See people, this is why I don't bother any more. This thread is filled wall-to-wall with displays of a gross refusal to engage brain matter.
Why waste what precious little time one has on this earth bashing one's proverbial head against a proverbial brick wall?
Gumboot, is it your claim that you are smarter than are either other posters or those posters who disagree with you? If so, what interest are you seeking to advance by making the claim that you are smart and others are not?
See, earlier, my statement that the exercise had not started, and was not scheduled to start until 0900. There's ample evidence of this. Aside from statements in interviews from NORAD staff, there's the evidence from the tapes themselves - the Ops Floor was in "standby" mode at the time of the first hijacking. The MCC wasn't even there, and had to be paged (along with most of the other Ops staff). This is clear in the audio tapes.
I do wish you would consider sourcing your claims concerning timing. They are not at all persuasive standing solely on the basis of you claiming they are in the transcripts without citing a reference.
What is unquestionably in the transcripts is what has been quoted that makes it clear there are both exercise inputs involved as well as obvious and apparent uncertainty about whether what is seen is real or not real, thus confirming, without more, that the ability to distinguish what was real and what was not real was nonexistent.
This latter issue -- that the inability to distinguish real from unreal served to provide a mechanism by which 9/11 could have been carried out has been ignored by you, unaddressed by you and left to stand unrefuted by you.
Mind you, post as you see fit to choose. You do not have to answer anything you are not inclined to answer.
Showing that it was the 2nd or 5th or 20th day of the exercise doesn't undermine this. These exercises do not run 24HR. They're conducted in normal work hours. 0900 to 1700 each day, or similar. Yes, Vigilant Guardian had been running for a couple of days. No, it had not started for that day.
Yet another of your declarations that stands both unsubstantiated and contradicted by what has been shown to exist in the transcripts and in the records, AS QUOTED in the thread. You, on the otherhand, have not quoted anything to back up your declarations.
Look, everyone knows you have examined NORAD quite closely and that is why the thread could benefit from your input. Specifics matter, however, and you have been short on them here.
It takes only the most basic engagement of brain matter to grasp this obvious and clearly demonstrated fact. Those who fail to grasp it do so through their own refusal to seek fact, favouring instead to remain ignorant, because from a position of ignorance they can speculate to their heart's content.
Even if you demonstrate that an exercise was scheduled to start at a later time, you do not dent in the least the fact that exercise inputs were apparent and were acknowledged. Furthermore, and come to think of it, by declaring that the exercise start time was later, rather than earlier, a convenient factor that would allow "plausible denial" would be created.
I'm afraid, Gumboot, your reliance on "start time" is about as weak a response as one could possibly have imagined. I am compelled to ask, at the risk of offending you, "is "start time' the best argument you can come up with?
If so, your position is all but untenable, imho.
all the best