9/11 Ten Years Later

Author:David Ray Griffin
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781566568685
Publisher: Interlink Publishing
Published: 2012-01-10T16:00:00+00:00

13. PENTAGON’S CLAIM OF IGNORANCE

Those who planned the Pentagon attack clearly wanted some people in the Pentagon to die. As we saw in the previous chapter, Cheney knew several minutes before the Pentagon attack that an unidentified aircraft was approaching Washington. A Rumsfeld spokesman, in explaining why the Pentagon had not evacuated, said: “The Pentagon was simply not aware that this aircraft was coming our way.”38 But this excuse is contradicted by several facts.

First, an E-4B, which CNN’s John King rightly called a “state-ofthe-art flying command post,” was flying over the area at the time. The E-4Bs belong to an Air Force Unit with the motto Videmus Omnia—“We See All.” Thanks to the E-4B over the area, the military leaders would have been able to monitor all aircraft in the vicinity.39 The claim that the Pentagon “was simply not aware” that an aircraft was coming in its direction was, therefore, a lie—a lie that would explain why the Pentagon told another lie, claiming that the white plane seen over Washington that morning was not a military plane, even though proof to the contrary was presented on CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360°.40

Second, Dr. Thomas Mayer, chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine and medical director for Fairfax County Fire and Rescue, was notified by air traffic control that a hijacked aircraft was missing. He said (in a statement quoted in Pentagon 9/11): “We knew that something was headed towards the national capital area. We didn’t know where. But we knew we needed to get ready. So we immediately went on disaster planning mode.”41 If Mayer “knew that something was headed towards the national capital area,” it is impossible to believe that the Pentagon “was simply not aware.”

Third, a United States Park Police helicopter, which was a Huey and was seen flying around the Pentagon and even landing on the helipad (near where the Pentagon was to be hit),42 had been instructed, according to Navy historian John Darrell Sherwood, to “try to distract the plane” that was coming toward the Pentagon—to “try to do something to, you know, prevent the plane from going into the Pentagon.”43 The official story claims that this Huey, along with another one, took off only after the Pentagon had been hit.44 But Sherwood’s claim, according to which at least one of the Hueys was launched prior to the attack on the Pentagon, has been supported by Stephanie Hughes, a nurse at Johns Hopkins Hospital, who was dating one of the helicopter pilots, Keith Bohn. She was supposed to meet Bohn at the aviation unit that morning, but when she arrived, she found a note from Bohn saying: “Got called into the air, there is another plane headed this way, go home and wait for me to call.”45 Further evidence that the official story was a lie is shown by the fact that Bohn and the other Huey pilot, Ronald Alan Galey, both gave contradictory accounts in their attempts to claim that they had not been told to launch their crafts until after the Pentagon was struck.

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