Killtown's: Was Bush complicit with the 9/11 attacks?

Killtown's	Last updated: 02/25/2008
Was Bush complicit with the 9/11 attacks?

Complicit - Associated with or participating in a questionable act or a crime.


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On a clear bright sunny morning, an aircraft crashes into the WTC after the FAA had already alerted NORAD of two hijackings.	Bush arrives at a school, but claims he saw this 1st crash live on TV already inside the building and thinks the pilot had a "heart attack".	Rice calls Bush at the school and tells him a commercial plane hit the WTC, but both assume it was just an "accident".	Even after the 1st crash, Bush enters a classroom for his scheduled photo-op supposedly before the 2nd crash happens.	Another aircraft crashes into the other WTC tower making it apparent that the first crash was no accident and that America is under attack.	Andrew Card whispers in Bush's ear that 'America is under attack' and immediately leaves without waiting for any kind of response from the President.	Bush picks up a book and starts reading for more than 10 min even though he's the only one that can order hijacked planes shot down.	Bush makes his first speech about the attacks inside the same school and is never evacuated by the Secret Service.

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Watch the shocking video of Bush at Booker below!

The timeline of George W. Bush on 9/11.

"No president since Abraham Lincoln had seen such horrific loss of life in a war on American soil. No president since James Madison, nearly 200 years ago, had seen the nation’s capital city successfully attacked.
But two years ago, President George W. Bush was thrown into the first great crisis of the 21st century." -CBS (9/10/03)

Things you should keep in mind:

► "In the early 1960s, America's top military leaders reportedly drafted plans to kill innocent people and commit acts of terrorism in U.S. cities to create public support for a war against Cuba." -ABC (5/01/01)

► January 26, 1998 - The Project for the New American Century sent President Clinton a letter recommending U.S. military action to get Saddam Hussein out of power saying among other things that he's a threat to a "significant portion of the world’s supply of oil". Of the 18 PNAC members who signed the letter, 10 are now in the Bush administration.

► September 2000 - One year before the attacks, the conservative advocacy group Project for the New American Century (PNAC) advocates the build up of the U.S. military, but won't think it will happen unless the U.S. experiences a major catastrophic event such as a "new Pearl Harbor".

► "The White House denies there was any foot-dragging on plans to take on and eliminate the al Qaeda terrorist threat before Sept. 11.
An official said one such plan was drafted during the early days of the Bush administration, but was only ready for presentation to the president on Sept. 10, a day before the attacks." -CBS (8/05/02)

► September 10, 2001 - The White House's battle plan to invade Afghanistan and topple the Taliban and Osama bin Laden awaits President Bush's approval.

► "The last time a plane crashed into a New York City skyscraper was July 28, 1945." -ABC (09/11/01)

► "The WTC had already been attacked by terrorists in 1993." -CNN (2/26/99)

► "Since 1994, our government had received information that international terrorists "had seriously considered the use of airplanes as a means of carrying out terrorist attacks." -CNN (9/12/02)

Official contradictions:

1. "Q Had there been any warnings that the President knew of?
MR. FLEISCHER: No warnings." -White House

1. "President Bush and his top advisers were informed by the CIA early last August that terrorists associated with Osama bin Laden had discussed the possibility of hijacking airplanes, according to reliable sources.
White House spokesman Ari Fleischer confirmed that Bush had been told about the possibility of hijackings but he declined to say what had been revealed during his intelligence briefings." -Washington Post (5/16/02)

2. "I don't think anybody could have predicted that...they would try to use an airplane as a missile, a hijacked airplane as a missile," National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice. -CBS (05/17/02)

2. "Suicide bomber(s) belonging to al-Qaida's Martyrdom Battalion could crash-land an aircraft packed with high explosives...into the Pentagon, the headquarters of the CIA, or the White House." -CBS (05/17/02) 1999 federal report

3. U.S. intelligence agencies had no warning
"For all its technological prowess and military might, the United States didn't see this coming. None of the vaunted intelligence tools at the nation's disposal gave any warning of the coming nightmare — a massively coordinated effort to hijack and crash at least four airliners at the same time. U.S. officials confirmed they had no reports that such attacks were imminent. Not from the CIA's networks of spies and informants. Not from the FBI's many counterintelligence agents. Not from the National Security Agency's telephone and computer taps. Not from the military's satellites or spy planes." -USATODAY / AP (9/11/01)

3. "White House officials acknowledged that U.S. intelligence officials informed President Bush weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks that bin Laden's terrorist network might try to hijack American planes, and that information prompted administration officials to issue a private warning to transportation officials and national security agencies." -ABC (5/16/02)

Video of Bush the morning of 9/11 at Booker Elementary

Video showing Andrew Card whispering in Bush's ear and immediately walks away without waiting to see if Bush is going to respond back to him and then Bush is seen picking up and opening a book as the kids continue on with their reading event.

