[aristeides]

Either the jets were ordered to stand down (get your tinfoil hats on!) or the military was asleep at the switch and thus criminally negligent.

I heard parts of the hearing on C-SPAN yesterday. It turns out there was a NORAD exercise the morning of 9/11. I suspect initial reports of what was going on that morning were discounted as being part of the exercise.

But that raises the question: how were the terrorists able to learn and take advantage of the timing of that exercise? Just as we've had to wonder how they later that morning showed knowledge of White House codes and communication procedures.

[ItisaReligionofPeace]

They didn't have knowledge of the exercise. You give them way too much credit. They didn't have knowledge of white house codes either.

[swarthyguy]

OK, think of that muslim FBI agent, who refused to wear a wire and was then assigned to Saudi, subsequently becoming the counter terror liason with the Saudi security services.

In Woodward's book, he describes how a call was received saying "Angel is next". Angel was the then codeword for AF1. How would the jihadis have found that out?

Was it this FBI agent?

"God, there's more, there's so much more"....FBI agent on 20/20 talking about miscreant muslim FBI agents and the stonewalling and covering up and protecting of the Saudis done by high levels of the US government.

[thinden]

It turns out there was a NORAD exercise the morning of 9/11. I suspect initial reports of what was going on that morning were discounted as being part of the exercise.

very similar M.O. to:

1. Naval Live Fire Exercise below FAA W-105 on 7/17/1996
2. BATF operation "Dipole Might"; spring of 1995