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Item 1: Key Questions
(1) What accounts for the apparent delay by the FAA in notifying
NORAD of the hijackings? What were the protocols between the
FAA and NORAD concerning hijacked airliners? How were those
procedures followed on the morning of September 1 1 ?
(2) Why did NORAD's planes fail to intercept the hijacked airliners?
In particular, why did NORAD planes fail to intercept Flight #77?
(3) When did the President authorize the military to shoot down
civilian aircraft presumed to be under the control of hijackers?
What specifically did he authorize? How was that order
communicated down the chain of command?-
(4) Would NORAD planes (or other military aircraft) have been in a
position to shoot down Flight #93 had it not crashed in a
Pennsylvania field?
(3) How was the decision made to ground all air traffic in the United
States? How was it implemented? What are the lessons learned
from this experience?
(4) What steps were taken in the immediate aftermath of the attacks to
protect the economic security of our nation?
(5) What decisions were made and what steps were taken on
September 11th to provide for the victims of the attacks and their
families? What decisions were made (and how) regarding
financial assistance to New York City?
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(1) How did the nation's leaders shape the nation's response to the
tragedy? In particular, what key choices were made (or not made)
in the President's three major addresses: (1) the evening of 9/11,
(2) at the National Cathedral on 9/14, and (3) to a joint session of
Congress on 9/20?
(2) What was the agenda for crisis management in the "immediate
response of the United States" [to echo the statute] to the attacks?
In addition to the obvious foreign policy issues, what domestic
policy and homeland security topics were considered, or should
have been considered in the first wave of responses between
September 11 and September 20? What was(fhe role of the
Domestic Consequences Principals Committee?
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Item 2: Suggested Readings
(1) FAA&NORAD
(4) Timelines _
B. BACKGROUND MATERIALS
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Item 3: Document Requests
A. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
(4) NORAD
a. Rules of Engagement regarding hijacked airliners
b. Real time radar and ASCI files from the Joint Surveillance
System for: (1) the four hijacked airliners, (2) scrambled
military planes responding to the hijacked airliners, and (3)
Air Force One
c. Command/operation logs for 9/11 from Cheyenne and
NEAD
d. After-action reports assessing NORAD's response to 9/11
e. Notes or documents related to the Air Threat Conference
Call
f. NORAD review presented at NRO Conference (Cherie
Gott)
g. Documents describing Vigilant Guardian exercise
h. Record of NORAD actions re Russian strategic aviation
exercise
i. Organizational Charts (current and as of 9/11)
(3) Protocols between the Service and FAA regarding air threats and
emergency response , ' ' '•
(4) Protocols between the Service and the military regarding the same
C. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
(3) Protocols between the FAA & law enforcement agencies (e.g.,
Secret Service) regarding hijacked airliners (current and as of 9/11)
E. DEPARTMENT OF TREASURY
F. WHITE HOUSE
(4) General
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