Short length video (00:13)

Full length video (9:42)

*Uncut video (10:08)

*This is the uncut video that shows the exact time from when Bush enters the classroom (@ :10) until Card whispers in Bush's ear (@ 5:03).

THE SHOCKING VIDEO OF BUSH AT BOOKER ELEMENTARY

Does the President and Commander in Chief of the United States act like he was just told his country was under a surprise attack?

5-Minute Video of George W. Bush on the Morning of 9/11 - The Memory Hole

Bush's 9/11 Visit to Booker Elementary School - WRH

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(Stills of this video are below)

Bush's Poll Ratings Pre and Post 9/11

"Bush is spending a month's vacation at his ranch here, bringing with him a retinue of aides, Secret Service agents and the White House press corps.
Bush is on what the White House calls a "working vacation," meeting with senior staff between time spent jogging and fishing on the 1,600-acre ranch." -CNN (8/07/01)

"Q Is the President satisfied...with the performance of the intelligence community...?
MR. FLEISCHER: ...clearly, something yesterday took place in New York that was not foreseen, that we had no specific information about." -White House (9/12/01)

- Gallup Poll (Click for source.)

Bush knew of terrorist plot to hijack US planes
"In a top-secret intelligence memo headlined 'Bin Laden determined to strike in the US', the President was told on 6 August that the Saudi-born terrorist hoped to 'bring the fight to America' in retaliation for missile strikes on al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan in 1998." -Guardian (5/19/02)

"White House officials acknowledged that U.S. intelligence officials informed President Bush weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks that bin Laden's terrorist network might try to hijack American planes..." -ABC (5/16/02)

Bush's timeline on 9/11/01:

6:00 a.m.

Is it just a coincidence that Bush was in FLORIDA the day of the attack?

"...you're not going to believe what state I was in when I heard about the terrorist attack. I was in Florida," said Bush. -White House (12/04/01)

"The previous evening Mr Bush had dined beachside with his brother Jeb, the governor of Florida, the state that had, albeit controversially, handed him the presidency." -Telegraph (12/16/01)

"What are the odds that the school at where you teach gets a visit from the President of the United States?
And then... what are the odds that the day the President visits your school is a day that goes down in infamy?" -Laura Wunderlin-vanArsdall, EEB Staff (No date.)

"For President Bush, Sept. 11 2001, started with the usual routine. Before dawn, the president was on his four-mile run.
It was just before 6 a.m., and at the same moment, another man was on the move: Mohammad Atta, who was caught by a security camera on his way to lead the attack against America." -CBS (9/10/03)

Does the President of the United States always gets surface-to-air missiles for protection everywhere they go? Why didn't the Pentagon have any anti-aircraft measures to protect it against incoming enemy aircraft on 9/11?

"At the Colony, the Secret Service was getting everything secured for when the president arrived on Sept. 10. That included snipers and surface-to-air missiles on the roof and the Coast Guard patrolling just offshore." -Sarasota Herald-Tribune (9/10/02)

Was there an assassination attempt on President Bush the morning of 9/11 modeled after the one on Northern Alliance Leader Ahmed Shah Massoud two days earlier?

"At about 6 a.m. Sept. 11, Longboat Key Fire Marshall Carroll Mooneyhan was at the front desk of the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort as Bush prepared for his morning jog. From that vantage point, Mooneyhan overheard a strange exchange between a Colony receptionist and security guard.
A van occupied by men of Middle Eastern descent had pulled up to the Colony stating they had a “poolside” interview with the president, Mooneyhan said. The self-proclaimed reporters then asked for a Secret Service agent by name. Guards from security relayed the request to the receptionist, who had not heard of either the agent or plans for an interview, Mooneyhan said.
The receptionist gave the phone over to a nearby Secret Service agent, who said the same thing — no one knew of an agent by that name or of any poolside interview.
The agent told the occupants of the van to contact the president’s public relations office in Washington, D. C., and turned them away from the premises, Mooneyhan said." -Longboat Observer (9/26/01)

"Ahmed Shah Massoud was an Afghani military leader of the Northern Alliance, a coalition of various Afghani opposition groups in a prolonged civil war. As the Taliban established control over most of Afghanistan, Massoud's forces were increasingly forced into the mountainous areas of the north, where they controlled some 10% of Afghanistan's territory and perhaps 30% of its population.
Massoud was the victim of a suicide attack which occurred at Khvajeh Ba Odin on September 9, 2001, two days before the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack in the United States, a timing considered significant by some commentators. The attackers were two Arabs who claimed to be Belgians originally from Morocco. However their passports turned out to be stolen. According to some accounts they were posing as journalists, perhaps intending to attack several Northern Alliance council members simultaneously. They set off a bomb hidden in either a video camera or a belt worn by one of the attackers. It appears that Massoud died within 30 minutes, although his death was denied until September 13." -Wikipedia

What was Bush's father (the former President, Ex-CIA Director, Carlyle Group employee) doing at the White House the morning of 9/11?

