mimo2005

How did the U.S. Air Force respond on 9/11? Could it have shot down United 93, as conspiracy theorists claim? Obtaining 30 hours of never-before-released tapes from the control room of NORAD's Northeast headquarters, the author reconstructs the chaotic military history of that day—and the Pentagon's apparent attempt to cover it up.



http://www.vanityfair.com/features/general/060801fege01








PS :So I listened and read it through carefully...

They basically were almost completly blind because of old technology and kept out of the loop by civilian authorities or only informed with delay. For the first half of the emergency they thought it was all an execercise and the info they were getting was just an 'input'. They only had a handful of fighters to cover the entire homeland and kept half of those fighters on the ground in reserve in case of a real emergency later on. They send the fighters they did actually get into the air after nonexistant phantoms and in one case succesfully managed to intercept themselves. By the time they got actually ready to do anything it was already all over.
This play-by-play of what our air defense system was doing that day, the information they did and didn't get in a timely fashion, is a pretty good argument for incompetence .

ebackhus

That's just... wow, man.

bry623

Learn from our past.