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SHOCKING VIDEO CLIPS OF BUSH AT BOOKER ELEMENTARY
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Q Had there been any warnings that the
President knew of?
MR.
FLEISCHER: No warnings.
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"I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go
in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower ...it
must have been a horrible accident.
And I was sitting in the classroom, and Andy
Card, my Chief of Staff, who is sitting over here, walked in and said,
'A second plane has hit the tower,
America is under attack.'
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knew I needed to act...one of the
first acts I did was to put our
military on alert," Bush.
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"President
Bush and his top advisers were
informed by the CIA early last August that terrorists associated with
Osama bin Laden had discussed the possibility of hijacking
airplanes, according to
reliable sources."
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"I don't think anybody could have predicted
that...they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile," National
Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.
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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.
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"Suicide
bomber(s) belonging to al-Qaida's
Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives ... into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the CIA, or
the White House."
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On the morning of Sept. 11, while at a school in
Sarasota Florida, President George W. Bush is told of the 2nd attack on
New York City. (Click photo for source.) |
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Florida under martial law?
WHO KNEW? Jeb Bush signed Florida TWO YEAR emergency order 4
days BEFORE ATTACK
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"In the early 1960s, America's top military
leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of
terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war
against Cuba." -ABC
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"I want the troops here to know that
I take
my job as the commander in chief very
seriously, that my most important job is to
protect America."
-Bush |
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"Anyway,
it was an interesting day."-Bush referring to
9/11 |
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"Lucky me.
I hit the trifecta." -Bush |
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"If this were a dictatorship, it'd be a heck of a
lot easier, just so long as I'm
the dictator." -
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"You are either with us or against us."
-Bush |
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"We must speak the truth about terror. Let us
never tolerate outrageous conspiracy theories concerning the attacks of 11 September - malicious
lies that attempt to shift the blame away from the terrorists themselves,
away from the guilty."
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Video of Bush morning of 9/11 at Booker
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THE
SHOCKING VIDEO OF BUSH AT BOOKER ELEMENTARY!
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The video is about 10 minutes long. The most
important part to watch is about 3 minutes into the video when Bush is
sitting down listening to the kids read. |
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NOTE: Watching this video is a must to fully understand
our allegations. |
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The video clips below show a
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"Bush is
spending a month's vacation at his ranch here, bringing with him a retinue of
aides, Secret Service agents and the White House press corps.
Bush is
on what the White House calls a "working vacation," meeting with senior staff between time spent
jogging and fishing on the 1,600-acre ranch." -CNN (8/07/01) |
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Bush knew of terrorist plot to hijack US
planes
In a top-secret
intelligence memo headlined 'Bin Laden determined to strike in the US',
the President was told on 6
August that the Saudi-born
terrorist hoped to 'bring the fight to America' in retaliation for missile
strikes on al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan in 1998.
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Q Is the President satisfied...with the
performance of the intelligence community...?
MR. FLEISCHER: ...clearly, something yesterday took place in
New York that was not foreseen, that we
had no specific information
about.
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"White House officials acknowledged that U.S. intelligence officials informed President
Bush weeks before the Sept.
11 attacks that bin Laden's
terrorist network might try to hijack American planes..."
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Bush's timeline on 9/11/01 |
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Note: This site is using these timeline sources for a
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Complete Timeline of President
George W. Bush on September 11, 2001.
White House Press Secretary Ari
Fleischer provided the following details of President Bush's day on
Tuesday, Sept. 11. All times are EDT.
9 a.m. Bush arrives at Sarasota, Fla.,
school for speech. White House chief of staff Andrew Card tells him
a
plane has crashed into the World Trade Center.
9:05
a.m. Bush
is visiting a second-grade class when Card whispers to him that a second
plane has struck the
towers. President delays plans to address the
tragedy, deciding to get more information first.
9:30
a.m. Bush
meets privately with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, who
briefs him. He delivers
first remarks on the tragedy.
10
a.m.
Aboard Air Force One en route to Louisiana, Bush calls Vice President Dick
Cheney and puts America's
military on a high alert status. Sifts
through reports from staff, including erroneous report that a car bomb
had
struck the State Department. Gets news that plane has crashed near
Pittsburgh.
11:40 a.m. Bush arrives at Barksdale Air Force Base, La.,
where he makes series of telephone calls from a
general's conference
room. Tells Cheney in telephone call, "It's the faceless coward that
attacks." He also talks
to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and New
York Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y.
1:15 p.m. Bush departs conference room for Air Force One
in a camouflaged Humvee. Talks to Cheney again
en route to Nebraska air
force base and schedules a 4 p.m. meeting of his national security staff.
Also talks to
New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and Gov. George Pataki. "I
know your heart is broken and your city is strained
and anything we can
do, let me know," Bush says.
3:07 p.m. Bush arrives at U.S. Strategic Command at
Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska.
4:36 p.m. Bush departs for Washington. En
route, he calls first lady Laura Bush and says, "I'm coming home,
see
you at the White House." Works with aides on his prime-time speech.
7
p.m. Bush
arrives at White House to prepare for address.
8:30 p.m. Bush speaks to nation (text
below).
8:35 p.m. Bush attends national security meeting.
10:21
p.m.
Meeting has ended. Secret Service radio squawks with news that Bush has
gone home to bed:
"Trailblazer. Second floor of the
residence."
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September 11, 2001: Timelines
President's Travels
9:00 A.M. - President George W. Bush arrives at Emma E.
Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida and is informed of the first
airplane crashing into the World Trade Center by chief of staff Andrew
Card.
9:05
A.M. - While
preparing for a photo op with a second grade class, chief of staff Andrew
Card gives President Bush news of the second
crash.
9:30 A.M. - President Bush is briefed by National Security
Advisor Condoleezza Rice.
9:31 A.M. - President Bush makes a short statement to
reporters.
9:54 A.M. - President Bush leaves Sarasota Bradenton
International Airport onboard Air Force One. His destination is kept
secret for security.
9:57 A.M. - President Bush calls Vice President Dick Chaney
and puts the American military on high-alert
status.
11:44 A.M. - President Bush arrives at Barksdale Air Force
Base near Shreveport, Louisiana.
1:04 P.M. - President Bush makes his second statement of
the day from Barksdale Air Force Base near Shreveport,
Louisiana.
1:38 P.M. - President Bush leaves Barksdale Air Force
Base.
3:07
P.M. -
President Bush arrives at U.S. Strategic Air Command at Offutt Air Force
Base near Omaha, Nebraska.
4:36 P.M. - President Bush leaves Offutt Air Force Base
near Omaha, Nebraska.
6:55 P.M. - President Bush arrives at the White
House.
8:30 P.M. - PresidentBush addresses the nation from the
Oval Office.
8:35 P.M. - President Bush attends a national security
meeting.
10:21 P.M. - The national security meetings ends and
President Bush heads to bed.
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Revealed: what really went on during Bush's 'missing
hours'
Three months
after the attacks on the Twin Towers there remains a mystery as to what happened to the
President that day. William
Langley pieces together the vital moments in the transformation of a
presidency.
-Telegraph.co.uk (12/16/01) |
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America's Chaotic Road to War
Bush's Global Strategy Began to Take Shape in
First Frantic Hours After Attack
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Is it just a
coincidence that Bush was in FLORIDA the day of the
attack? |
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"...you're not going to believe what state I was
in when I heard about the terrorist attack. I was in Florida," said
Bush.
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The previous evening Mr Bush had dined beachside with his brother
Jeb, the governor of Florida,
the state that had, albeit
controversially, handed him the
presidency.
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6:30 a.m.
-President Bush rose early the
morning of Sept. 11, and went for
a four-mile run around the golf course at the Colony Beach and Tennis
Resort on Longboat Key, Fla., where he was staying.
On Bush's schedule that day was what White House aides call a "soft event"-reading to about 16 second-graders in Sandra Kay
Daniels's class at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in
Sarasota. The night before, Bush
had dined with his brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, former governor Bob
Martinez and other state Republicans. It was a relaxed evening, full of
joking and talk about politics, including some handicapping of Jeb Bush's
possible opponents in his 2002 reelection campaign.
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What are the odds that the school at where you teach gets a visit
from the President of the United States?
And then... what are the odds that the day the President
visits your school is a day that goes down in infamy?
He was with one of our 2nd gr. teachers,
listening to her kids doing a reading lesson, when his chief of staff came
in the classroom to lean over and whisper in his ear.
"The other World Trade Center Tower has been
slammed into by a second jet. We are under attack."
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Was there a
failed assassination
attempt on President Bush the morning of
9/11? |
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At about 6 a.m. Sept. 11, Longboat Key Fire Marshall Carroll Mooneyhan was
at the front desk of the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort as
Bush prepared for his morning
jog. From that vantage point,
Mooneyhan overheard a strange exchange between a Colony receptionist and
security guard.
A van occupied by men of Middle
Eastern descent had pulled up
to the Colony stating they had a
poolside interview with the president, Mooneyhan said. The self-proclaimed reporters
then asked for a Secret Service agent by name. Guards from security
relayed the request to the receptionist, who had not heard of either the
agent or plans for an interview, Mooneyhan said.
The receptionist gave
the phone over to a nearby Secret Service agent, who said the same thing
no one knew of an agent by that
name or of any poolside interview.
The agent told the occupants of the van to
contact the presidents public relations office in Washington, D. C., and
turned them away from the
premises, Mooneyhan
said.
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Why did
Jeb
Bush,
George W. Bush's brother, call up the National Guard
in Florida FOUR
days BEFORE the 9/11 attacks? |
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EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER 01-261
"WHEREAS, the Florida National Guard has the statutory responsibility to provide
support to law-enforcement personnel and emergency-management personnel
in the event of civil
disturbances or natural
disasters;"
Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida (9/07/01) |
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Florida under martial law?
WHO KNEW? Jeb Bush signed Florida TWO YEAR emergency order 4
days BEFORE ATTACK
WorldNetDaily investigated. The articles provided
links directly to the executive orders themselves, and these were exactly
as described. Bush, through Executive Order 01-261, had activated units of the Florida National Guard on
Sept. 7, four days before the
kamikaze assault on the Trade Center.
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Why did Jeb Bush
declare a state of emergency for Florida after the
attacks? |
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EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER 01-262, (Emergency Management)
WHEREAS, on September 11, 2001 a combination of persons unknown carried out a
series of terrorist acts resulting in the destruction of the World Trade
Center in New York City and an explosion at the Pentagon, costing the
lives of many persons and resulting in injuries to many more;
and
WHEREAS, the scale of the destruction and the coordination,
orchestration, and timing evident in these acts of terrorism suggest that
they may be part of a larger
pattern of acts of terrorism;
and
Section 1. - Because of the foregoing conditions,
I hereby declare that a state of
emergency exists in the State of Florida.
Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida
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His second
executive order, EO 01-262, did in fact delegate awesome powers to a
non-elected official, the interim head of the Division of Emergency Management, the agency responsible for implementing
Florida's Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan. Moreover, the governor
issued it shortly after the attacks, strongly suggesting he had been apprised of events
ahead of time and was ready
to sign the order with a stroke of his pen as soon as he received an
appropriate signal.
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FLORIDA EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY AFFAIRS > DIVISION OF
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On his return to the Colony, the President...sat down for the first routine intelligence briefing of the
day. It was 8 am.
The President's briefing appears to have
included some reference to the heightened terrorist risk reported throughout the
summer, but contained nothing
specific, severe or imminent enough to necessitate a call to Condoleezza
Rice, his 47-year-old National Security Adviser.
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8:20 a.m. |
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At 8:20 Bush said farewell to Murf Klauber and his daughter Katherine, the
Colony's general manager.
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8:30 a.m. |
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Bush's motorcade left for the school at 8:30
a.m.
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8:38 a.m. |
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8:38 a.m. - FAA notifies NORAD of a
hijacking. |
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8:43 a.m. |
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Why hasn't Bush
been informed yet by the FAA or NORAD about two planes being
hijacked? |
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8:43 a.m. - FAA notifies NORAD of a second
hijacking. |
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8:46 a.m. |
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8:46 a.m. - Flight 11 crashes into the North
WTC |
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What time did
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"The first sign something was
wrong Tuesday came just before the president stepped into a second grade
class at Emma E. Booker
Elementary School." -St. Petersburg Times (AP) 9/11/01 |
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9:00 A.M.
- President George W. Bush arrives
at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida and is informed of the first airplane crashing into
the World Trade Center by chief
of staff Andrew
Card.
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9 a.m.
Bush arrives at Sarasota, Fla., school for speech. White House
chief of staff Andrew Card tells
him a plane has crashed into the
World Trade Center.
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Did Bush learn
of the first plane crash before or after he entered the
school? |
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Mr Bush arrived at the school, just before
9am, expecting to be met by its
motherly principal, Gwen Rigell. Instead he was pulled sharply aside by the familiar, bulky figure of 51-year-old
Karl Rove, a veteran political fixer and trusted aide of
both Mr Bush and his father, George Sr.
Mr Rove,
a fellow Texan with an expansive manner and a colourful turn of phrase,
told the President that a large
commercial airliner (American Flight 11) had crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade
Centre. Mr Bush clenched his
teeth, lowered his bottom lip and said something inaudible. Then he went into the
school.
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might have been an accident - as
Bush has since said, he saw
footage of the crash on a TV in
the school "and I used to fly
myself, and I said: 'There's one terrible pilot. It must have been a
horrible accident.' " But Mr Bush
soon learnt that it wasn't.
-Telegraph.co.uk (12/16/01) |
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What did Bush
mean when he said he "saw" the first plane crash in the
WTC? |
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"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. I said, it must have been a horrible
accident," Bush
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"Anyway, I was sitting there, and my Chief of
Staff -- well, first of all, when we walked into the classroom, I had seen this plane fly into the first
building. There was a
TV set on. And you know, I thought it was pilot error and I was
amazed that anybody could make such a terrible mistake. And
something was wrong with the plane, or -- anyway," Bush
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September 11, 2001 Bush glances at TV at Sarasota,
Fla. school after he was told of the attacks. (Click photo for
source.) |
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photos taken before or after Bush went into the classroom to
read? |
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As Director of Communications Dan Bartlett points
to news footage of the World Trade Center Towers burning, President George
W. Bush gathers information about the attack at Emma E. Booker Elementary
School in Sarasota, Fla., Sept. 11, 2001. Also photographed are Director
of White House Situation Room, National Security Council, Deborah Loewer
(directly behind the President) and Senior Advisor Karl Rove (right).
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President Bush and news coverage of the World
Trade Centre attack at the Emma Booker Elementary School in Florida on
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Did the Rear
Admiral Deborah Loewer, Director of the White House Situation Room,
suggest that the 1st crash might be an act of terrorism before Bush went
into the classroom? |
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Loewer, a
Springfield native who was raised in St. Joseph Parish, is currently the
director of the White House
Situation Room. She was the one who informed President George W.
Bush of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Captain Loewer traveled to Florida with
President Bush on Sept. 11 to visit a school. She received the message
from her deputy in the White House Situation Room about the plane crashing
into the first tower, and she
described running from her car in the motorcade to the president's car to
pass along the information.
Once
they reached the school, they
watched events unfold on television, along with others in America. A short
time later, she recognized the
attacks for what they were and
reported, "Mr. President, I think it's
terrorism."
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Ohio native Deborah Loewer was the first person to inform
President Bush that terrorism had
struck New York City the morning of Sept 11.
Loewer, 47, is
the director of the White House
Situation Room, the White House's
crisis-management center.
Normally, National Security Adviser Condoleeza
Rice would have informed President Bush of the attacks. But it was Loewer who had traveled with the
president on Sept. 11 to Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota,
Fla.
Shortly before 9
a.m., Loewer got a call telling
her that "an aircraft had impacted
the World Trade Center."
Loewer said that when she arrived at the school, she ran hard and fast
to the president.