September 11, 2001 A Tuesday - "Afterward, Laura returned to the second-floor family quarters for a quick breakfast with her in-laws. George H. W. Bush and his wife Barbara had spent the night at the White House and were about to board a private jet bound for a speaking engagement in Minnesota." - CBS 'The Early Show' (10/01/02)

"The former President and First Lady had been at the White House the night before the terrorists struck. They were flying to St. Paul, Minn., when the first news was flashed to their Secret Service detail. Their plane was diverted to Milwaukee, Wis., and they were rushed off to a motel beyond the city limits." -Time (9/24/01)

Former President and Ex-CIA Director George H. W. Bush and his wife Barbara.

Why did Jeb Bush, George W. Bush's brother, call up the National Guard in Florida four days before the 9/11 attacks and did he declare a state of emergency after the attacks when no terrorist attacks happened in his state?

Florida under martial law?
"WHO KNEW? Jeb Bush signed Florida TWO YEAR emergency order 4 days BEFORE ATTACK
WorldNetDaily investigated. The articles provided links directly to the executive orders themselves, and these were exactly as described. Bush, through Executive Order 01-261, had activated units of the Florida National Guard on Sept. 7, four days before the kamikaze assault on the Trade Center." -WorldNetDaily.com (10/25/01)

EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER 01-261
"WHEREAS, the Florida National Guard has the statutory responsibility to provide support to law-enforcement personnel and emergency-management personnel in the event of civil disturbances or natural disasters;" Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida (9/07/01)

"His second executive order, EO 01-262, did in fact delegate awesome powers to a non-elected official, the interim head of the Division of Emergency Management, the agency responsible for implementing Florida's Comprehensive Emergency Management Plan. Moreover, the governor issued it shortly after the attacks, strongly suggesting he had been apprised of events ahead of time and was ready to sign the order with a stroke of his pen as soon as he received an appropriate signal." -World Net Daily (10/25/01)

EXECUTIVE ORDER NUMBER 01-262, (Emergency Management)
WHEREAS, on September 11, 2001 a combination of persons unknown carried out a series of terrorist acts resulting in the destruction of the World Trade Center in New York City and an explosion at the Pentagon, costing the lives of many persons and resulting in injuries to many more; and
WHEREAS, the scale of the destruction and the coordination, orchestration, and timing evident in these acts of terrorism suggest that they may be part of a larger pattern of acts of terrorism; and
Section 1. - Because of the foregoing conditions, I hereby declare that a state of emergency exists in the State of Florida.
Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida (9/11/01)

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush

Why was the White House staff given the powerful anthrax antibiotic Cipro on 9/11, a full month before the first cases of anthrax were reported?

"Evidence obtained through Judicial Watch and confirmed by multiple press reports suggest that White House staff had been given doses of the powerful antibiotic Cipro at the time of the September 11 terrorist attacks, one month before anthrax was detected on Capitol Hill." - Judicial Watch

"Oct. 4: Anthrax strikes a Florida man who is hospitalized according to U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson making the announcement to reporters at the White House." - September11News.com

Is it just a coincidence that the first anthrax victim was a photo editor at American Media, Inc., who owns the National Enquire, and published a photo of Bush's daughter Jenna shown drunk with a cigarette in her hand falling on top of another girl?

Bob Stevens was the first of five people to die in the anthrax letter attacks.

"Investigators probing the bioterrorist attack on American Media, Inc. believe the anthrax spores were delivered in a deadly "letter bomb" -- and the senders were inspired by the best-selling Robin Cook book "Vector."
Now experts say the anthrax attack on The ENQUIRER's parent company is already helping authorities prepare for bioterrorism attacks in the future -- and that will save countless lives.
The issue is on sale now also reveals the inside details on how anthrax fatality Bob Stevens, an editor with AMI's Sun magazine, came in contact with anthrax ... the chilling link between Stevens and the terrorists behind the September 11 carnage ..." - National Enquirer (10/19/01)

Robert Stevens, 63, photo editor, the Sun, American Media Inc, Boca Raton, Florida. Contracted inhaled anthrax...[found on his keyboard] Died October 5. - Guardian (11/23/01)

"LAURA & GEORGE AT WAR OVER DAUGHTERS' BOOZING
The drinking problems of President Bush's teenage daughters Jenna and Barbara have triggered an all-out First Family feud!
An angry and tearful Laura Bush wants to come down hard on the 19-year-old twins after they were nabbed by Austin, Tex., cops on May 29 and charged with underage drinking violations. But George W. Bush doesn't want to discipline his girls, sources told The ENQUIRER.
"Laura Bush is fit to be tied about George's attitude," said a Bush family source. "But the girls have their father wrapped around their fingers. The President doesn't think the girls need reigning in. He and Laura are at loggerheads."
Sources told The ENQUIRER the First Lady wants her girls to get counseling for their drinking problems. And she wants Jenna -- a freshman at the University of Texas at Austin who had another alcohol citation a few weeks earlier -- to drop out of school, move into the White House and enroll in a college nearby." - National Enquirer (6/08/01)

PREZ' PARTY GIRL: Blonde-haired Jenna whoops it up with a pal at a drunken bash at the University of Texas last fall.

