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GUILTY FOR 9-11, SECTION 3: BUSH IN THE OPEN
by Illarion Bykov and Jared Israel
[Posted 18 January 2002]
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We have demonstrated that normal air safety and air defense measures were not employed
on September 11th. This is extraordinary because 9-11 was the only day that four
airplanes were hijacked in the U.S., not to mention the only day that three planes
crashed into key buildings in New York City and Washington, DC. (1)
We have argued that this stand-down of the air protection systems could not have
occurred absent the involvement of top officials. We have named George Walker Bush,
Donald Rumsfeld and General Richard B. Myers.
Why these three men?
Authority in the U.S. military stems from a person's position in the military
chain-of-command. The President and the Secretary of Defense are the two top positions
in the military chain-of-command. The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is part of
the communications chain and can be given specific responsibilities by the President
and/or Secretary of Defense. (1a) On 11 September, George Bush was President. Donald
Rumsfeld was Secretary of Defense. And General Richard B. Myers was Acting Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
These three men had critical responsibilities for the protection of New York and
Washington, DC that day. According to the information which is publicly available,
they shirked their duties.
Their behavior, as described in the media, presents the appearance of bewilderment,
naivet� and lack of preparedness. But we shall prove this appearance was contrived.
Let us begin at the top of the chain-of-command.
GEORGE WALKER BUSH.
On 9-11 President Bush was in Sarasota, Florida on the second day of a two-day tour.
Bush's plans for that day were publicly known in advance. (2)
Many people are confused concerning what President Bush knew and when he knew it that
morning.
The reason for this confusion is that, later on, Ari Fleischer, Bush's press
secretary, Richard Cheney, his Vice President and President Bush himself issued
contradictory accounts of what Bush did that morning.
Fortunately, newspaper and TV people were with President Bush in Florida on September
11. Their eyewitness reports paint a clear picture.
In this section of the Summary of Evidence, we will:
* a) establish what Bush and his staff knew prior to his entering the classroom at the
Booker School and
* b) consider some implications.
In future sections we will examine Bush's actual visit to the Booker School and his
departure from Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport in Florida later that morning.
We will also examine the cover stories floated, later on, by Fleischer, Cheney and by
President Bush himself.
BUSH KNEW ABOUT THE FIRST CRASH BEFORE ENTERING BOOKER SCHOOL
Associated Press reporter Sonya Ross was one of the journalists covering Bush's trip
to Florida on the morning of 9-11. Ms. Ross was either on her way to the Booker School
or already there when she learned of the first WTC crash:
"My cell phone rang as President Bush's motorcade coursed toward Emma E. Booker
Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla. A colleague reported that a plane had crashed into
the World Trade Center in New York. No further information.
"I called the AP desk in Washington, seeking details. Same scant information. But I
knew it had to be grim. I searched for a White House official to question, but none
was on hand until 9:05 a.m. " AP 12 September (3)
Ms. Ross 'searched for a White House official' because she knew Bush's people would be
better informed than the Associated Press.
BUSH TRAVELS WITH A POWERFUL STAFF
President Bush is not an ordinary person. He travels with an entire staff. They are
responsible for receiving, filtering and conveying administrative and military
information. Chief of Staff Andrew Card organizes and coordinates these staff members
and communicates with the President. In addition, Bush has the Secret Service, which
is responsible for his safety.
The members of this support team have the best communications equipment in the world.
They maintain contact with, or can easily reach, Bush's cabinet, the National Military
Command Center (NMCC) in the Pentagon, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and
Secret Service agents who have stayed behind at the White House, etc.
Since Ms. Ross heard about the first WTC crash while the Bush motorcade was speeding
to the Booker School, common sense dictates that Mr. Bush knew earlier and knew more.
ABC journalist John Cochran was traveling with the President. He reported on this very
matter on ABC TV on Tuesday morning:
"Peter, as you know, the president's down in Florida talking about education. He got
out of his hotel suite this morning, was about to leave, reporters saw the White House
chief of staff, Andy Card, whisper into his ear. The reporter said to the president,
'Do you know what's going on in New York?' He said he did, and he said he will have
something about it later. His first event is about half an hour at an elementary
school in Sarasota, Florida."
