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Team 8 - Family Questions - 9/30/03 (updated)

Team 8 The Immediate Response to the Attacks by National Leadership, including issues of Continuity ofGovernment1. Why was President Bush not immediately evacuated from the Sarasota school, bu t rather waspermitted to remain in the building after the second building was hit and this nation was underattack? Why was protocol not fo llowed? Was President Bush deemed to be in the "zone ofdanger"? If so, at exactly, what time was he put in the "zone of danger"?2. There are inconsistencies in the administration's timeline and press statements that we'd like theCommission to address and they involve President Bush. He was quoted in new stories as sayingthat he was watching TV before he went in to speak to the kindergarten class. He says he saw aplane hit the WTC and that, because he was a pilot himself, he thou ght that's a bad pilot to hitthat building o n a clear day (not an exact quote). There are videotapes of Bush reading to thechildren and Andrew Card com es in and it has been reported that he w hispered to Bush that asecond plane has hit the WTC /or that the coun try is under attack. The problem w ith thissequence is that the only early TV coverage of a plane hitting a building was when Flight 175 hitWTC 2, the second tower. So, our question is, why didn't the President (our Commander-in-Chief) or those with him know w hen he/they were watching TV that it was a terrorist attack ifwhat they were seeing was tow er 2 getting hit (and tower 1 wou ld already have been engu lfed inflames from the first plane) since everyone who was aware of prior terrorist threats realized after

the second plane hit that it was a terrorist attack? Are parts of this story fabricated by ourCommander-In-Chief and his administration or are they merely misreported inthe press?

3. We are hoping that the commission is planning to subpoena the papers from Cheney's energytask force, as we believe that there is much imp ortant background information to be found there4. Wh at is the connection between the Bush family and bin Laden?5. How did, and do, US energy policies play into Islamic terrorism?a. the Caspian Sea pipeline?b. Dick Cheney's energy task force?6. How do corporate and big business interests play into foreign policy decisions?a. Enron pre 9/11; H alliburton, Bechtel pre and post 9/11?b. Wh at are the names of the companies which are getting contracts in foreign countriesand how do they influence our foreign policy?7. At what time did the country go on Red Alert given that there were multiple hijacking s inprogress and what is the explanation for any delay?8. At what time did the appropriate parties convene in the War Room, if ever? Were protocolsviolated?9. Wh at is the exact sequence and timing of the actions of Don ald Rumsfeld, Secretary of D efense,beginning with the initial plane hijackings? W hy w as he still in his office when the Pentagon wasattacked? What are the protocols for a person in his position when the country is under attack,and were they followed 9/11? Are the protocols effective or do they need to be revised?10. At exactly what time was the shadow g overnm ent put in place?11. At exactly what time was the White House evacuated? Who was in charge of this country on themorning of 9/11?


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Team 8 - Fam ily Questions - 9/30/03 (updated)12. Where is the log and record o f the Secret Service agents? Where is the incident report?13. At precisely wha t time was NORAD notified of each plane being hijacked? What was theirresponse? What is the name of the individual who determined from which bases the F-16'sshould be scram bled from? What are the names of the pilots of these f-16's?14. Whose decision was it to not utilize the F-16's weapons?15. Whose decision was it to not fly the F-16's at maximum speed?16 . Why didn't the F-16's intercept the hijacked airliners?17. Please draw up a chart of NORAD's response to the Payne Stewart Lear Jet incident vs. the 9/11incident. Why was protocol not followed on 9/11? W hat is the nam e of the individual wh o didnot follow protocol? Where are the transcripts from the F-16's? Where is the log and record fromNORAD?18. Resolve discrepancies in the various accounts of the posture and response of NORAD on 9/11.19. Wha t was the status of military aircraft in the air on 9/11? How many? W here were they? Why

were they there?20. Which were the seven NORAD bases onalert on 9/11?21. Was flight 93 actually shot down ?22 . Th e families challenge NORAD's timeline in its entirety, and General Arnold's timing of flight

77 sequence of events. NORAD was careful to caveat its presentation that the times were asrecorded in logs and that the time associated w ith impact h ad to do with the last radar return.23. At the May 22 -23 hearing, U.S. Air Force representatives said that NORAD had no direct accessto FAA radar.a. In the 1980s, NORA D reported that, when the Soviet Union shot down Korea A ir Lines

Flight 007 in 1983, radar links between the military and FAA flight controllers had be enestablished b ut were not considered to be "officially" operational. Were these linksoperational on September 11, 2001, and if not, why?b. Are there any recordings of radar traces from September 11, 2001, and if so, what dothey indicate?c. Why didn't NOR AD have FAA screens in its operations room on 9/11?

