hello my name is jimmy walter like everyone else i watch plane hit the world trade towers and i watch them collapse like everyone else i what i discovered was that not only if the damn thing not have weapons of mass destruction did not have poisoned back but in fact fought al qaeda tooth then nail as an arch enemy but what really alarmed me with the fact that george tenet the cia and the international press were warning of clearly that invading iraq would swell the carrot brain increase terrorism and make us less secure it i was so alarmed i ran full page ads in the new york times usa today various alternative newspapers across the country i was censored by the l a times i was ignored by everyone i shut up when the war started in order to support our troops after mission accomplished i started going around the country to the protest to bring our boys home there i met eric schmidt who had written painful deception and painful questions i got his book and video but never gave him the time of day it worst by thought nah i'm on one with a fan of omission where the administration had let it happen in order to further their own nefarious world domination purposes i did not believe that the world trade center was brought down with explosives about six months later friend you can show me into watching erich's video it was in the fifth and i knew after watching his video that towers had been brought down with i knew that it had to be explosive please watch the following video of the event i produced on september eleventh of two thousand and four near that which follow and see if they  program i'd like to ask you please to finish take your seats as we're going to begin in a moment i don't mean tell you that tonight marks the third anniversary of the september eleventh events to begin tonight's program we ask you to join avoidable that it wasn't a bolt out of the blue some cosmic blow against humanity that should cause us all of our heads remember the fall and then go back to business or as we were urged to do at the time here in new york city to go out and shop why have the questions posed by the families and by the independent researchers some of whom you'll meet tonight and so many of you gone unanswered in the next few hours we shall embark on a difficult journey and we ask  reconsider the horrifying events of september eleventh in a new and troubling light this journey is quite difficult it requires that we reexamine some of our most basic beliefs this requires overcoming a special kind of inertia which will rarely ask to move and yet their rewards are a change from anxiety to awareness from passive a t and quietism to a mall full participation in the most urgent issues of our time diminishing on necessary harm and bring people closer together for a world of possible safety and creativity and understanding this is your first exposure to this material you may feel very uncomfortable with that challenge to confront your prior assumptions about september eleventh if you've already been exposed to these issues you will see that there are many things you want to look at we have a large group of gifted researchers some of them have been questioning the official story of nine eleven from the very first day after the attacks the questions these researchers have raised has been the subject of countless articles discussions issued by citizens in their homes and there's been official silence by the commercial media about these events but we've had a tremendous impact on what people of thought last month a representative poll commissioned by zogby found that about half of the city's residents do not believe that the attacks came by surprise forty one percent of new york resident forty nine point three percent of residents of new york city and forty one percent of new york state residents and the question is how could that you'll be so pervasive why are there questions been ignored we believe we all it to the victims and their surviving family members to conduct a searching and fearless examination of the events of nine eleven from a number of different angles and to pursue it wherever it lea we know of no better way to honor the fallen than to marshal law forces intellectual emotional and confront what repels us dr implications of evidence which it's all too easy to put aside we hope that as you draw your own conclusions we can aim together at a more complete account of those events if you are among those doom it seems impossible that the authorities would actually allow nine eleven to happen little gain at such an enormous cost human life consider what the authorities knowingly allowed to happen to the residents of this city immediately after september eleventh let me please introduce jenna orkin of the world trade center environmental organization john september eleventh was a tragedy that has changed the course of history and the way we live it was also an environmental disaster of historic proportions the world trade center contained about fifty thousand computers each made with between four and twelve pounds of lead that's not including world trade center seven hundreds of tons of especially coated the first forty stories of at least one tower and very and ultra fine particles that were the highest they'd ever seen a ten of seven thousand samples taken from around the world including at the burning kuwaiti oil field releases which initially warned the public about the specificity in the air were edited to offer reassurances instead the editing was performed by the white house council on environmental quality in order to reopen wall street that's in the report as a result of the false good news rescue workers were sometimes not allowed to wear respirators on the grounds that they might write and the public insurance companies often refused to pay for cleanup forcing residents to clean the tons of  toxic in their apartments as per the instructions from the new york city department of health use a wet mop or wet rag and where the dust is really bad where long  we are beginning to see the consequences of this disastrous chain of events over half of the heroes who cleaned ground zero are already manifesting serious respiratory problems hundreds of firefighters can no longer work and as a harbinger of what's in store for people fourteen rescue dogs have died the commission report deals with this issue in