Slow Bush and Secret Service response to 9-11 attacks
As the U.S. military was conducting operations and exercises involving aircraft from or in the northeast,
and while real planes were striking the
World Trade Center, President Bush was reading a story about a
pet goat to schoolchildren in Florida. He was informed of the second plane strike at 9:07 am. The
Commander in Chief of the U.S. armed forces then proceeded to do nothing for seven minutes.
It is interesting to actually sit oneself down and wait out seven minutes with the notion in mind that you
have just been informed that the country you are responsible to protect has just been attacked. Bush was
informed of the first strike before even entering the classroom; he later stated or misstated that he watched
the first strike on television outside the classroom – something that would have been impossible unless
secret cameras were rolling, since the first public video of the first plane strike did not emerge until
September 12.
pet goat to schoolchildren in Florida. He was informed of the second plane strike at 9:07 am. The
Commander in Chief of the U.S. armed forces then proceeded to do nothing for seven minutes.
It is interesting to actually sit oneself down and wait out seven minutes with the notion in mind that you
have just been informed that the country you are responsible to protect has just been attacked. Bush was
informed of the first strike before even entering the classroom; he later stated or misstated that he watched
the first strike on television outside the classroom – something that would have been impossible unless
secret cameras were rolling, since the first public video of the first plane strike did not emerge until
September 12.
[No matter who was behind the attack, this showed that Bush was
not really in charge (surprise!). There is tape of him in the classroom, book in
hand, and some guy steps up and whispers into his ear while a child reads, and
he sits there squirming in his chair for seven minutes. He was at least smart
enough to know that given what he was just told, it doesn't look good to just
sit there. "Hurry up and tell me what I'm supposed to do next" is almost the
expression on his face in those minutes. The video of this was on the school's
website, but was subsequently removed. --Mark]
Either way, we must keep in mind that, under the official theory, there was no advance knowledge of the
scale of the day’s events; there may have been scores of hijacked airlines, biological or nuclear weapons,
or any other number of possible immediate threats facing the nation.
As unusual as it seems for the Commander in Chief to have waited at least seven minutes before even
getting up, the behavior of the Secret Service around him is at least as unfathomable. The man they were
sworn to protect with their lives was in a pre-announced public place on television during an attack in
which airplanes were being used to strike symbols of U.S. power. For all anyone allegedly knew, the
president himself was a target. They did not yank him out of the chair and pull him into the limousine and
rush him to Air Force One.
This strange lack of response is more sensible under the complicity
theories in which at least Bush and
possibly others in his entourage were aware that something was going to happen that day, knew that the
classroom was in no danger from the attacks and that Vice President Cheney had things under control
back in the White House.
possibly others in his entourage were aware that something was going to happen that day, knew that the
classroom was in no danger from the attacks and that Vice President Cheney had things under control
back in the White House.
[Under conventional we-are-under-attack thinking, with his whereabouts
public knowledge, for him to remain in the classroom endangered the children and
teachers there. --Mark]
See:
Above from Journal of 9/11 Studies 29 August 2006/Volume 2
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