The question that's haunted me from day one is how come the world's biggest military superpower was somehow oblivious to rogue airliners in American air space for more than an hour, and our top brass seemed to be befuddled in terms of dealing with hijackers apparently using these four planes is flying bombs. Why couldn't our fighter jets intercept at least ONE of them?!
Well, here's one possible explanation: Donald Rumsfeld, our Secretary of Defense, never gave the go-ahead. Why? On June 1, 2001, the Joint Chiefs of Staff issued a new Instruction--superseding one from 1997--that required approval by the Secretary of Defense for any "potentially lethal support in the event of an aircraft piracy (hijacking)."
I sure would like to know why the question of Rumsfeld doing this never came up with the 9/11 Commission. Doesn't it seem important to have asked why the critical policy got changed only four months beforehand?
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The above quotations are from 63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want To Read by Gov. Jesse Ventura. Click here for other excerpts from 63 Documents the Government Doesn't Want To Read by Gov. Jesse Ventura. Click here for other excerpts by Donald Rumsfeld. Click here for a profile of Donald Rumsfeld.
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