a footnote on page five hundred fifty five they interviewed sam thernstrom the white house coordinator who change the press releases he said his motive wasn't to reopen wall street it was procedural his story is corroborated by christie todd whitman who told the initial lies when john gotti is corroborated by lucky luciano that may be good enough for the commission we should not rest there the environmental disaster of nine eleven osama bin laden could not have found a better collaboration or a more kindred spirit than george w bush we can reassure the public that the era say debris in the water is safe to drink e p a officials were lying to the public and to congress about the health effects and gendered by the nine eleven and one i came to work two days later i woke up at night ok over seven thousand and one and on the list my lungs were full and gurgling the respiratory function was so low that it woke me up out of the sound sleep  m from that day on i've been set in fact the air was hazaras for many many months and all those tons of hazardous material were lodged in people's homes in their offices where in many cases they still are terrifying images on september eleventh the collapsing twin towers were among the most horrific shocked nation saw the two largest structures in new york city skyline dramatically crumble before our eyes given the basque alun unprecedented nature of the horrifying spectacle and lacking any information the contrary view was could only assume that the fiery crash was of eleven flight eleven and one seventy five with the sole causes of the towers subsequent collapses building number seven at the world trade center was a forty seven stor building with a steel frame no airplane crashed into it nor did the towers fall onto it however this building disintegrated on september eleventh this satellite image shows the world trade center about a year before the attack building seven is a tall building at the top building number one is the north tower you can distinguish it from the south tower by its antenna buildings four five and six were office buildings building three was a hotel and the attack on september eleventh destroyed all seven of these buildings and it damaged surrounding buildings as well here's a view from an airplane of the rubble of the building seven the pile is very small how did a forty seven story steel building crumble into such a tiny pile of rubble the bush administration wants us to believe that fire caused it to disintegrate fires started in building seven at around nine o'clock in the morning a few moments after the plane crashed into the south tower these fires burn slowly all day this photo shows the fires at three p m the fires are not easy to see because they are small and the air is full of dust and smoke nearby buildings and reflections make it difficult to figure out where building seven is so i'll fade out the other buildings for a moment so that you can see building seven more clearly there are flames coming from only a few of the thousands of windows of this large building most floors do not have fires and those that do are burning in a few small areas only compared to other office fires these are small why didn't the sprinkler system extinguish in this photograph shows the rear of the building seven this side of the building doesn't have many fires either there are no fires anywhere along the base of the building incidentally in the background of this photograph our buildings number five on the left and six on the right both of those buildings have various serious fires burning inside the government has never bothered to explain how building five and it up with such serious fires despite the fact that the fires in building seven were so small that the sprinkler system should have extinguished them at about five thirty in the evening the building suddenly imploded and crumbled into a pile of rubble how did a few small fires cause building seven to collapse according to bill manning editor in chief of fire engineering magazine for fire departments fire has never destroyed a steel building decision to pull and that we watched the building collapse now the term hole which you just saw a larry silverstein use is an industry term that means to demolish a controlled demolition what then larry silverstein exactly say did he say world trade center seven was a controlled demolition if so is it conceivable that through all the melee and hysteria that was going on on the morning of september eleventh a demolition crew could came in and taken down the world trade center seven within seven hours most controlled demolitions take up to two weeks in intense planning to make happen if this is the case the only explanation that makes sense as out of control demolition was planned wayne advance of september eleventh two thousand and one shortly after september eleventh as what usually happens many conspiracy theories began to emerge as to what really happened on september eleventh of two thousand and because many of these theories were not grounded with any evidence we didn't really pay too much attention to them however in february of two thousand and two my attention was drawn to the following website titled hunt the boeing test your perceptions now the original website was completely in french and was released by the french and drew some very serious questions as to what had really happened at the pentagon i mean after all we had all seen the big hole that was created by the seven fifty seven that it's land into the pentagon at nine forty three on september eleventh but some of the photographs that were shown on this web site raise very serious questions as to whether or not that's exactly what ha ppened some of these photographs showed us the mall or hall and in some cases show that there was no way that a seven fifty seven could have created this damage so we began our own investigation and that started by taking a look at some of the magazines that we all saw at the supermarket checkout stands shortly after the events of september eleventh as i began pouring through the photographs i had one goal in mind and that was t the french wrong with their website hunt the boeing after all there must have been some photographic evidence that showed that a seven fifty seven had hit the pentagon but as we went through all these photographs we could find