Loewer told
the president and his chief of staff, Andrew Card, that an
aircraft had hit the World Trade Center.
"This is all we know," she told them.
Like most Americans, Loewer was watching television when the second
plane struck the second tower.
"I tell you, I was so stunned, as I'm
sure many of you were," Loewer recalled. "Well, it took me about 30
seconds to realize that this was terrorism."
She relayed that thought to Card, who then
whispered to the president,
"Capt. Loewer says it's
terrorism."
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Rear Admiral (Select) Deborah A. Loewer
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Director, White House Situation Room
Director, Systems
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his staff automatically think the 1st crash was just an accident when just
weeks before there were warned by our intelligence agencies of possible
hijackings? |
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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.
"This is pilot error," the president recalled saying. "It's unbelievable that somebody would do
this." Conferring with Andrew H.
Card Jr., his White House chief of staff, Bush said, "The guy must have had a heart
attack." -Washington Post
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White House officials acknowledged that U.S.
intelligence officials informed President Bush weeks before the Sept. 11
attacks that bin Laden's terrorist network might try to hijack American
planes, and that information
prompted administration officials to issue a private warning to
transportation officials and national security agencies.
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"Exactly two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, a
federal report warned the executive branch that Osama bin Laden 's
terrorists might hijack an airliner and dive bomb
it into the Pentagon or other
government buildings."
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"President Bush and his top advisers were informed
by the CIA early last August that terrorists associated with Osama bin
Laden had discussed the possibility of hijacking
airplanes, according to
reliable sources." -Washington Post |
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In response to inquiries from CBS News over
why Ashcroft was traveling
exclusively by leased jet aircraft instead of commercial
airlines, the Justice Department
cited what it called a "threat
assessment" by the FBI, and said
Ashcroft has been advised to travel only by
private jet for the
remainder of his term.
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Why did Bush
implement a military response when he just said he thought the 1st crash
was just an "accident" and how did he do that since he said he whisked off
and "didn't have time to think about it"? |
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"Immediately following the first
attack, I implemented our
government's emergency response plans. Our military is powerful, and it's
prepared." Bush
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"I said, it must have been a horrible
accident. But I was
whisked off there, I didn't have
much time to think about it."
Bush
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Why didn't
Condoleezza Rice, our National Security Advisor, get in touch with
the
FAA or NORAD right after the first plane crash in the
WTC? |
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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. -September 11
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About six blocks from the school, a news photographer overheard a radio
transmission. Press Secretary Ari Fleischer would be needed on arrival to
discuss reports of some sort of
crash. The radio also said that
Mr. Bush had a call waiting for
him at his holding room in the
school from national security adviser Condoleezza
Rice.
Mr. Fleischer told the press what Ms. Rice told
the president - a plane had just
hit the World Trade Center. Nobody knew how serious the situation
was.
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Normally, National Security Adviser Condoleeza
Rice would have informed President
Bush of the
attacks.
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Bush's staff postpone this "soft event" of no major importance after the
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"But I was whisked off there, I didn't have much time to think about
it," Bush.
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When he arrived at the school he had been whisked into a holding
room: National Security Adviser
Condoleezza Rice needed to speak to
him. But he soon appeared in the classroom and listened
appreciatively as the children
went through their reading drill.
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"And I was sitting in the classroom, and
Andy Card, my
Chief of Staff, who is sitting over here, walked in and said,
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under attack? |
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Bush is visiting a second-grade class when Card whispers to him that a second plane has struck the towers. President delays plans to address the
tragedy, deciding to get more
information first.
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chief of staff Andrew Card gives
President Bush news of the second crash.
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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.
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"In Florida, 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."
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Chief of Staff Andy Card whispers into the ear of
the President to give him word of the second plane crashing into the World
Trade Center, during a visit to the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in
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At 9:05
a.m., United Airlines
Flight 175, also a Boeing 767, smashed into the South Tower of the trade center. Bush was seated on a stool
in the classroom when Card whispered the news: "A second plane hit the second tower. America is
under attack."
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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At the moment the second plane was slamming into the south
tower, President Bush was being
introduced to the second-graders of Emma E. Booker Elementary in Sarasota,
Fla. When he arrived at the school
he had been whisked into a holding room: National Security Adviser
Condoleezza Rice needed to speak to him. But he soon appeared in the classroom and
listened appreciatively as the children went through their reading drill.
As he was getting ready to pose for pictures with the teachers and kids,
chief of staff Andy
Card entered the room,
walked over to the President and
whispered in his right ear.
The President's face became
visibly tense and serious. He
nodded. Card left and for several minutes the President seemed distracted and
somber, but then he resumed his interaction with the
class. "Really good readers,
whew!" he told them. "These must be sixth-graders!"
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"Today we've had a national tragedy," Bush said
from Sarasota, Florida, where he had been reading to children at Emma E.
Booker Elementary School."
"Earlier, the president was reading to
children in the school when reporters asked him if he was aware of the two
crashes and explosions.
The president nodded and said he
would talk about the situation later."
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Chief-of-Staff Andrew Card immediately leave the President of the United
States without waiting for a response right after he just informed him
that our nation is under attack? |
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Why didn't Bush,
our Commander-in-Chief, even respond to Card right after
he was just
informed that the United States was under a terrorist
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As he listened to Card's stunning news that sunny
morning in Florida, Bush's eyes widened in disbelief. The color drained
from his face. But he managed to keep a poker face, fearing he might alarm the schoolkids or the TV
cameras rolling in the back of
the room, Card noted.
