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36 Marine: Sarasota Herald-Tribune , 9/10/02.

37 “It took me”/“Captain Loewer says”:AP, 11/26/01.

38 “A second plane”:CR, 38. To calculate the timing of the classroom session and when Bush was informed of the second strike, the authors studied the footage of the session available on YouTube and in the relevant section of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 , which includes specific time points. The authors’ calculation as to the delay before Bush was told of the second strike—“ninety seconds”—would mean that Card interrupted him somewhat after 9:04—a little earlier than the 9:05 timing cited in the Commission Report. The delay was in any case minimal ( Fahrenheit 9/11 , Sony Pictures, 2004, CR, 38).

39 Brian Clark:Bernstein, 224–;

40 emergency calls: NY Daily News , 9/30/01.

41 Compton:ABC News, 9/11/02;

42 Daniels: St. Petersburg Times , 9/8/02;

43 Jones-Pinkney/Radkey:AP, 9/11/06;

44 “Can you get”: St. Petersburg Times , 7/4/04;

45 “The Pet Goat”:eds. Siegfried Engelmann & Elaine Bruner, Reading Mastery 2, Storybook 1 , NY: McGraw-Hill, 1995;

46 “DON’T SAY”: Washington Times , 10/7/02.

47 Gartenberg/Puma:WABC (NY), 9/11/01, eds. Der Spiegel , 85–, 212–.

48 Flight 77:Farmer, 160–, 186, “Air Traffic Control Recording,” NTSB, 12/21/01, CR, 8–, 24–;

49 “Whose plane”:MFR 04017175, 11/20/03, CF;

50 Ballinger/Boston warned:Staff Report, “The Four Flights and Civil Aviation Security,” 8/26/04, CF, CR, 455n67;

51 Command Center failed:ibid.;

52 Boston advised/NY issued:CR, 23, “Staff Report”;

53 “Beware”:CR, 11. One such message went to Flight 175, which, still unknown to Ballinger, had already crashed;

54 4,546:Pamela Freni, Ground Stop , NY: iUniverse, 2003, 59.

55 May call:Las Vegas to Dallas, 9/12/01, Dallas to Las Vegas, 9/11/01, Dallas to Dallas, 9/11/01, “Misc. Comms from 4 Flights,” B13, T7, CF;

56 mother got through:“Through My Eyes,” by Toni Knisley, submission for National September 11 Memorial & Museum, http://ns11makehistory.appspot.com, MFR 04017206, 11/19/03;

57 some wondered:Farmer, 162;

58 videoconference:CR, 36;

59 “I need”:Stephen Hayes, Cheney , NY: HarperCollins, 2007, 331–;

60 “The Cabinet”:Barton Gellman, Angler , London: Allen Lane, 114.

61 “very aware”: Newsweek , 12/3/01;

62 Cheney/Rice:CR, 39, 463n204, St. Petersburg Times , 9/8/02.

CHAPTER 5

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Olson calls:

FBI 302 of Lori Keyton, 9/14/01, “Flight Call Notes and 302s,” B13, T7, CF, FBI 302 of Ted Olson, 9/11/01, INTELWIRE, int. Ted Olson on

Larry King Weekend

, CNN, 1/6/02, Farmer, 163;

2

undetected:

Staff Monograph, “The Four Flights and Civil Aviation Security,” 8/26/04, CF;

3

speeding east/notified Reagan/Secret Service:

Flight 77 map and timeline, “Timelines 9-11, 1 of 2,” B20, T7, CF.

4

Ladies and gentlemen:

AP, 9/11/01;

5

“We’re under”:

Clear the Skies

, BBC documentary, 9/1/02.

6

“We’ve got”:

Alfred Goldberg et al.,

Pentagon 9/11

, Washington, D.C.: Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2007, 13;

7

agents acted:

CR, 39–, 464n209, Gellman, 114–, int. of Dick Cheney on

Meet the Press

, NBC, 9/16/01. Questions have been raised about the timing of Cheney’s move from his office to the underground shelter—to be reported in Ch. 13.

8

P-56/O’Brien:

Spencer, 145–;

9

horrified controllers:

ibid., 158,

USA Today

, 8/11/02;

10 fire engine crew:“Arlington County After-Action Report,” www.co.arlington.va.us/fire/edu/about/pdf/after_report.pdf, Annex A, A-4;

11 policeman:Goldberg et al., 13;

12 priest:Penny Schoner, “Analysis of Eyewitness Statements on 9/11, American Airlines Flight 77 Crash into the Pentagon,” www.ratical.org, pt. 8;

13 Anderson/​Benedetto/​Riskus:ibid., pts. 13, 18, 3;

14 “I looked out”:“Personal Experience at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001,” by Penny Elgas, Smithsonian Institution.

15 Jester:Goldberg et al., 151–;

16 Boger:ibid., 27, 64–;

17 Others heard:ibid., 137, 134;

18 fuel/mph/had struck:ibid., 16–;

19 “simply melt”:statement of Penny Elgas, http://americanhistory.si.edu.

20 “I saw”:The source of this quote is blogger Rebecca Gordon, a resident of Virginia, writing as “Skarlet” on www.punkprincess.com (corr. Rebecca Gordon, 2009, column at Gordon’s blog www.meanlouise.com).

21 “I expected”:Christopher Hilton, The Women’s War , Stroud, U.K.: History Press, 2003;

22 impact:Goldberg et al., 17;

23 dead/injured:ibid., 23–, 49, 117–, 123;

24 Morrison/​Cruz/​Kurtz/​Moody/​Gallop:ibid., 28–;

25 Marines:ibid., 53–;

26 firefighters:ibid., 64–, 78–, 93–.

27 CIA briefer/room shaken:interview of Donald Rumsfeld by Alfred Goldberg & Rebecca Cameron, “Rumsfeld on Intel,” B7, T2, CF;

28 left office/“it was dark”:Andrew Cockburn, Rumsfeld , NY: Scribner, 2007, 1–;

29 “hundreds”:int. of Rumsfeld;

30 “people lying”:transcript of Rumsfeld int. for Parade magazine, 10/12/01, www.defenselink.mil & see Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown , NY: Sentinel, 2011, 336–;

31 examined/gurney:Cockburn, 2;

32 photographed:Goldberg et al., photo section 82–;

33 “suit jacket”:Torie Clarke, 221. Victoria “Torie” Clarke, whose timing of 10:15 we have used, took notes of events that day. Rumsfeld himself believed he was back inside the Pentagon from the crash site “shortly before or after 10:00,” and then used the phone before proceeding to the Executive Support Center (took notes: int. of Rumsfeld; “shortly before or after”: testimony of Donald Rumsfeld, 3/23/04, CO).

34 news reached/escort to advise:CR, 39, 463n206;

35 President hurried:Bamford, Pretext , 62;

36 “Sounds like”:CR, 39;

37 “They were taxiing”:int. law enforcement officer, now member of Joint Terrorism Task Force, who asked not to be identified;

38 “like a rocket”: CBS News, 9/10/03;

39 northeast/west:corr. Miles Kara, 2011, Stephen Hayes, 341, St. Petersburg Times , 7/4/04;

40 Instead of returning:CR, 39, 325.

CHAPTER 6

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Melodie/Leroy Homer: