A Pretext for War (49 page)

“I did and I didn’t want to”: Ted Olson interview,
Larry King Live,
CNN (September 14, 2001).

“It was the first time”: Transcript, “9/11,” ABC News (September 11, 2002).

“. . . as part of its dual mission”:
http://www.dcandr.ang.af.mil/113wing/pa/html/wg_units.html
January 21, 2001).

“I have no idea what’s going on”; details of Lt. Col. Marc H. Sasseville’s mission: William B. Scott, “F-16 Pilots Considered Ramming Flight 93,”
Aviation Week & Space Technology
(September 9, 2002).

“Order everyone to land!”: H. Darr Beiser, “Amid Terror, a Drastic Decision”; Alan Levin, Marilyn Adams and Blake Morrison, “Clear the Skies,”
USA Today
(August 12, 2002).

“As they were walking through the door”: Interview with Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, January 20, 2004.

“All non-essential personnel”: Interview with Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, January 20, 2004.

“Beware, cockpit intrusion”: “‘Nobody move, please’: Transcripts from Sept. 11 Reveal Voice from Cockpit,” Associated Press (October 16, 2001).

“Good Morning, Cleveland”: Karen Breslau, Eleanor Clift, and Evan Thomas, “The Real Story of Flight 93,”
Newsweek
(December 3, 2001).

“Somebody call Cleveland?”: Karen Breslau, Eleanor Clift, and Evan Thomas, “The Real Story of Flight 93,”
Newsweek
(December 3, 2001).

“Ladies and gentlemen”: Karen Breslau, Eleanor Clift, and Evan Thomas, “The Real Story of Flight 93,”
Newsweek
(December 3, 2001).

“There’s smoke!”; “With that we all rushed to the window”: Senator Tom Daschle with Michael D’Orso,
Like No Other Time: The 107th Congress and the Two Years That Changed America Forever
(New York: Crown, 2004), p. 107.

“A plane is heading for the Capitol!”: Transcript, “Sept. 11 Scramble,” ABC News (September 14, 2003).

“The scene was total chaos”: Senator Tom Daschle with Michael D’Orso,
Like No Other Time: The 107th Congress and the Two Years That Changed America Forever
(New York: Crown, 2004), p. 110.

“There was starting to be”: John F. Harris, “Congress Reassesses Its Security Plans,”
The Washington Post
(September 14, 2001).

“People were just as fearful”: Transcript, “Sept. 11 Scramble,” ABC News (September 14, 2003).

“They are dying”: “Second-by-Second Terror Revealed in Calls to 911,” New York
Daily News
(September 30, 2001).

Eighty-three elevator mechanics from ACE Elevator had left the two buildings: Dennis Cauchon, “For Many on Sept. 11, Survival Was No Accident,”
USA Today
(December 19, 2001).

Eckert asked him how bad the smoke was now; details concerning Beverly Eckert and Sean Rooney are derived from: Michael Howerton, “Bittersweet Goodbye: Stamford Widow Finds Solace in Final Phone Call,”
Stamford Advocate
(date not available).

“It’s down!”: Transcript, “Clear the Skies,” BBC Television (September 1, 2002).

“If we had intercepted”: Kevin Dennehy, “I Thought It Was the Start of World War III,”
The Cape Cod Times
(August 21, 2002).

“I have determined, of course”: Transcript, “Clear the Skies,” BBC Television (September 1, 2002).

“I was thinking”; details concerning employees of American Bureau of Shipping and Steve McIntyre are derived from: John McLaughlin and Alison Bate, “Cheating Death,”
Lloyds List
(September 17, 2001).

“Get out!”: Dennis Cauchon, “For Many on Sept. 11, Survival Was No Accident,”
USA Today
(December 19, 2001).

“As the President sat down”: Transcript, “9/11,” ABC News (September 11, 2002).

Details on Outpost Mission were derived from: Ted Gup, “The Doomsday Blueprints,”
Time
(August 10, 1992).

“The significance of saying to a pilot”; “The President had given us permission”; “United Airlines Flight 93 will not”; “Sir, what are they gonna do?” “As military men”: Transcript, “9/11,” ABC News (September 11, 2002).

“The significance of saying to a pilot;” “The President had given us permission;” “United Airlines Flight 93 will not;” “Sir, what are they gonna do?”; “As, as military men”: Transcript, “9/11,” ABC News (September 11, 2002).

