it was things like mistakes women who need to improve human intelligence this is nothing i mean it's like yes i stand for truth justice and the american way but it was  waste of time and money but gives the impression that yes the government is doing something the government studying the issue well what makes makes me really disappointed and that's an understatement is that congress is role is oversight and congress even today you'll see members of congress saying well we haven't implemented everything that the nine one one commission recommended and the nih one commissioners have said staff statements as an indictment it's possible others have done that we have not ended up tom and i have heard repeated praises from people in your business in the media business thanking us for the quality of those statements lately i was second out and by the way i never ever would correct the vice chairman but i'm afraid i'm afraid i did characterize one of those statements as an indictment so how can you start with a document that you know is false and and take that to the american people as a document by which  congress's accomplishments to be measured the senate would present thirty five articles of impeachment against the bush administration in june of two thousand and eight he would stand before the house for almost three hours before reading the last few articles which were regarding nine eleven he alleged that the administration had not acted on specific warnings prior to nine eleven that they had attempted to cover this information up and they tried to stop any commission from being organized in regards to investigating the attack article thirty three repeatedly ignored and failed to respond to high level intelligence warnings of planned terrorist attacks in the united states prior to nine eleven in his conduct while president of the united states george w bush in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of president of the united states and to the best of his ability preserve pro tax and defend the constitution of the united states and in violation of his constitutional duty under article two section three of the constitution to take care that the laws be faithfully executed has both personally and acting through his agents and subordinates together with the vice president failed in his constitutional duties to take proper steps to protect the nation prior to september eleventh two thousand and one so the congressional report was redacted and the nine between good and evil everything we buy one believes in versus everything that is evil that wants to destroy everything america stan even bin laden himself warned us three weeks earlier on a bin laden one three weeks ago that he would attack american interest in an unprecedented attack a very big one there was a report you'll recall that the mossad the israeli  laden was determined to strike the united states in fact the the label on the president's p t bay was going on determined to strike the united states on august sixth two thousand and one president bush was presented a president's daily brief article titled bin laden determined to strike in us the lead sentence of that president's daily brief indicated that bin laden and his followers wanted to follow the example world trade center bomber ramzi yousef and bring the fighting to america the article cited a more sensational threat reporting that bin laden wanted to hijack s aircraft the president's daily brief item included information from the f b i indicating patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for  hijackings the president broke his silence today about the revelations earlier this week that he'd been briefed before september eleventh about a possible al qaeda hijacking plot the comments took place in the white house south lawn setting where the press could not ask questions while he was honoring the air force football team his comments diverted to what has become topic a in washington d c you know what's interesting about washington it's a town unfortunately it's the kind of place where second guessing has become second nature what i want to say to my my democratic friends in the congress is they need to be very cautious not to seek political advantage by making incendiary suggestions as were made by some today that the white house had advance information that would have prevented the trag attacks of nine eleven confirms that in june july and august two thousand and one the central intelligence agency warned the president in daily briefings unprecedented indications that a major al qaeda attack was going to happen against the united states it was so well known that the united states had done several drills with this exact scenario prior to nine eleven we're going to take a closer look tonight at another example of where despite the conventional wisdom there were people in the united states who actually were preparing to defend against the kind of attacks which occurred here on nine eleven the north american aerospace defense command norad for short has been defending the skies over the u s and canada for almost fifty years forty six to be precise usa today reports that in the two years before the attacks on september the eleventh norad conducted exercises using hijacked airliners as weapons and one target was the world trade center here's a b c s brian ross president bush has said again and again that no one could have imagined what osama bin laden ordered for september eleventh we knew he hated but there was no way our government at least and i don't think the prior government could envision flying airplanes into buildings on such a massive scale that turns out not to be true u s military planners did in vision and practice those various scenarios as reported by usa today north american aerospace defense command norad conducted exercises with fighter jets simulating hijacked planes