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Originally Posted by Ohio
Not necessarily info on Clinton. They still don't know who ultimately issued stand down orders.
What is your thesis about those 29 minutes?
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My thesis is that there is no reasonable justification. I can't imagine that Air Force 1 wasn't ready at that moment for an emergency takeoff, why not? Florida from DC is probably about a quarter of the tank, also I imagine they can refuel in the air, and I also imagine that refueling the plane is done immediately once they land, so it had probably already been serviced. If there was an issue with the plane they would have made that public by now.
You cannot reconcile "we are under attack", "planes coming to the Pentagon, and the Capital building in addition to the twin towers with lets twiddle our thumbs here in this elementary school which is the softest of all targets. If I actually thought that the US is under attack then I am getting the president out of that school immediately. There is no security there from a similar attack (hijacked plane) and the location is public knowledge and was made known with plenty of time for an attacking force to make adjustments. In contrast Air force 1 is designed to survive just this kind of attack. I want to get to that plane and into the air immediately.
On the contrary the behavior of the Secret Service is bizarre until you look at it as their behavior for the entire day. After leaving they put Bush in the plane and then instead of returning to the Whitehouse they flew all over the country under the pretense that this was somehow to keep Bush safe, meanwhile Cheney is in the bunker running the show. Any other president would have ordered the plane back to the Whitehouse immediately so they could be in the situation room.
So this 29 minutes and the subsequent actions of the Secret Service are clearly evidence that something doesn't add up and it is also consistent with a narrative that Bush was not in charge of "this operation". However, the behavior is not in any way consistent with the official line that "we were under attack".