NATIONAL
LEADERSHIP
THEMES:
(1) Lower
level
officials performed admirably; failure at the management
level
(2)
RE
TELECONFERENCES: Right people
from
DoD/FAA
not all
congregated
on oneconference
(3)
Shoot Down OrderPerspective
of....
(1)
White House
(2)
President
in
Florida
(3)
NMCC
MYERSLEIDIG(4)
FAA
Headquarters
-
10
th
Floor
MONTE
BELGER
JEFF
GRIFFITH
National Military Command Center
DDO/Asst DDO/senior operations officer/emergency action
officers
Substitute
-
fully
trained
- but his
position
in the
NMCC
was
operations director
Learn of
attack
from CNN
Evidence thought terrorism immediately
- first
notification
was to the
J-34
Call
to the FAA: Told there was a crash at WTCDiscussion about which conference
to
convene;
on
9/11
no
conference designed
for
domestic event;
"event"
and
"threat"
conferences-Decide
on a
significant event conference
- all
purpose used before
for
traditional
hijackings;
didn't
go to a
threat conference because
on9/11
they
hadSIOP
connotations; thought they were dealing with consequence management, notongoing attack
--
had to build, not preset, problems getting it up;
doesn't
start until 9:29
~
briefed that American
11
airborne and heading to DCno one remembers having specific location information; didn'tknow where
this
came
from;
—
conference adjourns, operators start building
an Air
Threat Conference, starts
at
9:37, just as Pentagon was hit;
FAA
not on
conference until 10:17
-
then
the
wrong person
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