"Additionally, the next glaring failure
of our very, very expensive federal government, was the fact that they had
over an hour to send up Air Force fighter planes to bring the airliners down
to reduce the number of potentially lost lives."
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More 9-11 Baloney
ASKING THE RIGHT QUESTIONS OF THE WRONG PERSON, OR VICE VERSA
Posted June 7, 2004 thepeoplesvoice.org
By: Ted Lang
Amid the distractions of Geneva Convention violations and U.S. Military war
crime policies designed by our Secretary of War, Donald H. Rumsfeld, and
Undersecretary for Intelligence, Stephen Cambone, along with legal guidance
from the Attorney General of the United States, John Ashcroft, the American
people have been distracted from the 9-11 baloney produced by the Kean
Commission antics, which serve as yet another cover-up for the criminal Bush
administration.
While we are all being distracted by the Nazi-type war crimes engineered and
produced by our Pentagon under the leadership of the Bushies, the 9-11 Kean
Kangaroo Commission had former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani on the
make-believe inquisitor's rack asking the right questions of the wrong
individual - or was it the wrong questions of the right individual?
Of what value are any of the proceedings absent the basic inquiries and
answers regarding irrefutable evidence as to both the perpetrators and their
motives? And right behind those inquiries, the very next in line should be
why our Department of Defense was unable to defend US for over an hour while
four "bogies" were on the radar screens of both Air Traffic Control and
NORAD. Former New York City Mayor Giuliani's testimony is totally worthless
without this basic foundation needed for a really meaningful investigatory
effort that could provide even a modicum of useful lessons-learned
information. It is against this backdrop of total phoniness that the
context of questions directed at Giuliani must be weighed.
Yet, even within the narrow constraint of answering federal inquiries as
regards local New York City emergency response communications, members of
the public that attended those proceedings, some being relatives of victims
and emergency response workers whose lives were lost in the federal
government screw-up that was 9-11, angry voices pointed out the City's
incompetence as well.
Kangaroo commission member John Lehman, a former Secretary of the Navy, and
a former staffer in the National Security Council under Henry Kissinger,
laced into Giuliani offering that New York City's communications systems
were in emergency-based disarray. Now let me be clear here: I don't like
New York City nor do I like Rudy Giuliani and the police state fascism that
he employed while mayor; but fair is fair.
If Lehman, a high-level former Secretary of the Navy, wishes to point
fingers, maybe the right place to start is with the United States Department
of Defense, the operation HE was part of; since when is the mayor of a city
responsible for national defense? The most glaring failure of 9-11 is the
fact that the United States government had in their possession all the facts
they needed to have prevented 9-11. Additionally, the next glaring failure
of our very, very expensive federal government, was the fact that they had
over an hour to send up Air Force fighter planes to bring the airliners down
to reduce the number of potentially lost lives. How about answers to those
questions Mr. Lehman and Commissioner Kean?
Back in April, a small private aircraft strayed only slightly off course and
encroached in protected air space near the Bush ranch while the president
was there for the Easter holiday. Instantly, U.S. Fighter jets, note the
plural, intercepted the aircraft and ordered it to land. The corporate
media were very reluctant to report this, and then did so with the utmost
economy of words. "There was a violation - the fighters did respond,"
offered the Secret Service.
All aircraft that I am familiar with, including small private planes, are
equipped with transponders. These are transmitters that send a signal that
can be monitored and confirmed via radar. Air Traffic Control, and North
American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, both have advanced radar
monitoring systems, and it can be safely assumed that the NORAD system is of
the highest state of technical and operational capability. Apparently,
transponders can be shut off, as was the case with the four hijacked
airliners on September 11, 2001. When those transponders stopped
transmitting, the four "blips" on both ATC and NORAD radar systems converted
to bogies.
These bogies not only deviated from their accepted air lanes or merely
strayed only slightly off course, as in the case of the tiny private
aircraft in Bush ranch-restricted airspace, but also navigated violent and
sudden course departures that would at least have sent an air traffic
controller into immediate cardiac arrest. And keep in mind that these were
four huge airliners, not quite as large as a Boeing 747, which weighs 70
tons, that being equivalent in weight to the statue portion of the Statue of
Liberty, but very large nevertheless.
According to a reader who served in the military the same time I did, but
across the street at McGuire Air Force Base while I was doing Army basic
training at Fort Dix, New Jersey, "We always had two aircraft on the ground
and fully operational with fuel and weapons, ready to protect New York City
and the Northeast Corridor." He stated that the fighter planes, back then,
F106s, could intercept a New York City fly-by of an unknown aircraft in less
than fifteen minutes, supported by a chain of command authorized to give
"shoot down" orders.
Here's a question from the former Air Force serviceman: "Flight 11 was way
off course, transponder off, and then executed a hard 90 degree bank and
turn south from Albany. Why didn't the Air Force scramble at least one
recon aircraft to monitor? Why no recon on any of the first three flights?
Let's look at the second plane. It was 18 minutes until it hit the second
building. This plane flew over and past the City, and somewhere around
Newark, New Jersey, it performed a 180-degree come about, and then returned.
Didn't they [NORAD and Air Traffic Control] know they had hijacked planes in
the air?"
The former Airman offers: "An F-15 Strike Eagle is capable of a maximum
airspeed of 1,850 mph, or Mach 2.5." Deployed from McGuire at only Mach 2,
the Eagle would have intercepted the bogie in seven minutes. There was
ample time to block the 18-minute second run at the World Trade Center. He
points out that the Pentagon "crash" took place 40 minutes after WTC 2.
Are these questions that should be answered? More to the point, why aren't
they being asked? And the Bush sycophants and apologists keep shrugging
them off as though they aren't even slightly relevant. But Iraq is?
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© THEODORE E. LANG 5/30/04 All rights reserved.
Ted Lang is a political analyst and a freelance writer.
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