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President Bush on 9/11

By 8:50 it is known that three jets have been hijacked and his schedule is public knowledge !   Bush is informed at 9:05 about jets hitting WTC  while speaker at Booker school in Sarasota. President Bush became briefly somber and continued reading a story about a goat for a while.. Read this and then ask yourself why Bush - ( a prime target ) - is at a school - while  Cheney is in a bunker.

9:05

Timeline For 9/11/2001

8:50 - Bush knows three jets hijacked 9:03 - Bush knows two jets hit and a 3rd jet is hijacked - heading to Washington
Bush leaves hotel at 8:30              14.4 miles to school		9:55                Air Force One lifts off
		8:45 - 9:40                        Bush at a school

0759	American Airlines flight 11 (Boeing 767 with 24,000 gallons of fuel) takes off from Boston's Logan International Airport with 92 people aboard for Los Angeles.
0801	United Airlines flight 93 (Boeing 757 with 11,300 gallons of fuel) pushed back from the gate in Newark International Airport with 45 people aboard bound for San Francisco. They are 1 minute behind schedule but will sit on the ground for 40 minutes before taking off.
0813	Flight 11 gets instructions to turn 20 degrees to the right. Boston Control Center: "AAL11 turn 20 degrees right." Flight 11 responds: "20 right AAL11." [Moments later] Controller: "AAL11 now climb maintain FL350 [35,000 feet]." Controller: "AAL11 climb maintain FL350." Controller: "AAL11 Boston." There is no reply from Flight 11.
0814	United Airlines flight 175 (Boeing 767) takes off from Boston's Logan International Airport with 65 people aboard for Los Angeles.
0820	Flight 11 stops transmitting IFF beacon signal while over the Hudson River.
0820	American Airlines flight 77 (Boeing 757) departs Washington Dulles Airport near Washington with 64 people aboard for Los Angeles.
0824	Flight 11 broadcasts "We have some planes. Just stay quiet and you will be OK. We are returning to the airport. Nobody move." Apparently, one of the hijackers confused the aircraft's radio with its public-address system. Air traffic control responds "Who's trying to call me?" Then from Flight 11, "Everything will be OK. If you try to make any moves, you'll endanger yourself and the airplane. Just stay quiet."
0825	Boston Air Traffic Control notified several air traffic control centers that hijack is in progress.
0827	Flight 11 takes a sudden turn south, veering away from Albany towards New York City.
0827	Betty Ong, a flight attendant on Flight 11, calls American Airlines reservations from the seatback phone. "She said two flight attendants had been stabbed, one was on oxygen," said the the manager on duty. "A passenger had his throat slashed and looked dead and they had gotten into the cockpit." She identifies the seats of the hijackers and confirms that the plane is descending.
0830	Bush's motorcade left for the school
0833	Another transmission Flight 11, "Nobody move please. We are going back to the airport. Don't try to make any stupid moves."
0837	Flight 175 receives an unusual call asking them to locate Flight 11. The pilot responds, "Affirmative, we have him, uh, he looks, uh, about 20, yeah, about 29, 28,000 [feet]." Controllers tell 175 to make a right turn to avoid Flight 11.
0838	Boston air traffic center notifies NORAD that Flight 11 has been hijacked.
0841	Flight 175 transmits "We heard a suspicious transmission on our departure from B-O-S. "Sounds like someone keyed the mike and said, `Everyone, stay in your seats.'"
0842	Around this time Flight 175 is hijacked. It veers from it's course over New Jersey briefly continuing south before making a U-turn to the north, for New York City.
0842	Flight 93 finally takes off from Newark International Airport for San Francisco.
0843	FAA notifies NORAD that Flight 175 has been hijacked.
0844	Otis Air National Guard Base in Massachusetts orders two fighters scrambled.
0845	Flight 11 strikes the World Trade Center's north tower at about the 80th floor.
0846	President Bush was at an event at a Florida school on Sept. 11, when senior adviser Karl Rove told him at 8:46 a.m. that a plane had hit the north tower of the World Trade Center. "This is a pilot error," the president recalled saying.
0846	Flight 175 stops transmitting IFF beacon signal.
0847	the Secret Service knew a hijacked plane had crashed into the World Trade Center.
0847	NORAD informed of the plane striking the World Trade Center.
0850	United systems operations center receives word that a flight attendant from Flight 175 had called and said "Oh my God. The crew has been killed, a flight attendant has been stabbed. We've been hijacked." Then the line went dead.
0852	Two F-15 Eagles take off from Otis in effort to intercept hijacked plane(s) after first plane has struck the World Trade Center.
0856	Flight 77's transponder is shut off which reduced the ground's ability to track the aircraft's position. Air traffic control repeatedly calls "American 77 indy radio check, how do you read?"
0900	Around this time, United Airlines systems operations transmits a systemwide message, warning its pilots of a potential "cockpit intrusion". Flight 93, flying over western PA and into northern OH, replies "Confirmed".
