9-11.... Cool!

Criminal charges may be advanced in the coming months for federal employees of NORAD who deliberately lied to local authorities and the media on 9/11. Aside from that, the transcripts that have come to light do not restore your faith in U.S. competence.

POWELL: Is this real-world or exercise?
BOSTON CENTER: No, this is not an exercise, not a test.
ROUNTREE: Is that real-world?
DOOLEY: Real-world hijack.
WATSON: Cool!

The motive?: "The false testimony served a purpose: to obscure mistakes on the part of the F.A.A. and the military, and to overstate the readiness of the military..."
"How good would it have looked for the government in general if we still couldn't have stopped the fourth plane an hour and 35 minutes [into the attack]? How good would it have looked if there was a total breakdown in communication and nothing worked right?"

American superficiality... still our deepest value.