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TEAM #8
WORKPLAN
NATIONAL
LEADERSHIP:
IMMEDIATE RESPONSE,
CRISIS
MANAGEMENT AND CONTINUITYCONTINGENCIES
Team Members: Dana HydeMiles Kara
Item1 Key
Questions
of the
Investigation
Item 2
Suggested Unclassified Readings
for
Commissioners
and a
Briefing
Plan
Item
3 Categories of Documents
Item
4 Proposed Interviews
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TEAM
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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
theFAA and
NORAD concerning hijacked airliners?
How
were
thoseprocedures
followed
on the
morning
of
September
11
th
?
(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
order
communicated down
the
chain
of
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
9/11
(1)
On the
morning
of
September
11
th
,
what steps
did the
national
leadership
take
to
ensure
the
continuity
of
government? What
emergency
response plans were activated?
How did
actions
conform
to the
plans?
(2)
What civil defensive measures
did
military
and law
enforcementagencies take
on the
morning
of
September
11
th
to
protect
the
nation
from further
attacks?
[Defcon
3;
close
the
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
to
protect
the
economic security
of our
nation?
(5)
What decisions were made
and
what steps were taken
onSeptember
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.KeyDecisionsin the
Immediate
Aftermathof9/11
(1)
How did the nation's leaders shape the nation's response to the
tragedy?
Inparticular,
what
keychoices were made(or notmade)
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?
In
addition to the obvious
foreign
policy issues, what domesticpolicy and homeland security topics were considered, or shouldhave been considered in the
first
wave of responses betweenSeptember
11
and September 20? What was the role of theDomestic Consequences Principals Committee?
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