“DOD, DOD”: Richard A. Clarke,
Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terrorism
(New York: Simon & Schuster: 2004), p. 8.

“The New York controller”: Transcript, “Clear the Skies,” BBC Television (September 1, 2002).

“It seemed we were ‘wheels up’”: Transcript, “Sept. 11 Scramble,” ABC News (September 14, 2003).

“They’ve been unsuccessful”; “simply never happened”; “White House Drops Claim of Threat to Bush”: Mike Allen,
The Washington Post
(September 27, 2001).

“We would have to run this country”: Ted Gup, “The Doomsday Blueprints,”
Time
(August 10, 1992).

Details on Mount Weather: See Ted Gup, “The Doomsday Blueprints,”
Time
(August 10, 1992).

Details on Mount Weather and Mount Pony were derived from:
Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940
(Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1998).

Details on Site R: See Ted Gup, “Civil Defense Doomsday Hideaway,”
Time
(December 9, 1991).

“We don’t even have to turn on the news”: Howard Altman, “Chasing Shadows,”
Philadelphia CityPaper.Net
(March 14–21, 2002).

Details on the congressional bunker were derived from:
Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940
(Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution, 1998); Ted Gup, “The Ultimate Congressional Hideaway,”
The Washington Post Magazine
(May 31, 1992).

“Two of my security people”: Transcript, “Clear the Skies,” BBC Television (September 1, 2002).

“I’m thinking to myself”: Transcript, “Sept. 11 Scramble,” ABC News (September 14, 2003).

“Immediately upon landing”: Tom Daschle with Michael D’Orso,
Like No Other Time: The 107th Congress and the Two Years That Changed America Forever
(New York: Crown, 2003), p. 115.

“I expect each station”; U.S. Army Logistics Command: Ronald Kessler,
The CIA at War: Inside the Secret Campaign Against Terror
(New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2003), p. 204.

“Everyone is watching”: Joline Gutierrez Krueger, “9.11.01 Our Day of Infamy,”
The Albuquerque Tribune
(September 10, 2002).

“We seemed to be flying forever”: Transcript, “9/11,” ABC News (September 11, 2002).

“The military operator came back”: Transcript, “The President’s Story,”
60 Minutes II,
CBS News (September 10, 2002).

“Secure calls just take”: Kenneth T. Walsh,
Air Force One: A History of the Presidents and Their Planes
(New York: Hyperion, 2003), p. 33.

“The strange part about it was”: Joline Gutierrez Krueger, “9.11.01 Our Day of Infamy,”
The Albuquerque Tribune
(September 10, 2002).

“He looked nervous;” “It was not our best moment”: David E. Sanger and Don Van Natta Jr., “In Four Days, a National Crisis Changes Bush’s Presidency,”
The New York Times
(September 16, 2001).

“When Bush finally appeared”: Dan Balz and Bob Woodward, “America’s Chaotic Road to War,”
The Washington Post
(January 27, 2002).

“looked grim”: Judy Keen, “Danger Grounds President’s Priorities for the Day,”
USA Today
(September 12, 2001).

“Where’s the President?”; NBC’s Tim Russert: Jake Tapper, “Bush Challenged,”
Salon
(September 11, 2001).

“If he stayed away . . . he could”: William Langley, “Revealed: what really went on during Bush’s ‘missing hours,’”
Daily Telegraph
(December 16, 2001).

“Air Force One, got two F-16s”: Transcript, “The President’s Story,”
60 Minutes II,
CBS News (September 10, 2002).

“We were not told”: “Conversation with Major General Larry Arnold,”
Code One
(January 2002).

“nerve-racking”: Transcript, “American Morning with Paula Zahn,” CNN (October 17, 2002).

“Who do you think did this to us?”: Transcript, “The President’s Story,”
60 Minutes II,
CBS News (September 10, 2002).

“Get your ears up”: Dan Balz and Bob Woodward, “America’s Chaotic Road to War,”
The Washington Post
(January 27, 2002).

“I am stunned that he has not come home”: David E. Sanger and Don Van Natta Jr., “In Four Days, a National Crisis Changes Bush’s Presidency,”
The New York Times
(September 16, 2001).

“This is not 1812’’: Elisabeth Bumiller, David E. Sanger, “A Somber Bush Says Terrorism Cannot Prevail,”
The New York Times
(September 12, 2001).

