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Originally Posted by transplant99
Well...they used to be. NORAD is now a part of both Canada's and the US's homeland defense systems...but only after 9/11.
So the question remains.... did NORAD lose track of 4 civilian airliners on 9/11 when they weren't supposed to be monitoring them to begin with?
IIRC they were called into action only after the 2nd plane hit the WTC.
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Of course I was talking about 2001. Not only did they not find 4 airliners they weren't supposed to be tracking, in order to find them they had to cross-reference literally 1000s of data streams from radar stations across America. No wonder it took them a few hours to do it.
As for the myth about Cheney ordering fighters to stand down on 9/11... there were only 14 fighters on alert for all 48 states. It would have taken them over an hour to intercept the airliners when they had been found.