flown into the world trade center in the two years before the attacks pentagon planners also it was in the attack on the pentagon five months before it happened one of these drills was run on june first and second of two thousand and one amalgam virgo was an exercise where multiple attacks in areas would be occurring simultaneously including attacks from cruise missiles unmanned aerial vehicles and hijacked aircraft the scenario also envisioned a hijacker taking control of a commercial aircraft and slamming it into the nation's capital the exercises would constantly be monitored by military satellites and planes osama bin laden was the poster boy for this plot appearing on the cover isn't it the facts are that prior to september eleventh two thousand and one who norad had already in the works plans to simulate in an exercise a simultaneous hijacking of two planes in the united states first got you have any doubt on that i'm not aware of that sort i was not present at the time that was operation amalgam very go yes so what did happen on nine eleven the truth is there was a lot more going on that day than we are being told there were several war games an exercise being run into a building other drills would literally cripple our defensive and investigative abilities on that morning but this very interesting information katie matt and tom from the f b i they're operating a massive exercise from hostage rescue unit all of their top teams about fifty personnel helicopters equipment were in monterey california for the last two days scheduled to fly back today commercially so all of those people are out of place it's fair to say according  to sources that we've talked to here at n b c that the f b i rescue operations and other f b i operations are really in chaos right now because they can't reach their officials in new york all of their phone lines are down and now you've got all of their special experts on this stuck in monterey california trying to get a military flight back because there are no longer commercial flights so they are seriously out of pocket and there is a real breakdown of the f b i coordination team which is of course the principal team that would lead any effort i actually found myself in montana with fifty state emergency managers director of female staff at the national emergency management association conference number of emergency managers from new york state from pennsylvania patrol canada and alaska vigilant guardian and vigilant warrior were exercises involving hijacked aircraft that would go in and out of radar these would appear real to those involved we fought many phantoms that day we got many aircraft calls inbound that morning that turned out to be phantoms during that timeframe we had multiple aircraft called hijacked all over the country these exercises would not cease until after united ninety three was brought down and the attacks were in fact more hijackings were thought to be taking place on a writer scope and it's not just a video game it's actually people's lives sitting here trying to keep from running into each other all the planes were thought to have been hijacked their details remain classified to this day so is it any wonder that dollar rumsfeld gave these warnings to military personnel the day after the attacks finally i'd like to say a word or two to the men and women in the defense establishment  most of whom deal with classified information when people deal with intelligence information and make it available to peace but who are not cleared for that classified information the effect is to reduce the chances that the united states government has to track down and deal with the people who have perpetrated the attacks on the united states and killed so many americans later in the day weapons are found planted on several other plan s official says of the hijackings these look like inside sources tell time that u s officials are investigating whether the hijackers had accomplices deep inside the airport secure areas and then there's the story of flight twenty three as bad as things were on tuesday there is a possibility that they could have been even worse there was some kind of an altercation involving three men described by a port authority of new york a new jersey police source as middle eastern appearance they attracted the suspicions of the gate staff boarding that flight they had already gotten on the plane they were asked to leave the aircraft they refused to get off the airline following its normal procedures according to this police source calls the police which immediately dispatch an emergency service team so now you have a squad of heavily armed officers that are coming toward the airplane and when they get there the men have  the gates staff can't find them matches with the type of flights the trans continental flights that were hijacked in the other four instances another disturbing fact if indeed there was an altercation and these men felt they had a case to make and were being treated unfairly you can imagine they would have disappeared from the airport they would have stayed around and pled their case with the police it is extraordinarily unusual to have an airline after his boarded passengers be so suspicious that it's going to ask these customers to get off the airplane we got a phone call from a law enforcement officer who was on vacation and was in the united airlines terminal at the time as soon as he approached they walked out of the terminal and he looked over he described them as middle eastern in both appearance and dress not sure what that means but that was his description he said when they left the terminal through the glass doors he saw them meet a third man and they then left inside the bags officials found  instruction sheets but false identification prevented investigators from evilly caging the bags true and that's coincidentally the hijackers