A brief sampling of exactly how lucky the terrorists responsible for 9/11 must have been. This is by no means complete, just a somewhat random sampling with sourced material on some the FAA/DoD connecting dots.
So... Ben Sliney's first day on the job
1 at the FAA, John Jumper's first day on his new job as Air Force Chief of Staff at the Pentagon
23, Capt. Leidig fills in for Winfield during the key time period at the NMCC
4 (after qualifying to stand in in August; was it his first time as well?), Mike Canavan, the FAA's hijack coordinator
5, is in Puerto Rico and no one can get a straight answer on who the designated hijack coordinator was on 9/11. The NEADS audiotape won't play. Then an outside contractor gets it to play, giving us a whole new "official story".
6 An anonymous FAA Quality Assurance offical crushes, cuts up and distributes into several trash cans a tape of ATC's experiences on 9/11, which reportedly had never been listened to, transcribed or duplicated.
7 I guess that's a pretty final statement, huh?
Additionally,
The lack of adequate forensic capabilities for maintaining logs, video
and audio recordings, and storing radar information was a contributing factor to the inaccurate
testimony. Individuals responsible for reporting on the response to the attacks were impeded
because there were no standardized logs. The ability of DoD to accurately report on events was
also affected by inadequate audio recording capabilities. Within DoD, available audio
recordings of activities within the Air Defense Command centers were not easily accessible for
review. In addition, DoD officials did not use the transcripts, even when available, to prepare the
press releases and subsequent testimony to the Commission.8
War games and exercises all over the place- including the NRO (whose employees are conveniently sent home before the Pentagon gets hit), UN General Assembly scheduled to open in NYC on 9/11, IMF World Bank NSSE coming up in a week or two in DC... and to top it all off, the Pentagon has inadequate forensic capabilities... I wonder why those lucky terrorists picked the 60th anniversary of ground breaking on the Pentagon instead of waiting a couple of weeks and trying to hit the IMF/World Bank meeting and the UN General Assembly's General debate while Bush and Powell were there.
I guess the terrorists must have known just how far they could push their luck, huh? Bringing down 3 skyscrapers with only 2 planes and hitting the accountants and budget analysts in the Pentagon is pretty darned lucky if you ask me... the match begins tomorrow
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Notes:
1 http://www.usatoday.com/news/sept11/2002-0...er-daytwo_x.htm2 http://www.af.mil/bios/bio.asp?bioID=59863 http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/...1001324,00.html4 http://www.9-11commission.gov/hearings/hea...%20leidig%22%225 http://s15.invisionfree.com/Loose_Change_F...showtopic=135596 http://www.9-11commission.gov/archive/hear..._2004-06-17.htm7 http://www.oig.dot.gov/StreamFile?file=/da...s/cc2004003.pdf8 http://www.dodig.osd.mil/Ir/reports/DoDIG_...06_INTEL_12.pdf9 http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/20...ro-day-usat.htm
