The Eleventh Day_ The History and Legacy of 9_11 - Anthony Summers [224]
20 “planes, as in plural”: Position 15, Parts 2 & 3, “ATCSCC Tape Transcript,” B1, T8, CF, CR, 23, 460n131;
21 “He’s going in”: WP, 9/17/01;
22 Statue of Liberty: Peter Lance, 1000 Years for Revenge, NY: Regan, 2003, 12;
23 rocked: Bamford, Pretext, 28.
24 Mosiello: int. Steven Mosiello, TF, 10/23/01. Mosiello was one of 503 firefighters, paramedics, and emergency medical technicians who contributed oral history interviews after 9/11. The interviews were released by city authorities—and transcripts were published by The New York Times as “World Trade Center Task Force” interviews—in 2005. They will be cited frequently—sourced as “TF”—in the chapters that follow (NYT, 8/12/08).
25 O’Clery: Conor O’Clery, May You Live in Interesting Times, Dublin: Poolbeg, 2009, 4;
26 Praimnath: NYT, 5/26/02, Staff Statement 13, CO, Dwyer & Flynn, 92;
27 Clark: “A Survivor’s Story,” transcript, PBS Nova, Bernstein, 222, CR, 293, CTV News (Canada), 9/6/02, CNN, 9/9/02;
28 Many others: “Final Report on the Collapse of the World Trade Center,” NCSTAR 1, NIST, 23,41.
CHAPTER 4
1 CNN break: transcript, 09/11/01, www.transcripts.cnn.com, Bamford, Pretext, 16;
2 Sawyer/Gibson: transcript, “ABC News Special Report: Planes Crash into World Trade Center,” 09/11/01, & tape on www.youtube.com;
3 “stupidity”: “Five Years Later: Media Recollections of 9/11,” 9/11/06, citing Dorian Benkoil, www.mediabistro.com;
4 pilot drunk: Dwyer & Flynn, 86;
5 Hayden: James Bamford, The Shadow Factory, NY: Doubleday, 2008, 86.
6 Tenet: Bob Woodward, Bush at War, NY: Simon & Schuster, 2002, 3–. Tenet reversed the sequence of the attacks in his book, inaccurately indicating that the first plane crashed into the South Tower of the Trade Center, the second into the North Tower. What he meant, though, becomes clear as one reads on. (George Tenet with Bill Harlow, At the Center of the Storm, NY: HarperCollins, 2007, 161–).
7 Rumsfeld: int., Larry King show, CNN, 12/6/01, & testimony, 5/23/04, www.defenselink.mil, notes of int. Rumsfeld, B7, T2, CF;
8 Clarke: Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies, NY: Free Press, 2004, 1;
9 Cheney: ibid., 2, Meet the Press, NBC, 9/16/01, WSJ, 8/15/07;
10 Rice: Newsweek, 12/31/01.
11 Bush in Sarasota: Sarasota Magazine, 11/01. In the early hours of the morning of September 11, a police report shows, a Sudanese man had contacted Sarasota police to say he feared an associate and two companions then visiting Sarasota might pose a threat to the President—who was staying at the Colony resort hotel on nearby Longboat Key. The associate, it was later reported, had links to the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army. Officers and Secret Service agents went to an address on 32nd Street in Sarasota, a law enforcement source told the authors, and found eleven Arab men up and about—“apparently at morning prayer.” One of the men had a card for a resort not far from the President’s—the Longboat Key Club. The men were questioned, held until the President had left, then released. There was nothing to indicate they were linked to the 9/11 plotters, the source told the authors. There appears to be no substance to other reports of threats to the President at Longboat Key (Incident Report, Sarasota Police Dept., 4:07 A.M., 9/11/01, obtained by authors, conv. Monica Yadav, ABC 7 [affiliate], int. Sheriff’s Dept. source, ints. Carroll Mooneyhan, Murf Klauber, Katy Moulton).
12 Draper: Albuquerque Tribune, 9/10/02;
13 Morell: Tenet, 165–.
14 President first learned: At 9:17 that morning, in a conversation live with presenter Peter Jennings, reporter John Cochran stated from Sarasota that as Bush “got out of his hotel suite this morning, was about to leave, reporters saw the White House chief of staff, Andy Card, whisper into his ear. The reporter said to the President, ‘Do you know what’s going on in New York?’ He said he did, and he said he will have something about it later. His first event is [in] about half an hour at an elementary school in Sarasota.” This report