24 . Please give a list of positive de fensive postures that this country took on the m orning of 9/11.25. Wh ere are the "black boxes" and the transcripts from all four crash sites? Why has the FBI notinvited the NT SB into the investigation? Wha t is the status of the black boxes on the fourflights?26. Where are all transcripts from Air Traffic Control? W here are all logs and records from theFAA?27. Why wasn't the alarm bell rung by Air Traffic Control wh en the flights deviated from their flightplan?28 . Study the relevant FA A security protocols in effect on 9/11 and report upon those that were not


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followed.29. How do the requirements on paper in all aspects of the hijackings and aftermath, match-up withwhat happened? W hat protocols and procedures were n't followed?30. A flight attendant on AA#11 notified her supervisor within the first few minutes of the planebeing overtaken. W hat was the name of this supervisor? What exactly did he do with thisinformation? Why w as NORA D not imm ediately notified? What are the names of the individualswhose responsibility centers upon notifying NOR AD in situations like this-on the local,regional, and national levels? Why was the protoco l not followed?31. Why were these four planes able to evade all radar-even when the transponders aredisconnected, a plane is still able to be located by its "skin" on radar screens.32. Look at the NRO exercise scheduled for9/11 that had to do with a plane crashing into NRO HQ.While the pre dicate for that exercise is related to NRO position under Dulles flight path, fam iliessee it as com pelling that on 9/11 at least one government agency was dealing with a planecrashing into a building.33. SCANTA issues34. The Port Authority of NY/NJ owns and operates New ark International Airport. They also ownedand operated the W TC. Please explain the failure of the P ort Authority to coordinate and act onthe information about the second plane heading for the South Tow er w hen they had thisinformation available to them by their own Air Traffic Control Center. They had eleven minutesof notice that the plane w as bearing down on Tow er 2 and yet, they told people that the buildingwas safe and secure.35. The Am erican Airlines operations room in Dallas has a worldw ide map tracking the positions ofall flights. Why didn't NO RA D have such technology http://ww w .91 ltimeline.net/

The Imm ediate R esponse to the Attacks in New Y ork City and the Pentagon36. WTC were not up to "code" with regard to their fireproofing. Wh ose responsibility was it toensure that these buildings were built to "code"? What is the name of the individual w ho w as

responsible to ensure that all buildings were maintained?37. Why w ere WTC emergency evacuation protocols not followed ?38. Why were the roof access doors locked? Who is responsible for the failure to warn the WTCtowers occupants, through signs posted and other forms of comm unication, that the roof doorswere locked?39. Why w ere the sprinkler systems locked?40. Why was there no roof-top evacuation?41. What is the name of the individual who made the announcement in 2 W TC who told workers toreturn to their offices?42. In light of the 1993 bombings at the WTC, w hat additional security precautions w ere put intoeffect?43. The Port Authority of NY/NJ owns and operates N ewark International A irport. They also ownedand operated the WTC . Please explain the failure of the Port Authority to coordinate and act on


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Team 8 - Fam ily Questions - 9/30/03 (updated)the information about the second plane heading for the South Tower w hen they had thisinformation available to them by their own Air Traffic Control Center. They had eleven minutesof notice that the plane wa s bearing down on Tower 2 and yet, they told people that the buildingwas safe and secure.

44. Why w on't the Port Authority in concert with the City of NY release the 9/11 tapes?45. What was the City of NY and the Port Authority told about these numerous warnings, whichoccurred over a period of years, and the dozens of wa rnings in the months preceding 9/11?46. If they were told nothing about the warnings, why were they told nothing? If they were told,why did the City of NY and the Port A uthority do nothing?47. Why was the World Trade Center steel removed so quickly, without being examined, from thescene of a mass mu rder? Who ordered the removal o f the steel?48. Wh y wasn't the WTC site sealed and treated as a crime scene? Wh o made the determination asto what was to be saved and what was to be thrown out? How was it determined and who madethe determination as to what m ight have relevant DNA/remains before being thrownout/destroyed? Wh ere did the items go that were determined to be not "valuable" enough to

retain for further inspection? Who determined w hat was to be done w ith these items?49. Why was the Port Au thority perm itted to cluster staircases in such a huge building and whoacquiesced to spacing one of them at a distance of only 50 feet, which is less than code?50. Why has there been no O SHA investigation into the WTC evacuation and collapse?51. Why didn't Federal officials take over search and rescue after the buildings were hit?52. During the WTC attack, it was reported that a small aircraft were involved. Wh y were thesereports made? Were any small aircraft actually involved?53. There were many eyewitnesses who reported explosions at the WTC on 9/11. The buildings

