TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Sunday, October 31, 2004

New York Times October 30, 2004:

One last chapter of the investigation by the Sept. 11 commission, a supplement completed more than two months ago, has not yet been made public by the Justice Department, and officials say it is unlikely to be released before the presidential election, even though that had been a major goal of deadlines set for the panel.

Drawing from this unpublished part of the inquiry, the commission quietly asked the inspectors general at the Departments of Defense and Transportation to review what it had determined were broadly inaccurate accounts provided by several civil and military officials about efforts to track and chase the hijacked aircraft on Sept. 11.
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Officials at the Federal Aviation Administration testified that they had notified the military within a few minutes of each hijacking, but the investigation found that tape recordings contradicted that assertion.

The commission, in its final report, said that ... unreliable testimony about the events had made it harder to understand the problems.

Besides the pursuit of the hijacked planes, the supplement, a monograph 60 to 70 pages long, revisits other subjects in the commission's final report of July - telephone calls made from the hijacked airplanes, airline security and orders issued that morning by President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney - and provides additional detail or context, former commission members said.
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The supplement is the first of the commission's documents to be completely controlled by the Bush administration.
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The monograph ... provides a detailed timeline of the movements of the hijacked planes the morning of Sept. 11 and the response by the civil and military aviation officials. On July 29, [the commission's former general counsel, Daniel] Marcus wrote to the inspectors general of the Transportation and Defense Departments requesting reviews of the testimony of those officials. He would not comment this week on the request or the letters, but representatives for both departments confirmed that investigations were under way.

Barbara Honegger, a military historian and author of October Surprise, has been a leading researcher on 9/11 wargames. She weighed in on the 911truthalliance list:

It is also important that the still-unreleased supplement is referred to as a monograph, which usually means that it was written by just one person. I'll bet its author is the lead investigator on the STAFF subgroup focused on the (lack of) military defense response on 9/11 -- Kevin Schaeffer. 43 of 44 personnel in the Navy Command Center in the Pentagon died in the attacks of 9/11. The 44th, and only survivor -- recovering from burns over a huge percentage of his body -- was Kevin Schaeffer.

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