no pictures whatsoever showing a tail  fuselage wings engine wheels and luggage seats nothing there were no photographs showing any recognizable wreckage from the seven fifty seven furthermore when you look at the size of the hole the pentagon was approximately sixty five feet across and the height of the pentagon approximately seventy three feet from wingtip to wingtip a seven fifty seven is one hundred twenty four feet ten inches from nose to tail a seven fifty seven is one hundred fifty five feet and three inches in length and the height is forty four feet and six inches however when you look at the whole of the pentagon you'll find it is only approximately sixty five feet across how does a plane of those dimensions fit into a hole only sixty five feet across upon further inspection we found that the damage at the pentagon was completely and totally inconsistent with the damage of the planes that hit the world trade center i mean after all the planes that hit the trade center created a fire so intense that it would take the steel and collapse of the buildings or so that's what we were told and yet when you look at the left side of the pentagon you'll know that there is very little if any smoke damage or heat damage at all on the third floor it's very plain to see a file cabinet with a computer monitor neither of them are damaged on the second floor you can s desk it hasn't burned and on the first floor of a very curious site indeed a wooden stool with a book that is laying and open the pages aren't even saying now we can the planes involved in the september eleventh attacks had embarked upon trans continental flight which means that they had a majority of their fuel left over when they hit their respective targets that means that approximately eighty six hundred remaining gallons of fuel would have been ignited on the seven fifty seven that it hit the pentagon again we look at the photograph and ask ourselves is the smoke and heat damage consistent with that amount of fuel being ignited another interesting question  that is raised is in a photograph of the collapse or the pentagon if you are not the upper floor and roof area it appears that that area simply collapsed and does not show any impact damage from a tail section that was over forty three feet height how could a seven fifty seven slam into the pentagon and not have an impact area where the tail section would have hit the upper floors shortly after these questions were raised on the topic was open for discussion on our radio show the power hour these five frames were released from a security camera at the pentagon the only problem is that the release of these five photographs seem to raise more questions than they answer first of all why was the date incorrect in the lower left corner of the screen second of all they really didn't show that there was a seven fifty seven that hit the pentagon and  many people asked is this the only security camera that was on at the pentagon the pentagon this is the nerve center for the united states military supposedly the most secure building in the country and this is the only video footage that was available of the most heinous attack ever recorded at the pentagon where were all the other security cameras what about the security cameras that were on in the hallways at the pentagon every inch of the pentagon is under video surveillance where are those video cameras we also had a report about a gas station whose video camera was pointed in the exact direction where the seven fifty seven would have hit the pentagon shortly after the event it was reported that federal officials showed up at that gas station and confiscated that footage there should be no question that the outer rings of the pentagon have indeed collapsed we've seen pictures from one angle from another angle and america has seen these pictures we all assume that that was the damage that was caused by the seven fifty seven hitting the pentagon but shortly after the release of the article from deception to revelation we were sent some photographs that were taken apparently right after the event and before the outer walls had collapsed  examining these photographs we can clearly see that the area in question had not yet ca lapsed in fact there is very little evidence of a hole big enough to accommodate a seven fifty seven  hole that we do see is approximately fourteen to sixteen feet across last year how does a seven fifty seven fit into a sixteen foot hole and leave no damage or wreckage on the outside of the pentagon these are questions that deserve serious scrutiny let's take a look at some of the photographs that were taken before the outer wall of the pentagon come last in this first photograph we can see the firefighters pulling the hoses away from the fire truck in the foreground we can see wires pools that were left on the front lawn of the pentagon after all this section of the pentagon was under renovation will use these wires pools as reference points also to the right of those wires pools and on the face of the pentagon we can see that some concrete facing has broken away will also use this as a reference point as we examine these photographs now to the left of that area where the facing has broken off we can clearly see that the pentagon has not yet collapse are some flaming areas and that area appears to be the only section where there is a hole approximately fourteen to sixteen the question how does a seven fifty seven fit into a sixteen foot hole and leave no wreckage on the front of the building we can also see that the roof of the building does show fatigue but has not yet collapsed sees exactly what we're seeing the pentagon had not yet collapsed and again there is no sign of any wreckage whatsoever no tail no fuselage no wings no wheels no engines no seats no luggage nothing on the outside of the pentagon pentagon the roof line is clearly visible and again it is under fatigue but it had not yet collapsed as we examine this next  close look at the lower left corner you'll see engine three thirty one from the metropolitan washington airport authority and we contacted the fire chief from this engine company chief flower agreed to come on our radio show along with two of his firefighters but one hour before air time they canceled we were told that the two firefighters had been placed on indefinite leave only look at