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Now we know for sure that NORAD and the FAA have been lying about 9/11, both in official testimony and in the media.

Here are the lies:

1. U.S. air defenses reacted quickly.
2. Jets had been scrambled in response to the last two hijackings
3. NORAD had begun tracking United 93 at 9:16 a.m.
4. Fighters were prepared to shoot down United Airlines Flight 93 if it threatened Washington.

Here is something closer to the truth:

1. The military never even had any of the hijacked planes in its sights.
2. United 93 wasn’t even hijacked until 12 minutes after NORAD claimed to have been tracking it, and the military wasn’t even aware of the flight until after the time it is said to have crashed in Pennsylvania.
3. Fighters “chased” AA Flight 11 long after it had actually crashed into the World Trade Center.

Even the compromised 9/11 Commission has problems with this, and although they lack the spine to act on it directly, they have referred the question of criminal charges to the inspectors general for the Defense and Transportation departments. Stay tuned.

“We to this day don’t know why NORAD [the North American Aerospace Command] told us what they told us,” said Thomas H. Kean, the former New Jersey Republican governor who led the commission. “It was just so far from the truth. . . . It’s one of those loose ends that never got tied.”