commission to examine ways in which to fundamentally restructure and reform the port authority to insure its independence and professionalism this incident exemplifies that there are times within the port authority where the rivalries between new york and new jersey have led to communication failures, and other problematic issues. a bistate commission, appointed by both governors, can look at ways to help improve the operations of the port authority, to make it truly independent and professional to serve the needs of both states. in the first instance a commission will hopefully look at these types of issues. first, whether it s appropriate to restructure so that there are
of justly first your reaction to this new information coming out that maybe it wasn t reprogrammed and to make that turn to the west before that last communication. it is a game changer to see the least. right now we have no evidence that the crew did anything wrong and now we should be operating with the primary assumption that something bad happened to that plane shortly after they said good night. was it a bomb that caused rapid decompression event in the cockpit. which caused power failures and communication failures. the right thing to do would have been to lower your altitude quickly. we know they mate a turn but we aren t sure of the scent.
speculating, where the lithium batteries, we don t know how many there were, but if they started to overheat and burn, the crew would start to get alarms. those areas are well-sensored for heat and disturbances and start to see that something is going wrong in the cargo bay. the next thing they may get is a fire alarm. they could start to see electrical anomalies in the cockpit. systems may go off line. it wouldn t account when you correlate that information with the information that we have with the primary and secondary radar and the pings we get from the system. this plane we know was in the air for a long time. it would explain though the systems and the communication failures not being able to reach air traffic control. they may not have the
answers that i want. let the investigation go forward, but don t make it a political football. even john mccain s former national security adviser wrote a wonderful article last thursday where he says, the republicans are about the business of creating a gotcha contest, and he said we need to get away from that because it does nobody any good. now, mr. ryan was prepped for his debate by senior foreign policy adviser dan senor who worked for president bush from the invasion of iraq in 2003. does it not sound a little rich to you that this man attacks the current administration for communication failures when he s the same individual who sold the country bogus claims about weapons of mass destruction and was known to lie about conditions in iraq in order to support the re-election of george bush? it is astounding that one would have the nerve to even
the minute i received that word, i turned to my right and who was standing beside me but vice president cheney, dr. rice, i saw his wife, lynn, their secretary of transportation was there, and just about all the staff members who were from the west wing were now downstairs as i relayed this information to them. the vice president really unprecedentedly merely ordered our f-15s at otis air base airborne to intercept flight 93 to prevent it from reaching its target in washington, d.c. i want to talk more about that. you say there were serious communication failures within the presidential chain of command and that the president and vice president were repeatedly cut off from each other. in the book, you say the secretary of defense never even attempted to contact the president during the one hour and 17 minute attack on our nation. had it not been for the decisive actions of vice president cheney to insert himself into the military chain of command, there would have been no official re