``He looked up - it was only a matter of seconds
- but it seemed like a matter of minutes,'' said Card. ``I tried to be
succinct . . . so that he understood the enormity of the problem . . . I
was uncomfortable about interrupting the president . . . But I felt if I
were president, I would want to know.'' Card walked away from Bush
immediately after
delivering the bad news.
``I
did not want to have a discussion with the president in front of that
audience and in front of those cameras,'' he said.
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President Bush was reading to children at Emma E.
Booker Elementary School when an advisor whispered the bad news in his
ear. When reporters asked him if
he was aware of the two crashes and explosions, the president nodded and said he would talk about the situation
later.
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politely excuse himself from the classroom at this point and quietly leave
the room since no one knew how many more hijacked planes were still in the
air and that he was supposedly the only person who could authorize a shoot
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At 9.05 the White House Chief of Staff, Andrew
Card, 53, another long-time Bush
friend and confidante, leaned in close to the President and whispered:
"A second plane has hit the World
Trade Centre. America is under attack."
This time Bush visibly flinched and caught
his breath, but he said nothing. "I am very aware of the cameras," he recalled later. "I'm trying to absorb that
knowledge. I have nobody to talk to. I'm
sitting in the midst of a classroom with little kids, listening to a
children's story and I realise I'm the Commander in
Chief and the country has
just come under attack."
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The president also spoke of making the difficult
decision to order the military to
shoot down any civilian airliners
that might be in the hands of terrorists, like the planes that crashed
into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a Pennsylvania
field.
"That's a tough decision to make, but you've got to understand
that I was the commander in chief
and the president of a nation
that had just been attacked by four aircraft, and we didn't know if other aircraft were coming or
not," he said.
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"Military
planes could not take aim and pull the trigger unless they received permission from the White
House because only the president has the
authority to order a
civilian aircraft shot down."
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President Bush
is seen here picking up and opening a book to see what the kids are
reading.
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Why did the
Secret Service evacuate Vice President Cheney at the White House and not
President Bush from a school that is only 3.5 miles from an international
airport when we were in the middle of a terrorist
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At that moment in Washington, 900 miles north,
a squad of Secret Service
agents stormed into the
office of Vice-President Dick Cheney. Seated in front of a television set watching
CNN, Cheney, 60, who, like Bush knew only the barest details
of events, was seized by the arms,
legs and his belt and physically carried through 150 yards of
corridors, then taken by lift,
down to the Presidential Emergency
Operations Centre (PEOPS) - a
subterranean bunker capable of withstanding an overhead nuclear
explosion. He was quickly joined there by Ms Rice, and Norman
Mineta, the Secretary of Transportation.
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Mr. Bush was reading to a group of schoolchildren
at Emma Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla., yesterday morning when
an aide whispered to him word of the first attack on the World Trade
Center.
For some reason,
Secret Service agents did not bustle him
away. Instead, within
minutes, even before the attack on
the Pentagon, the President made a statement to reporters, promising "to hunt down and to find those folks
that committed this act. Terrorism against our nation will not stand."
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hijackers try to crash a plane into Booker Elementary when it was publicly
known that the President would be there and that the school is only 3.5
miles away from an International Airport? |
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Published on
September 8, 2001, Article 1 of 1 found.
The centerpiece of
President Bush's visit to Sarasota next week will be an education speech
Tuesday morning at Emma E. Booker Elementary School.Principal Gwen Rigell
said Friday evening that school officials are still working out the
details."Right now we're just excited that we were actually selected to do
it," she said.The president is scheduled to arrive Monday
evening at
Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport and to depart on
Tuesday.
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Bush Presses Education Agenda in Sunshine
State
W A S H I N G T O N,
Sept. 10 President Bush headed to Florida
today to push for quick passage
of his education reforms as the flagging economy commands increasing
attention back in the nation's capital.
Bush is set to take part in a
reading program demonstration and address parents and teachers at
Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota on
Tuesday.
The
Democratic Party is set to meet in
Miami later this week in an
effort to raise more questions
about the legitimacy of the 2000 election.
But the 2002 elections also factor into
Bush's visit, as he raises the profile of his brother Jeb, governor of the
state.
"Obviously we were raised right because Jeb's priority and my
priority are the same," the president said in Jacksonville this
afternoon.
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Emma E. Booker Elementary
2350 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Way
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6000 Airport Cir, Sarasota, FL
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At 9:12 Mr Bush left the
classroom. By now the
reporters' mobiles were ringing non-stop, and no one needed to ask why the
school visit was being cut short. In a small, back office, the President
scribbled a brief statement in black felt tip on a yellow legal
pad.
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Bush meets privately with
National Security
Adviser Condoleezza
Rice, who briefs him. He delivers first remarks on the
tragedy.
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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."
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9:30 A.M.
- President Bush is briefed by
National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice.
9:31 A.M.
- President Bush makes a short
statement to
reporters.
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Bush as senior staff listen from the National Presidential Emergency
Operations Center Sept. 11, 2001.
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President Bush tells students and the nation of
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Remarks by the President After Two Planes Crash Into World Trade Center,
Emma Booker Elementary
School Sarasota, Florida
9:30 A.M. EDT
THE
PRESIDENT: 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 Lt. Governor will take the podium and discuss education. I do
want to thank the folks here at 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 have 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 would join me in a moment of silence. May God bless the victims,
their families, and America. Thank you very much.
