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Date: Sat, 24 May 2003 23:1 8:22 -0400

To: '" <mkara@9-11commission.gov>^, "" <danahyde@9-11 commission .gov>^

Cc: Patty Casazza -^jffffffffft^ 9 , Kristen Breitweiser <^HBWHBft)> ^ • Mindy Kleinberg

Subject: timeline rewrite

Dear Riles-.

Paul Thompson-, of Cooperative Research timeline fame sent this email to us.
tie all felt a wave of nausea as we realized that the timeline - which could
probably be verified right through some TV video clips-, was being rewritten
before our very eyes. Paul has sent some comments regarding the testimony
from May 55 and 53-, 5Q03- This is as good a place as any to figure out who
needs some swearing in to get at the truth - and maybe some TV video would
help... Thanks-. Lorie and Mindy

Pear 1/11 relatives-.

I have some concerns about the recent independent commission testimonies I
want to share with you. While there were some good questions-, it seems like
many more questions that should have been asked were not-, and I want to make
sure that some issues don't pass through unnoticed.

Just taking a quick look at the new NORAD timeline presented yesterday-i I
saw errors so large that one has to question either the competency of NORAD-.
or they're just plain spinning and lying- The media has also completely
failed to report on the hearings well-, or in many cases like the New York
Times or LA Times-, at a l l -

Some problems:
1) A week after 1/11-. NORAD claimed that the FAA notified them at 6:M3 that
Flight 175 had been hijacked:

Norad.nil
<http://web.archive.Org/web/50aSObl511S7Sl/http://www.norad.mil/presrelNORAD
Timelines-htm>
ow-, they say that the FAA notified them that Flight 17S was only "possibly'
ijacked at 1:05! That's a difference of 55 minutes! Flight 175 crashed at

5) They explained that this late notification was due to the fact that the ,
transponder was never turned off- Yet the New York Times reported that at ^v,
6:42-, a flight controller said of Flight 17S-, "-•• looks like he's heading / ^
southbound but there's no transponder no nothing and no one's talking to ^^K
him." Other reports suggest the transponder was turned off for about 3D -^
seconds-, then changed to a signal that was not designated for any plane on
that day- This "allowed controllers to track the intruder easily-, though
they couldn't identify it-"
31 die know that the last radio transmission from Piight 11 happened at
fl:13:M7 exactly-, according to the New York Times-, and that "just moments"
after thati the transponder was turned off and radio contact ended- Air
traffic manager Glenn Michael later said-, "lile considered it at that time to

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be a possible hijacking." Yet-i yesterday-. NORAD said its transponder was

turned off at fl:50-
M) CNN broke into regular programming with footage of the IdTC burning at
fl:Mfl (possibly fl:H1). NORAD now claims that CNN first showed this at fl:S7!
Anyone can see at the Television Archives online that this is wrong! To me-,
this seems to be as blatant a lie one could make-, designed to give NORAD an
additional excuse to claim cluelessness for another ten minutes-
5) According to reporter Bob Woodward and others-. Bush and Cheney decided to
give a shootdown order for Flight 13 just after Air Force One took off at
1:55- Now-i supposedly-, that decision was made at 10:06 - two minutes after
Flight 13 had crashed!
U) Speaking of which-, NORAD still asserts Flight 13 crashed at 10:03-, even
though the US Army commissioned seismic studies which proved it crashed at
10:Ob.
7) The original NORAD timeline gave no time when NORAD was notified of
Flight 13's hijack. Now-, they finally give a number and claim it was 1:lb.
From my initial viewing of the NORAD testimony-, it appears they gave
contradictory answers about fighter response- At one point-, they claim that
no fighters were scrambled from Washington because none could be spared-
That would mean that Flight 13 was allowed to fly SO minutes after NORAD
knew it was hijacked-, without a f
fl) It was mentioned that the fighters scrambled from Langley did NOT use
afterburner mode-, and so only headed towards Washington at about bDD mph- In
addition-i they didn't actually fly to Washington-, but flew out over the
Atlantic Ocean-, supposedly because defending the landmass was not part of
1) I'll have to find the exact quote-, but I was shocked that one of the
NORAD officials claimed that even after the Pent
10) I can't leave out Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta's comm
And Jane Garvey's testimony was even worsei consisting mostly of "I don't
know-"
I'm sure I'll find more problems with these testimonies as I look at them in
closer detail •< but these were the thoughts going through my head as I
watched the C-SPAN broadcast.

Paul
The 1/11 Timeline:

http://www-cooperativeresearch-org/completetimeline/

Abridged version (a good place to s t a r t ) :

http://www-cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/main/timelineabridged-html

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