Thursday, June 17, 2004

5 to 7 minutes? Oh, the humanity!

The 9/11 Commission reports get another headline: 9/11: Bush didn't react to attack for minutes, report says. I don't know what the point of this story is. It sounds like criticism, but I have to wonder how many people will react that way.

The real story is in paragraph 5:
The U.S. government and its military, on perpetual alert for attacks from overseas, weren't trained or prepared to respond to the suicide hijackings in domestic airspace, the commission said in a report giving the timeline of the attacks and the responses of the Federal Aviation Administration and the North American Aerospace Defense Command.
That, at least, comes within the Commission's purpose, but there isn't anything else in the story about that. It's all about how Bush got the news and what he did next. Is any of this different from what one would expect? If so, it's not apparent to me.

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