Martin Longman is the web editor of the Washington Monthly.
He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. Before joining the Monthly, Martin was a county coordinator for ACORN/Project Vote and a political consultant. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
I find this all rather interesting now that we have all the rest of the things happening and could it be that this is all happening because of these articles coming out now? Curious minds want to know! Just watched a few nights ago, a program on questions on 9/11 from a panel of 4. Cant remember who and why they were doing this, but it sure was interesting, to say the least. It questioned the fall of the towers 1, 2 and 7. I find this all very interesting. NORAD has some splain to do, if you ask me!..for… Read more »
From the article it looks like NORAD simply couldn’t find the planes once they turned off their transponders and they were unprepared for the hijackers to actually be pilots. They only had four planes available and didn’t want them all up in the air at the same time because they would all run out of fuel at the same time. It looks like they just got their asses beat. And then they covered that fact up. Actually Bush and Cheney are lucky that NORAD was so unprepared because they did not give authorization to shoot down until… Read more »
This should raise some fairly serious questions about the effectiveness of a military that American taxpayers spend 400 billion dollars on. This whole situation reminds me of when that German kid landed a plane in Red Square during the final years of the Soviet Union.
Oh dear…watch out Manny….before you know it you’ll be showered in (well-earned!) praise for your outstanding work in the development of the New Member section of the site … and then… before you know it (yet again :^)… you’ll find yourself heading up R&D for the rest of your bloglife…. in your newfound role as the project lead for Developing and Implementing BT FAQs…
Well… I’m skeptical. Still reading. I was immediately put off by this comment, early in the article, by author Michael Bronner, referring to the fact that live hijacking exercises were part of the war games scheduled for 9/11: (The fact that there was an exercise planned for the same day as the attack factors into several conspiracy theories, though the 9/11 commission dismisses this as coincidence. After plodding through dozens of hours of recordings, so do I.) When people join the CIA, they are trained to believe there are no coincidences of that magnitude. I think it is far more… Read more »
the tapes seem legit in the sense that they match up with the testimony of all the participants that are heard on the tapes (except the two commanders, who would be expected to be the ones whose story was corroborated by editing). But, I have always wondered if there was a possible Russian role in 9/11. In effect, they could have been running the hijackers even without their knowledge. I go back to Zawahiri’s 1995 detention in Russia and his decision to join up with bin-Laden upon his release. Also look into the Baku cell of EIJ that coordinated the… Read more »
Interesting theory, Booman. I think, bottom line, at the very least, someone tipped off the terrorists to the war games. Everything else was so well planned, so thoroughly thought through, that it does not seem possible that the timing of 9/11 was sheer coincidence.
On June 4 Howard Dean was on a New York Times Magazine forum with Matt Bai. It was the first Sunday With The Magazine. They finally have the audio on this appearance up. It is a very good interview–well worth listening.
Click here for a partial transcript and a link to the audio of the interview.
I find this all rather interesting now that we have all the rest of the things happening and could it be that this is all happening because of these articles coming out now? Curious minds want to know! Just watched a few nights ago, a program on questions on 9/11 from a panel of 4. Cant remember who and why they were doing this, but it sure was interesting, to say the least. It questioned the fall of the towers 1, 2 and 7. I find this all very interesting. NORAD has some splain to do, if you ask me!..for… Read more »
From the article it looks like NORAD simply couldn’t find the planes once they turned off their transponders and they were unprepared for the hijackers to actually be pilots. They only had four planes available and didn’t want them all up in the air at the same time because they would all run out of fuel at the same time. It looks like they just got their asses beat. And then they covered that fact up. Actually Bush and Cheney are lucky that NORAD was so unprepared because they did not give authorization to shoot down until… Read more »
NORAD used to brag that UFOs couldn’t exist because NORAD can see every cubic meter of air and space all the way to the moon.
I don’t think it’s plausible that they couldn’t find four airliners just because transponders were off.
And it really is terrifying if they claim to have only four planes ready for rapid response. Geez. Where do those billions go?
This should raise some fairly serious questions about the effectiveness of a military that American taxpayers spend 400 billion dollars on. This whole situation reminds me of when that German kid landed a plane in Red Square during the final years of the Soviet Union.
It appears our Department of Defense completed the transition to Department of Offense well before 9/11/01.
Suggestion to update your FAQ, or at least the intro.
😉
Oh dear…watch out Manny….before you know it you’ll be showered in (well-earned!) praise for your outstanding work in the development of the New Member section of the site … and then… before you know it (yet again :^)… you’ll find yourself heading up R&D for the rest of your bloglife…. in your newfound role as the project lead for Developing and Implementing BT FAQs…
….just sayin’ (or perhaps, warnin’) . . . ;^)
good night!
don’t take it personally if I run off screaming with my arms flailing in the air 😉
Well… I’m skeptical. Still reading. I was immediately put off by this comment, early in the article, by author Michael Bronner, referring to the fact that live hijacking exercises were part of the war games scheduled for 9/11: (The fact that there was an exercise planned for the same day as the attack factors into several conspiracy theories, though the 9/11 commission dismisses this as coincidence. After plodding through dozens of hours of recordings, so do I.) When people join the CIA, they are trained to believe there are no coincidences of that magnitude. I think it is far more… Read more »
the tapes seem legit in the sense that they match up with the testimony of all the participants that are heard on the tapes (except the two commanders, who would be expected to be the ones whose story was corroborated by editing). But, I have always wondered if there was a possible Russian role in 9/11. In effect, they could have been running the hijackers even without their knowledge. I go back to Zawahiri’s 1995 detention in Russia and his decision to join up with bin-Laden upon his release. Also look into the Baku cell of EIJ that coordinated the… Read more »
Interesting theory, Booman. I think, bottom line, at the very least, someone tipped off the terrorists to the war games. Everything else was so well planned, so thoroughly thought through, that it does not seem possible that the timing of 9/11 was sheer coincidence.
I’m not convinced, either.
On June 4 Howard Dean was on a New York Times Magazine forum with Matt Bai. It was the first Sunday With The Magazine. They finally have the audio on this appearance up. It is a very good interview–well worth listening.
Click here for a partial transcript and a link to the audio of the interview.