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Why wasn't
Booker Elementary School evacuated after President Bush left just in case
another hijacked suicide jet was aiming for the
school? |
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" we didn't know if other aircraft were coming or
not," [Bush] said.
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9:25 a.m. - Langley AFB gets
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At 9.45 the Secret Service ordered the
complete evacuation of the White
House - United Flight 93 was
still airborne and heading towards Washington. No one knew, or knows, for
sure what its target was, but the obvious candidates were the Capitol
buiding, Camp David - or the White
House itself.
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President Bush, left, talks on a cell phone as he
arrives with White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card in the presidential
limousine on their way to board Air Force One Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001 at
Sarasota/Bradenton International Airport in Bradenton, Fla. (AP
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9:54 A.M.
- President Bush leaves Sarasota
Bradenton International Airport
onboard Air Force One. His destination is kept secret for
security.
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Why did it take
Bush an hour to put the military on high alert
status? |
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10 a.m.
Aboard Air Force One en route to Louisiana, Bush calls Vice President Dick Cheney and
puts America's
military on a high alert
status. Sifts through reports
from staff, including erroneous report that a car bomb had
struck the
State Department. Gets news that
plane has crashed near Pittsburgh.
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"I needed to know what the facts were. But
I knew I needed to
act. I knew that if the
nation's under attack, the role of
the Commander-In-Chief is to respond forcefully to prevent other
attacks from happening. And
so, I've talked to the Secretary of Defense; one of the first acts I did was to put our military on alert." Bush
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President Bush boards Air Force One Tuesday, Sept.
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9:57 A.M.
- President Bush calls Vice
President Dick Cheney and
puts the American military on
high-alert status.
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Following his departure from Sarasota, Florida, it
was expected the President George W. Bush was returning to Washington,
D.C. Instead, reporters onboard
Air Force One were ordered not to even turn their cell phones on to
prevent tracking. They were also
advised that they would be climbing to 40,000 feet and would be escorted
by jets. President Bush and the Secret Service were vindicated about
24 hours later, when it was announced that legitimate intelligence had indicated that Air
Force One was a target.
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By the time the President slid behind his executive desk on
the plane, Mr Bush's first rush
of anger appeared to have settled into a controlled, if tense, mood of
resolve. "I guess we're at war," he said as the plane readied for take off.
While his aides looked at him open-mouthed, he added: "This is what we're paid for, boys."
Then
he called Mr Cheney on a secure
line to the PEOPS and spoke in a similar vein. "Somebody's going to pay for this," Mr Bush coldly told the Vice President.
"We are going to take care of
them. Whoever did this isn't going to like having me as
President."
Air Force One
lifted off from Sarasota at 9:57. A few minutes earlier, the South Tower
of the World Trade Centre had collapsed. It was unclear whether anyone on
Air Force One - including the pilot - knew where the Boeing 747 was
headed. "The object seemed to be simply to get the President airborne and
out of the way," said an administration official.
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At 10:20 a report came in that a huge car bomb had gone
off outside the State
Department in Washington.
It wasn't true, but it changed the picture once more.
"There really is a fog of
war," Mr Bush would say later.
"You've heard about it, and you've
read about it. Well, there is one."
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11:40 a.m. Bush arrives at Barksdale Air Force Base, La., where he makes series of telephone calls from a
general's conference room. Tells Cheney in telephone call, "It's the faceless coward that
attacks." He also talks to
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and New York Sen. Charles Schumer,
D-N.Y.
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11:44 A.M. - President Bush arrives at Barksdale Air Force
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At 11:45, Air Force One landed at Barksdale Air
Force base near Shreveport,
Louisiana. The official reason for landing at Barksdale was that
Mr Bush felt it necessary to make
a further statement, but it isn't
unreasonable to assume that - as there was no agreement as to what the
President's movements should be - it was felt he might as well be on the
ground as in the air.
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Colin Powell, the Secretary of
State, the administration's chief
diplomat and its most experienced
military man, had been sitting
down to a working breakfast in Lima, Peru, with Alejandro Toledo, the
Peruvian president, when he was handed a note saying the World Trade
Centre had been attacked.
On the eight-hour flight back, he told
reporters that he would be contacting world leaders in the days to come.
But it would be 10 hours before he was able to
speak directly to his own
leader, President Bush.
Why
so long? In the weeks before
September 11 Washington was full of rumours that Powell was out of favour
and had been quietly relegated to the sidelines, but an administration official explained the
lack of communication more simply: "I don't think, in those early hours,
that the President was looking for a diplomatic
solution."
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From Barksdale, Mr Bush spoke again to Dick Cheney
and Donald Rumsfeld, and also to Charles Schumer, a New York senator.
At noon the US military was ordered on to Defcon
Delta.
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Presidential Response, Barksdale Air Force Base near Shreveport, Louisiana, September 11,
2001
12:36 P.M. EDT
Freedom
itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward and freedom will be defended.
I want to
reassure the American people that the full resources of the federal
government are working to assist local authorities to save lives and to
help the victims of these attacks. Make no mistake: The United States will hunt down and punish those
responsible for these cowardly acts.
I've been in regular contact with the Vice
President, the Secretary of Defense, the national security team and my
Cabinet. We have taken all appropriate security precautions to protect the
American people. Our military at home and around the world is on high
alert status, and we have taken the necessary security precautions to
continue the functions of your government.
