The blatant lies of yesterday’s NORAD’s 9/11 testimonies

Just taking a quick look at the new NORAD timeline presented yesterday, I saw errors so large that one has to question either the competency of NORAD, or they’re just plain spinning and lying. The media has also completely failed to report on the hearings well, or in many cases like the New York Times or LA Times, at all.
Some problems:

1) A week after 9/11, NORAD claimed that the FAA notified them at 8:43 that Flight 175 had been hijacked:

{{link http://web.archive.org/web/20020615115751/http://www.norad.mil/presrelNORADTimelines.htm}}

Now, they say that the FAA notified them that Flight 175 was only “possibly” hijacked at 9:05! That’s a difference of 22 minutes! Flight 175 crashed at 9:02.

2) They explained that this late notification was due to the fact that the transponder was never turned off. Yet the New York Times reported that at 8:42, a flight controller said of Flight 175, “… looks like he’s heading southbound but there’s no transponder no nothing and no one’s talking to him.” Other reports suggest the transponder was turned off for about 30 seconds, then changed to a signal that was not designated for any plane on that day. This “allowed controllers to track the intruder easily, though they couldn’t identify it.”

3) We know that the last radio transmission from Flight 11 happened at 8:13:47 exactly, according to the New York Times, and that “just moments” after that, the transponder was turned off and radio contact ended. Air traffic manager Glenn Michael later said, “We considered it at that time to be a possible hijacking.” Yet, yesterday, NORAD said its transponder was turned off at 8:20.

4) CNN broke into regular programming with footage of the WTC burning at 8:48 (possibly 8:49). NORAD now claims that CNN first showed this at 8:57! Anyone can see at the Television Archives online that this is wrong! To me, this seems to be as blatant a lie one could make, designed to give NORAD an additional excuse to claim cluelessness for another ten minutes.

5) According to reporter Bob Woodward and others, Bush and Cheney decided to give a shootdown order for Flight 93 just after Air Force One took off at 9:55. Now, supposedly, that decision was made at 10:08 - two minutes after Flight 93 had crashed!

6) Speaking of which, NORAD still asserts Flight 93 crashed at 10:03, even though the US Army commissioned seismic studies which proved it crashed at 10:06…{{link http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=6638&forum=DCForumID70/ MORE}}

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