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Posted by: archiveguard on Aug 01, 2005 - 08:03 PM
At the White House, the video teleconference was conducted from the Situation
Room by Richard Clarke, a special assistant to the president long involved in
counterterrorism. Logs indicate that it began at 9:25 and included the CIA; the
FBI; the departments of State, Justice, and Defense; the FAA; and the White
House shelter. The FAA and CIA joined at 9:40. The first topic addressed in the
White House video teleconference-at about 9:40-was the physical security of the
President, the White House, and federal agencies. Immediately thereafter it was
reported that a plane had hit the Pentagon. We found no evidence that video
teleconference participants had any prior information that American 77 had been
hijacked and was heading directly toward Washington. Indeed, it is not clear to
us that the video teleconference was fully under way before 9:37, when the
Pentagon was struck.189
Garvey, Belger, and other senior officials from FAA headquarters participated
in this video teleconference at various times. We do not know who from Defense
participated, but we know that in the first hour none of the personnel involved
in managing the crisis did. And none of the information conveyed in the White
House video teleconference, at least in the first hour, was being passed to the
NMCC. As one witness recalled,"[It] was almost like there were parallel
decisionmaking processes going on; one was a voice conference orchestrated by
the NMCC . . . and then there was the [White House video teleconference].. . . [I]n
my mind they were competing venues for command and control and decisionmaking."190
At 10:03, the conference received reports of more missing aircraft,"2
possibly 3 aloft," and learned of a combat air patrol over Washington.
There was discussion of the need for rules of engagement. Clarke reported that
they were asking the President for authority to shoot down aircraft.
Confirmation of that authority came at 10:25, but the commands were already
being conveyed in more direct contacts with the Pentagon.191
The Pentagon Teleconferences. Inside the National Military
Command Center, the deputy director for operations immediately thought the
second strike was a terrorist attack. The job of the NMCC in such an emergency
is to gather the relevant parties and establish the chain of command between the
National Command Authority-the president and the secretary of defense- and those
who need to carry out their orders.192
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