identification would be found the exact same way there are also been reports of luggage that did not make the plane connection that appears to be tied to one of the alleged perpetrators and this is being reported by the in the boston globe and contained within the luggage were supposed to be arabic language flight training manual as well as videotapes pertaining to operating an aircraft then we have that mysterious suitcase with all of the hijackers names and all of this incriminating evidence that is supposedly taken by one of the hijackers to the airport why if they are planning on a suicide attack were they even bother to pack a suitcase or if they just packing a suitcase to look like they're checking luggage just throw clothes in there why put a koran why put flight manuals why put all this incriminating information if it's supposedly going to get burned up and then magically amazingly enough this one suitcase doesn't make it onto the connecting flight to new york and it's just there in baggage waiting to be discovered and if the passengers on flight twenty three use false identification why would the other hijackers based on my personal belief based on the events of that morning the decision t airplanes in all likelihood probably precluded other attacks and three others would do dry runs of the attacks before nine eleven actor james woods and others on the plane even filed separate reports to the f a a again nothing was done i was on a flight without going into the details of what made me suspicious of these four men although it would have been blatantly obvious to the most casual observer i took it upon myself to go to the flight attendant and as to speak to the pilot of the plane the first officer came out i reported to him that i felt that the four men and i said can you look over my shoulder and see who i'm talking about and he said you know i said i think they're going to hijack this plane i mean everything they're doing and i explained to him these details which i've been asked to keep private until whatever interesting you know whatever trials may take place their behavior was such that that that i thought they were going to check the plane and i found out later that not only was that he might report but the flight attendant also made a report of my suspicions to the f a a my friend scott said to me you know that flight you took and i guess i said you have been thinking about it all day he said well maybe we should call the f b i and i said i'm sure they're being inundated but i thought it over and i called the local office quarter to seven the next morning i got a phone call that actually wakes me up and they said we want to talk to you about the and i and this is the only funny part of it as i said i do you know where i live and it was a fog he said when the f b i the f b i thank you so they came in and i said look i i'm dying to know where these that guy is and he said well we've had thirty six thousand tips in one day and there's two of us are going to your house all this morning so you can do the math but we can't tell you you know so since then i have identified for sure two of them as two of the terrorists who actually were not on site eleven but one was on flight one seventy five and one was on flight seventy seven and i've been told on officially not by the f b i that by someone else in a actually higher level of government believe it or not just through a coincidence through a mutual friend that all four of them were terrorists involved as i explained to the f b i they said what was your first instinct and aside from certain things like four guys going on a transcontinental flight without any hand luggage they said to me you know what do you think these guys or i said i thought they were for law enforcement officers or for terrorism in that they had that wrong that guys are undercover on a mission to have between each other it's just more evidence that the hijackers had intelligence t there were almost certainly other targets maryland's governor on the morning of nine eleven stated that his police department had received threats prior to the attack the be not only against the targets that had been hit but others another target on that morning was air force one although it is never discussed the perpetrators of the attack somehow got top secret codes that morning and brand what is the credible evidence that air force one could have been a target these planes were some distance from air force one after the the excuse was that quote we do not discuss you know we do not discuss intelligence information air force one has been said to be a target in the past during president clinton's trip to bosnia during his first term where they stopped an r v on o and switched out into three transport planes similarly they were escorted by fighter jets as they have in the past while it is not routine  the white house insisting that the evidence was and thus the zigzag flight path from florida to louisiana the air force is insisting that the evidence is provable incredible that the aircraft and the white house were targets ari fleischer the white house press secretary would be pressed on this issue which by deduction you would assume there is something else that we're talking about targeting air force one there was that assumption i'm not going to lead you any further as to speculating about what was the nature of the threat to air force one but as i indicated and i'll say it again it was real it was credible that we have a i'm just not going to speculate about the nature of it on september twentieth two thousand and one world net daily would report much more regarding the threat the terrorist message threatening air force one was transmitted in that day's top secret white house code words as the clock ticked away the secret service reached a frightening conclusion the terrorists had obtained the white