Anthrax widow sues federal government
"The widow of the Florida man who became the first victim of the 2001 anthrax attacks filed suit Wednesday against the federal government, claiming that lax security at a U.S. Army lab led to his death.
Maureen Stevens, the widow of tabloid photo editor Bob Stevens, is seeking $50 million.
Stevens died after inhaling anthrax that investigators believe was in a letter sent to American Media Inc. at its offices in Boca Raton, Florida.
Stevens worked on the third floor as a photo editor for The Sun, a tabloid published by American Media, which also publishes the National Enquirer, the Globe and the Weekly World News. He died October 5, three days after he entered the hospital with flu-like symptoms.
The letter with anthrax delivered to American Media was never recovered but at least one other employee who worked with Stevens contracted anthrax and recovered. The American Media Inc. headquarters was quarantined by investigators and remains sealed.
In the lawsuit, Stevens said the anthrax that killed her husband was of the same strain as anthrax produced at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Maryland.
Richard Schuler, a lawyer for Stevens, claimed that lax security at the lab may have aided whomever mailed the anthrax .
"They have tighter security at a 7-11," he said, referring to the ubiquitous convenience store chain. - CNN (9/24/03)

"You won't find stories about anthrax in the newest issues of the tabloids produced by American Media, the company that evacuated its Boca Raton, Fla., headquarters last week after the lethal bacteria was found to have killed one employee and infected several others.
But just as the National Enquirer, Star, Sun, etc., are pledging not to stray from their respective missions, their direction already has taken a detour since Sept. 11.
The Sun, where anthrax claimed the life of photo editor Bob Stevens and sent other employees to the hospital, actually has been the least topical of the tabloids...
Days before anthrax hit his company, Coz said the tabloids already were covering -- or not covering -- certain stories differently. For instance, at least one of this year's headline grabbers now would be considered off limits: "Jenna and Barbara Bush. The Enquirer two or three months ago did one pretty big story after [Jenna] got arrested for underage drinking violations. That is an example of a story that the tabloids wouldn't do at this time. We wouldn't do that under the umbrella of patriotism." - Chicago Tribune (10/16/01)

6:30 a.m.

"6:30 a.m. -President Bush rose early the morning of Sept. 11, and went for a four-mile run around the golf course at the Colony Beach and Tennis Resort on Longboat Key, Fla., where he was staying.
On Bush's schedule that day was what White House aides call a "soft event"-reading to about 16 second-graders in Sandra Kay Daniels's class at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota. The night before, Bush had dined with his brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, former governor Bob Martinez and other state Republicans. It was a relaxed evening, full of joking and talk about politics, including some handicapping of Jeb Bush's possible opponents in his 2002 reelection campaign." -Washington Post (01/27/02)

8:00 a.m.

Why didn't Bush seem to remember his "heightened summer terrorist risk" report when the first plane crashed in the WTC?

"On his return to the Colony, the President...sat down for the first routine intelligence briefing of the day. It was 8 am.
The President's briefing appears to have included some reference to the heightened terrorist risk reported throughout the summer, but contained nothing specific, severe or imminent enough to necessitate a call to Condoleezza Rice, his 47-year-old National Security Adviser." -Telegraph (12/16/01)

8:20 a.m.

"At 8:20 Bush said farewell to Murf Klauber and his daughter Katherine, the Colony's general manager." -Telegraph (12/16/01)

8:30 - 8:45 a.m.

Bush's motorcade left for the school at 8:30 a.m. -Washington Post (01/27/02)

However, shortly after 8:30 a.m. ET, behind the scenes, word of a possible hijacking reached various stations of NORAD, the North American Air Defense Command, which was conducting training exercises and therefore had extra fighter planes on alert.
"I picked up the line and identified myself to the Boston Center controller," said Air National Guard Lt. Col. Dawne Deskins, the mission crew chief for the exercise. "He said, 'Uh, we have a hijacked aircraft and I need you to get some sort of fighters out here to help us out." -ABC (9/14/01)

"But on this Tuesday the president wanted to make progress on another top priority — education reform. So after posing for pictures with resort maintenance man Kenneth Kufahl and local VIPs, he climbed into a Cadillac limousine and set out at 8:39 a.m. on the nine-mile trip to Emma E. Booker Elementary in Sarasota." –Washington Times (10/07/02)

8:40 am - FAA notifies NORAD that Flight 11 has been hijacked.

8:43 am - FAA notifies NORAD that Flight 175 has been hijacked.