'ABC News' Special Report (4)
So Bush knew about the first WTC incident before leaving his hotel.
What else did he know?
1) John Cochran reports that President Bush did not respond to Andrew Card. It is
inconceivable that a living person could be told that a plane had just ploughed into
the biggest building in New York and have no response. So Bush must have known before
Card whispered in his ear.
2) This is confirmed by the fact that shortly after Card spoke to him, Bush told a
reporter that he would make a statement later. Bush would not have said that without
discussing the situation with his Chief of Staff and others.
DID BUSH KNOW THE WTC CRASH WAS A TERRORIST ATTACK?
This question is answered by something Vice President Richard Cheney revealed,
probably unwittingly, on MEET THE PRESS, Sunday, September 16th.
Even without John Cochran's report on ABC, Cheney's comments constitute evidence that
before President Bush went to the Booker School he knew a plane had been hijacked and
then crashed into the WTC.
Cheney was talking with MEET THE PRESS journalist Tim Russert about the flight path of
American Flight 77, which struck the Pentagon. Here's the exchange:
"VICE PRES. CHENEY: ...As best we can tell, they [American Flight 77] came initially
at the White House and...
"MR. RUSSERT: The plane actually circled the White House?
"VICE PRES. CHENEY: Didn't circle it, but was headed on a track into it. The Secret
Service has an arrangement with the F.A.A. They had open lines after the World Trade
Center was... "
"MR. RUSSERT: Tracking it by radar.
"VICE PRES. CHENEY: And when it entered the danger zone and looked like it was headed
for the White House was when they grabbed me and evacuated me to the basement...
(Etc.)" MEET THE PRESS Transcript (5)
It appears that Cheney may have blurted out the crucial fact that the Secret Service
had an open line to the FAA, then realized he was talking too much and stopped before
completing his sentence. But if he did indeed talk too much, he also stopped talking
too late. It is obvious that the sentence should have ended with the word 'hit' or
something similar. Thus:
"The Secret Service has an arrangement with the F.A.A. They had open lines after the
World Trade Center was hit."
The Secret Service had a special connection with the FAA so that it could rapidly
access information relevant to the President's safety. After the first WTC attack, the
connection between the FAA and the Secret Service was elevated to the level of open
lines.
(In a similar fashion, orders issued by the FAA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff require
heightened contact between the FAA and the National Military Command Center (NMCC)
during hijackings. See 'Guilty for 9-11, Section 2: Cheney's Cover Story ') (6)
Therefore, by the time American Flight 11 crashed into the World Trade Center, around
8:46, and most likely before that happened, the Secret Service knew what the FAA knew.
So, what did the FAA know?
The FAA admits that at 8:20 it 'suspected' that American Flight 11 had been hijacked.
(7) And according to the official story released Sept. 14th:
"8:40 [the] FAA notifie[s] NEADS (the Northeast Air Defense Sector) of NORAD, the
military's civil defense system, about Flight 11, [i.e., that it had been hijacked.]"
Newsday 23 September 2001 (7)
Therefore, based on the official story, the Secret Service knew by 8:40 or before that
Flight 11 had been hijacked. And since the FAA was tracking Flight 11, as was the
National Military Command Center, which is notified of hijackings and has access to
radar from all over the country, (8) it is definite that at 8:46 the Secret Service
knew a hijacked plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.
So according to the official story, before the President entered the Booker School,
indeed, apparently before he left his hotel, the Secret Service knew that, for the
first time in US history, the country had been attacked by terrorists from the air.
The job of the Secret Service is to protect the President and Vice President. Here's
how Richard Cheney described the response of Secret Service agents when they thought
he might be in danger:
"...under these circumstances, they just move. They don't say "sir" or ask politely.
They came in and said, "Sir, we have to leave immediately," and grabbed me and...
"MR. RUSSERT: Literally grabbed you and moved you?
"VICE PRES. CHENEY: Yeah. And, you know, your feet touch the floor periodically. But
they're bigger than I am, and they hoisted me up and moved me very rapidly down the
hallway, down some stairs, through some doors and down some more stairs into an
underground facility under the White House, and, as a matter of fact, it's a corridor,
locked at both ends..."
