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NY's Village Voice asks 9/11
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Open and Shut
By Jarrett Murphy
The Village Voice
Monday 05 December 2005
Four years later, we still have ten big questions.
On Monday, December 5, the 9-11 Public Discourse Project - a private
group formed by 9-11 Commission members after their official mandate lapsed in
2004 - held a wrap-up press briefing in Washington, signaling the last gasp of
official inquiries into the attacks four years ago. The National Institute of
Standards and Technology also recently completed its final report on the twin
towers. Already gathering dust are a Federal Emergency Management Agency study,
the joint inquiry by Congress, the McKinsey reports on New York City's
emergency response, probes by federal inspectors general, and other efforts to
resolve the myriad doubts about the hijackings.
Some questions can't be answered: People who lost loved ones will never
know exactly how the end came, if it hurt, what the final thoughts and words
were. But other questions are more tractable. Here are 10 of them:
1. Where Was the "National Command Authority"?
There has never been a true accounting of why the nation's leaders were
out of the loop for so long that morning. George W. Bush and his aides even
have told different versions of how the president was actually informed of the
first plane striking: The president claimed erroneously that he saw it on TV,
while chief of staff Andrew Card said it was Karl Rove who told the president.
According to the official version, after Rove told Bush, the president talked
to then national-security adviser Condoleezza Rice. She told him about the
crash but apparently did not know about the reported hijacking of American
Airlines Flight 11, which military air defenses learned about 17 minutes earlier.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was informed of the second plane
hitting the WTC - yes, the second plane - during his intelligence briefing but
continued the briefing and was at his desk when Flight 77 struck the Pentagon.
Together, the president and secretary of defense are the National Command
Authority that is supposed to lead the country in the case of military
emergency. But Bush didn't get in touch with Rumsfeld until after 10 a.m., around
the time the fourth and final plane crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. When
Bush was criticized days after 9-11 for failing to return to Washington until
more than 10 hours after the first attack, the White House claimed there had
been a threat ("real and credible," in flack Ari Fleischer's words) to Air Force
One. There was none. All the 9-11 Commission says of this phantom threat is
that it was the product of "a misunderstood communication."
6. Why Did 7 WTC Fall?
Seven World Trade Center - where, besides OEM, the CIA, Salomon Smith
Barney, and other entities had offices - was the last building to collapse on
9-11. It was also probably the first steel skyscraper anywhere to collapse solely
because of fire. We still don't know why. While NIST has completed its twin
towers reports, it has delayed its 7 WTC report twice; it's currently not
expected until next spring.
Several 7 WTC tenants, including OEM and the Secret Service, had tanks
filled with diesel fuel to power emergency generators. If that fuel leaked and
burned, it may have heated the building's steel supports to the point of
failure, but according to FEMA's report on the collapse this "best hypothesis has
only a low probability of occurrence."
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Open and Shut
By Jarrett Murphy
The Village Voice
Monday 05 December 2005
Four years later, we still have ten big questions.
On Monday, December 5, the 9-11 Public Discourse Project - a private
group formed by 9-11 Commission members after their official mandate lapsed in
2004 - held a wrap-up press briefing in Washington, signaling the last gasp of
official inquiries into the attacks four years ago. The National Institute of
Standards and Technology also recently completed its final report on the twin
towers. Already gathering dust are a Federal Emergency Management Agency study,
the joint inquiry by Congress, the McKinsey reports on New York City's
emergency response, probes by federal inspectors general, and other efforts to
resolve the myriad doubts about the hijackings.
Some questions can't be answered: People who lost loved ones will never
know exactly how the end came, if it hurt, what the final thoughts and words
were. But other questions are more tractable. Here are 10 of them:
1. Where Was the "National Command Authority"?
There has never been a true accounting of why the nation's leaders were
out of the loop for so long that morning. George W. Bush and his aides even
have told different versions of how the president was actually informed of the
first plane striking: The president claimed erroneously that he saw it on TV,
while chief of staff Andrew Card said it was Karl Rove who told the president.
According to the official version, after Rove told Bush, the president talked
to then national-security adviser Condoleezza Rice. She told him about the
crash but apparently did not know about the reported hijacking of American
Airlines Flight 11, which military air defenses learned about 17 minutes earlier.
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld was informed of the second plane
hitting the WTC - yes, the second plane - during his intelligence briefing but
continued the briefing and was at his desk when Flight 77 struck the Pentagon.
Together, the president and secretary of defense are the National Command
Authority that is supposed to lead the country in the case of military
emergency. But Bush didn't get in touch with Rumsfeld until after 10 a.m., around
the time the fourth and final plane crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. When
Bush was criticized days after 9-11 for failing to return to Washington until
more than 10 hours after the first attack, the White House claimed there had
been a threat ("real and credible," in flack Ari Fleischer's words) to Air Force
One. There was none. All the 9-11 Commission says of this phantom threat is
that it was the product of "a misunderstood communication."
6. Why Did 7 WTC Fall?
Seven World Trade Center - where, besides OEM, the CIA, Salomon Smith
Barney, and other entities had offices - was the last building to collapse on
9-11. It was also probably the first steel skyscraper anywhere to collapse solely
because of fire. We still don't know why. While NIST has completed its twin
towers reports, it has delayed its 7 WTC report twice; it's currently not
expected until next spring.
Several 7 WTC tenants, including OEM and the Secret Service, had tanks
filled with diesel fuel to power emergency generators. If that fuel leaked and
burned, it may have heated the building's steel supports to the point of
failure, but according to FEMA's report on the collapse this "best hypothesis has
only a low probability of occurrence."
====================================
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http://www.apfn.org/apfn/wtc.htm
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9-11 Attack on America
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