Why hasn't Bush been informed yet by the FAA or NORAD about two planes being hijacked?

"Two hours later, as Mr. Bush drove to an elementary school, hijackers on four planes were murdering the flight crews and turning the airliners east. As the motorcade neared the school at 8:45 a.m., jet engines echoed in Manhattan." -CBS (9/10/03)

8:46 a.m.

8:46 am - Flight 11 crashes into the North WTC. 8:46 am - NORAD 8:46:26 - based on seismic data

"The first airplane hit the north tower at 8:46 a.m., as the president's motorcade crossed the John Ringling Causeway on the way to Booker Elementary from the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort on Longboat Key." -Washington Times (10/08/02)

8:46 am - NORAD scrambles jetfighters out of Otis AFB

8:52 a.m.

8:52 am - Jetfighters airborne out of Otis AFB and head towards NY

"Air Force Col. Robert Marr, who along with Deskins was at the National Guard's Northeast Air Defense Sector in Rome, N.Y. — also known as NEADS — got permission from Air Force Maj. Gen. Larry Arnold to scramble jets from Otis Air National Guard Base in Massachusetts, and they would be in the air headed toward New York by 8:52 a.m. ET." -ABC (9/14/01)

"At 8:52 a.m. ET, ABCNEWS' Good Morning America broke in with a special report showing flames coming out of the World Trade Center.
"You can see quite a lot of damage," ABCNEWS' Don Dahler said minutes later from near the scene. "If it was an airplane, it had to be huge." -ABC (9/14/01)

Did the CIA know something we didn't about what was going on?

"In Washington, CIA Director George Tenet and David Boren, former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, were having breakfast at the St. Regis Hotel three blocks from the White House.
"Out of the corner of my eye, I could see several people converging on our table," Boren said. "One of them said to George Tenet, 'Mr. Director, the World Trade tower has just been attacked by an airplane.' I was struck by the fact he used the word 'attacked.'"
An aide handed a cell phone to Tenet.
"After he … handed the cell phone back to his security person," Boren recalled, "he said to me, 'You know, this has bin Laden's fingerprints all over it.'" -ABC (9/14/01)

If protestors knew Bush was going to be in town this day and even knew his route, why couldn't the terrorists know this too?

"Sept. 11 was supposed to be what White House strategists call a "soft" day -- no big speeches, just a few events to highlight Bush's education plans.
The 20-minute drive from the hotel was routine, although a few protesters waved signs about the administration's policy on offshore oil drilling." -St. Petersburg Times (09/08/02)

What time did Bush arrive at Booker Elementary school?

"At 8:52 a.m. ET, ABCNEWS' Good Morning America broke in with a special report showing flames coming out of the World Trade Center. At the time, President Bush's motorcade was arriving at the Emma Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla., for a planned event when the pagers of his aides erupted in a cacophony of beeps and tones." -ABC (9/14/01)

"The motorcade arrived at Booker shortly before 9 a.m. School buses were lined up in front of the school to form a barricade. Agents on horseback patrolled the campus on Martin Luther King Jr. Way. Snipers were on the roof. All the phone lines were tapped, and one was linked directly to the White House." -Sarasota Herald-Tribune (9/10/02)

(Click photo for Booker Elementary.)

"What could possibly go wrong on a day such as this? It was 8:46 a.m.
Mr. Bush and his aides, including Mr. Card, arrived nine minutes later [8:55 a.m.] at the elementary school on Martin Luther King Jr. Way, which police considered the most crime-infested street in the county.
"We're on time," the president remembered. "I like to stay on time; I like to be crisp." -Washington Times (10/07/02)

► "The President arrived just shortly before 9:00 a.m., at the elementary school in Sarasota..." -White House/KnoxNews (9/11/01)

When did Bush learn about the first plane crash in the WTC and who informed him of this?

"Before the president goes into the school, [presidential adviser] Karl Rove and I and some others were standing there and informed him of this," said Dan Bartlett, assistant to the president for communications.
"The president was surprised," said Ari Fleischer, the White House press secretary. "He thought it had to be an accident." -ABC (9/14/01)

9:00 A.M. - "President George W. Bush arrives at Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida and is informed of the first airplane crashing into the World Trade Center by chief of staff Andrew Card." -Patriot Resource

"The President arrived just shortly before 9:00 a.m., at the elementary school in Sarasota, when Andy Card informed him, as the President finished shaking hands in a hallway of school officials, about the crash of the first plane into the World Trade Center...