house code and a whole set of top secret signals this made it possible for a hostile force to pinpoint the exact position of air force one its destination and its classified procedures in fact the hijackers were picking up and the ciphering the presidential planes incoming and outgoing transmissions in the week after the attacks in new york and washington more hair raising facts emerged the terrorists had also obtained the code groups of the national security agency and were able to penetrate the n state of the art electronic surveillance system they seem to have at their disposal an electronic capability that was more sophisticated than the n s a they also believe that the terrorists are in possession of all or part of the codes used by the drug enforcement agency the national reconnaissance office air force intelligence army intelligence naval intelligence marine corps intelligence and intelligence offices of the state department and department of energy since no single individual has access to every top level code at any given time a single mole would not answer the case it would have to be a large widely spread number u s experts do not believe bin laden was capable of infiltrating double agents into the heart of the u s administration on a large scale it shouldn't come as a surprise that global guardian a mass armageddon drill was in full swing the drill would pose all sorts of threats and even mobilize command centers known as doomsday planes that housed top military personnel although originally scheduled for late october it was moved up unexpectedly one of these doomsday plans was on the scene of the pentagon strike now to one of the eeriest moments amid the carnage of nine eleven a mysterious plane was seen flying right over the president's residence even some c n n staffers saw it to this day it has never been officially explained to my chief national correspondent john king has new details about this great nine eleven mystery today six years after nine eleven a mystery indoors about just what happened in the skies over the white house that terrible day a plane flew right over it but why and what was it you know appeared overhead just before ten am a four engine jet banking slowly in the nation's most off limits airspace about ten minutes ago there was a white yet circling overhead you generally don't see planes in the area over the white house that is restricted airspace to government sources familiar with the incident tell c n n it was a military aircraft that was and the details are classified this comparison to c n n video and an official air force photo suggest the mystery plane is among the militaries most sensitive aircraft an air force f four b note the flag on the tail the stripe around the fuselage and the telltale bubble just behind the seven forty seven cockpit area of the four b is a state of the art flying command post built and equipped for one reason to keep the government running no matter what even in the event of a nuclear war the reason it was nicknamed the doomsday plane during the cold war they exercise this type of thing all of the time and they simply don't talk about it so it doesn't surprise me that they that they are very close not house the pentagon and insist this is not a military aircraft and there is no mention of it in the official report of the nine eleven commission but six years later the pentagon the secret service and the f a a all say they leased for public consumption had no explanation of the giant plane over the president's house just as the smoke began to center there were five e four b is in the air on nine eleven they are part of the continuity of government plans in case of an emergency this program was launched in the early eighty's headed by none other than george herbert on nine eleven this program was playing to affect the sex what happens a lot these days it seems like a story that is both reassuring and scary at the same time this morning we learned that the vice president wasn't the only one sent to an undisclosed location on september eleventh that an entire back up government was and is still there and may be there for as long as anyone now at least can imagine traveling in iowa the president for the first time discussed a secret ongoing operation designed to keep the federal government running if washington is paralyzed by a terrorist strike i still take the threats that we receive from out how to kill or send terrorists very seriously the operation was first reported by the washington post and conf n by several administration officials the shadow war bunker government involves roughly one hundred senior staffers from every cabinet department and major government agency operates primarily out of two secret bunkers in the eastern united states and  is charged with running executive branch if communication with washington is severed the secret plan took shape in the minutes and hours after the september eleventh strikes mr bush took a cautious route back to washington and now nearly six months later  administration officials are scrambling to get more telephone lines and high tech computers into the secret bunkers and at least one member of the bush cabinet is being kept out of washington at all times under heavy security just in case this so called shadow government is activated and needs a leader despite it being on television and in numerous papers most people continue to deny that a shadow government even exists now what if i told you that dick cheney was the reported head of this group on the day of nine eleven president bush cracked jokes about it at a prime rib dinner the vice president has been moving among secret locations the revived continuity of government a year ago dick was running the country bush said today he lives out of a little suitcase secure communications center in the basement of the west wing vice president dick cheney is there