camedown quite neatly, I am sure you would agree. The seismic activity from that day also raises thequestions of explosives, which need to be looked at. Seismographs at Colum bia University'sLamont-Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, New York, 21 miles north of the W TC,recorded very interesting seismic activity on Septem ber 11, 2001 that has still not beenexplained. Wh ile the aircraft crashes caused m inimal earth shaking, sig nificant earthquakes w ithunusual spikes occu rred at the beginning of each collapse. The Palisades seismic data recorded a2.1 magnitude earthquake during the 10-second collapse of the South To wer at 9:59:04 and a 2.3quake during the 9-second co llapse of the No rth Tower at 10:28:31. The Palisades seismic recordshows that as the collapses beg an a huge seismic "spikes" marked the moment the greatestenergy went into the ground. The strongest jolts were both registered at the beginning of thecollapses, well before the falling debris struck the earth. These unexplained "spikes" in theseismic data tends to lend credence to the theory that perhaps a m assive explosion(s) in thelowest level of the basements where the supporting steel columns of the WTC met the bedrockcaused the collapses. A "sharp spike of short duration" is how seismologist Thorne Lay ofUniversity of California at Santa Cruz told AFP an underground nuclear explosion appears on aseismograph. The two unexplained spikes are more than tw enty times the am plitude of the otherseismic w aves associated w ith the collapses and occurred in the East-West seismic recording asthe buildings began to fall. In the basements of the collapsed towers, where the 47 centralsupport column s connected with the bedrock, hot spots of "literally m olten steel" werediscovered. Such persistent and intense residual heat, 70 feet below the surface, could explainhow these cru cial structural supports failed. Peter Tully, president of Tully Construction of


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Team 8 - Fam ily Questions - 9/30/03 (updated)Flushing, New York, told AFP that he saw pools o f "literally molten steel" at the World T radeCenter. Tully was contracted on September 11 to remove the d ebris from the site. Tully calledMark Loizeaux, president of Controlled Demolition, Inc. (CDI) of Phoenix, Maryland, forconsultation a bout removing the debris. CDI calls itself "the innovator and global leader in thecontrolled demolition and implosion of structures." Loizeaux, who cleaned up the bom bedFederal Building in Oklahom a City, arrived on the W TC site two days later and w rote the clean-up plan for the entire operation. AFP asked Loizeaux about the report of molten steel on the site."Yes," he said, "hot spots of molten steel in the basem ents." These incredibly hot areas we refound "at the bottoms of the elevator shafts of the main towers, down seven [basement] levels,"Loizeaux said. The m olten steel was found "three, four, and five weeks later, when the rubblewas being remo ved, "Loizeaux said. He said molten steel was also found at 7 WTC , whichcollapsed mysteriously at 5:20 on September 11th. Construction steel has an extrem ely highmelting point of about 2800 Fahrenheit (1535 Celsius). Asked what could have caused suchextreme heat, Tully said, "Think of the jet fuel." A way to prove that explosives had blasted thesupporting steel columns of the Twin Towers would be to examine fragments from them amongthe debris for evidence of w hat metallurgists call "twinning". While steel is often testedfor evidence of explosions, despite numerous eyewitness repo rts of explosions in the towers, theengineers involved in the FEMA-sponsored bu ilding assessment did no such tests. The WTCdebris was removed as fast as possible and no forensic examination of the debris was permittedby the FBI or any other governm ent agency. Almost all the 300,000 tons of steel from the TwinTowers was sold to NewYork scrap dealers and exported toplaces like China and Korea asquickly as it could be loaded onto the ships, thereby rem oving the evidence. The m agazine FireEngineering, a respected journal of firefighting for 12 5 years, which publishes studies ofcatastrophic fires, criticized the Ame rican Society of Civil Engineers and F EM A investigationsas "a half-baked farce." Fire Engineering editor William A. Manning wrote hi the January issue:"...the structural damage from the planes and the explosive ignition of jet fuel in themselves werenot enough to bring down the towers." Why is such there disparity inopinion within the ranks ofthe fire-engineering comm unity? The imm ense clouds of dust and apparent disintegration of the425,000 cubic yards of concrete of the World Trade Center cause me to question the MITaccount of events. Describing the ruins, television evangelist Dr. Rob ert Schuller said that"...there was not a single block of concrete in that rubble." One observer described the scene "asif some high-energy disintegration beam or laser had been focused on the towers and pulverizedthe concrete into minute particles of ash and dust." The 110-ten-storyWorld Trade Centerreduced to dust by jet fuel? Dr. Michael Baden, New Y ork state's chief foren sic pathologist andan expert in pathology said in Septem ber that most of the victims' bodies shou ld be identifiable,because the fires had not reached the 3200 F for 30 minutes necessary to incinerate a body. A t aNovember press conference, Dr. Charles Hirsch, the chief medical examiner, told grievingrelatives that many bodies h ad been "vaporized." A re we to believe that the people killed on 9/11were "vaporized" at 1700 F? The World Trade Center smoldering pits of molten steel burned forexactly 100 days, despite the constant spray of water being a pplied. The fires were finallyreported extinguished on Decem ber 19. Other reports, from fireme n, have said that the FBI'soffices in NYC that were on the 22nd, 23rd and 24th floors of the north tower of the WTC weretotally destroyed, presum ably by bom bs. Seismic a rticle:http://www.americanfreepress.net/09 03 02/NEW SEISMIC /new seismic .htmlSeismic charts: http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/LCSN/Eq/WTC 2001091 .htmlSeismic a rticle: http://www.firehouse.com/tech/news/2002/0121 terrorist.htmlSeismic article and chart: http://serendipity.mag net.ch/wot/bollvn2.htmFire still burning: http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99991634Fire still burning: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/wtc/letters.html

