Official: FAA Left Helpless On 9/11

(AP) ALEXANDRIA,Va. A former top security official at the Federal Aviation Administration testified Wednesday that numerous security measures could have been implemented to protect against hijackings had officials known of Zacarias Moussaoui's terrorist plans.

Robert Cammaroto said the FAA could have redeployed federal air marshals, tightened security checkpoints and directed flight crews to resist hijackers if they had known that al Qaeda terrorists were training pilots to take over planes and fly them into buildings.

Cammaroto was responsible for issuing security directives to carriers in 2001 when officials became aware of various threats. Cammaroto was designated by prosecutors as a substitute witness to replace two other government aviation witnesses barred from the trial after they were improperly coached on their testimony by government lawyer Carla Martin.

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Norad Regulations were changed, giving Sec. Rumsfeld say over when and how fighter aircraft were scrambled.

All of these changes were systematically put into place before 911. We know thanks to the AP Press that in the calendar year prior to June 1st 2001 (when the protocol changed), fighter aircraft were successfully scrambled 67 times in flying beside hijacked aircraft in a matter of minutes.
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