0900	Last radar reading on Flight 175 is observed at an altitude of 18,000 feet, descending, with a ground speed of 480 knots.
0900	Flight 77 is seen making a 180 turn and heading back to Washington.
0902	Flight 175 - 2nd jet - strikes the World Trade Center's south tower at about the 60th floor. F-15 fighter jets from Otis are still 70 miles away.
0905	President Bush, in Sarasota, Florida, is reading to children in a classroom when his chief of staff, Andrew Card, whispers news of the attacks into his ear. Two jets hit and they know the Pentagon jet is heading to Washington !
0910	Around this time, experts believe Flight 93 was hijacked.
0916	FAA informs NORAD that Flight 93 may have been hijacked.
0916	The President continues talking was "talking about a reading program that works,"
0921	New York City Port Authority orders all bridges and tunnels in the New York City area closed.
0924	FAA notifies NORAD that Flight 77 may have been hijacked a full 28 minutes after its transponder was turned off. Controllers observe it moving toward Washington.
0924	NORAD orders jets scrambled from Langley Air Force Base in Virginia to head to intercept Flight 77.
0925	Air traffic controllers inform the US Secret Service as the Flight 77 makes a 360 degree turn just south of the Pentagon.
0925	Bush in school getting information while Air Force One is parked 5 minutes away	White house photo
0928	A keyed microphone aboard Flight 93 reveals someone in the cockpit saying, "Get out of here!"
0929	Jeremy Glick, a passenger on Flight 93, calls his wife and describes the hijackers and is informed about the attacks in New York.
	Bush meets privately with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, who briefs him. He delivers first remarks on the tragedy.
9:30	President Bush before television cameras declares: "We have had a national tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country."
0930	Three F-16 Fighting Falcons take off from Langley headed toward Washington area.
0935	Flight 93, near Cleveland, makes a 180 turn toward Washington.
0936	National Airport instructs a military C130 aircraft that had just departed Andrews Air Force base to intercept and identify Flight 77. The C130 reports it is a B767, moving low and very fast.
0937	Flight 77 is lost from radar screens.
0938	NORAD is informed that Flight 77 has struct the Pentagon. Other reports have it striking at 0943 or 0945. Fighters were still 105 miles and 12 minutes away.
0940	Transponder signal from Flight 93 ceases and radar contact is lost.
0942	Mark Bingham, a passenger on Flight 93, calls his mother. "Mom, this is Mark Bingham," he said, nervously. "I want to let you know that I love you. I'm calling from the plane. We've been taken over. There are three men that say they have a bomb."
0945	Todd Beamer, a passenger on Flight 93, trying to call his family gets patched through to a Verizon supervisor. He said that the pilot and copilot were apparently dead, 2 hijackers were in the cockpit, 1 was guarding 1st class and another was guarding 27 passengers at the rear of the plane. He says that they have voted to storm the hijackers and the supervisor hears before he hangs up "Are you guys ready? Let's roll."
0948	The Capitol and west wing of the White House are evacuated.
0949	F-16 fighter jets arrive over Washington, D.C. to perform Combat Air Patrol (CAP) over city. The fighters broke the sound barrier and traveled supersonic at 720 knots to Washington, making the approximately 130 miles in 14 minutes.
0949	The Federal Aviation Administration halts all flight operations at U.S. airports -- the first time in U.S. history.
0949	Pittsburgh International Airport flight tower is evacuated.
0950	South tower of the World Trade Center collapses.
0955	Bush takes off in Air Force One
0958	Confrontation with the hijackers and the passengers begins aboard Flight 93. Emergency dispatcher in Pennsylvania receives a call from a passenger on Flight 93. The passenger says: "We are being hijacked!"
1003	Unconfirmed report of State Department fire in Washington. Later confirmed not true.
1006	Flight 93 crashes into a field near Shanksville, PA. It had, experts believe, flipped over on its back and speared into the ground at about 575 mph. Other reports have this happening at 1010.
1008	Secret Service agents armed with automatic rifles are deployed into and clear Lafayette Park across from the White House.
1010	FAA orders all planes to land at nearest airports. FBI headquarters evacuated. "E Section" of Pentagon collapses.
1013	The United Nations building evacuates.
1024	The FAA reports that all inbound transatlantic aircraft flying into the United States are being diverted to Canada.
1029	North tower of the World Trade Center collapses.
1108	Canada shuts down all airports.
1204	Los Angeles International Airport, the destination of Flights 11 and 175, is evacuated.
1215	San Francisco International Airport, the destination of Flight 93 is evacuated and shut down.
1344	The Pentagon says five warships and two aircraft carriers (USS George Washington and USS John F. Kennedy) will leave Norfolk, Virginia to protect the East Coast from further attack and to reduce the number of ships in port.
1725	The 47-story Building 7 of the World Trade Center collapses after burning for a number of hours. Other nearby buildings in the area remain ablaze.

