Air Force One Communications Jammed

 (9:54 a.m.-2:50 p.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Has Problems Communicating with Washington while He Is on Air Force OneEdit event  

President Bush on the phone during the flight from Sarasota to Barksdale Air Force Base.

President Bush on the phone during the flight from Sarasota to Barksdale Air Force Base. [Source: White House]

President Bush and his staff have difficulty communicating with colleagues in Washington, DC, while they are traveling on Air Force One, after the plane takes off from Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport (see 9:54 a.m. September 11, 2001). [NORTHWEST INDIANA TIMES, 9/22/2002; CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, 9/10/2006; POLITICO MAGAZINE, 9/9/2016] Bush had problems calling his colleagues at the White House while he was being driven to the airport, after leaving the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, at around 9:35 a.m. (see (9:34 a.m.-9:43 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [9/11 COMMISSION, 6/17/2004; CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, 9/10/2006]

Air Force One Should Have 'Outstanding Communications' - He ought to have more success after he boards Air Force One, at around 9:45 a.m. (see (9:43 a.m.) September 11, 2001), since the plane has state-of-the-art communications systems. [INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE, 9/1998; HARDESTY, 2003, PP. 167] Its capabilities are “just as good as the communications from the Oval Office in terms of [the president] being able to call, in a secure way, the secretary of defense, the secretary of state, the generals that might have to fight a war, or the vice president or… the national security adviser,” White House chief of staff Andrew Card will later comment. The plane has the “capacity to have… outstanding communications,” he will say. [WHITE HOUSE, 8/12/2002]

Communications Systems Are 'All Jammed' - However, Bush and his staff have great difficulty sending and receiving information about the day’s events while they are on Air Force One. [NORTHWEST INDIANA TIMES, 9/22/2002] The “multiple [communications] systems—commercial and terrestrial systems” on the plane are “all jammed,” according to Master Sergeant Dana Lark, superintendent of communications. Lark actually wonders, “Did someone sabotage our comms?” [POLITICO MAGAZINE, 9/9/2016]

Bush Has Problems Communicating with Vice President Cheney - Bush finds that his calls are successful only intermittently. [CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, 9/10/2006] Attempts are made to establish an open line with Vice President Dick Cheney and National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, who are at the White House, but the line keeps dropping. [BUSH, 2010, PP. 131] “It was absolutely stunning, standing next to the president as he was talking to the vice president, then holding the phone off his ear because it cut off,” White House press secretary Ari Fleischer will comment. [POLITICO MAGAZINE, 9/9/2016] At one point, Bush pounds his desk in frustration and shouts: “This is inexcusable. Get me the vice president.” [CBS NEWS, 9/11/2002] He also has difficulty reaching his wife, Laura, since the line keeps dropping when he tries to call her. He eventually talks to her shortly before 11:45 a.m., when Air Force One is approaching Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana (see (Shortly Before 11:45 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [BUSH, 2010, PP. 132]

Officials in Washington Are Unable to Call the Plane - Some key individuals in Washington are unsuccessful when they try calling Air Force One. Scott Heyer, a communications officer in the White House Situation Room, is unable to contact the plane while it is flying from Sarasota to Barksdale Air Force Base, even when he tries calling its satellite phone (see 9:54 a.m.-11:45 a.m. September 11, 2001). [9/11 COMMISSION, 3/16/2004] And White House counselor Karen Hughes is unable to reach the president when she tries calling him while he is airborne (see (Between 10:31 a.m. and 11:45 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [WASHINGTON POST, 1/27/2002; NBC, 4/4/2004]

Bush Has His First Teleconference Hours after Leaving Sarasota - As a result of his problems communicating from the plane, Bush will hold his first teleconference with his principal advisers at around 3:15 p.m. (see (3:15 p.m.) September 11, 2001)—more than five hours after he takes off from Sarasota—after he arrives at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska, where there is sophisticated communications equipment (see 2:50 p.m. September 11, 2001). [NORTHWEST INDIANA TIMES, 9/22/2002; BUSINESS WEEK, 11/4/2002; 9/11 COMMISSION, 7/24/2004, PP. 326] By that time, the communication problems will apparently have started to ease. Lark will recall that as Air Force One is flying to Offutt, “some of the commercial systems finally began to become available” and she actually receives a call from her chief. [POLITICO MAGAZINE, 9/9/2016]

