note -- correction
I wrote:
"For the first three days after 911, the media were reporting that no fighters were scrambled at all."
Whic is my error. I should have written:
For the first three days after 911, the media were reporting that no fighters were scrambled to protect the Pentagon.
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The new cover story, that "the planes were sent up but they arrived too late" also arrived pretty late: it was first put forth on September 14th on the CBS 6 PM news. Until that time, top officials said that no planes were scrambled to protect Washington, DC until after the Pentagon was hit. Vice President Cheney was giving out the old story as late as September 16th on the NBC TV program, MEET THE PRESS.
Emperor's Clothes
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my mistake
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