8:50 - Bush knows three jets hijacked 9:03 - Bush knows two jets hit and a 3rd jet is hijacked - heading to Washington
Bush leaves hotel at 8:30 14.4 miles to school
		9:55                              Air Force One lifts off
		8:45      Bush at school

Good background information

That’s two sets of proofs that question the famous whisper-in-the-ear at 9:05. Still not convinced? How about the typically garbled words of the President himself? From the transcript of a Town Hall session in Orlando, Florida on December 4th:

JORDAN (a third grader): “…how did you feel when you heard about the terrorist attack?” [applause]

THE PRESIDENT: “Thank you, Jordan. Well, Jordan…I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower -- the TV was obviously on. And I used to fly, myself, and I said, well, there's one terrible pilot…. But I was whisked off there, I didn't have much time to think about it. And I was sitting in the classroom, and Andy Card, my Chief of Staff…walked in and said, ‘A second plane has hit the tower, America is under attack.’ And, Jordan, I wasn't sure what to think at first.” 

"The Great Deception"

Part 1 of a multi-part series (Part 2 airs Jan 28)

Transcript of Mon., Jan. 21 2002 Broadcast

What really happened on Sept. 11 th ? "9/11 -- Part 1."

the startling events of September 11 th . Here’s what I want to know:

scramble in minutes?

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

"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.

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.

'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.

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.

"In Sarasota, Fla., Bush was reading to children in a classroom at 9:05 a.m. when his chief of staff,
Andrew Card, whispered into his ear. The president briefly turned somber before he resumed reading.
He addressed the tragedy about a half-hour later. " ['AP' Sept 12, 2001, our emphasis]

"President Bush listened to 18 Booker Elementary School second-graders read a story about a girl's pet goat
Tuesday before he spoke briefly and somberly about the terrorist attacks." -- Sarasota Herald-Tribune,
September 12, 2001 Wednesday, A SECTION; Pg. A20 HEADLINE: Bush hears of attack while visiting
Booker [Emperor's Clothes note: The school was Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla.]

But instead of going into an emergency meeting, he continued his visit to an elementary school, hearing about [a children's story about] goats.

Word of the tragedy first came to President Bush in the hallway of a school in Sarasota, Fla.,
moments after the first plane hit New York's World Trade Center. He went to a private room,
where he spoke by phone with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice; it appeared then
that the matter could be just a terrible accident.

Then, at 9:04 a.m., while Bush met with second-graders, staff chief Andrew H. Card Jr.
whispered in his ear that a second plane had struck. Bush's sunny countenance went grim.
After Card's whisper, Bush looked distracted and somber but continued to listen to the
second-graders read and soon was smiling again. He joked that they read so well, they
must be sixth-graders.

After huddling with advisers, Bush entered the school's media center for what was to have
been an education speech. He looked stunned, but by the time he reached the podium, he
was composed and at 9:30 a.m. delivered the chilling news of "an apparent terrorist attack
on our country."

Text: Bush on Plane Crashes

Following is the transcript of President Bush's speech on today's plane crashes. Bush was speaking from Sarasota, Fla.

BUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, this is a difficult moment for America. I unfortunately will be going back to Washington after my remarks. Secretary Rod Paige and the lieutenant governor will take the podium and discuss education.

I do want to thank the folks here at the Booker Elementary School for their hospitality.

Today we've had a national tragedy. Two airplanes have crashed into the World Trade Center in an apparent terrorist attack on our country. I have spoken to the vice president, to the governor of New York, to the director of the FBI, and I've ordered that the full resources of the federal government go to help the victims and their families and to conduct a full-scale investigation to hunt down and to find those folks who committed this act.

Terrorism against our nation will not stand.

And now if you join me in a moment of silence.

May God bless the victims, their families and America. Thank you very much.

(APPLAUSE)

Bush faces first major national crisis
Last Modified:
5:29 p.m. 9/11/2001

By Mike Allen and Hanna Rosin
The Washington Post

SARASOTA, Fla. -- Facing the first major national crisis of his administration, President Bush this morning condemned the "apparent terrorist attack" on the World Trade Center and ordered that the "full resources of the federal government" be deployed to "hunt down" the perpetrators.

"May God bless the victims, their families and America. Thank you very much," he said.

Bush's motorcade left for the school at 8:30 a.m. As it was arriving, pagers and cell phones alerted White House aides that a plane had hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Bush remembers senior adviser Karl Rove bringing him the news, saying it appeared to be an accident involving a small, twin-engine plane.

In fact it was American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 out of Boston's Logan International Airport. Based on what he was told, Bush assumed it was an accident.

That morning the president's key advisers were scattered. Cheney and Rice were at their offices in the West Wing. Rumsfeld was at his office in the Pentagon, meeting with a delegation from Capitol Hill. Powell had just sat down for breakfast with the new president of Peru, Alejandro Toledo, in Lima. Tenet was at breakfast with his old friend and mentor, former senator David Boren (D-Okla.), at the St. Regis Hotel, three blocks from the White House. Gen. Henry H. Shelton, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was halfway across the Atlantic on the way to Europe. Attorney General John D. Ashcroft was bound for Milwaukee. FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, on the job for just a week, was in his office at FBI headquarters on Pennsylvania Avenue.

Bush remembers exactly what he thought: "They had declared war on us, and I made up my mind at that moment that we were going to war."

A photo shows Bush's face with a distant look as he absorbed what Card had said. He nodded and resumed his conversation with the class. "Really good," he said before excusing himself and returning to the holding room. "These must be sixth-graders

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