Posted on 09/02/2006 6:16:03 AM PDT by mware
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Sen. Mark Dayton, D-Minn., charged on July 31 that the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) have covered up "catastrophic failures" that left the nation vulnerable during the Sept. 11 hijackings.
"For almost three years now, NORAD officials and FAA officials have been able to hide their critical failures that left this country defenseless during two of the worst hours in our history," Dayton declared during a Senate Governmental Affairs Committee hearing.
During the hearing, Dayton told leaders of the Sept. 11 commission, that, based on the commission's report, a NORAD chronology made public a week after the attacks was grossly misleading. The chronology said the FAA notified the military's emergency air command of three of the hijackings while those jetliners were still airborne. Dayton cited commission findings that the FAA failed to inform NORAD about three of the planes until after they had crashed.
And, he said, a squadron of NORAD fighter planes that was scrambled was sent east over the Atlantic Ocean and was 150 miles from Washington, D.C., when the third plane struck the Pentagon - "farther than they were before they took off."
Dayton said NORAD officials "lied to the American people, they lied to Congress and they lied to your 9/11 commission to create a false impression of competence, communication and protection of the American people." He told Kean and Hamilton that if the commission's report is correct, President Bush "should fire whoever at FAA, at NORAD ... betrayed their public trust by not telling us the truth."
Asked about Dayton's allegation, a spokesman for Colorado Springs-based NORAD said, "We stand on our testimony to the commission" and declined to discuss the 2001 chronology. Erin Utzinger, a spokeswoman for Dayton, said the senator "assumes the FAA knew of NORAD's coverup."
In the weeks ahead, we will be presenting a complete treatment of the old NORAD timeline and of "The Emperor's New Timeline" as spelled out in the Kean Commission report. This will be part of a series exposing the many Omissions of the Commission.
NORAD's job has always been to look OUT, not IN. The FAA is a different matter, and INS should get a lot of the blame.
It's amazing isn't it... and the suckers will buy it!
I blame the terrorists.
Since the Clinton's were co-presidents.
I should have said:
The Legacy of the Clinton's.
Is there anyone except for moonbats who believe that, prior to 8:48 AM on 9/11/01, that they would have accepted a policy of NORAD fighters on constant CAP over CONUS, ready to shoot down passenger jets flying off of an assigned airway?
No Intent to Mislead Panel Found In Aviation Officials' 9/11 Errors
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1694355/posts
Well those moonbats include quite a few college professors.
If you read some of the pre-911-01 Congressional Intel Committee reports (they are online on the governmental websites), 9-11 attacks shouldn't have been that great a surprise to our 'illustrious' elected.
Reports of al-Qaeda, bin Laden, and similar terror groups were discussed in those even in the mid-1990s. [Of course, you have those like presidential candidate John Kerry, who actually co-chaired an Intel committee -- but admitted he never attended any meetings.]
After the 911 attacks our 'elected' played dumb to save their own political hides, and our appointed/Civil Service governental officials played dumb to save their appointements/Civil Service positions.
Cover-up is the second biggest ongoing event in government; the first being porkbarrell graft and corruption. They get elected to service the people, but they quickly change to serving themselves. How many 'elected' ever went to Washington 'of modest means' and retired with untold wealth -- on Congressional pay?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/01/AR2006090101498.html
Zinser's report blames the erroneous statements on a series of innocent mistakes, including an erroneous entry in an early FAA timeline and an assumption by some officials that others would correct the record once the errors became clear.
I joined the Young Republicans back in 1970
I got to see politicians and their "hanger ons" up close
What a revelation
All they care about is being elected and stayin power
And that was the GOP who I thought would be different than the left wing democrats
What BS
--and your candidate is?
Who lied about this?
sen. mark Dayton, D-Minn
Proving that being rich, very rich, and buying a seat in our government doesn't mean you have a brain in your head.
Zinser's report blames the erroneous statements on a series of innocent mistakes, including an erroneous entry in an early FAA timeline and an assumption by some officials that others would correct the record once the errors became clear.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/01/AR2006090101498.html
Not Jeb. Not Hillary. Not a Carter. Not a Reagan
Nor Robert Kennedy nor Teddy.
The Founding Fathers did not want a nobility or titles.
The Founding Fathers wrote a constitution to protect us from government, pure and simple.
Your statements about government hit the nail on the head.
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