I decided to turn this topic into the form of an article. So far it's two parts. Most of the information that I've gathered for the article came from mainstream news sources and the websites WhatReallyHappened.com, CooperativeResearch.org, and emperors-clothes.com. I know WRH and CR is on Fintan's list of CIA Fakes, but I personally like the websites. Is emperors-clothes.com on the list too? Well here is my article. All comments are welcome, good and/or bad:
8/25/05, by Stallion4 @ www.mypetgoat.tv
Proof Bush knew about 9/11 attack before leaving hotel for Booker Elementary School
This ABC transcript contradicts the official timeline of Bush's movements on the morning of 9/11 dramatically. If this transcript is accurate, why would the Bush administration lie about what time he left his hotel?
[/b]His first event is about half an hour at an elementary school in Sarasota, Florida.
JENNINGS: Thanks, John. John Cochran with the president...
[SNIP]
ABC Transcript:
emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/abc911.htm [/ul]
NOTE: according to the transcript, John Cochran's report aired after the second plane hit. However, the reporter that Cochran mentions most likely asked the question before that and sometime after the first plane hit the North Tower. If this transcript is true, the earliest Bush could have left his hotel for the school would have been 8:46 am when the first plane reportedly hit.
Related:
The Washington Post - January 27, 2002 Bush's motorcade left for the school at 8:30 a.m. As it was arriving, pagers and cell phones alerted White House aides that a plane had hit the North Tower of the World Trade Center.
www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42754-2002Jan26CooperativeResearch.org:
President Bush's Movements and Actions on 9/11Accounts of when Bush's motorcade left for the school vary from 8:30 to 8:39. [8:30, Washington Post, 1/27/02, 8:35, Sarasota Magazine, 9/19/01, 8:39, Washington Times, 10/7/02] One account has the Bush party leave the Colony suite at 8:30 and drive away at 8:39. Whenever he left, the motorcade traveled quickly: "The police shut down traffic in both directions, leaving roads utterly deserted for Bush's long motorcade, which barreled along at 40 mph, running red lights with impunity." [Fighting Back: The War on Terrorism - From Inside the Bush White House, by Bill Sammon, 10/02, pp. 37-38] At 40 mph, it would take about 14 minutes to travel the nine-mile distance to the school. Several accounts say the journey took about 20 minutes [New York Times, 9/16/01 (B), St. Petersburg Times, 9/8/02 (B), MSNBC, 10/29/02], which means that Bush arrived shortly before 9:00. [8:46, ABC News, 9/11/02, 8:55, Washington Times, 10/7/02, 8:55, Sarasota Magazine, 9/19/01, "just before 9:00," Telegraph, 12/16/01, "shortly before 9:00," Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 9/10/02, "just before 9:00," New York Times, 9/16/01 (B), 9:00, Albuquerque Tribune, 9/10/02]
www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/main/essayaninterestingday.htmlComplete 911 Timeline: All day of 9/11 events
www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&day_of_9/11=dayOf911What Did Card Really Whisper to Bush on 9/11?
www.whatreallyhappened.com/card_bush.htmlSuddenly, a time to lead, By Bill Sammon, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
newsmine.org/archive/9-11/questions/bush-on-911/ari-dont-say-anything-google-cache.htmBush at Booker Elementary
www.whatreallyhappened.com/schoolvideo.htmlPresident Bush's 9/11 Visit To Booker Elementary
www.whatreallyhappened.com/9-11bushbooker.htmlFederal News Advanced Schedule for 9/11
www.whatreallyhappened.com/federal.htmlBush's 9/11 Booker Elementary Broadcast: Bravery, Stupidity, or Setup?
www.whatreallyhappened.com/booker_planes.htmlIf anyone would like to contact John Cochran to try to get confirmation of his 9/11 report, here is his email addy: john.cochran@abc.com or contact abc:
abcnews.go.com/Reference/story?id=54216 John Cochran
John Cochran is chief Washington correspondent for ABCNEWS. In this capacity, he reports for various ABCNEWS programs, but primarily for World News Tonight with Peter Jennings.
Cochran joined the network in January 1994 as chief Capitol Hill correspondent, where he reported on the historic change of leadership with Republicans taking control of the House and Senate for the first time in four decades. He also covered Bob Dole's unsuccessful bid for the presidency in 1996. He was the senior White House correspondent in the final two years of the Clinton administration until January 2001, when he took on his present assignment as chief Washington correspondent, primarily covering the policies of the Bush administration.
Cochran joined ABCNEWS from NBC, where he spent 21 years as a correspondent in Washington and overseas. For five of those years (1988-93) he was NBC's chief correspondent at the White House, where he reported on the United States' role in the 1991 Gulf War and the fall of communism in eastern and central Europe. Before covering the White House, he was chief diplomatic correspondent, reporting on Middle East peace negotiations and efforts to end the nuclear arms race between Moscow and Washington. Previously, he was based in London as senior correspondent, reporting from five continents.
