They Let it Happen

Adam Larson / Caustic Logic They Let It Happen [undated] Note [added 2/8/09] While I am leaving this post up as-is and FWIW, the core point...

Update, 9/10/08: I wrote this post a long time ago when i was more "Truthy," but in fact there was probably NOT a wargame called ...

The National Defense Chain of Command in a wartime emergency at the time of the September 11 attacks was: 1) President, 2) Defens...

AN AERIAL BALLET OF PERFECTLY SYNCHRONIZED FAILURES (updated 2/5/07) “Is this part of the exercise? Is this some kind of a screw-up?” - Larr...

Adam Larson / Caustic Logic They Let It Happen last updated 5/7/07 A year after the attack, CNN retold Vice President Cheney’s version of wh...

Ben Sliney’s Odd Initiation Adam Larson Caustic Logic / They Let It Happen March 22 2007 Benedict Sliney, on the set of “Flight 93,...

Adam Larson Caustic Logic / They Let It Happen 2/27/07 The current official story of what precisely happened on 9/11 has changed repeatedly,...

To this day, opinions differ as to whether or not scrambling fighter jets was considered standard procedure in air emergencies at the time o...

OPERATION NORTHERN DISTRACTION First revealed by the Toronto Star as early as December 9 2001, Northern Vigilance was set up in the arctic w...

SCRAMBLING AGAINST THE CLOCK According to the official pre-2004 timeline supplied by NORAD, Boston flight control had waited twenty minutes ...

September 13, 2001: The nation is still staggering, in deep shock over the most devastating act of terrorism in American history. With the b...

OPERATION VIGILANT GUARDIAN: The ironically dubbed “Vigilant Guardian” was the first to be widely acknowledged, notably in the BBC’s excelle...

On the evening of September 14 the first story of the Air Force response to the three-day old attack was aired on CBS News.- The two F-15 pi...