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TEAM

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NATIONAL

LEADERSHIP:

IMMEDIATE RESPONSE,

CRISISMANAGEMENT

AND

CONTINUITY

CONTINGENCIES

Team Members: Dana Hyde

Miles

Kara

Item 1 Key

Questions

of the

InvestigationItem

2

Suggested Unclassified Readings

for

Commissionersand a

Briefing

Plan

Item

3 Categories of Documents

Item

4 Proposed Interviews

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Item

1:

Key

Questions

A.

Tracking

and

Attempted Interdiction

of

Hijacked

Airliners

(1) What accounts for the apparent delay by the FAA in notifyingNORAD of the hijackings? What were the protocols between the

FAA and

NORAD concerning hijacked airliners?

How

were thoseprocedures followed

on the

morning

of

September

11?

(2)

Why did

NORAD's planes fail

to

intercept

the

hijacked airliners?In particular,

why did

NORAD

planes

fail

to

intercept

Flight

#77?

(3)

When

did the

President authorize

the

military

to

shoot downcivilian aircraft presumed

to be

under

the

control

of hijackers?

What

specifically

did he

authorize?

How was

that ordercommunicated downthechainof

command?-(4)

Would NORAD planes

(or

other military aircraft) have been

in a

position

to

shoot down Flight

#93 had it not

crashed

in a

Pennsylvania

field?

B.

Emergency Response from

the

White

House

on

9/1

£

(1) On the morning of September

11

th

,

what

steps'did

the national

~

leadership take to

ensure_the

continuity of government? Whatemergency response plans

were

activated?

How did

actions

conform

to theplans?

(2)

What civil defensive measures did military and law enforcementagencies take on the morning of September 11

th

to protect thenation

from

further

attacks?

[Defcon

3;closethe

borders; port security

measures]

(3)

How was the decision made to ground all air

traffic

in the UnitedStates? How was it implemented? What are the lessons learned

from

this experience?(4) What steps were

taken

in the immediate aftermath of the attacks toprotect the economic security of our nation?

(5)

What decisions were madeandwhat steps were takenonSeptember

11

th

to

provide

for the

victims

of the

attacks

and

their

families?

What decisions were made (and how) regarding

financial

assistance to New York City?

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C.

Key

Decisions

in the

ImmediateAftermath

of

9/11

(1)

How did the

nation's leaders shape

the

nation's response

to thetragedy?In

particular, what

key

choices weremade

(or not

made)

in

the

President's three

major

addresses:

(1) the

evening

of

9/11,

(2) at the National Cathedral on 9/14, and (3) to a joint session ofCongress on 9/20?

(2)

What was the agenda for crisis management in the "immediateresponse of the United

States"

[to echo the statute] to the attacks?Inadditionto theobvious foreign

policy

issues, what domestic

policy

and homeland security topics were considered, or shouldhave been considered

in the

first wave

of

responses betweenSeptember 11 and September 20? What

was

(

fhe

role

of theDomestic Consequences Principals Committee?

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