“Do we have permission”: Dan Balz and Bob Woodward, “America’s Chaotic Road to War,”
The Washington Post
(January 27, 2002).

“We were able to determine”: “Clear the Skies,” BBC Television (September 1, 2002).

“Republican advisers to the administration”: David E. Sanger and Don Van Natta Jr., “In Four Days, a National Crisis Changes Bush’s Presidency,”
The New York Times
(September 16, 2001).

Details on ADX Florence were derived from: Michael Taylor, “The Last Worse Place,”
San Francisco Chronicle
(December 28, 1998).

“Khaled, he was so, so smart”: Farhan Bokhari, Victoria Burnett, Charles Clover, Mark Huband, and Roel Landingin, “The CEO of al-Qaeda,”
The Financial Times
(February 15, 2003).

whose mother was Palestinian; “Palestinian by choice”: James Bone and Alan Road, “Terror by Degree,”
The Times
(London) (October 18, 1997).

“Since the U.S. government”: James Bone and Alan Road, “Terror by Degree,”
The Times
(London) (October 18, 1997).

“This is the Liberation Army”; “OUR DEMANDS ARE”; calculations were not very accurate this time: U.S. Senate, Committee on Judiciary, Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and Government Information, Statement by J. Gilmore Childers, Esq., and Henry J. DePippo, Esq., “Foreign Terrorists in America: Five Years After the World Trade Center” (February 24, 1998).

“I drive myself,” Details concerning Hayden’s office: Interview with Lieutenant General Michael V. Hayden (February 2, 2000), personal observation.

“As an agency . . . we now face our greatest”: NSA, DIRNSA’s Desk, NSA Newsletter (February 2000), p. 3.

“The target changed overnight”: Background briefing by a senior NSA official.

“The powers that be are trying to kill it”: Interview with a senior NSA official, August 2001.

“There are still things that you can pick up”: Interview with a senior NSA official, August 2001.

“Today you have no idea where that information”: Interview with a senior intelligence official.

“There was nothing more important”: Interview with a former senior NSA official, September 2001.

“The career path from college”: Interview with Maureen Baginski, April 2001.

“There’s so much out there”: Neil King Jr., “In Digital Age, U.S. Spy Agency Fights to Keep From Going Deaf,”
The Wall Street Journal
(May 23, 2001).

“U.S. intelligence operates what is probably”: Admiral William O. Studeman, Remarks at the Symposium on “National Security and National Competitiveness: Open Source Solutions” (December 1, 1992).

“We are digging out”: Joint Inquiry, testimony of NSA Director Michael V. Hayden (October 17, 2002).

Hayden chose Beverly Wright: NSA, “Director of National Security Agency Welcomes Ms. Beverly Wright, Chief Financial Manager,” National Security Agency Newsletter (February 2000), p. 2.

“This is simply insufficient”: Commission on the Roles and Capabilities of the United States Intelligence Community, Preparing for the 21st Century: An Appraisal of U.S. Intelligence (Washington, DC: GPO, 1996), p. 96.

“NSA downsized about one-third”: Joint Inquiry, testimony of NSA Director Michael V. Hayden (October 17, 2002).

“Forty years ago”: Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden, USAF, Director, National Security Agency, Address to Kennedy Political Union of American University, 17 February 2000.

“an act of God”: Neil King, Jr., “Big Technology Players Vie to Upgrade NSA Computers,”
The Wall Street Journal
(March 13, 2001).

“What we said basically”: NSA, videotape, “Address by Timothy Sample at the Cryptologic History Symposium” (October 27, 1999).

“Our agency must undergo change”: NSA, DIRNSA’s Desk, NSAN (January 2000), p. 3.

“responsible anarchists”; details on inside panel’s report: Bob Brewin, Daniel Verton, William Matthews, “NSA Playing IT Catch-Up,”
Federal Computer Week
(December 6, 1999), p. 1.

“In a broad sense”: Interview with Lt. Gen. Michael V. Hayden (February 2, 2000).

“Even the best game plan”: NSA, DIRNSA’s Desk, NSAN (January 2000), p. 3.

“Cultural pride has reemerged”: Renee Meyer’s remarks were derived from a lecture she gave at NSA on June 11, 2001, at which the author was present.