[ScottSolomon]

Well, when you have warning that Al Qaeda was in the final phase of an operation, that it was going to involve airlines and massive casualties, you would dust off all your airline scenarios. When you received field data from agents that were noticing Muslims training in numerous flight schools, you look at the scenariaos in which the muslims would need to be trained as airline pilots. Then you look at symbolic days in the future - days which may have some symbolic meaning for the terrorists - such as mid September - the time period of the Camp David Accords, or Yom Kippur, or the end of Ramadan. You reschedule fighters to be on alert near the larger cities. Then you watch the radar. You put out anotice to the FCC that any hijackings need to be reported immediately ( which is the regulation anyway ) - and you look at the direction the aircraft are traveling in. You attempt to contact the aircraft and tell them that if the exceed a 50 mile radius of approach to any large city, they will be shot down. Then, shoot down the aircraft if they don't respond.

I think it would have been a fairly easy thing to predict if my job was to sit around all day developing scenarios.

These scenarios would be the ones that got passed to Cheney.