along with national security advisor condoleezza rice i arrived at the voc nine twenty  i was not i was made aware of it during the time that the airplane coming in to the pentagon there was a young man who would come in and say to the vice president of the plane is fifty miles out plane is thirty miles out and when he got down to the plane is ten miles out the young man also said to the vice president do the orders still stand and then the vice president turned and whipped his neck around and said of course the orders still stand have you heard anything to the contrary to what i think he meant to the pentagon when you arrived at nine twenty how much longer was it before you overheard the conversation between the young man and the vice president saying does the orders still stand it's probably amount to five or six minutes so about nine twenty five or nine twenty six the nine eleven commission would cover this up by saying cheney did not arrive in the emergency operating center until more than fifteen minutes after the pentagon strike many of the same people involved in the shadow government benefited the most from the war on terror a key hub for intelligence was the solomon brothers building also known as world trade center seven this was a massive forty seven story skyscraper that would have dominated most city skylines at five twenty in the afternoon it would collapse into its own  it also happened to be new york city's number one spook house and operational center it has the department of defense the internal revenue service is the security and exchange commission the largest secret service office in the world the largest cia office outside of virginia and new york's office of emergency manager or o m beyond the haunting presence of those still missing in the rubble ground zero is filled with guns drugs and secret number seven world trade center was also the new york office of the central intelligence agency the cia ordered the building surrounded by f b i agents shortly after it collapsed since that they have been searching for computers and a safe filled with classified documents government agents watch the construction workers through binoculars as they where local government would rally in the case of an emergency such as a terrorist attack or natural disaster the command center on the twenty third floor is bulletproof and resistant with its own air supply and generators its link to city airports the coast guard the pentagon computers will soon have detailed blueprints of every major building in new york city surprisingly it would be deserted when city officials barry jennings and michael has arrived when the office of emergency management didn't activation they always they always included i will look out i received the call shortly after the first plane hit i got to hear i had to be inside on the twenty third floor when the second plane hit upon a riving into the hallway m e o c we know is that the body was gone r several individuals one individual told me that to leave and leave right away both would go on network television on nine eleven and make the claim they experience explosions inside the building as they try to  evacuate a live picture down church street fire crews now walking back toward the scene we have seen them all morning trying to walk away because what happened is every time a little piece of the building comes down a huge black cloud comes out it's making it almost impossible to breathe or see anything in front of them but now for at least for the past couple of minutes it has been clear from this space back on chambers in that area another walking back toward the world trade center and as we keep letting you hear the personal stories the survivor stories of exactly what happened and  to us and they took us down to what what they called the lobby because i asked him once and we got down there i said where are we he said this was the lobby and i said you gotta be kidding me did not look down and stepping over people and you know you can feel when you stepping over this building would fall into its own footprint at five twenty in the afternoon and nearly free fall speed almost seven years later official reason given but some have given the false impression the damage caused by the collapse of the twin towers brought seven down the spike the fact that no other surrounding buildings in this manner sunder would make the claim on behalf of the national institute of standards and technology about a third of the face to the center and to the bottom approximately ten stories about twenty five percent of the depth of the building was scoop here is the south face of the world trade center seven does it look like one fourth of the building is gone perhaps we should take a look inside members of the media were reporting that the building had collapsed due to structural damage and fire more than twenty minutes prior to it going down now more on the latest building collapse in new york by to put a few months ago i was talking about the salomon brothers building collapsing and indeed it has a pint of ice only a few hundred yards away from where the world trade center towers were at it seems that this was not a result of a new attack it was because the building had been weakened during that this morning will probably find out more now about that from our correspondent jane stanley jane what more can you tell us about the salomon brothers building and its collapse the building can clearly be seen in the background as jane stanley report i think many of us when we heard the news perhaps on the radio earlier today the feed would be cut before the building collapsed and just couldn't on comprehend it i mean it was it almost sounded too farfetched i was wondering what it felt like for you being in manhattan but unfortunately i think we've lost the line with the family oh they called me down there was part