Pentagon lied about 9/11
For more than two years after the attacks, officials with NORAD and the FAA provided inaccurate information about the response to the hijackings in testimony and media appearances. Authorities suggested that U.S. air defenses had reacted quickly, that jets had been scrambled in response to the last two hijackings and that fighters were prepared to shoot down United Airlines Flight 93 if it threatened Washington.
In fact, the commission reported a year later, audiotapes from NORAD’s Northeast headquarters and other evidence showed clearly that the military never had any of the hijacked airliners in its sights and at one point chased a phantom aircraft – American Airlines Flight 11 – long after it had crashed into the World Trade Center.</i>
While this story is news enough– that the Warren…oops, I mean 9/11 Commission found the Pentagons account of 9/11 to be so full of lies that they almost recommended that the Justice Department bring charges- the real story is, as always, what really happened?
And painting the reactions of our defense community as merely incompetent is a gross distortion of reality. Sure, they might be f’ups, but that doesn’t explain away the war games scheduled at the same time, for example.