Q: Okay. And then this morning, when Andy Card told him about the first accident, was Andy Card or Condi Rice or any of those aware of the hijackings? What did they know when they --
MR. FLEISCHER: No, at that point they were not." -White House/KnoxNews (9/11/01)

9 a.m. – "Bush arrives at Sarasota, Fla., school for speech. White House chief of staff Andrew Card tells him a plane has crashed into the World Trade Center." -September 11 News .com

"Mr Bush arrived at the school, just before 9am, expecting to be met by its motherly principal, Gwen Rigell. Instead he was pulled sharply aside by the familiar, bulky figure of 51-year-old Karl Rove, a veteran political fixer and trusted aide of both Mr Bush and his father, George Sr.
Mr Rove, a fellow Texan with an expansive manner and a colourful turn of phrase, told the President that a large commercial airliner (American Flight 11) had crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Centre. Mr Bush clenched his teeth, lowered his bottom lip and said something inaudible. Then he went into the school.
It might have been an accident - as Bush has since said, he saw footage of the crash on a TV in the school "and I used to fly myself, and I said: 'There's one terrible pilot. It must have been a horrible accident.' " But Mr Bush soon learnt that it wasn't." -Telegraph (12/16/01)

"Atta plunged the 767 jumbo jet into World Trade Center Tower One.
“I thought it was an accident,” says Mr. Bush. “I thought it was a pilot error. I thought that some foolish soul had gotten lost - and made a terrible mistake.”
Mr. Bush was told about the first plane just before sitting down with a class of second graders. He was watching a reading drill when, just after 9 a.m., United Flight 175 exploded into the second tower." -CBS (9/10/03)

"Waiting to greet Bush at the school were teachers, administrators, Lt. Gov. Frank Brogan and U.S. Reps. Dan Miller and Adam Putnam, Tampa Bay area congressmen who were supposed to return with Bush on Air Force One. A White House staffer told Putnam and Miller that Bush had to take an important call when he arrived at the school.
As Bush stepped from his limousine in front of Emma Booker Elementary School, Putnam could hear beepers and cell phones going off. Several White House staffers scattered.
The school was well-equipped for the brief presidential visit. Police and Secret Service agents were on the roof, on horseback and in every hallway. The White House had installed 49 new phone lines for staffers and reporters. One special line was known as the "red phone," though it was actually beige.
Bush stopped to greet the congressmen and school officials, but Card urged him to go inside.
"Mr. President, you really need to take this phone call," Card said.
Brogan followed Bush into a room set aside for the White House staff as the president took the call.
At that point, White House officials believed a small propeller plane had hit the tower. Bush ended the call and walked into Kay Daniels' second-grade classroom." -St. Petersburg Times (09/08/02)

"'Here's what you're going to be doing; you're going to meet so-and-so, such-and-such,'" Mr. Bush recalled being told. "And Andy Card says, 'By the way, an aircraft flew into the World Trade Center.'
"And my first reaction was — as an old pilot — how could the guy have gotten so off course to hit the towers? What a terrible accident that is. The first report I heard was a light airplane, twin-engine airplane." -Washington Times (10/07/02)

Video- President Bush talks about first hearing that a plane had hit the World Trade Center. -CBS

Bush claims twice to have seen the first WTC plane crash on TV in his holding room at the school, how could he have seen this when he hadn't even arrived at the school yet?

"I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower -- the TV was obviously on. And I used to fly, myself, and I said, well, there's one terrible pilot. I said, it must have been a horrible accident," Bush. -White House (12/04/01)

"Anyway, I was sitting there, and my Chief of Staff -- well, first of all, when we walked into the classroom, I had seen this plane fly into the first building. There was a TV set on. And you know, I thought it was pilot error and I was amazed that anybody could make such a terrible mistake. And something was wrong with the plane, or -- anyway," Bush. -White House (01/05/02)

"The first airplane hit the north tower at 8:46 a.m., as the president's motorcade crossed the John Ringling Causeway on the way to Booker Elementary from the Colony Beach & Tennis Resort on Longboat Key." -Washington Times (10/08/02)

>>> RealVideo of Bush saying he saw the first plane hit the WTC on TV. <<< - whatreallyhappened.com

Did the Rear Admiral Deborah Loewer, Director of the White House Situation Room, suggest that the 1st crash might be an act of terrorism before Bush went into the classroom?

"Loewer, a Springfield native who was raised in St. Joseph Parish, is currently the director of the White House Situation Room. She was the one who informed President George W. Bush of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Captain Loewer traveled to Florida with President Bush on Sept. 11 to visit a school. She received the message from her deputy in the White House Situation Room about the plane crashing into the first tower, and she described running from her car in the motorcade to the president's car to pass along the information.
Once they reached the school, they watched events unfold on television, along with others in America. A short time later, she recognized the attacks for what they were and reported, "Mr. President, I think it's terrorism." -Catholic Telegraph (12/07/01)

"MR. FLEISCHER: Well, I think the picture changed for the President immediately upon hearing of the second crash into the World Trade Center. I think when information came in about the first crash, I think the natural reaction was, was it a plane that went off course, what could this be, is this terrorism?" -White House/KnoxNews (9/11/01)

Rear Admiral (Select) Deborah A. Loewer
United States Navy
Director, White House Situation Room
Director, Systems and Technical Planning Staff
(Click photo for source.)