NBC MEET THE PRESS 16 September 2001 (9)
Here is what we can state with certainty:
1) Before President Bush left his hotel, the Secret Service knew a hijacked plane had
ploughed into the World Trade Center, a building that symbolized US power.
2) The President is the most obvious individual target for a terrorist attack.
3) The President was scheduled to visit the Booker School that morning. The visit was
of no importance - that is, he could easily cancel it. His schedule was publicly
known, down to the time he would give a talk at the school - 9:30. (10)
4) Assuming the official story was entirely true, there was every reason to believe
that a terrorist had flown a plane into the WTC. Therefore, of course, a terrorist
might fly a plane into the Booker School to kill Bush - arguably a bigger victory than
ramming the WTC. And if the WTC attack signaled the start of a broader terrorist
attack, it was certainly possible that heavily armed terrorists would attack the
Booker School on the ground.
HERE IS THE BURNING QUESTION:
Given the Secret Service's obligation to protect the President;
Given the Secret Service's open line to the FAA and therefore its knowledge that a
plane had been hijacked and subsequently ploughed into the World Trade Center;
Given the potentially deadly threat to President Bush if he proceeded to a public
place, on schedule, as announced the day before and known to everyone in the region;
There is only one explanation for the Secret Service allowing President Bush to take
the deadly risk of going to the Booker School on the morning of September 11th.
George Walker Bush knew the plans for 9-11. And because he knew those plans, he knew
that nobody was going to attack the Booker School.
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FOOTNOTES:
1) The stand-down of U.S. forces on 9-11 was first documented in Section 1: 'Guilty
for 9-11: Bush, Rumsfeld, Myers, Section 1: Why Were None of the Hijacked Planes
Intercepted?'
[Posted 14 November 2001] It can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-1.htm
For links to many Emperor's Clothes articles on 9-11, please go to:
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/911page.htm
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1a) See 'CHAIN OF COMMAND of the U.S. MILITARY' which can be read at
http://emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/chainof.htm
2) Regarding public knowledge of Bush's plans for 9-11, See Sarasota Herald-Tribune,
September 11, 2001 Tuesday All Editions - Pg. A10 [HEADLINE:] 'Lessons for the
president; In visit to Sarasota school, he should look beyond the photo-op' can be
read at http://emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/sarasota.htm#a
3) The Associated Press Wednesday 12 September 2001 "Flying with President Bush on a
day terrorists hit hard" by Sonya Ross. For link to exact quote, in context, go to:
http://emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/ap912.htm#quote)
4) ABC News Special Report 'Planes crash into World Trade Center' (8:53 AM ET) Tuesday
11 September 2001
For link to exact quote, in context, go to
http://emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/abc911.htm#mybust
5) For link to exact quote, in context, go to 'NBC, Meet the Press' (10:00 AM ET)
Sunday 16 September 2001.
http://emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/nbcmp.htm#openlines
Original transcript of MEET THE PRESS can be read at:
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/629714.asp?cp1=1 )
6) To go direct to reference to FAA, NORAD NMCC communications during hijackings, see
'Guilty for 9-11, Section 2: Mr. Cheney's Cover Story''
[Posted 20 November 2001]
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-2.htm#a
7) Newsday 23 September 2001, 'Air Attack on Pentagon Indicates Weaknesses' by Sylvia
Adcock, Brian Donovan and Craig Gordon
For link to references go to
http://emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/nd923.htm#faa840norad
Original at:
http://www.newsday.com/ny-uspent232380681sep23.story
8) Regarding the NMCC's access to radar all over the U.S., see 'Guilty for 9-11,
Section 2: Mr. Cheney's Cover Story''
[Posted 20 November 2001]
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-2.htm#b
(9) For link to exact excerpt, in context, go to
http://emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/nbcmp.htm#grabdick
original at:
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/629714.asp?cp1=1 )
(10) FEDERAL NEWS SERVICE ADVANCE SCHEDULE FOR TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 For FNS
report that it will be taping President Bush at 9:30 at the Booker School, go to
http://emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/fns930.htm
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