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This is being sent on behalf of [EMAIL PROTECTED] as part of the mailing list that you joined. List: emperorsclothes URL: http://www.emperors-clothes.com ------------------------------------------------------------ URL for this article: http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/faq2.htm Join our email list at http://emperors-clothes.com/f.htm. Receive about one article/day. We encourage readers to reprint and re-post any Emperor's Clothes article. Please include the article's Web address and author(s). www.tenc.net * [Emperor's Clothes] ============================================= FAQ #2: "You charge that the military was made to stand down on 9-11. But planes did scramble. They just arrived late." [Posted 3 January 2002] ============================================= ANSWER: This is the CBS cover story we mentioned in Section 1 of our Summary of Evidence. (1) According to this cover story, jets were scrambled from Otis Air Force Base on Cape Cod to intercept Flight 11, the first plane that crashed into the World Trade Center. Also, supposedly, jets were scrambled from Langley Air Force Base to intercept American Flight 77, the plane that crashed into the Pentagon. In both cases, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) supposedly called for the interceptors too late. Also, Otis AFB is about 185 miles from New York and Langley AFB is 129 miles from Washington, DC. So the interceptors supposedly had too far to travel. Dan Rather broadcast this cover story on the CBS 6:00 news, September 14th. This was the first time that anybody said planes were scrambled from Langley AFB on 9-11. We did a little research and found 31 references to Langley in the entire (worldwide) English-speaking mass media (newspapers & TV) between September 11th and 14th, prior to the CBS 6:00 News. Not one of these news reports mentioned Dan Rather's excellent new fact! How wonderful that fighter jets could be scrambled from Langley without a single military or administrative spokesperson having to be bothered! And how happy they all must have been to hear the news on CBS. Read the transcript of that CBS news program. You will see that Rather cites no source for his discovery. He just says, "CBS News has learned..." (2) Four (4) days later, without a word of explanation for the change, NORAD incorporated the CBS report in their official timeline. We will explore several problems with the CBS/NORAD cover story in soon-to-be-published sections of the Summary of Evidence. First, the move from "we didn't put planes up until after the Pentagon was hit," which was the official story until Sept. 13th, to "we put planes up before the first World Trade Center attack," was for the most part made during General Richard B. Myers' testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on September 13th. Second, if you read the transcript of that Senate hearing, (3) you can witness the new cover story being constructed right before your eyes. Under pressure from the Senators to come up with something convincing, Myers twice changed his testimony, putting forward three entirely different versions of what happened September 11th. Myers' last 'reality' was pretty close to what Dan Rather reported at 6 PM the next day. In between, Myers and the Senators went into a closed (i.e., secret) session. Here is an excerpt from Senator Bill Nelson's comments at the Armed Services Committee hearing. Note, if you will, the highly suggestive language, phrases like "Perhaps we want to do this in our session, in executive [i.e., secret] session," and "I leave it to you as to how you would like to answer it." He doesn't outright say, "Your cover story stinks." But he sure suggests it: BILL NELSON: Perhaps we want to do this in our session, in executive [i.e., secret] session. But my question is an obvious one for not only this committee, but for the executive branch and the military establishment. If we knew that there was a general threat on terrorist activity, which we did, and we suddenly have two trade towers in New York being obviously hit by terrorist activity, of commercial airliners taken off course from Boston to Los Angeles, then what happened to the response of the defense establishment once we saw the diversion of the aircraft headed west from Dulles turning around 180 degrees and, likewise, in the aircraft taking off from Newark and, in flight, turning 180 degrees? That's the question. I leave it to you as to how you would like to answer it. But we would like an answer." (4) The CBS/NORAD cover story did not successfully answer Nelson's questions. That is, since planes were flying into buildings, and since Washington, DC was the city most likely to be the next target, why would planes be scrambled all the way from Langley Air Force Base, 129 miles from Washington, as late as 9:30? Why wouldn't they be scrambled from Andrews Air Force Base, 10 miles from the Pentagon, at around 8:50, when the military knew that a hijacked plane had hit the World Trade Center? Or at 9:06, when, we are told, the FAA ordered all planes grounded, from Washington, DC to Cleveland! (5) The irrationality of the CBS/NORAD cover story supports our charge that the military was in fact ordered to stand down on 9-11. Emperor's Clothes Urgently Needs Your Help! [See Below] ************************************* Footnotes and Further Reading: ************************************* For more facts and analysis contradicting the official position on 9-11, see 'EMPEROR'S CLOTHES ARTICLES ON 9-11 * A GUIDE,' which can be read at http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/911page.htm Alternative address is http://emperor.vwh.net/indict/911page.htm (1) The "planes were scrambled from Langley" cover story was mentioned in Section 1: 'Why Were None of the Hijacked Planes Intercepted?' The following link takes you to the place where it is mentioned: http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-1.htm#faq2-1 (2) To read the new cover story floated by CBS on 14 September go to http://emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/changes.htm#a (3) Senate confirmation hearing on Gen. Richard B. Myers' nomination as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 13 September 2001 Full transcript at: http://emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/mycon.htm (4) Comments by Bill Nelson at Senate confirmation hearing on Gen. Richard B. Myers' nomination as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. 13 September 2001 http://emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/mycon.htm#faq2-3 (5) 'Newsday,' September 23, 2001, 'AMERICA'S ORDEAL; Where System Failed; Air attack on Pentagon indicates weaknesses,' by Sylvia Adcock, Brian Donovan and Craig Gordon. The direct link is http://emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/nd23.htm#1 Join our email list at http://emperors-clothes.com/f.htm. Receive about one article/day. Click here to email the link to this article to a friend. We encourage readers to reprint and re-post any Emperor's Clothes article. Please include the article's Web address and author(s). ======================================= Emperor's Clothes Urgently Needs Your Help! 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