"Ohio native Deborah Loewer was the first person to inform President Bush that terrorism had struck New York City the morning of Sept 11.
Loewer, 47, is the director of the White House Situation Room, the White House's crisis-management center.
Normally, National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice would have informed President Bush of the attacks. But it was Loewer who had traveled with the president on Sept. 11 to Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla.
Shortly before 9 a.m., Loewer got a call telling her that "an aircraft had impacted the World Trade Center."
Loewer said that when she arrived at the school, she ran hard and fast to the president.
Loewer told the president and his chief of staff, Andrew Card, that an aircraft had hit the World Trade Center.
"This is all we know," she told them.
Like most Americans, Loewer was watching television when the second plane struck the second tower.
"I tell you, I was so stunned, as I'm sure many of you were," Loewer recalled. "Well, it took me about 30 seconds to realize that this was terrorism."
She relayed that thought to Card, who then whispered to the president, "Capt. Loewer says it's terrorism." -NewsFlash /AP (11/26/01)

Why did Bush and his staff automatically think the 1st crash was just an accident when just weeks before there were warned by our intelligence agencies of possible hijackings?

"As it was arriving, pagers and cell phones alerted White House aides that a plane had hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Bush remembers senior adviser Karl Rove bringing him the news, saying it appeared to be an accident involving a small, twin-engine plane.
In fact it was American Airlines Flight 11, a Boeing 767 out of Boston's Logan International Airport. Based on what he was told, Bush assumed it was an accident.
"This is pilot error," the president recalled saying. "It's unbelievable that somebody would do this." Conferring with Andrew H. Card Jr., his White House chief of staff, Bush said, "The guy must have had a heart attack." -Washington Post (01/27/02)

"President Bush and his top advisers were informed by the CIA early last August that terrorists associated with Osama bin Laden had discussed the possibility of hijacking airplanes, according to reliable sources." -Washington Post (5/16/02)

"White House officials acknowledged that U.S. intelligence officials informed President Bush weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks that bin Laden's terrorist network might try to hijack American planes, and that information prompted administration officials to issue a private warning to transportation officials and national security agencies." -ABC (5/16/02)

"Exactly two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, a federal report warned the executive branch that Osama bin Laden 's terrorists might hijack an airliner and dive bomb it into the Pentagon or other government buildings." -Washington Post

Why did Bush implement a military response when he just said he thought the 1st crash was just an "accident" and how did he do it since he said he "didn't have time to think about it"?

"Immediately following the first attack, I implemented our government's emergency response plans. Our military is powerful, and it's prepared." -Bush

"I said, it must have been a horrible accident. But I was whisked off there, I didn't have much time to think about it." -Bush 12/04/01

Did the Secret Service have open lines with the FAA after the first WTC crash as Vice President Cheney blurted out on NBC's Meet the Press?

"VICE PRES. CHENEY: Didn't circle it, but was headed on a track into it. The Secret Service has an arrangement with the F.A.A. They had open lines after the World Trade Center was..." -NBC Meet the Press (9/16/01)

8:55 a.m.

Flight 77 began turning east, away from its intended course. -Washington Post (9/12/01)

"In the early confusion that day, there was a series of frightening but ultimately false reports: A plane was down near Camp David and another was down near the Ohio-Kentucky border; a car bomb exploded outside the State Department; an explosion near the Capitol, fires on the Mall and at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building; a plane heading at high speed toward Bush's ranch in Crawford, Tex." -Washington Post (01/27/02)

Why didn't our National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, or any other of Bush's staff, get in touch with the FAA and NORAD right after the first plane crash in the WTC?

At 8:55, before entering the classroom, the President spoke to National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, who was at the White House. She recalled first telling the President it was a twin-engine aircraft-and then a commercial aircraft-that had struck the World Trade Center, adding "that's all we know right now, Mr. President." -9/11 Commission

The President then proceeded directly into his hold and spoke with Dr. Condoleezza Rice, who provided him with that information, as well. -White House/KnoxNews (9/11/01)

Word of the tragedy first came to President Bush in the hallway of a school in Sarasota, Fla., moments after the first plane hit New York's World Trade Center. He went to a private room, where he spoke by phone with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice; it appeared then that the matter could be just a terrible accident. -September11News.com

National Security Advisor, Dr. Condoleezza Rice.

