The bottom line is that NORAD officials working for Ralph Eberhart covered up the facts about the lack of air defense on 9/11 by lying to the American people and by failure to cooperate with the 9/11 investigations. For those reasons alone, Eberhart’s performance that day and the related statements should be thoroughly investigated. Considering the nine facts presented above about Eberhart’s activities on 9/11, and that Eberhart appears to have violated U.S. law by lying to Congress, that investigation should be performed with the utmost assertiveness including formal charges and the use of subpoenas.
[1] Nicholas Levis, Senator Dayton: NORAD Lied About 9/11, 911Truth.org, August 1, 2004, http://www.911truth.org/article.php?story=20040731213239607
[2] Bob Arnot, What Was Needed to Halt the Attacks?: Cockpit security, quick response not in evidence Tuesday, MSNBC, September 12, 2001,http://s3.amazonaws.com/911timeline/2001/msnbc091201.html
[3] United States General Accounting Office, Continental Air Defense: A Dedicated Force Is No Longer Needed, May 3, 1994, http://www.fas.org/man/gao/gao9476.htm
[4] Nicholas Levis, Senator Dayton: NORAD Lied About 9/11
[5] Senate Armed Services Committee, General Myers Confirmation Hearing, September 13, 2001, http://emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/mycon.htm
[6] Transcript of Hearing Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, October 25, 2001, U.S. Government Printing Office
[7] Transcript of Hearing Before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, October 25, 2001, U.S. Government Printing Office
[8] See memo from Dan Marcus to the Inspector General of both the DOD and Department of Transportation, dated July 29, 2004. See also email response from John Farmer to 9/11 Commission staff (dated 1/19/2004) and associated messages. See also memorandum from John Farmer and Philip Zelikow to the 9/11 Commissioners in which they state that “Team 8 has unearthed evidence strongly suggesting the possibility that a USAF officer, and possibly others at the USAF and FAA, must have known that the official story was false, yet persisted in telling it or did not correct the record.”
[9] United States Code, 18 USC § 1001,http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1001 This law is otherwise known as “making false statements”, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_false_statements
[10] The NORAD notification of Flight 175’s hijacking at 8:42 am was listed in an email from “NORADJ3″ to Eberhart. It was also listed in the NORAD timeline given by Eberhart to the Senate Armed Services Committee in October 2001.
[11] National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, Thomas H. Kean, Lee Hamilton, 9/11 Commission Report, p 31
[12] David Ray Griffin, The 9/11 Commission’s Incredible Tales, first published at 911Truth.org, December 13, 2005, http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-9-11-commission-s-incredible-tales/1478
[13] Michael Bronner, “9/11 Live: The NORAD Tapes”, Vanity Fair, September 2006, 262-285 http://www.vanityfair.com/pdf/pressroom/advance_Air_Force_9-11.pdf
[14] Kyle F. Hence, UQ Wire: Statement from FAA Contradicts 911 Report, Unanswered Questions Wire, August 2, 2004, http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0408/S00013.htm
[15] Kevin R. Ryan, FAA Failures on 9/11: The Wall Street Lawyer and the Special Ops Hijack Coordinator, DigWithin.net, April 2011, http://digwithin.net/2011/04/27/wall-street-lawyer-and-the-special-ops-hijack-coordinator/
[16] Matthew L. Wald, F.A.A. Official Scrapped Tape of 9/11 Controllers’ Statements, The New York Times, May 6, 2004, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/06/national/06CND-TAPE.html
[17] National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, Transcript of twelfth public hearing, June 17,2004,http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/archive/hearing12/9-11Commission_Hearing_2004-06-17.htm
[18] On October 1, 1999, the Commander, USSPACECOM (USCINCSPACE), assumed command of a brand new mission area, DoD-Computer Network Defense (CND). Also effective the same date, the Secretary of Defense (SECDEF) delegated to USCINCSPACE the authority to declare DoD Infocon levels.
[19] 1st Fighter Wing History Excerpt, July through December 2001, p 61,http://www.scribd.com/doc/33866487/T8-B8-Kara-Docs-3-Timelines-Fdr-1st-Fighter-Wing-History-Excerpt-Jul-Dec-01-w-Logs The Infocon level was raised again during the morning of September 11, immediately after the second attack on the World Trade Center.
[20] The Infocon alert system was developed in response to a coordinated hacking called Solar Sunrise that occurred in 1998 and started at Andrews Air Force Base. For more on Solar Sunrise, see Kevin Poulsen, Video: Solar Sunrise, the Best FBI-Produced Hacker Flick Ever, Wired, September 23, 2008, .http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/09/video-solar-sun/
[21] 9/11 Commission, Memorandum for the Record: Interview with CINCNORAD Eberhart, prepared by Geoffrey Brown,, March 1, 2004, http://media.nara.gov/9-11/MFR/t-0148-911MFR-00788.pdf
[22] Transcript: 9/11 Commission Hearings for June 17, 2004, published at The Washington Post, June 17, 2004
[23] 9/11 Commission, Memorandum for the Record: Interview with CINCNORAD Eberhart
[24] 9/11 Commission, Memorandum for the Record: Interview with CINCNORAD Eberhart
[25] National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, Thomas H. Kean, Lee Hamilton, 9/11 Commission Report, p 38
[26] 9/11 Commission, Memorandum for the Record: Interview with CINCNORAD Eberhart
[27] Eberhart told the Commission that the “newest NORAD time line [delivered to Commission staff on February 23,2004] was likely the result of his ‘standing order’ to correct the record of events whenever possible.” 9/11 Commission, Memorandum for the Record: Interview with CINCNORAD Eberhart
[28] Matthew Everett, The Actions and Inactions of the Commander in Charge of the U.S. Air Defense Failure on 9/11, Shoestring 911, June 18, 2010,http://shoestring911.blogspot.com/2010/06/actions-and-inactions-of-commander-in.html
[29] See memorandum from 9/11 Commission Team 8 re: DOD Document Production, dated October 29, 2003
[30] National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, Transcript of twelfth public hearing, June 17,2004,http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/911/archive/hearing12/9-11Commission_Hearing_2004-06-17.htm
[31] Transcript of Hearing Before the Senate Armed Services Committee, August 16 and 17, 2004, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-108shrg24495/html/CHRG-108shrg24495.htm
[32] A NORAD Exercises Hijack Summary, released by the 9/11 Commission, lists 28 exercise events involving hijackings between October 1998 and September 10, 2001. This does not include the Amalgam Virgo exercises,http://www.scribd.com/doc/16411947/NORAD-Exercises-Hijack-Summary
