[lit-ideas] what 9-11 changed
- From: "carol kirschenbaum" <cskir@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 01:15:05 -0700
After 9/11, the US began patrolling the airspace over N. America. There had
been all of 14 planes--unarmed--on alert patrol, until then, although the US
had patrols monitoring air activity on other continents. But not on home
turf!
This bit of info courtesy of John Hockenberry (ABC-News Dateline), conveyed
in a lecture this evening. It seems that this issue of America's pre-9/11
preparedness, or lack thereof, is on the pre-election media agenda. Seems
the US has been spending billions on fancy security systems, but just didn't
lock the damned door.
(Note to googlers: See "NORAD" and an unclassified pdf doc.)
Carol
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