this photograph we can see that the fire retardant fall is being sprayed on the from the pentagon and again the area in question had not yet collapsed and you can see right in the center of the photograph a big area where some of the concrete facing has broken away and it appears that this is the only major hole in the front of the pentagon again is this  hole big enough to accommodate it seven fifty seven and where is the wreckage in this photograph we again see engines three thirty one and fire retardant foam being sprayed on the front of the pentagon  clearly in the center of the photograph we see the upper floors of the pentagon again yet to collapse but also notice that there does not appear to be any damage to these upper floors question if the height of the boeing seven fifty seven was forty four feet six inches there should have been some point of impact in these upper floors and yet when we look at these pictures there doesn't appear to be any impact whatsoever in the area where the tail should have hit and again there is no wreckage visible on the front of the lawn about two miles from the pentagon you can see the smoke billowing up from the building as this jumble of united states establishment goes up in smoke so there is an amazement all over washington we're also told that the bodies were able to be identified either by their fingerprints or by the d n a so what kind of fire can vaporize aluminum and tempered steel and yet leave leave human bodies intact on april fifteenth of two thousand and four we received a news release that alerted us to a web site that was entitled w w w dot let's roll nine one one dot org bill j hand the webmaster for this website had taken the video clips that you've just seen and slowed them down and examined them frame by frame and what he found was astounding there are several different anomalies that need to be examined and questioned first of all what is attached to the bottom of the plane that hit the south tower and second of all what is that brief flash that occurs just as the plane makes impact now let's take a look at this in slow motion as the plane approaches the south tower notice carefully the belly of the plane there appears to be something attached and just as it hits the building there's a flash what take another look in super slow motion now let's take another good hard look at this video footage as the plane approaches it is irrefutable that there is something attached to the bottom of this plane and a distinct flash as it makes contact now there are some that would say that this is a trick of light a reflection well let's keep in mind that if you hold a mirror in your hand and reflect the sun's rays that reflection on the goes where you aim that reflection so a reflection should only be seen from one particular angle let's take a look at this event from another angle and now let's take a look at it again from a third angle and now let's take a look at it one more time from the fourth bangle ladies and gentlemen you've just seen a very interesting event indeed not recorded by one but recorded by four different cameras from four different angles there can be no doubt that this is not the result of a reflection of any sort admittedly what we've seen so far in this presentation is disturbing to say the least to find that we were not necessarily told the truth about what happened at the pentagon on september eleventh and now according to the clips that you've just seen in the testimony that you've just heard there was a whole lot more to the story when a white one seventy five hit the south tower well i needed more information i needed more evidence that showed that there was something else going on and september eleventh and the only way to get more information was to go to the first plane flight eleven the american airliner that hit the north tower the french filmmakers the na day brothers were in new york city doing a documentary about the new york city firefighters and this clip is the only known footage of the first plane hitting the first tower let's take another look at this video clip this time in slow motion you'll notice that as the plane approaches the tower first of all we're too far away to get a clear shot in any detail of the plane so therefore it's hard to make out whether or not there was anything attached to the bottom of this plane as was the case with white one seventy five however there is another similarity just as the plane makes impact there is a flash let's look at it again and keep in mind that as we watch this plane make impact this flash occurs just before the plane crashes into the north tower this time as we watch this quick note the shadow rising from the lower right of the trade center tower and keep in mind that the shuttle won't reach the impact point before the plane and vice versa this is very important because the flash occurs before the shadow and the plane meet this time let's look at this clip in reverse you'll notice that as the plane slowly backs out of the north tower it is clear of the tower and then the flash occurred indicating that the flash occurred before the plane made impact on the north tower one more time this video clip showing the flash as the plane hit the north tower let's take another look at the clips that we showed you and the testimony that was given to the plane hitting the tower applause i studied physics at mit i did electrical engineering for about eight years had quite a bit of practical engineering experience when i first saw the collapses i was absolutely convinced that they were not  spontaneous one of the first things that i did was to speak with one of my patients who is a retired army corps of engineers fellow who's done a lot of demolition and construction showed him some of the public source videos that are available of it and he immediately pointed out that there were switch represent little puffs of smoke essentially coming out of the buildings initially which were clearly a sign of controlled demolition he had no opinions beyond that but he said without without doubt that it was a controlled demolition sort of set me on the path of continuing to examine it and trying to gather as much evidence as i could and the question i pose what don't we know and why don't we know it is sort of addressing the fact that at this point we still do not really have a meaningful