NORAD was working banker’s hours on 9-11, and the terrorists even struck during banker’s hours...and they were still hopeless to get anything flying (until the very end of the attack).
Thank goodness Russia, or even The Gambia, didn’t attempt to strike us back then.
Gorelick’s Wall didn’t help.
It is the policy of FR that there is nothing strange about the official government version of what happens on Tuesdays.
Apparently you are not aware of the nation wide ‘drill’/simulation fed into the FAA computers on 911 which created maximum confusion for the tracking of real targets ... agenda?
The Clinton Administration apparently with DOD backing took the US forces off of Ready Alert status, esp. fighters which is why there were no fighters at Andrews Air Force Base or Bolling Field in nearby Maryland, nor at the Glenn Martin NG base at Middle River east of Baltimore.
Jets had to come from far away Langley AFB in southern Virginia and arrived too late to do anything.
Not even a helicopter was armed at the Pentagon (I live a few miles away). Nobody was on the roof with AA missiles (Stingers, Blowpipes or peashooters).
While some stand down from nuclear alert was logical following the so-called collapse of the Soviet Union regarding B-52’s on constant airborne alert, there was absolutely no reason for THERE NOT TO BE A CONTINUAL ARMED FIGHTER AIRBORNE ALERT IN PRACTICE.
This is one of the Clinton Administration’s least know military downgrading scandals.
I got my information directly from a military person involved in that process, and he was not happy the way the Stand Down was planned or executed.
That is why 9/11 happened so successfully. NOT A DAMNED ARMED PLANE OUT OF BOSTON OR NEW YORK OR NEW JERSEY, PENNSYLVANIA, DELAWARE OR MARYLAND WAS OPERATIONAL.