The president ducked into an empty classroom and called his national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, and asked her to keep him informed. -ABC (9/14/01)

The president entered a holding room at the school and picked up a secure telephone to speak with National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice at the White House. She was sitting in her office, watching live coverage of the stricken north tower as it belched black smoke into a cloudless sky.
"There's one terrible pilot," Mr. Bush muttered.
Turning to Mr. Card, he speculated that the pilot must have suffered a heart attack. Mr. Bush, who had yet to see the TV images, drafted a statement pledging federal assistance. -Washington Times (10/07/02)

About six blocks from the school, a news photographer overheard a radio transmission. Press Secretary Ari Fleischer would be needed on arrival to discuss reports of some sort of crash. The radio also said that Mr. Bush had a call waiting for him at his holding room in the school from national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.
Mr. Fleischer told the press what Ms. Rice told the president - a plane had just hit the World Trade Center. Nobody knew how serious the situation was. -CS Monitor (9/17/01)

Why didn't Bush's staff postpone the classroom reading after the 1st plane crash in the WTC just to make sure everything was O.K.?

"But I was whisked off there, I didn't have much time to think about it." -Bush

"When he arrived at the school he had been whisked into a holding room: National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice needed to speak to him. But he soon appeared in the classroom and listened appreciatively as the children went through their reading drill." -Time.com (9/12/01)

"Tose-Rigell had been instructed to greet Bush at his limo and introduce him to the crowd. But on arrival, Bush was instead whisked into a side room to take a telephone call from National Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice.
After, the president told Tose-Rigell that a plane hit the World Trade Center, but that his visit would continue while his staff gathered more details." -Sarasota Herald-Tribune (9/10/02)

9:02 a.m.

What time did Bush enter Kay Daniel's second grade classroom for his reading event?

Note: Based on the Booker video uncut version, Bush entered the classroom 4 minutes and 53 seconds before Andrew Card whispers in Bush's ear about the 2nd WTC plane crash.

(Still from Booker Video)

"Just after 9 a.m., Bush entered Daniels' second-grade classroom. She began a lesson as the Secret Service agents lying in the trusses above her room listened along with the president and the children." -Sarasota Herald-Tribune (9/10/02)

"The second plane crashed into the south tower at 9:03, a minute after the president stepped inside a classroom to watch a teacher put her second-graders through a reading drill before his scheduled speech." -Washington Times (10/08/02)

"The President then went before you all, in the public event, for the first event with the small children. And during the course of his speech to the -- his remarks to the children, Andy Card was notified about the crash of the second airplane." -White House/KnoxNews (9/11/01)

"At that point, White House officials believed a small propeller plane had hit the tower. Bush ended the call and walked into Kay Daniels' second-grade classroom.
"Hello, boys and girls," Bush said, shaking hands with the children.
Principal Gwen Rigell was struck by how closely Bush followed the White House script. He sat in a plain padded chair and listened as the children read him a story about a girl and her pet goat. " -St. Petersburg Times (09/08/02)

"As he watched, smiling, the president began to ponder the statement he would need to make about the plane crash.
"I was concentrating on the program at this point, thinking about what I was going to say," Mr. Bush told The Times. "Obviously, I felt it was an accident. I was concerned about it, but there were no alarm bells." -Washington Times (10/07/02)

9:02:54 am - Flight 175 crashes into the South WTC.

9:02:54 - based on seismic data

"The second plane crashed into the south tower at 9:03..." -Washington Times (10/08/02)

Why didn't the Secret Service evacuate the President of the United States out of Booker Elementary when the United States was being attacked by terrorists? Why did they let him continue with the meaningless photo-op?

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"Suddenly, a Marine responsible for carrying Bush's phone marched up to Balkwill, who was standing in a nearby side room.
"Can you get me to a television?" the Marine asked while listening to someone talk to him in his ear piece. "We're not sure what's going on, but we need to see a television."
Three Secret Service agents, a SWAT member, the Marine and Balkwill turned on the television in a nearby front office as United Airlines Flight 175 out of Boston crashed into the south tower.
"We're out of here," the Marine told Balkwill. "Can you get everyone ready?" - Sarasota Herald-Tribune (9/10/02)

"In contrast, on the morning of September 11, President Bush was scheduled to listen to elementary school children read.
Before the President walked into the classroom NORAD had sufficient information that the plane that hit the WTC was hijacked. At that time, they also had knowledge that two other commercial airliners, in the air, were also hijacked. It would seem that a national emergency was in progress.
Yet President Bush was allowed to enter a classroom full of young children and listen to the students read.
Why didn't the Secret Service inform him of this national emergency? When is a President supposed to be notified of everything the agencies know? Why was the President permitted by the Secret Service to remain in the Sarasota elementary school? Was this Secret Service protocol?" - Statement of Mindy Kleinberg to the 9/11 Commission (03/31/03)

"MR. FLEISCHER: The President has full faith in the Secret Service, in all that they do, for himself..." -White House/KnoxNews (9/11/01)

9:07 a.m.

What time was Bush informed that the U.S. was under attack?

"And I was sitting in the classroom, and Andy Card, my Chief of Staff, who is sitting over here, walked in and said, "A second plane has hit the tower, America is under attack." -Bush 12/04/01

On the morning of Sept. 11, while at a school in Sarasota Florida, President George W. Bush is told of the 2nd attack on New York City. (Click photo for source.)