[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Clinton covered up this terrorist attack because it might have thrown the '96 campaign into chaos.

Par for the course for the cowardly sociopath.

The small plane might have chickened out at the last moment or just missed. It is hard to hit another plane when you have a significant speed and climb rate disadvantage.

Simultaneous attacks, rocket and small aircraft, cobbled together. Sure sounds like an al-queda operation to me.

[Texagirl4W]

On 09/20/2001 JohnHuang2 posted an article about an interview that George Stephanopoulos had with Peter Jennings regarding President Bush being flown to Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska and taken to the situation room on the base where he could keep in touch with Washington by teleconferencing. Following is GS remark about why that was not necessary. (Sorry, JohnHuang2, I'm new to FR and not sure how to insert your entire post.)

"Stephanopoulos, implying that this was unnecessary, made this surprising statement: "There are facilities in the White House, not the normal situation room, which everyone has seen in the past, has seen pictures of. There is a second situation room, behind the primary situation room, which has video conferencing capabilities. The director of the Pentagon, the defense chief, can speak from a national military command center at the Pentagon. The Secretary of State can speak from the State Department, the president from wherever he is, and they'll have this capability for video conferencing throughout this crisis. In my time at the White House it was used in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing, in the aftermath of the TWA Flight 800 bombing, and that would be the way they would stay in contact through the afternoon."

I just wish someone could question GS about this statement and find out what he meant by saying "in the aftermath of the TWA Flight 800 bombing".