Good Communications Are 'Critical' for the President - Bush’s communication problems may have a significant impact on the government’s ability to respond to the terrorist attacks. Thomas Kean, the chairman of the 9/11 Commission, will explain why the president’s ability to communicate during a crisis is so important, saying, “In the case of any kind of attack in the United States, what you’re supposed to do is get the president off the ground and Air Force One then becomes the command center.” Once he is airborne, the president is “commanding the forces of the United States from the air,” Kean will say. [CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, 9/10/2006] “The president literally can’t function in his constitutional role unless he can communicate, so [good communications are] absolutely critical,” Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Herman, a senior presidential communications officer, will similarly comment. [MARIST MAGAZINE, 10/2002] The president “is the only one who can give certain orders that need to be given,” Kean will note. [CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, 9/10/2006] However, Mark Rosenker, director of the White House Military Office, will claim that the communication problems have only a limited impact. “[F]or the most part I believe the president had the ability to do what was necessary to be in control and have command of his forces, and talk with his national security structure,” he will say. [WHITE HOUSE, 8/29/2002]

Communications Systems Are Supposedly 'Saturated' - Lark will learn at a later date that the communication problems occur because, she will say, “the commercial systems were all just saturated.” [POLITICO MAGAZINE, 9/9/2016] Rosenker will similarly suggest that the problems may be partly due to the fact that communications from Air Force One “have to get through a regular telephone network,” and when there is a crisis, the increased volume of communications “jam and overuse the structure.” [WHITE HOUSE, 8/29/2002] On top of their problems making and receiving calls, Bush and his staffers have difficulty monitoring the television coverage of the attacks while they are airborne, because the reception on the plane is poor and intermittent (see (9:54 a.m.-6:54 p.m.) September 11, 2001). [CBS NEWS, 9/11/2002; NORTHWEST INDIANA TIMES, 9/22/2002; POLITICO MAGAZINE, 9/9/2016]

Entity Tags: Thomas Kean, Condoleezza Rice, Ari Fleischer, Thomas Herman, Scott Heyer, Andrew Card, Mark Rosenker, Dana Lark, Richard (“Dick”) Cheney, George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Karen Hughes

Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, 9/11 Timeline

UFO SIGHTINGS INCREASED WITH ANP GOALS

1952
A modified direct nuclear powered Canberra was responsible for the 1501 UFO sightings. 

1957

The indirect nuclear powered U2 is responsible for 1006 UFO sightings. 

1966

The nuclear powered ramjet engined SR-71 is responsible for 1112 UFO sightings. 

NOTES:

The U-2 made its first flight in August 1955, with famed Lockheed test pilot Tony LeVier, at the controls, and began operational service in 1956.

Members of a unit innocuously designated 2nd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron (Provisional), began to arrive at Adana Air Base in Turkey in August 1956.

https://fas.org/irp/program/collect/u-2.htm#:~:text=The%20U%2D2%20made%20its,in%20Turkey%20in%20August%201956.

The SR-71’s first flight took place on Dec. 22, 1964, and the first operational aircraft entered service with the 4200th Strategic Reconnaissance Wing at Beale Air Force Base, California, in January 1966.

A total of 32 aircraft were built.

https://airman.dodlive.mil/2017/07/10/airframe-the-sr-71-blackbird/#:~:text=The%20SR%2D71's%20first%20flight,of%2032%20aircraft%20were%20built.

911 THE DAY AMERICA'S DOOMSDAY PLAN THWARTED

The whole point of electronically hijacking the airliners on 911 was too force Bush to order the grounding of all domestic airliners making it easier for Putin to target Air Force One.

