense Command ( NORAD ) had almost an hour and a half to scramble F-16 jets from Langley Air Force Base ( AFB ) to protect Washington D.C. and the Pentagon. How could they incredibly fail to do so? For this most impossible error, the United States government and military only give the lame excuse, we didn't have enough time to respond.”

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Carolyn Kay
MakeThemAccountable.com