The fact that the guy had promised the union he would destroy it leads me to believe that the concern was over matters of individual performance or neglect. I just can't figure out how a controller's neglect could have affected 9/11. Anyone have an idea? Was the ATC to blame for allowing (by not sounding the alarm fast enough) the two WTC planes so close to NY? I don't know. But I don't think this has anything to do with any shoot-down.
"Was the ATC to blame for allowing (by not sounding the alarm fast enough) the two WTC planes so close to NY? I don't know. But I don't think this has anything to do with any shoot-down." For comparison, we now know that the charter jet golfer Payne Stewart and his entourage died on was intercepted within 15 minutes of the controllers losing radio contact with the cockpit.
Supposedly NORAD has protocols for immediately scrambling when a commercial plane departs from its flight plan or loses radio contact with the tower. Yet these loaded airliners were off-course and unaccounted for for 45 minutes over the most densely populated airspace in the country.
It doesn't sound like "shoot-down" but "stand-down".