54. Wh at information did the JTTF share with Mayor Rudy G iuliani, the City of New Y ork and thePort Authority of NY/NJ regarding potential dangers to NYC , downtow n Manhattan andspecifically the WTC as terrorist targets? Th e Port Authority of NY/NJ owns and operatesNewark International Airport. They also owned and operated the WTC. The Port AuthorityPolice Departme nt was also a mem ber of the JTTF. Please explain the failure of the Port


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Authority to coordinate and act on the information about the second plane heading for the SouthTower when they had this information available to them by their own A ir Traffic Control Center.They had eleven minutes of notice that the plane w as bearing d own on Tower 2 and yet, they toldpeople that the building was safe and secure.55. Wh at did the FBI tell the NY PD in their Joint Terrorism T ask Force regarding the numerou swarnings about NYC being a terrorist target and the possibility of NYC and specifically, theWTC being hit by planes?56. When was this information relayed to the Mayor, City of NY and NYPD and what actions, ifany, were taken?57. As a result of the 1993 bombin g at the W TC, wh at additional security precautions were put intoeffect with the knowledge that the WTC was now a very real target for future terrorism?58. What special precautions and protocols, if any, were in place to protect NYC , and, mostespecially, the WT C prior to and on 9/11, considering the vast amount of info rmatio n the JTTFhad collected over the course of its investigations?59. As we were all well aware (those of us that were w atching), the Pentagon , flight 77, crash video

was not released right after 9/11/01. When it wasfinally released, there were some frames missing, some frame numbers wereduplicated and the date of the video footage was 9/12/01 - it could be thatthe clock was just w rong in the camera, or it could be that something in thevideo was manipulated - or both. The first of the two links below has thevideo and three of the still photos, and the second link has the fiveuncropped photos of the Pentagon crash.http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/03/07/gen.pentagon.pictures/index.htmlhttp ://www.startribune.com/images/24/

60. My understanding is that there was also another video taken by a securitycamera at the Sheraton National Ho tel in Arlington, VA wh ich overlooks thePentagon. From w hat I understand, this video was confiscated by the FBI. Iam hoping that you will subpoena this video. The add ress of the hotel isbelow.Sheraton National Ho tel ArlingtonColumbia Pike & W ashington Boulevard900 South Orme StreetArlington, Virginia 22204(703) 521-1900 (703) 521-2122 - Fax (800) 468-9090

61. Also, the Virginia Departm ent of transports has video cams on main highw aysto monitor trafic. My und erstanding is that two of these cameras are nearthe Pentagon, on Washington boulevard.http://abcnews.go.com/sections/primetime/DailvNews/primetinie flightattendant

62 . Investigate reports th at FBI and FEM A officials were checking out the WTC buildings just priorto 9/11/2001.

63. Investigate why the FBI can't tell us wh o they've interviewed and talked to in its investigation.What are the FBI's guidelines about not reporting conversations/interviews?