America's Doomsday Plan is to fight a nuclear war from the air. It moved it's command and control to the air knowing that shaped nuclear charges can takeout any bunker. The weak point of this strategy is communications. Communications can give away Air Force One's position. The Russian Woodpecker or similar array can track it and triangulate the position of the President by intercepting Air Force One's radio transmissions. Or it can directly image it using because the Woodpecker is a over the horizon radar. Jamming the communications forces Air Force One to up the wattage of their radio transmissions or to frequency jump. Both of which increase the chances of giving away Air Force One's position during a nuclear war.   

The weight of this shaped nuclear charge is probably off by an order of magnitude. Which would make the weight of the bomb 31 pounds. Ted Taylor revealed that he had designed bombs weighing 20 pounds in the late 1960's - early 1970's (McPhee 109).   A shaped 1 kiloton nuclear charge will create a 10ft diameter hole 1000 feet long in solid rock (McPhee 159). The Twin Towers were 1,368 feet tall and they were not solid. A single shaped nuclear charge would have been more than enough to take down a tower. Three bombs with a total weight of 60 to 90 pounds have the power to level the whole WTC complex.  

Bibliography: 

McPhee, John A. The Curve Of Binding Energy. Farrar, Straus And Giroux, 1973.

On 911 all domestic airliners were grounded. They were forced to land because of the "hijackings." The "hijackings" are a great first move in a nuclear war scenario. Electronic hijacking will most likely be seen again in the opening moves of a nuclear war. 

With all of the civilian airliners grounded imaging Air Force One and the E4-B's became a lot easier. Because it reduced the number of possible targets to a bare minimum. 

The next time airliners are electronically hijacked and turned into weapons war planners will have to decide on whether to keep the planes in the air, using America's civilian airliners as human shields or see all the airliners turned into weapons.

With only four airliners electronically hijacked 911 was an easy case to cover up with brainwashing and save the aviation industry. That won't be case when it is 40, 400, or 4000 planes. This is a good reason to upgrade America's train infrastructure to a high speed rail system. You cannot hijack a train and crash it into the White House.   

BIN LADEN IN BOSNIA

 "The most wanted terrorist in the world, [Osama] Bin Laden, was issued a Bosnia-Hercegovina passport, Sarajevo weekly `Dani'says in the issue which hit the news stands on Thursday [24th September]. Laden was issued a Bosnian passport by the Bosnian embassy in Vienna in 1993, the source maintains.According to `Dani', the Bosnian Foreign Ministry was seized by panic when Mehrez Aodouni, another Bosnian passport bearer, was arrested in Istanbul on 9th September. What ensued was the destruction of all documents which might connect Bosnian Muslim authorities with the outlawed Saudi millionaire.Bin Laden allegedly obtained the Bosnian passport when the Bosnian Muslim side was making desperate attempts to collect financial assistance from Western and Arabic countries for the defence of the country. During the Bosnian war, Vienna was considered the most important Western destination where to obtain logistic support necessary for the defence of the country."

The most wanted terrorist in the world, Osama Bin Laden, was issued a Bosnia-Hercegovina passport

HINA News Agency, Croatia, 24 September 1999

THE BEST EVIDENCE FOR NUCLEAR DEMOLITION OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER WTC

9/11: a nuclear war crime [Re-Upload; A&E logo removed] 2017-01-09
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ry4UWQjJnSc


Swiss researcher Heinz Pommer put out this video on the 16th anniversary of 911. We have used screenshots from his excellent talk on this blog. But, his excellent work comes with red herrings and poison pills. We disagree with Heinz's conclusions about 911 being an inside job science experiment to test the effects of a nuclear weapon on a civilian population. Or that the Mossad had anything to do with 911. Pommer lost us when he came to those conclusions. Finally we wonder, although his case for a nuclear event is persuasive, is his scenario for how it happened the best explanation? Wouldn't it be better to use a shaped nuclear charge? This would simplify the whole operation by not having to plant charges in the elevator shafts. The so called red mercury bombs used in a shaped charge seem like a better explanation. 