explanation for what happened to the building we have had several studies at this point which i will go into trying to determine a plausible scenario for the collapse as of this point none of them have presented us with anything that i think could be reasonably called a convincing detail account of why the collapses occurred and the question that's been addressed previously destruction of physical evidence chris was saying the site was very thoroughly out of the entire mass of the buildings that were destroyed the national institutes of standards and technology are now doing the ongoing investigation managed to save about two hundred two hundred forty pieces out of the entire building all of the rest of it was was basically recycled you know the obvious question is what what does it mean that there was a control demolition that the simplest level it means that someone had a lot of access to the buildings over the long enough period of time to set this up it implies as many other things tonight that the people who had effective control of the site had an interest in having its growth and making sure that information was available forensic reconstruction couldn't be done even in much smaller catastrophes typically  had very limited access to the site a lot of the pieces that they were able to retrieve were retrieved by going to landfills and trying to find interesting pieces before they were  the initial report basically acknowledged that the kerosene would have burned off very quickly what wasn't destroyed in the initial fireball would have been consumed fairly rapidly and would have only really served as a condition for the rest of the material and the second point being the fuel here really was strictly off its cause if you think of a modern office with copying machines computers and as has been previously mentioned the smoke particularly from building to just before it collapsed was very black looking this is generally an indication of an inefficient fire in which there is not enough oxygen for the amount of fuel these types of fires typically burn very contained forty seven columns and these columns basically were the primary structural support of the building they were given the role of supporting the whole gravitational load of the building since they were so strong it would have been reasonable to think that they would have withstood at least to some extent the collapse but in fact as we see after the buildings collapsed there were basically only little stubs of these things standing up the floor to the ground level the cores did not have much in the dirt floors basically were dedicated to things like elevator shafts utility shafts stairways so you have dry wall material you have a little bit of carpeting you don't really have any inflammable material in the core itself the core was specifically designed so it could not function as a chimney they did not want in the case of a fire for the fire to be able to travel through the elevators or for air to come in through the elevators so they were designed with what this architect re very limited amount of oxygen available issue of what failed and how some of the initial suggestions and these showed up in the documentary which is a good example of what i like to call proof by computer animation thomas gar who is a material scientist but not a structural engineer who became a spokesman for these documentaries indicated that the floors had somehow failed the trusses supporting the  floors had failed this was the theory that was put forward actually in the initial report subsequently there have been basically complete contradictions of that jim hofmann has done quite a bit authority on building collapses he specifically disavowed the idea of pancaking collapsing floors and the most recent official report we have on this which is from national institutes of standards and technology  rejected the idea that the collapse was part of it and so as as a result we have basically no sequential model at this point what and i suggest it is that there was some kind of simultaneous collapse of the corps but they have not attempted to give any kind of modeling as to whether those course could have in fact been destroyed by the fires in the way that they claimed unfortunately the material are told it was the presence of the dust clouds as you've seen in the pictures and i'm sure all of this has seen probably more than we would like there were very very large clouds of very thick dust that envelop the area that crossed the river that made it almost all the way to new jersey from the pictures that i've seen this type of flow is something that we are familiar with in physics it occurs in only two situations that we know of naturally one is involved can a corruptions where a large amount of material is suddenly exploded into the air basically forms small particles the other situation is something called her ability currents these occur along the edges of the continental shelves where mud or sediment becomes suspended in water and the common thread is that you have large amounts of dense material that is suspended very quickly in the fluid thereby creating another denser fluid which is in effect the dust cloud and that fluid can achieve considerable loss of these the problem with creating this sort of slurry of fin particles is that there really is no mechanism has been proposed we have concrete floors with carpeting or flooring over them we have furniture we have floors basically that are coming together in a collapse but the concrete is basically protected under these layers early in the collapse in the very first moments we see these thick clouds being ejected at very high speed they're clearly dense because they flow downward and become part of this large overall pirate plastic flow basically being told is that the concrete sort of jumped up into the air exploded itself and then was ejected as the floors came together not a very plausible mechanism but i have yet to hear of anything else proposed to explain it from quite a few people on the scene we've been told that the powder represented most of the concrete that the amount of intact macroscopic chunks of concrete on the scene or were  negligible that basically everything was reduced to powder and incidentally we also know that other things besides concrete were reduced to powder you know the contents