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Team 8 - Family Q uestions - 9/30/03 (updated)64. Why ch ange the name of FEMA? Isn't the brand name of value to DHS? Will they change thename of the Secret Service and the Coast Guard?65. Request a full briefing on the status and substance of the new National Response Plan (NRP) andthe National Incident Man agement System (NIMS) planned to replace the Federal Response Plan(FRP).66. Why is the responsibility for developing this plan located in Border and Transportation Securityinstead of in Emergency Preparedness and Response where execution of the Plan will take place?67. Has the process for declaring a Presidential disaster been revised? If yes, how? If no, are thereany plans to do so? H ow will this process change w hen the new National Response Plan isimplemented?68. In the new National Response Plan (NRP), which official will be in charge of future Presidentialdeclared disasters - governor, m ayor or representative of the President?69. Will the location of the next terrorist attack in the United States be first declared a disaster site ora crime scene?70. What role will the FBI play in responding to the next terrorist attack?71. Request information on national response teams at DHS.72. W hat is the status of the Disaster Relief Fu nd? W ill it continue to reside in EPR or be m oved toanother part of DH S? Does it have any money in it currently?73. Will the Federal Coordinating Official (FCO) cadre be continued? If not, what kind of trainingwill be required of the lead Federal official in a Presidentially declared disaster.74. What is the status and plans for Citizen Corps? W hat funding will it received in 2004 andbeyond?75. Are there plans to expand or reduce the number of courses offered at the EmergencyManagement Institute (EM I) and the National Fire Academ y?76. What is the status and plans for the higher education program?77. Is there an after action report for TO PO FF2? If yes, can you get a copy?78. Wh at is the status of funding for State and local emergency managers through the E mergencyManagement Planning Grant program in FY2004 and beyond? What is the status of DHSpartnership with the National Em ergency Managem ent Association (NEMA) and theInternational Associations of Emergency Managers (IAEM)?79. Does DH S have a partnership w ith the groups representing the governors, the mayors and otherelected and appointed officials such as the NGA, the National Conference of M ayors, the Leagueof Cities, ICMA, etc.?80. What is the nature of DHS partnerships with other Federal agencies beyon d the FederalResponse Plan and the National Response Plan?81. What partnerships has DHS established with State and local governments?82. Are there any plans or studies on changing Federal d isaster relief from grants to loans?


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83. What changes if any are planned for existing recovery programs in FE MA , SBA and otherFederal agencies?84. Wh at is the status and plans for the Hazard M itigation G rant Program (H MG P)?85. Wh at is the status of the pre-disaster mitigation grant program?86. What is the status of the earthquake, hurricane, tornado and other natural hazard mitigationprograms at FEMA ?87. What w ill be the funding level for EPR in FY2004 and beyond?88. Are any changes planned for the organizational structure of EPR?89. Are there any personnel m oves anticipated for March 2004 in EPR?90. We would also like the following (more to follow) to be included for interviewing and wouldprefer to have them sworn in:

Mayor Rudy GiulianiBernard Kerick, Police Commissioner on 9.11Neil Herman. FBILouie Napoli, FBIRobert Martin, NYPD ret.Tommy Corrigan, NYPD ret.Lt. Haugh ie, Detective in charge of the JTTF representing the NYPD on 9.11 and before91. OSHA: The families were told by Bob Stuart at OSHA to send in letters comp laining about theworkplace at WTC in terms of evacuation plans etc. The fam ilies sent in the letters which wouldnormally attract a reponse. They were never followed up on. The families understand thatMendelson (head of OSH A) said that since the buildings w ere destroyed, there was nothing toexamine. The families would like someone to follow up on this.92. Every 5th door in the WTC was supposedly locked for re-entry purposes. The families wanted toknow why?93. The buildings were not maintained well. Elevators were consistently down and only 2 wereworking on 9-11. Why?94. There were latches on the inside of elevators that were locked. These were activated due to theforce of the plane attack and the people were supposedly locked in the elevators and could notget out. Why were these latches installed?95. Wh y and how did the Port Autho rity get the ability to not follow NY building codes in any of thebuildings in the WTC site? Was the code they followed , "actually at the same standards" as the

PA claimed?96. Why was the unified incident command structure not been installed in the FDNY wh en it wascalled for after the 1993 bombing?97. If FBI did not tell the NYPD of any warnings prior to 9-11, why not? And if they did tell them,why was NYC not prepared?98. Why was there no plan for terrorism in NYC?


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99. What did the Mayor of NYC know, in terms of intelligence prior to 9-11?lOO.What did the Port A uthority know about warnings in their buildings?101 Why was the steel shipped out over the objections of many people and not used as evidence onthe building issues?102.Why was the test done on the WTC where it said it could withstand airplanes valid only if theairplanes were traveling slowly and with no fuel?103. Why did AON have no evacuation plan for its employees even after 1993?104.Why were the Port Authority fire and egress below standards?lOS.What was O EM 's role and why did they not help the city get prepared prior to 9-11? (interviewRichard Shirro).

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