We have been in touch with
the leaders of Congress and with world leaders to assure them that we will
do whatever is necessary to protect America and Americans.
I ask the
American people to join me in saying a thanks for all the folks who have
been fighting hard to rescue our fellow citizens and to join me in saying
a prayer for the victims and their families.
The resolve of our great
nation is being tested. But make no mistake: We will show the world that
we will pass this test. God bless.
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The President was taken back to his plane in a
camouflaged Humvee surrounded by armed guards, and at 1:15, Air Force One took
off - as Mr Cheney had wanted
- for Offutt, Nebraska. Twelve
minutes later a State of Emergency was declared in
Washington.
From the plane, Mr
Bush - keeping one line open to Mr Cheney - also talked to New York's
mayor, Rudy Giuliani. "I know that your heart is broken and your city is
wounded," Mr Giuliani remembered the President saying. "But we will give
you everything we can."
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Bush departs conference room for Air Force One in a camouflaged Humvee.
Talks to Cheney again
en route to Nebraska air force
base and schedules a 4 p.m.
meeting of his national security staff. Also talks to
New York Mayor
Rudy Giuliani and Gov. George Pataki. "I know your heart is broken and
your city is strained
and anything we can do, let me know," Bush
says.
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Secretary Ari Fleischer purposely lie to us when he said that Bush had no
warnings about the terrorist attacks? |
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Press Briefing to the Pool By Ari Fleischer,
Aboard Air Force One , 1:47 P.M.
EDT
Q Does the President now know anything more
about who is responsible, the coordinated attack, and whether this is it
or --
MR.
FLEISCHER: That information is
still being gathered and analyzed. And I anticipate that will be an
ongoing process for a little while. Often, at a time like this,
information comes in, it turns out not to be true. The proper
procedure is to carefully, thoroughly evaluate all information and do so
in a ?
Q Had
there been any warnings that the President knew of?
MR.
FLEISCHER: No warnings.
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Does the President ? is he concerned about the fact that this
attack of this severity happened
with no warning?
MR. FLEISCHER: First things first: his concern is with the
safety of people who have lost their ? the health and security of the
American people and with the families of those who have lost their
lives. There will come an
appropriate time to do all appropriate look backs.
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American people be satisfied, with the performance of the intelligence
community in this country, given what happened yesterday?
MR. FLEISCHER: The President believes that the intelligence
community and the nation's military are the best in the world. And,
clearly, something yesterday took
place in New York that was not foreseen, that we had no specific information
about.
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President Bush and his top advisers were informed
by the CIA early last August
that terrorists associated with Osama bin Laden had discussed the
possibility of hijacking airplanes, according to reliable
sources.
"There was . . . an
awareness by the government, including the president, of Osama bin Laden
and the threat he posed in the United States and around the world," Fleischer said. "That included long-standing speculation about
hijacking in the traditional sense, but not involving suicide bombers
using airplanes as missiles."
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White House officials acknowledged that
U.S. intelligence officials informed President
Bush weeks before the
Sept. 11 attacks that bin Laden's
terrorist network might try to
hijack American planes, and that
information prompted administration officials to issue a private warning
to transportation officials and national security agencies.
Rice
stressed that there was no way
anyone could have predicted that terrorists would use hijacked planes as
missiles and attack the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon.
She, and White House spokesman Ari Fleischer earlier in the
day, said that before Sept. 11
"hijacking" had a different meaning to people than it did
afterwards.
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At 2.50pm, Air Force One touched down at
Offutt, and Bush was taken
into an underground bunker - again one designed to withstand a nuclear
blast. The sprawling base, one of
the most heavily-defended in the USA, is home to the US Air Force's 55th Wing, which
flies Boeing 747s specially adapted for military use in reconnaissance and
intelligence gathering.
As Mr Cheney had pointed out, it also houses an advanced strategic command and
communications centre, from which
Bush was able to teleconference directly with Mr Cheney and Ms Rice in the
White House, Mr Rumsfeld in the Pentagon, and members of the National
Security Council. The meeting lasted a full hour.
According to Ms Rice,
the President opened it by saying: "This is an attack on freedom, and we're going to
treat it as such. We have to
minister to the country, and deal with the horrors, but we're not going to
lose focus. We have to mobilise the world and rid it of this scourge."
She and her aides were able to tell Mr Bush that there were already "good
indications" that the
source of the attacks was Osama
bin Laden's al-Qaeda network.
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3:07 P.M.
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Strategic Air Command at
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3:07 p.m.
Bush arrives at U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base in
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At 4 pm, as the meeting broke up, Bush again expressed a wish to return to
Washington. More than six hours had passed since the last attack, and now
a split was developing between the
Secret Service, which wanted to keep the President
overnight - and by some
accounts, indefinitely - at the
base, and White House aides who could see ever more clearly the political
consequences of his failure to return to the capital.
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4:36 P.M. - President Bush leaves
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4:36 p.m. Bush departs for
Washington. En route, he calls
first lady Laura Bush and says, "I'm coming home,
see you at the White
House." Works with aides on his
prime-time speech.
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At 4:36 pm, the presidential jet took off for Washington. Mr
Bush called Laura: "I'm coming home," he said.
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After departing Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska,
President George W. Bush confers with Vice President Dick Cheney from Air
Force One during his flight to Andrews Air Force Base Sept. 11,
2001.