The fact of the matter is as we have said repeatedly on this blog 911 was a Russian retaliatory strike to the sinking of the Kursk, CIA assassination attempts on Putin and America's campaign to break Russia up into ethnically divided Bantustans. America's proxy war in Russia's Caucasus region had consequences. Attempts by Clinton and Bush to assassinate Putin were met with a nuclear response. Just like the Russians said they would in December of 1999.   Inside Job is the best case scenario for the American Ruling Class because it means that the money spent on the military is not a total waste. It means that the country can be defended.  

Many people knew early on that it was a nuclear strike. DOD employee and 911 researcher Jim Hoffer's analysis applying Boyle's Ideal Gas Law to the expansion of the dust clouds revealed that the explosions had to be nuclear. 

https://thearea51blog.blogspot.com/2019/04/did-911-researcher-jim-hoffman.html

THE EVIDENCE

• The timing of the North Tower bombing was the same as the torpedoing of the Kursk 10:28 local time. 
• The rate of expansion and properties of the dust cloud
• High rate of cancer among the first responders
• The mushroom cloud
• Scintillation 
• The height of the debris pile
• The melted bedrock
• The automobile fires 

THE PENTAGON WAS HIT WITH NO WARNING

Before 9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001: Pentagon Not Evacuated Prior to Being Hit

Before the Pentagon is hit, no steps are taken to alert or evacuate the building’s 20,000 employees. Even Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and his top aides are reportedly unaware of a rogue plane heading toward Washington prior to the attack there. [ABC NEWS, 9/16/2001; NEWSDAY, 9/23/2001; VOGEL, 2007, PP. 429] Pentagon spokesman Glenn Flood will later try to explain why the Pentagon is not evacuated at this time, saying: “To call for a general evacuation, at that point, it would have been just guessing. We evacuate when we know something is a real threat to us.” He says that an evacuation could have put employees at risk by moving them outside the protection provided by the building’s walls. Another Pentagon spokesman, Air Force Lt. Col. Vic Warzinski, will add, “The Pentagon was simply not aware that this aircraft was coming our way.” [NEWSDAY, 9/23/2001] Yet, as early as 9:21, the FAA warned the military of a hijacked aircraft heading toward Washington (see 9:21 a.m. September 11, 2001 and (9:24 a.m.) September 11, 2001). The National Military Command Center (NMCC), located inside the Pentagon, was aware of this hijacked aircraft by 9:30, according to the 9/11 Commission (see 9:29 a.m.-9:34 a.m. September 11, 2001). [9/11 COMMISSION, 7/24/2004, PP. 26 AND 37; VOGEL, 2007, PP. 429] The New York Times will in fact report that, since shortly before 9:00 a.m., “military officials in [the NMCC] were urgently talking to law enforcement and air traffic control officials about what to do.” [NEW YORK TIMES, 9/15/2001] The order to evacuate will only go out over the Pentagon’s public address system shortly after the building is hit. [GOLDBERG ET AL., 2007, PP. 137-138] The Defense Protective Service, which guards the Pentagon, does not order that the building’s threat level be raised until the time when it is hit (see 9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001). [GOLDBERG ET AL., 2007, PP. 151-152]

Entity Tags: Vic Warzinski, Glenn Flood, Pentagon, Donald Rumsfeld

Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, 9/11 Timeline

9:37 a.m. September 11, 2001: Pentagon Law Enforcement Deputy Finally Makes Call to Raise Alert Level 

