From: Monte Davis 

"John Beamish"  wrote:

>I haven't read the piece or listened to the tapes (pruned from 30 hours of
>recordings, apparently) but thought others here might be interested.

Thanks, just read it (includes audio clips). I'd heard about it last night
on ABC TV news, which pumped the "Shock horror: NORAD, Air Force
caught with pants down!" angle more than the article does. *No*
support whatsoever for "we shot  down Flight 93" or other
conspiracy crap.

Within a few days of 9/11, I realized there were souls out there who simply
assumed the US must have hundreds of fighters on hot alert all over the
country. We certainly could within a day or so of an appropriate DEFCON --
and the baseline has been raised significantly since 9/11, as have
"red phone" procedures between NORAD and civilian ATC.  But
apparently these folks think it's been that way nonstop since... what?
1950? GMAFB.

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