Homeland Security Show | Episode 18

In the Air on the Morning of 9/11: The Audio Tapes and Radar Evidence that Tell the Story

Today’s show is second in a series dedicated and in memory of the victims of 9/11 and their families.

Colonel Miles Kara, former Congressional Joint Inquiry on 9/11 and 9/11 Commission professional staff responsible for reviewing 100s of hours of audio tape from the air traffic control towers, headquarters, hijacked planes and air defense squadrons, joined us to dis-spell some of the myths that remain about the events on the morning of 9/11. We discussed the evidence itself, how it was obtained and reviewed, as well as what actually happened when and where and with what entities in the sky on the morning of 9/11. We talked about the President’s ‘shoot down’ order for a civilian aircraft refusing to land– did it exist or not– and played the three short audio clips of 9/11 hijacker operational lead Mohamed Atta, telling the passengers to stay calm and not try anything while minutes away from suiciding the first plane into the World Trade Center. We discussed how disorganized the morning was, and how Miles’ work has been reproduced by Rutgers Law Review , and documentaries on the Discovery and National Geographic channels. Kara has continued his work on two sites:

www.oredigger61.org ; www.9-11revisited.org.

Prior to his work on the Commission, Kara was a career U. S. Army intelligence officer, retired in 1990 and later joined the staff of the Office of Intelligence Review, Office of the Inspector General, Department of Defense. He worked on multiple joint agency projects, including the Brothers to the Rescue Review concerning the Cuban shoot down of unarmed civilian aircraft in international waters, the POW/MIA Review, a detailed analysis of the allegation that not all American prisoners were repatriated from Southeast Asia, and the Commander Speicher Case, involving a U.S Navy pilot lost during Desert Storm. He was only one of three staff from the Congressional Joint Inquiry of 9/11 to be asked to come on board to the 9/11 Commission staff.

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