Cochran has received three Emmy awards for his reporting: the first in 1981 for his coverage of the threat to communism from the Solidarity labor movement in Poland, the second for his anchoring of reports during the overthrow of the communist regime in Romania in 1989, and the third for his part in ABC's coverage of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. He also received the Peabody and Alfred I. duPont awards for his role in ABC's coverage of the attacks.
His first network assignments were in Washington, where he covered the Pentagon and the White House from 1972 until 1977. He was the first correspondent to learn of and report on the Christmas bombing of Hanoi in 1972 during the Vietnam War. He also reported on the Watergate scandal and the resignation of President Richard Nixon. He was the first to report that in the final days of the Nixon administration, a White House aide had talked with then-Vice President Gerald Ford about a possible pardon for Nixon. During the Ford administration, he was the first reporter to reveal that President Ford had ordered evacuation efforts for pro-American South Vietnamese endangered by the advance of communist forces.
Before joining NBC News in 1972, Cochran was a reporter for WRC-TV in Washington. Previously, he was a reporter and anchor at WSOC-TV in Charlotte, N.C., where he won awards for his coverage of school desegregation efforts. He also worked as a freelance newspaper and radio reporter in Vietnam.
A native of Montgomery, Ala., Cochran began his journalism career while at the University of Alabama. He received a master's degree from the University of Iowa in 1967. He is married to another journalist, Barbara Cochran, the president of the Radio-TV News Directors Association.
Source:
abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=126712Updated 8/29/05
8/27/05, by Stallion4 @ www.mypetgoat.tv
Proof Bush knew about 9/11 attack before leaving hotel for Booker Elementary School (Part 2)
Below I've documented how Bush LIED about when he first learned "what was going on in New York" on the morning of 9/11:
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the first plane just before sitting down with a class of second graders. He was watching a reading drill when, just after nine, United Flight 175 exploded into the second tower. There was the sudden realization that what had seemed like a terrible mistake was a coordinated attack.
Back in the Florida classroom, press secretary Ari Fleischer got the news on his pager. The president’s chief-of-staff, Andy Card stepped in.
“A second plane hit the second tower; America is under attack,” Card told the president
CBS News:
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/09/11/60II/main521718.shtml[/ul]Now compare the CBS report to Bush's own words below:
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THE PRESIDENT ...I was sitting there, and my Chief of Staff -- well, first of all, when we walked into the classroom,
I had seen this plane fly into the first building. There
was a TV on. And you know, I thought it was pilot error and I was amazed that anybody could make such a terrible mistake. And something was wrong with the plane, or -- anyway, I'm sitting there, listening to the briefing, and Andy Card came and said, "America is under attack."
Source:
www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/01/20020105-3.htmlaudio clip:
www.911blimp.net/sounds/BushAgainSayingHeSaw1stPlaneHitWTConTVthatMorning.mp3[/ul]A month earlier he also stated that he saw the plane hit on TV:
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BUSH: Well... (APPLAUSE) Thank you, Jordan (ph).
Well, Jordan (ph), you're not going to believe what state I was in when I heard about the terrorist attack. I was in Florida.
And my chief of staff, Andy Card – actually I was in a classroom talking about a reading program that works.
And
I was sitting outside the classroom waiting to go in, and I saw an airplane hit the tower – the TV was obviously on, and I use to fly myself, and I said, "There's one terrible pilot." And I said, "It must have been a horrible accident."
But I was whisked off there – I didn't have much time to think about it, and I was sitting in the classroom, and Andy Card, my chief who was sitting over here walked in and said, "A second plane has hit the tower."
CNN Transcript:
transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0112/04/se.04.htmlVideo clip:
whatreallyhappened.com/IMAGES/bushsawfirstplane1.ram[/ul]This is impossible, because the video of the plane that hit the first tower wasn't broadcasted on television until hours after it hit.
Booker Elementary School Principal, Gwen Rigell reportedly has stated that there wasn't a TV anywhere near that classroom::
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no TV in the corridor or anywhere near that classroomSources:
www.bluelemur.com/index.php?p=10www.prisonplanet.com/bush_didnt_see_wtc_footage_before_he_entered_classroom.htm[/ul]Those were the comments of Steve Lemke, a sound engineer for a company called Digital Olive Productions in
Sarasota, Florida. Lemke's story is supported by Sarasota Sheriff Bill Balkwill's recollection of events:
[/b], a Marine responsible for carrying Bush's phone walks up to Balkwill, who is standing in a nearby side room. While listening to someone talk to him in his earpiece, the Marine asks,
"Can you get me to a television? We're not sure what's going on, but we need to see a television." Three Secret Service agents, a SWAT member, the Marine and Balkwill
turn on the television in a nearby front office just as Flight 175 crashes into the WTC. "We're out of here," the Marine tells Balkwill. "Can you get everyone ready?" [Sarasota Herald-Tribune, 9/10/02] [/ul]
The stories form Steve Lemke and Sheriff Bill Balkwill are supported by Booker Elementary School teacher, Sandra Daniels:
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"The President bolted right out of here and told me: "take over", Daniels told the Post yesterday...
