[SoCalPol]

You are twisting yourself into a knot trying to prove your fringe outlook.
Keep trying, it is sort of amusing.

[gov_bean_ counter]

Sorta makes you wonder, under what circumstances would this president have been awakened?

Apparently the initial assumption now is not that an action like this one spoke but an isolated incident not worthy of any CIC action.

[Eagle Eye]

Based on the article, the attacker was subdued in the air and taken into custody on the ground. He claimed to be part of a world wide terror organization but investigators could not verify those claims.

So based on this information you think that the president needs to immediately know that they don’t really know anything?

No confirmed terrorist attack, no confirmed ties to AQ, no significant injury or damage to the plane, crew or passengers....so what was there that was critical to tell the president that MAYBE the VP could have handled?