Reply #119: the FAA Hijack Coordinator who is the guy who is obligated to pull the trigger for DoD response when

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I have no doubt that the "piggybacked" exercises were used as distraction and chaff on 9/11 to provide plausible deniability for the inexcusable fighter response. But a thorough look leads all roads back to one place, the FAA Hijack Coordinator who is the guy who is obligated to pull the trigger for DoD response when certain conditions are met.

This timeline also subtly suggests that warplanes scrambled to protect New York (and failed to do so) somehow could not be used to intercept Flight 77 after the second tower was hit but before the Pentagon crash.

No government official has yet explained the inexcusable nearly half-hour delay for the FAA to tell NORAD that the planes were off course (standard protocol is to notify the Air Force immediately - and NORAD has its own radar systems that track commercial flights).

Does anyone really believe that the FAA waited nearly a half hour to tell the Air Force that Flight 77 had turned around in the direction of the national capital, especially after the World Trade Center buildings had been hit?