So many fires to put out.
The Sinclair mess is yet another "October Surprise," that is pulling attention away from the fact that Dayton has been threatened. Make no mistake, he would NEVER close his office unless he was threatened.
Mark Dayton has become the first U.S. senator to challenge the rush to consensus that "The 9/11 Commission Report" settles the open questions of Sept. 11, 2001.
In hearings last Friday, Sen. Dayton (D-MN) raised an obvious point: if the timeline of air defense response as promoted in the Kean Commission's best-selling book is correct, then the timeline presented repeatedly by NORAD during the last two years was completely wrong. Yet now no one at NORAD is willing to comment on their own timeline!http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20040731213239607Mods, I believe, as this is a press release, it doesn't fall within copyright regs... If it does, let me know and I'll snip further.On June 9, 2004, I was meeting with four Minnesotans in my Washington Senate office, when alarms sounded to evacuate the U.S. Capitol complex. One Minnesota woman was six months pregnant and making her first trip to Washington. We exited the air-conditioned building into 90-degree heat and humidity, joining hundreds of senators, staffers, and visitors walking or running away from the Capitol. As I helped my pregnant constituent down the sidewalk, I wondered if her ashen face and trembling lips signaled terror or exhaustion.
Later, I learned of the reasons for our evacuation.
They made me doubt official assurances in recent Senate hearings that "much has changed since 9/11," either to prevent a reoccurrence or, at least, to improve our response to a terrorist attack. People were told to "run for their lives" on June 9th, because "an unidentified target" entered restricted airspace 15 miles from the Capitol. The "unidentified target" was a private plane flying the Governor of Kentucky to Ronald Reagan National Airport, only seconds from the Pentagon, where another "unidentified target" exploded on 9/11. Nearly three years removed from that tragic day, this recent scare highlights how much remains to be done.
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When terrorists turned off the hijacked planes' transponders on 9/11, neither FAA nor NORAD, our nation's air defense command, could accurately locate or track the aircraft. It was one reason that FAA officials failed to notify NORAD about three of the four hijackings, before the planes crashed. It was the principal reason our military did not know about the plane approaching Washington, until it struck the Pentagon.
Upon his departure from Cincinnati last June 9th, the pilot of the Kentucky Governor's plane informed the FAA controller that his plane's transponder had "just quit."
He should then have been denied clearance into Washington's Ronald Reagan National Airport. However, he was allowed to proceed. Lacking a functioning transponder, he was not properly identified by some of the seven federal agencies with jurisdiction over Washington's air space.
On 9/11, no one responded. This time, someone reacted, but it was not the United States Air Force. Instead, the U.S. Customs Service launched a Blackhawk helicopter to face this unknown threat.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld claimed recently that our military on 9/11 was not supposed to defend us from enemy attacks within our borders. That responsibility, he stated, falls upon the FBI. This time, we got the U.S. Customs Service!
http://dayton.senate.gov/~dayton/releases/2004/08/2004825325.htmlAt long last, one member of the U.S. Senate has spoken out about the 9-11 report. Last Friday, during a Governmental Affairs committee meeting, Mark Dayton, a Democrat from Minnesota, directly attacked the government for distorting facts and covering up what happened that day. Highlights of his narrative:
Referring to the period between the first hijacking, at 8:14 a.m. and the crash of the fourth plane, at 10:03 a.m., Dayton said: "During those entire 109 minutes, to my reading of this report, this country and its citizens were completely undefended."
"According to
findings, FAA authorities failed to inform military command, NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command, about three of the four hijackings until after the planes had crashed into their targets at the second World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the ground in Pennsylvania, which was not their target. NORAD then scrambled one of only two sets of fighter planes on alert in the entire eastern third of the country, one in Massachusetts and one in Virginia, but it didn't know where to send them—because the hijackers had turned off the plane's transponder so NORAD couldn't locate them on their radar, and they were still looking for it when it exploded into its target at 8:46 a.m."
"The second hijacking began, according to report, one minute later. NORAD wasn't notified until the same minute the same plane struck the second World Trade tower. It was five more minutes before NORAD's mission commander learned about that explosion—which was five minutes after thousands of Americans saw it on live television. By this time, the third plane's transponder was off. Communication had been severed, yet it was 15 minutes before the flight controller decided to notify the regional FAA center, which in turn did not inform FAA headquarters for another 15 minutes."
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