The New York Post:
www.nypost.com/09112002/56883.htm[/ul]So if there was not a TV anywhere near that classroom and the first images of a plane hitting the first tower weren't on television until hours after the attack, Bush is L-Y-I-N-G about the timeline. Why? Did he lie to cover-up what he said back at the hotel before leaving for the school?
Also worth noting, Sandra Daniels stated that a Secret Service agent "rushed into the room to inform the president" about the attack. This would contradict the story reported in the media that it was Andy Card who first informed POTUS of the attack by whispering into his ear that a second plane had crashed into the World Trade Center:
It makes perfect sense that Card did not inform POTUS of the attack, because there was absoulutly no reaction from Bush to suggest the he was just informed by Andy Card that the United States of America was under attack after Card whispered into his ear. Bush just sat there as if nothing had happened!
Here's the ABC report from John Cochran stating that Bush knew what was "going on in New York" before leaving his hotel for the scheduled visit at Booker Elementary School:
[/b]. John:
JOHN COCHRAN reporting:
Peter, as you know, the president's down in Florida talking about education. He 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 about half an hour at an elementary school in Sarasota, Florida.
JENNINGS: Thanks, John. John Cochran with the president...
[SNIP]
ABC Transcript:
emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/abc911.htm [/ul]
According to this ABC report, Bush was aware of the first plane crashing into the World Trade Center before he left his hotel. I repeat, according to the ABC report, Bush was aware of the first plane crashing into the World Trade Center before he left his hotel!
Keep in mind that Bush's scheduled appearance at the school had also been reported in the media before 9/11. I repeat, Bush's scheduled appearance at the school had also been reported in the media before 9/11.
The press release below was sent out to the media stating that he would be visiting the Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida at 9:30 am:
This is very important, because if terrorists wanted to take out Bush they could have easily known his whereabouts and could have hijacked a plane from one of the several airports located near that school (including one that was only five miles away) and crashed it into the school where Bush was to give a scheduled TV appearance:
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The Secret Service, which employs more than 4,000 people, has several responsibilities. The most important is protecting the President. And surely, this means first of all keeping him out of unnecessary danger...
The Secret Service has long been aware that one of the trickiest security dangers is posed by a suicide attack from a hijacked commercial airplane from a nearby airport. On a day when planes were being hijacked from different airports and crashing into buildings, a top security precaution would be to keep the President away from a publicly announced appointment at a building near an airport.
The Booker School is fewer than 5 miles from the Sarasota-Bradenton International Airport.
www.emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-3.htm[/ul] The first plane reportedly hit at 8:46 am. The FAA notified the Northeast Air Defense Sector
at least six minutes before the impact that one of their planes had been hijacked:
So NEADS was aware of a hijacking at 8:40 am. After the first plane hit the tower they
must have known that the two were related considering that a major US target just had a plane inserted into the center of it.
The Secret Service would have been notified of this:
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"Vice Pres. Cheney: ...As best we can tell, they [American Flight 77] came initially at the White House and...
"Mr. Russert: The plane actually circled the White House?
"Vice Pres. Cheney: Didn't circle it, but was headed on a track into it.
The Secret Service has an arrangement with the F.A.A. They had open lines after the World Trade Center was... ""Mr. Russert: Tracking it by radar.
"Vice Pres. Cheney: And when it entered the danger zone and looked like it was headed for the White House was when they grabbed me and evacuated me to the basement... (Etc.)"
Original transcript of MEET THE PRESS can be read at:
stacks.msnbc.com/news/629714.asp?cp1=1 [/ul]
If Bush left his hotel after the first plane hit, that would have given him, at most, 17 minutes until the second plane hit at 9:03 am to get into Sandra Daniels' classroom.
It was a nine mile drive from Bush's Hotel to the school. If you do a map quest search for driving directions the approx drive time is 20 minutes. That time is based on posted speed limits, lights, stop signs, etc:
When the motorcade arrived at the school, at approx 9 am as reported in the media, Bush probably shook a few hands and posed for a few photo ops before he entered the classroom. He also spent time in a "holding room" before entering the classroom:
The official timeline of Bush's movements has him arriving at the school at 8:55 am. The second plane hit at 9:03 am. It's my opinion that Bush entered the classroom after the second plane had hit. Bush remained at the school to deliver his first televised speech that the U.S. was under attack at 9:29 am:
If the Secret Service was in direct contact with the FAA after the World Trade Center was attacked (8:46am) as thingy Cheney alluded to in the Meet The Press interview, why was Bush allowed to enter that school and remain there literally like a sitting duck until shortly after 9:30 am?
Was he allowed to stay there so long because they knew that "terrorists" were NOT attacking the country and Bush's life was NOT in danger from an attack at the school by "terrorists" from the ground or by air?
If John Cochran's ABC report is true, which I believe it to be, do you think Bush was concerned because he 'let the cat out of the bag' back at the hotel? Concerned enough to make up a bullnuts story that he first learned about "what was going on in New York" when he saw a plane hit the first tower on an imaginary television just before entering the classroom at Booker Elementary School?
Me thinks yes.
