Saturday, November 08, 2003
Associated Press:A federal commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks voted Friday to subpoena the Pentagon for documents related to the activities of U.S. air defenses on the day of the terrorist hijackings.
The independent commission said it was "especially dismayed" by incomplete document production on the part of the North American Aerospace Defense Command, or NORAD, the part of the Defense Department responsible for protecting North American airspace.
The commission's broad investigation includes questions about how, and how quickly, the Federal Aviation Administration notified U.S. air defenses about hijacked planes on Sept. 11, 2001. The commission's first subpoena, issued last month, was to the FAA.
The panel . . . met privately Friday about matters including production of documents it has requested from numerous government offices. . . .
In a statement announcing the Defense Department subpoena, the commission said, "In several cases we were assured that all requested records had been produced, but we then discovered, through investigation, that these assurances were mistaken." . . .
FAA knew that Los Angeles-bound Flight 77 left its course at 8:55 a.m. . . . but NORAD did not get official notice of a hijacking until 9:24 a.m.
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