Reply #26: NORAD and the Air Traffic Controllers were unprepared because [View All]

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they were not told to ramp up their defenses. When the CIA sent a memo about Bin Laden's plans to the FundieCon crowd it was ignored. They did nothing, because they were still working their loot-and-plunder scam on the people of the US and planning military conquest in the Middle East.

As for PATCO, by firing all the Air Traffic Controllers whose experience covered the time period in which hijackings were relatively common, they created a new generation whose "normal" responses to unusual events left them clueless. That said, the snippets I've heard suggest the the ATC's, once they caught on, did the right thing, but they were denied the information they needed to act quickly and effectively.