At the time the Pentagon is struck, a member of the Defense Protective Service (DPS), which guards the Pentagon, is in the process of ordering the threat level be raised. John Pugrud, the deputy chief of the DPS, has met with DPS Chief John Jester, and Jester directed him to instruct the DPS Communications Center to raise the Force Protection Condition up one level, from Normal to Alpha (see (Shortly Before 9:37 a.m.) September 11, 2001). The moment the Pentagon is hit, Pugrud has the phone in his hand to dial the center. When his call is answered, he can hear the center’s alarms activating and radio calls taking place. The dispatcher yells: “We’ve been hit! We’ve been hit! Wedge one. Wedge one.” According to the Defense Department’s book about the Pentagon attack, no one in DPS has received any warning of a hijacked aircraft heading toward Washington. [GOLDBERG ET AL., 2007, PP. 152] No steps have been taken to alert Pentagon employees or evacuate the building. [VOGEL, 2007, PP. 429] Around 30 minutes after the attack occurs, the US military will increase its threat level to Defcon Delta, the highest possible level (see (Between 10:10 a.m. and 10:35 a.m.) September 11, 2001). [CNN, 9/4/2002] This will be reduced to “Charlie” before the end of the week. [US DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE, 9/16/2001; USA TODAY, 9/16/2001]

Entity Tags: Defense Protective Service, John Pugrud

Timeline Tags: Complete 911 Timeline, 9/11 Timeline

(8:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NORAD Operations Center in Colorado Participating in ‘Simulated Air War’ Training Exercise

911 was Russian retaliation to American actions in the Caucasus Region. The world nearly ended that day. It is claimed that Rumsfeld raised the DEFCON to 3. I suspect it was raised to DEFCON 1 and this was covered up with the claim that nuclear exercises were being run that day. It is not a coincidence that the "exercise" targeted Russia. The US and Russia were on the cusp of a nuclear exchange on 911. Russia cyber hijacked the airliners on 911, nuked the WTC complex and jammed Air Force One's communications. This was the Russian response to US meddling in Chechnya, assassination attempts on Putin and the sinking of the Kursk by the USS Toledo and USS Memphis. 

(8:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: NORAD Operations Center in Colorado Participating in ‘Simulated Air War’ Training Exercise

Jeff Ford.

Jeff Ford. [Source: Thomas Doscher / US Air Force]

Personnel in NORAD’s operations center in Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado, take part in a major Cold War-style training exercise called Vigilant Guardian, a war game in which the theoretical enemy is Russia. [9/11 COMMISSION, 3/1/2004 pdf file; DENVER POST, 8/28/2011; COLORADO SPRINGS GAZETTE, 9/10/2011] All of NORAD, including its subordinate units (see (6:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001), participates in the exercise. [NORTHEAST AIR DEFENSE SECTOR, 8/23/2001; CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, 9/8/2011] More than 50 people in the NORAD Battle Management Center in Cheyenne Mountain take part. [AIRMAN, 3/2002; DEFENSE VIDEO AND IMAGERY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, 9/8/2011] Vigilant Guardian is an annual exercise and is scheduled to last two weeks. [ARKIN, 2005, PP. 545; CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, 9/8/2011] It has been underway for several days. Those in the Cheyenne Mountain Operations Center (CMOC) have been participating in it “for at least three or four days,” according to Lieutenant Colonel Steven Armstrong, NORAD’s chief of plans and forces. [NORTH AMERICAN AEROSPACE DEFENSE COMMAND, 9/9/2011]

Vigilant Guardian Is a 'Full-Blown Nuclear War' Exercise - Vigilant Guardian is a “transition to wartime operations command post exercise,” according to an information page for its participants. [NORTHEAST AIR DEFENSE SECTOR, 8/23/2001] The 1st Air Force’s book about 9/11 will describe it as a “simulated air war.” [FILSON, 2003, PP. 55] Lieutenant Colonel William Glover, the commander of NORAD’s Air Warning Center, will later recall that it involves NORAD “simulating war.… You know, attacks coming from the outside, Soviet-style bombers coming in, cruise-missile attacks, that type of thing.” [CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, 9/8/2011] Ken Merchant, NORAD’s joint exercise design manager, will tell the 9/11 Commission that Vigilant Guardian is a “full-blown nuclear war” exercise, and includes bomber response and intercontinental ballistic missile response. [9/11 COMMISSION, 3/4/2004]