of computers exotic metals from computer chips these sorts of things were were also identified in the dust and in very small particles generally on the order of less than one hundred microns in diameter so we have a real issue of mechanism as far as what in the in the process of this collapse could cause so many things to be pulverized so finally for the the towers to collapse the way we saw them collapse basically implies that the columns simply collapsed into themselves they telescope straight down steel keeps a lot of its structural integrity even even when he did until you begin to approach the melting point you don't really see a catastrophic loss of strength and this is what we're talking about we're talking about basically vertical  columns collapsing into themselves which implies a complete loss of mechanical strength and as far as the initial impacts this recent study made an interesting point about world trade center to the film analysis showed that it awesome waited for about four minutes after it was struck by the airplane and the oscillation rate was identical to what would be expected for the intact tower trade center towers and most modern buildings are heavily redundant in the sense that the load bearing can be shifted to other members if some of them fail and we saw that happen in this case stresses do redistribute but absent further weakening of the structural members that distribution is is limited it happens the structure restabilize is and unless there is significant further damage it doesn't progress to a total collapse world trade one began collapsing from the very top after an hour and forty minutes it's very hard to imagine office contents progressively heating up hotter and hotter over that period of time and for a building to collapse from the very top which is least heavily loaded is also very odd to say the least just a couple of other anomalies as we know there are reports of explosions there were reports of underground explosions in both of the towers at the time of the blast damage and this was immediately after the plane collision knew that something was happening the power downs may represent a time window in which demolition charges would have been planted although i think it's possible that they also were planted over a much longer period of time given the relative accessibility of the buildings ok that's all i have to say thank you jeff king thank you very very much a common explanation as to why no u s military interceptors took to the skies on september eleventh until it was too late is that it was simple incompetence well let me deal with the incompetence theory first by taking you back to a cobra twenty six thousand nine hundred ninety nine that is the day the chartered lear jet carrying golfer payne stewart crashes killing all on board this from the national transportation safety board crash report eighty m the flight departs nine twenty four the lear jets pilot responds to an instruction from air traffic control nine thirty three the controller radios another instruction no response from the pilot for four and a half minutes the controller tries to establish contact having failed the controller called in the military note that he did not seek nor did he require the approval of the president of the united states or indeed anyone it's standard procedure followed routinely to call in the air force when radio contact with a commercial passenger jet is lost or the plane departs from its flight path or anything along those lines occurs nine fifty fo sixteen minutes later the f sixteen reaches the lear jet at forty six thousand feet and conduct a visual inspection total elapsed time twenty one minutes so what does this prove well it proves that standing routines exist for dealing with all such emergencies for instance loss of radio contact all personnel in the air and on the ground are trained to follow the routines which have been fine tuned over decades as the lear jet incident illustrates for the large schedule aircraft tracked throughout on radar to depart extravagantly from their flight paths would trigger numerous calls to the military especially after to have hit the world trade center and now one is speeding toward washington d c it flies over the white house turned sharply and heads toward the pentagon everyone and i mean everyone now knows these planes are very bad news it's been reported on all t v networks for more than half an hour that this is a terrorist attack now andrews air force base is a huge installation it's home to air force one the president's plane is home base for t combat ready squadrons of jet interceptors mandated to ensure the safety of the u s capitol andrews is only twelve miles from the white house on september eleventh the squadrons there are one hundred twenty first fighter squadron of the hundred thirteenth fighter wing equipped with sixteen and the three hundred twenty first marine fighter attack squadron of the forty ninth marine air group detachment a equipped with f eighteen this information was on the web site of the base on september eleventh on september twelfth andrews chose to update its website i find it odd that after the update there is no mention of the f sixteen and f eighteen fighters the base becomes according to the web site home to a transport squadron only yet at six thirty the evening of september eleventh n b c nightly news along with many outlets reported it was after the attack on the pentagon that the air force then decided to scramble f sixteen out of the d c national guard andrews air force base to fly a protective cover over washington d c throughout the northeastern united states are many air bases but that morning no interceptors respond in a timely fashion to the highest alert situation this includes the andrews squadrons which have the longest lead time and are twelve miles from the white house whatever the explanation for the huge failure there been no reports to my knowledge of reprimands this further weakens the incompetence theory incompetence usually earned reprimand this causes me to ask and other media need to ask if there were stand down orders the events of nine eleven begin with aircraft going wildly off course incredibly despite radar tracking for almost two hours the whole of the mighty us air force goes a wall that morning it's a mind bending anomaly not a single u s air