Reply #98: I don't read PNAC [View All]

[jobycom]

I read a lot of timelines back then, but I don't remember how long he was at the school anymore.

As for the planes, they knew there were four hijacked planes, and they knew roughly where they were. The air traffic control system would have warned of any planes in the area not responding to commands. Plus, I don't know if you've ever been around a place a president plans a visit, but the security is intense. The start planning weeks or months out, they secure all buildings and businesses around the area for days, they check everyone coming in our out of the area with dogs, metal detectors, background checks, barricades, they have more guns and equipment than you would imagine on site, and they monitor the airways and flight patterns before showing up. They even have shoulder missiles to shoot down airborne threats, in a chest they carry with them.

So their first assumption would be that the school was secured, and the roads weren't. In an attack like that, they'd have feared ground assassins as much as another airliner, and you can spot airliners from a lot further away than someone with a rocket launcher aimed at a limo. So in their mindset, the school was safer than the roads until they had them secured.