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Air Force One, flanked throughout the
1,200-mile-long flight by F16s, landed at Andrews Air Force
base just after
6.30pm
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25 minutes later Mr Bush re-entered the White
House to applause from the
skeleton staff who had been permitted to remain. He was taken down to the PEOPS where Laura was waiting together with Mr Cheney
and his wife Lynne.
Minutes
later Colin Powell arrived,
having been helicoptered to the White House from the airport after flying
back from Peru.
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Returning from Sarasota, Fla., where he first saw
news footage of the attack, President George W. Bush immediately gathers
his senior staff in the private dining room off the Oval Office Sept. 11,
2001. Meeting with the President from left to right are White House
Counsel Alberto Gonzales, Counselor Karen Hughes, National Security
Advisor Dr. Condoleezza Rice, Press Secretary Ari Fleischer and Chief of
Staff Andy Card.
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President Bush addresses the nation on the evening
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Statement by the President in His Address to the
Nation
8:30 P.M.
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THE PRESIDENT: Good evening. Today, our fellow citizens, our way of life, our
very freedom came under attack in a series of deliberate and deadly
terrorist acts. The victims were in airplanes, or in their
offices; secretaries, businessmen and women, military and federal workers;
moms and dads, friends and neighbors. Thousands of lives were suddenly
ended by evil, despicable acts of terror.
The pictures of airplanes
flying into buildings, fires burning, huge structures collapsing, have
filled us with disbelief, terrible sadness, and a quiet, unyielding anger.
These acts of mass murder were intended to frighten our nation into chaos
and retreat. But they have failed; our country is strong.
A great
people has been moved to defend a great nation. Terrorist attacks can
shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the
foundation of America. These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent
the steel of American resolve.
America was targeted for attack because we're
the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world.
And no one
will keep that light from shining.
Today, our nation saw evil, the very worst of
human nature. And we responded with the best of America -- with the daring
of our rescue workers, with the caring for strangers and neighbors who
came to give blood and help in any way they could.
Immediately following the first
attack, I implemented our government's emergency response plans. Our
military is powerful, and it's prepared. Our emergency teams are working in
New York City and Washington, D.C. to help with local rescue efforts.
Our first priority is to get help to those who
have been injured, and to take every precaution to protect our citizens at
home and around the world from further attacks.
The functions of our government continue without
interruption. Federal agencies in Washington which had to be evacuated
today are reopening for essential personnel tonight, and will be open for
business tomorrow. Our financial institutions remain strong, and the
American economy will be open for business, as well.
The search is
underway for those who are behind these evil acts. I've directed the full
resources of our intelligence and law enforcement communities to find
those responsible and to bring them to justice. We will make no distinction between
the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbor them.
I
appreciate so very much the members of Congress who have joined me in
strongly condemning these attacks. And on behalf of the American people, I
thank the many world leaders who have called to offer their condolences
and assistance.
America and our friends and allies join with all
those who want peace and security in the world, and we stand together to
win the war against terrorism. Tonight, I ask for your prayers for all
those who grieve, for the children whose worlds have been shattered, for
all whose sense of safety and security has been threatened. And I pray
they will be comforted by a power greater than any of us, spoken through
the ages in Psalm 23: "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow
of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me."
This is a day when all
Americans from every walk of life unite in our resolve for justice and
peace. America has stood down enemies before, and we will do so this time.
None of us will ever forget this day. Yet, we go forward to defend freedom and all that
is good and just in our world.
Thank you. Good night, and God bless America.
END 8:35 P.M.
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Bush attends national security
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8:35 P.M.
- President Bush attends a
national security meeting.
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10:21 p.m. Meeting has ended. Secret Service radio
squawks with news that Bush has
gone home to bed:
"Trailblazer. Second floor of the residence."
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10:21 P.M. - The national security meetings ends and President Bush heads to bed. -Patriot
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The Secret Service wanted the Bushes to spend the
night in the bunker. Mr Bush gave
an entertaining account of what happened next to Newsweek magazine. "I
said: 'We're not sleeping there.
I'm really tired. I've had a heck of a day and I'm going to sleep in my own bed'."
The agents reluctantly backed down, but warned that, "if we have any threats, Mr
President, we'll come and get you".
"And sure enough," said Mr Bush.
"We are in bed at about
11:30, and I can hear a guy
breathing quite heavily. 'Mr President, Mr President! There's an
unidentified aircraft heading towards the White House!'
We get into the
elevator, and straight down into PEOPS.
"And I'm thinking, you know:
'Where's the phone? What the heck is going on? Attacked again.'
"Then
an enlisted fellow walks into the briefing room, and goes: 'Good news Mr
President. It's one of ours'."
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Bush at Booker
Links:
http://thewebfairy.com/video/bush/
http://www.outcastradio.com/911short.html
Flash presentation of Bush at
Booker Elementary on 9/11.
BuzzFlash.com
The Emma E. Booker School September 11th
Video
Center for Cooperative
Research
9-11 Timeline: Sept. 11,
minute-by-minute
TOO STUPID TO BE PRESIDENT
THE VIDEO THAT PROVES 9-11 WAS NOT A
SURPRISE
Bush Behaved Strangely
Guilty for 9-11 Section 3: Bush in the
Open
The obscure goat story of 9-11
Bush Saw The First Plane Hit The WTC On
TV????
What Did George Bush Know and When Did he Know it?-"The
Great Deception"
Why Did Bush Not Act On Sept 11?
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