What did Rumsfeld do and what did he not do on 9/11?

posted by ewing2001 on Monday October 06, @04:37PM

Every coin has two sides

Medienanalyse-international.de

By Andreass Hauss

October 6

Every war has (at least) two sides: aggressor and defendor.
"America is under attack!" these words uttered by so many officials incl. Andy Card in Sarasota mean "the U.S.A. is at war". This view of the events was expressed so many times that any criminal investigation concerning the crime of 9/11 should be banished out of the agenda of any American official, politician or concerned citizen.

Okay. No crime.
Okay. A war.

Let us take it at face value - so a historian (but also any general in the field) does not only ask how well equipped and tricky the aggressor was. They will also ask after a strike with heavy losses in the field "Why were we so weak? Who was not on his post? What did the sentry notice? Where was the first line of defense? and so on.
While others concentrate on the sentry (incompetence-theory about CIA, FBI, INS) or on the aggressors side (Osama and his fellow 19 bad guys, or Saddam Hussein or "the Arabs")
Let us concentrate on one man. Rumsfeld.

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I already covered Bush and the first line of defense, that is the allegedly scrambled fighter jets from OTIS ANG on Cape Cod.
Jared Isarel did fine research on the Andrews AFB in Washington.

Rumsfeld was sitting on his hands.
Not because he didn`t know. 
Not because he was doing something which could be judged as more important.

8:28 Allegedly NORAD was informed at this time (which was much to late according to FAA regulations). Is it plausible that NORAD, as part of the military, informed the commanding officials at the Pentagon? But we do not yet have any official confirmation that Rumsfeld was notified before

8:40 Assistant Secretary of Defense Torie Clarke:
"Well, the terrible moment was actually earlier at about 8:40, 8:45 when we realized a plane and then a second plane had hit the World Trade Center. And immediately the crisis management process started up. A couple of us had gone into the secretary's office, Secretary Rumsfeld's office, to alert him to that, tell him that the crisis management process was starting up. He wanted to make a few phone calls. So a few of us headed across the hallway to an area called the National Military Command Center. He stayed in his office. We were in these rooms maybe 200 feet away where we felt the concussion." Sep2001/t09162001_t0915wbz.html
(Clarke tries to hide by wording "...and then..." that a quarter of an hour passed by, that again 40 minutes passed by - she describes where she was rather than accounts for the time (the hour) between alarm and impact.)

9:00 "At 9 a.m. EDT Tuesday, as a hijacked Boeing 767 slammed into the World Trade Center, I was in the Pentagon in the private dining room of the Secretary of Defense. Don Rumsfeld, the Secretary, and Paul Wolfowitz, the Deputy Secretary, and I were discussing how to win votes for the Bush defense plan that is now pending in the House and Senate." 
 http://cox.house.gov/html/release.cfm?id=33

9:40 "In his Pentagon office, Rumsfeld felt the huge building shudder. He looked out his window, then rushed out toward the smoke, running down the steps and outside where he could see pieces of metal strewn on the ground. Rumsfeld began helping with the rescue efforts until a security agent urged him to get out of the area. "I'm going inside," he said, and took up his post in the National Military Command Center, the Pentagon war room." http://www.washingtonpost.com/
ac2/wp-dyn/A42754-2002Jan26
(This story is obviously full of false claims. There was no shudder in Rumsfelds office directly opposite to the impact site, so too far away to shudder. "Down the steps and outside" sounds like nearby. "Pieces of metal" indicates he was at the heliport crash site which is unconfirmed. He formulates  "began ... untill"  to obscure the amount of time he did not do his job as supreme commander.)

9:53 “At 9:53 a.m., just 15 minutes after the hijacked plane had hit the Pentagon, and while Rumsfeld was still outside helping with the injured,….” 
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/04/
september11/main520830.shtml

"Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was in his office inside the Pentagon when the blast happened with no warning. Rumsfeld rushed to the area of the blast and for 15 minutes helped load the wounded onto stretchers. He then retreated to the National Military Command Center where senior military leaders pondered the question: What Now."
http://www.detnews.com/2001/
nation/0109/11/nation-291261.htm

Given 9:40 as the time of the crash and more than 1000 feet to get to the place of the incident, plus additionally, the time to get back, including the 15 minutes he was seen there makes up at least 30 minutes: 

"BRIGADIER GENERAL W MONTAGUE WINFIELD, US ARMY
For 30 minutes we couldn't find him. And just as we began to worry, he walked into the door of the National Military Command Center."
http://www.cooperativeresearch.net/
timeline/2002/abcnews091102.html
For nearly an hour since 9:40 apparently the NMCC did not know if Rumsfeld was killed or where he was - in times of cell phones, buzzers not only around Rumsfeld himself, but with his personal aides accompanying him. Is this plausible? Is it explainable?
 

10:30 "Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld enters the National Military Command Center." 
http://www.cooperativeresearch.
net/timeline/2002/cnn090402.html
 

Caption:
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld returns to Pentagon inner offices Tuesday morning after surveying the damage from the hijacked plane which crashed into the building moments before. U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Carmen L. Burgess  And thats why

later, after 10:30 ...

"The "air threat conference call" - Pentagon officials familiar with the matter told USA Today that the call was broadcast over a loudspeaker inside the Pentagon's National Military Command Center, where Rumsfeld and Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Richard Myers were operating. The entire call was recorded and has been transcribed."
http://www.newsmax.com/archi
ves/articles/2003/9/7/135703.shtml

Nice questions to come.... But why not the question about the TWO HOURS OF CRIMINAL "sitting on the hands"?

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Andreass Hauss is co-author of Matthias Broecker's 9/11 book
"Fakten Fälschungen und die unterdrückten Beweise des 11.9." (GFP reported)

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