Within minutes of the 2nd plane hit, the coast guard had authorization to mobile a Reserve call up. Admiral Loy knew instantly that this was a terrorist attack and called the "Secretary" to seek approval to call up Reserves.
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http://www.uscg.mil/hq/g-cp/history/WEBORALHISTORY/911_... Q: Were you watching the second plane here?
ADM Loy: I did watch the second plane hit the tower. In the meantime we had dismissed these folks who were here for some discussions about our project on Deep Water {Vance Coffman who's the CEO of Lockheed Martin Corporation was this person dismissed} and I rallied the right players here to the office; the Vice Commandant and the Chief of "O" and the Chief of "M" to begin the thinking process of what do we do next. It was interesting; two very, very important calls almost within minutes of each other. The first was to find the Secretary who had been pulled from his office almost immediately and taken over to join the Vice President - as you remember the President was traveling - to join the Vice President in the secure spaces in the White House to deal with the aviation piece of this. { hahahahahahaha sorry, I thought he was joking} I was able to get over into that secure space telephonically {telephonically? what?"} and seek his permission on a Reserve call up, which we instituted immediately. He, of course, has Title 14 authority to call up reservists on what is usually termed "domestic emergencies", and your thinking patterns usually go to hurricanes and floods and that kind of thing. But in this instance it was absolutely invaluable. Within seconds I had his authority to go ahead and begin the Reserve call up.
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What Secretary is Admiral Loy referring to? There are only 3 Secretaries that have Title 14 authority over the Coast Guard: the Secretary of the Navy when the Coast Guard is performing a mission that is under the control of the Navy, the Secretary of Transportation and the Secretary of Defense. If we can somehow ascetain that the Secretary is Rumsfeld we can establish Rumsfeld knew about the nature of the attacks immediately after 175 hit the second tower and that he was not out to lunch.
The current info on Rummy's actions that day;
http://motherjones.com/news/update/2004/07/07_400.html "“We investigated very carefully Mr. Rumsfeld’s actions,” said Hamilton. “He was having breakfast with Congressional leaders, and they hear a plane has hit the Pentagon, and he runs out.”
“He had to have been told before the Pentagon was hit that two trade centers were hit and the country was under attack,” I suggested.
Was the commission comfortable with the fact that the country’s Secretary of Defense was not in the chain of command or present in the Pentagon’s command center until all four suicide hijacked planes were down?
“I’m not going to answer that question,” said Hamilton, and turned away.
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I would like to establish the location of the Secretary of the Navy and the Secretary of Transportation. See if we can find out which one of them was whisked off to the command center with Cheney. It's probably the Sec of the Navy, I just can't find any link to this. I was also thinking that it may have been Rummy as well since there are only 3, wouldn't it be great if the other 2 were in Chile or Mongolia? This would be a bit hard to explain based up the 9/11 commissions idea of where Rummy should have been.
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