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Originally Posted by mikey_the_redneck
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Cheney saw an opportunity for what Bush called his trifecta, and gave it to him by giving the go-ahead to ISI and Al Qaeda, and ordering up a terrorism exercise that allowed him to send all relevant close-in air defense strip alert craft away from the target areas, and to disable the NORTHCOM normal response to flight path diversion.
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The bolded part.. NORTHCOM (guessing he means USNORTHCOM), was not established until October 2002.
From the history about USNORTHCOM: (
http://www.northcom.mil/About/histor...n/history.html )
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As authorized by President George W. Bush April 17, 2002, the Department of Defense (DoD) announced the establishment of U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) to consolidate under a single unified command those existing homeland defense and civil support missions that were previously executed by other military organizations. On May 8, 2002, U.S. Air Force Gen. Ralph E. “Ed” Eberhart, the commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and U.S. Space Command, was nominated by DoD to be the first commander of USNORTHCOM. USNORTHCOM attained initial operational capability, that is, assumed its responsibilities, Oct. 1, 2002. Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and Gen. Richard Meyers, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, participated in the ceremony at which command of USNORTHCOM was presented to Gen. Eberhart, who continued to serve as the commander of NORAD. At the same ceremony, U.S. Space Command transitioned its missions and responsibilities to the U.S. Strategic Command at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.
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Maybe he means NORAD, but it has been stated numerous times that NORAD did not have the capability to track within the continental US in 2001.
So how does one disable the nominal tracking of flight path deviation of a body that doesn't exist until a year later?