of the nine eleven commission they actually the same questions that you guys are a polio i'm just confused about want to say one thing only why world trade center seven went down in the first place i'm very diffuse about that i know what i heard i heard explosions the  explicit explanation i got was it was the fuel tank i'm an old boiler guy if it was a fuel tank it would have been one side of the bil after nine eleven a climate of fear was created in order to shut down any opposition the bush administration's new agenda a week after nine eleven anthrax began appearing in the mail the letters were made to look as though they were the work of muslim extremists blaming america and a lot great now if you remember these anthrax letters they were written to appear to be from semi literate muslims a crude handwriting all of this all of that they really do look more like movie prop letters than real letters the targets where government buildings media outlets such a a strain of anthrax that was first isolated almost fifteen years ago at a u s department of agriculture diagnostic lab in ames iowa what's uncommon about this is that it has been engineered in such a way to be as they say readily aerosolize that means in effect that what somebody has done is taken the anthrax spores added to them some kind of a chemical to get in the way of a normal electrostatic process that anthrax spores mailed to capitol hill are identical to stocks of the deadly bacteria maintained by the u s army since one thousand nine hundred eighty those labs can trace back their samples to a single military source u s army medical research institute of infectious diseases at fort dietrich maryland it's been made quite clear that al qaeda wasn't behind this it was a special biological weapon only produced by our military in one facility high level f b i and cia official said none of the sixty to eighty daily threat reports from intelligence sources in tain evidence linking the anthrax attacks to osama bin laden terrorist network this did not stop the mainstream press from trying to blame al qaeda as investigators race to find answers to the recent wave of anthrax terror well look at what investigators are targeting now could reveal what terrorists had and it was not something smuggled in from iraq it was not something smuggled in from any middle eastern country it was u s government ultra fine granulated weaponized anthrax  it was another story that the media absolutely would not touch the story of dr philip and it goes back to the u s government lab where the anthrax was stored it was reported that official u s government documents in the anthrax investigation showed that dr zack had entered the laboratory where the anthrax used in the letters was kept without proper authorization after having lost his job somehow the bush administration would have the foresight the unsub room six weeks prior to the attack how convenient an attack traced back to u s government facilities and the president and his staff happen to be taking the end of though before it's even in the mail judicial watch which filed suit against the administration for its actions wow this is another good example of how certain people consider themselves to be above the rest of us on september eleventh i think it'll come as a shock to a lot of people but it's been reported by the new york times and other major news organizations and confirmed by the white house the president's office and vice president's office went on separate the anti biotics that was used to combat anthrax the white house when it was it must have know that either an attack was underway or was imminent it shows you that some people in this country are less than equal enter not treated like a political weight nine eleven was an international intelligence operation that included role players within our own government as well as in the governments of pakistan saudi arabia and israel each played a compartmentalise role in order to create a climate of fear and confusion this combined with the evacuation of government offices any type of dissent off the radar it was a time when americans felt they needed to rally around their leaders and they did our structure use that unity the past nightmarish legislation beginning with the patriot act which was written before nine eleven homeland security was in place prior to nine eleven as well another piece of this is just something that has been well known to all is that the creation of the office of homeland security was something that was planned even before september eleventh the bush administration had even written up the plans to invade afghanistan the week before nine eleven and as a result of a process and the cia the department of defense the department of state the national security council the national security presidential directive was developed and prepared throughout two thousand and one that was approved by what's called the principals committee which is essentially cabinet level officers involved in national security on september fourth two thousand and one that document was and finalized september tenth i think it was focused on al qaida from various tarun das we fight a fabled enemy the likes of which they can never be defeated  international intelligence cartel wage a psychological warfare against we the people on behalf of the globally remember this is a government that over the years has proven that it can be trusted with these powers and you hope as you don't let anyone tell you otherwise not a disingenuous filmmaker who would the time is calm now for a revolution but a restoration of our constitution our bill of rights but most of all our morality as a people the question is will we be able to put our consumers the sessions aside long enough to make a difference and we put down the remote control and hold these tyrants accountable it's up to us no more excuses