Russia Is Imagined Enemy - The theoretical enemy in the exercise is Russia. [DENVER POST, 8/28/2011] According to the 9/11 Commission Report, the exercise “postulated a bomber attack from the former Soviet Union.” [9/11 COMMISSION, 7/24/2004, PP. 458] Merchant will explain that “NORAD must use Russia in its exercises at the strategic level since no other country poses a great enough threat to NORAD’s capabilities and responsibilities.” [9/11 COMMISSION, 3/4/2004]

Personnel Updated on Exercise during Shift Change - Armstrong will later recall that today starts off “like any other day. We came in thinking it would be a normal day… we did a standard shift changeover in the morning and we were getting right into where we were at in relation to the exercise.” He will describe that in a shift change during the exercise, “We’d say, ‘Okay, here’s what happened during the night shift (or the day shift),’ and we’d give each other an update, and then we’d start planning for whatever was on the agenda for that day.” [NORTH AMERICAN AEROSPACE DEFENSE COMMAND, 9/9/2011] According to the Denver Post, after commencing his shift, Armstrong “mapped out strategy in a chess game of ever-escalating scenarios, from strained diplomacy to the outbreak of conventional warfare that headed inexorably toward nuclear conflict” with Russia. [DENVER POST, 8/28/2011]

B-1 Bomber Scheduled to Fly out over Pacific Ocean - The “planned big event for the day” in the exercise is “supposed to be a B-1 bomber that was flying out of Fairchild Air Force Base [in Washington State] and going out over the Pacific,” according to Jeff Ford, an Air Force lieutenant colonel who is working in the CMOC. Ford will add that there are “other things going on as part of the exercise, air exercise events, and then some scripted inputs that we were reacting to there in the Air Warning Center, whether it be unknown aircraft that we scramble aircraft for to intercept—or whatever.” [DEFENSE VIDEO AND IMAGERY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, 9/8/2011]

Exercise Posture Allegedly Helps Response to Attacks - Vigilant Guardian will reportedly end after 9:03 a.m., when the second plane hits the World Trade Center (see (Shortly After 9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001), and the CMOC personnel participating in it will then become involved in responding to the real-world attacks. [AIRMAN, 3/2002; TORONTO STAR, 11/11/2008] Glover will claim that the CMOC’s response to the terrorist attacks benefits from the position the operations center is in for the exercise. He will say NORAD is “lucky” because “all the directorates such as operations, logistics, security, all those folks were up in the [Cheyenne] Mountain on an exercise posture.” He will add that “these are the same folks that we would bring up in case of contingencies or in time of going to war. So, in reality, I had all the guys up into the NORAD Battle Management Center that I needed to conduct the exercise as well as the contingency operations that happened on 9/11.” [DEFENSE VIDEO AND IMAGERY DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM, 9/8/2011]

NORAD Monitoring Russian Exercise - NORAD was created in 1958, during the Cold War, to protect North American airspace against nuclear attacks from the Soviet Union. [NEW YORK TIMES, 4/25/2004; CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, 8/6/2004; LEGION MAGAZINE, 11/2004] According to the Toronto Star, “Whether it’s a simulation or a real-world event, the role of the [CMOC] is to fuse every critical piece of information NORAD has into a concise and crystalline snapshot.” [TORONTO STAR, 12/9/2001] As well as the Vigilant Guardian exercise, NORAD is currently in the middle of an operation called Northern Vigilance, with its fighter jets deployed to Alaska and Northern Canada to monitor an exercise being run by the Russian Air Force (see September 9, 2001). [NORTH AMERICAN AEROSPACE DEFENSE COMMAND, 9/9/2001] The battle staff members in Cheyenne Mountain are positioned to deal with both this operation and the exercise. [9/11 COMMISSION, 3/1/2004 pdf file]

Entity Tags: Jeff Ford, North American Aerospace Defense Command, Steven Armstrong, Vigilant Guardian, William Glover, Ken Merchant

Timeline Tags: 9/11 Timeline

Category Tags: All Day of 9/11 Events, Training Exercises