The Eleventh Day

September 11 Memorial & Museum, http://ns11makehistory.appspot.com, MFR 04017206, 11/19/03;

57 some wondered: Farmer, 162;

58 videoconference: CR, 36;

59 “I need”: Stephen Hayes, Cheney, NY: HarperCollins, 2007, 331–;

60 “The Cabinet”: Barton Gellman, Angler, London: Allen Lane, 114.

61 “very aware”: Newsweek, 12/3/01;

62 Cheney/Rice: CR, 39, 463n204, St. Petersburg Times, 9/8/02.

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Olson calls:

FBI 302 of Lori Keyton, 9/14/01, “Flight Call Notes and 302s,” B13, T7, CF, FBI 302 of Ted Olson, 9/11/01, INTELWIRE, int. Ted Olson on

Larry King Weekend

, CNN, 1/6/02, Farmer, 163;

2

undetected:

Staff Monograph, “The Four Flights and Civil Aviation Security,” 8/26/04, CF;

3

speeding east/notified Reagan/Secret Service:

Flight 77 map and timeline, “Timelines 9-11, 1 of 2,” B20, T7, CF.

4

Ladies and gentlemen:

AP, 9/11/01;

5

“We’re under”:

Clear the Skies

, BBC documentary, 9/1/02.

6

“We’ve got”:

Alfred Goldberg et al.,

Pentagon 9/11

, Washington, D.C.: Office of the Secretary of Defense, 2007, 13;

7

agents acted:

CR, 39–, 464n209, Gellman, 114–, int. of Dick Cheney on

Meet the Press

, NBC, 9/16/01. Questions have been raised about the timing of Cheney’s move from his office to the underground shelter—to be reported in Ch. 13.

8

P-56/O’Brien:

Spencer, 145–;

9

horrified controllers:

ibid., 158,

USA Today

, 8/11/02;

10 fire engine crew: “Arlington County After-Action Report,” www.co.arlington.va.us/fire/edu/about/pdf/after_report.pdf, Annex A, A-4;

11 policeman: Goldberg et al., 13;

12 priest: Penny Schoner, “Analysis of Eyewitness Statements on 9/11, American Airlines Flight 77 Crash into the Pentagon,” www.ratical.org, pt. 8;

13 Anderson/?Benedetto/?Riskus: ibid., pts. 13, 18, 3;

14 “I looked out”: “Personal Experience at the Pentagon on September 11, 2001,” by Penny Elgas, Smithsonian Institution.

15 Jester: Goldberg et al., 151–;

16 Boger: ibid., 27, 64–;

17 Others heard: ibid., 137, 134;

18 fuel/mph/had struck: ibid., 16–;

19 “simply melt”: statement of Penny Elgas, http://americanhistory.si.edu.

20 “I saw”: The source of this quote is blogger Rebecca Gordon, a resident of Virginia, writing as “Skarlet” on www.punkprincess.com (corr. Rebecca Gordon, 2009, column at Gordon’s blog www.meanlouise.com).

21 “I expected”: Christopher Hilton, The Women’s War, Stroud, U.K.: History Press, 2003;

22 impact: Goldberg et al., 17;

23 dead/injured: ibid., 23–, 49, 117–, 123;

24 Morrison/?Cruz/?Kurtz/?Moody/?Gallop: ibid., 28–;

25 Marines: ibid., 53–;

26 firefighters: ibid., 64–, 78–, 93–.

27 CIA briefer/room shaken: interview of Donald Rumsfeld by Alfred Goldberg & Rebecca Cameron, “Rumsfeld on Intel,” B7, T2, CF;

28 left office/“it was dark”: Andrew Cockburn, Rumsfeld, NY: Scribner, 2007, 1–;

29 “hundreds”: int. of Rumsfeld;

30 “people lying”: transcript of Rumsfeld int. for Parade magazine, 10/12/01, www.defenselink.mil & see Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, NY: Sentinel, 2011, 336–;

31 examined/gurney: Cockburn, 2;

32 photographed: Goldberg et al., photo section 82–;

33 “suit jacket”: Torie Clarke, 221. Victoria “Torie” Clarke, whose timing of 10:15 we have used, took notes of events that day. Rumsfeld himself believed he was back inside the Pentagon from the crash site “shortly before or after 10:00,” and then used the phone before proceeding to the Executive Support Center (took notes: int. of Rumsfeld; “shortly before or after”: testimony of Donald Rumsfeld, 3/23/04, CO).

34 news reached/escort to advise: CR, 39, 463n206;

35 President hurried: Bamford, Pretext, 62;

36 “Sounds like”: CR, 39;

37 “They were taxiing”: int. law enforcement officer, now member of Joint Terrorism Task Force, who asked not to be identified;

38 “like a rocket”: CBS News, 9/10/03;

39 northeast/west: corr. Miles Kara, 2011, Stephen Hayes, 341, St. Petersburg Times, 7/4/04;

40 Instead of returning: CR, 39, 325.

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