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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critici.../11_Commission
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FAA and NORAD

For more than two years after the attacks, officials with North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) provided inaccurate information about the response to the hijackings in testimony and media appearances. Authorities suggested that US air defenses had reacted quickly, that jets had been scrambled in response to the last two hijackings and that fighters were prepared to shoot down United Airlines Flight 93 if it threatened Washington, D.C..

The Commission reported a year later that audiotapes from NORAD's Northeast headquarters and other evidence showed clearly that the military never had any of the hijacked airliners in its sights and at one point chased a phantom aircraft—American Airlines Flight 11—long after it had crashed into the World Trade Center.[11] For example, Maj. Gen. Larry Arnold and Col. Alan Scott told the commission that NORAD had begun tracking United 93 at 9:16 a.m., but the commission determined that the airliner was not even hijacked until 12 minutes later. According to later testimony, the military was not aware of the flight until after it had crashed in Pennsylvania.

The Commission was forced to use subpoenas to obtain the cooperation of the FAA and NORAD to release evidence such as audiotapes. The agencies' reluctance to release the tapes—along with e-mails, erroneous public statements and other evidence—led some of the panel's staff members and commissioners to believe that authorities sought to mislead the commission and the public about what happened on September 11. "I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described," said John Farmer, a former New Jersey attorney general who led the staff inquiry into events on September 11, in an August 2006 interview.[11]

http://www.scam.com/showthread.php?t=117748

Clinton Blow Job Probe=$30 Mil / 911 Probe=$15 Mil

The 9/11 commission was originally allotted only $3 million.
Eventually, after much begging and haggling, the commission was given $15 million.

Yet a CNN article lists the cost of the Lewinsky investigation at $30 million.

A Los Angeles Times article states the cost of the Columbia space shuttle disaster investigation was $175 million.

How could 9/11 – the greatest disaster in American history – be given such a small budget for investigation?

Remember, the Commissioners stated that government did everything it could to cover up and obstruct their investigation:

The Commission's co-chairs said that the CIA (and likely the White House) "obstructed our investigation"

Indeed, they said that the 9/11 Commissioners knew that military officials misrepresented the facts to the Commission, and the Commission considered recommending criminal charges for such false statements.

9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey said that "There are ample reasons to suspect that there may be some alternative to what we outlined in our version . . . We didn't have access . . . ."

9/11 Commissioner Timothy Roemer said "We were extremely frustrated with the false statements we were getting"

9/11 Commissioner Max Cleland resigned from the Commission, stating: "It is a national scandal"; "This investigation is now compromised"; and "One of these days we will have to get the full story because the 9-11 issue is so important to America. But this White House wants to cover it up"

The Senior Counsel to the 9/11 Commission (John Farmer) - who led the 9/11 staff's inquiry - said "At some level of the government, at some point in time...there was an agreement not to tell the truth about what happened".

He also said "I was shocked at how different the truth was from the way it was described ....

The tapes told a radically different story from what had been told to us and the public for two years.... This is not spin. This is not true."

Given such a lack of cooperation, $15 million wasn't enough to even start getting to the bottom of what happened.

$15 million didn't pay for much other than some press releases and the costs of printing reports. It certainly wasn't enough to pay for real investigation or legal struggles to discover information which the government was stonewalling.

Indeed, well after the Commission issued its final report, Commissioner Bob Kerrey said it might take "a permanent 9/11 Commission" to end the remaining mysteries of September 11.

Afterword: In response to a commenter who wrote "But everybody already knew it was the terrorists", I responded:

Even assuming, for the sake of argument, that the government knew before starting the investigation that terrorists did it by flying planes into buildings, how come they weren't stopped before hand, and why didn't the military stop them in the air, pursuant to standard operating procedures?

Wouldn't that have been gross negligence?

That's what top intelligence and military experts say [they actually say much more dramatic things as well].

Even investigating who screwed up would cost a lot more than $15 million.[/quote]

Re: Clinton Blow Job Probe=$30 Mil / 911 Probe=$15

In the end it was just that important to find out if Monica swallowed or not.

Sorry, couldn't help it.