A recent Vanity Fair article brings to light some troublingly fascinating 9/11 recordings culled from ancient reel-to-reel recorders at hte Northeast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) airbase in Rome, New York. The Pentagon released them to Vanity Fair after much deliberation. Kos at Daily Kos lays it out nicely in a post yesterday: “Cheney lied about issuing 9-11 command”, highlighting the political angle.

The Vanity Fair article goes into great detail about the ongoing NEADS chatter throughout the 100 minutes of the actual attack. The article provides written and audio transcripts of the critical parts, and portrays a situation much different than was commonly reported:

For the NEADS crew, 9/11 was not a story of four hijacked airplanes, but one of a heated chase after more than a dozen potential hijackings—some real, some phantom—that emerged from the turbulence of misinformation that spiked in the first 100 minutes of the attack and continued well into the afternoon and evening.


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