This book most definitely is not a 9/11 truther conspiracy novel, written by a batshit crazy nutcase. It is a book by a member of the 9/11 Commission staff which excoriates the FBI, CIA, and various intelligence agencies for failing to stop the attacks before they had a chance to happen (despite many opportunities to do so), the Clinton and Bush administrations for not doing enough to go after Al Queda and/or ignoring how dangerous it had become, and the FAA and the military for their ineptness on the day itself. In the case of the last two, specifically, he details how members of the FAA and the military either did not know or outright lied about how events played out that day, showing either incompetence and ignorance or a desire to cover themselves to disguise their incompetence. For example, during the commission hearings, FAA officials made it seem like they informed the military well before they actually did, and the members of the military insisted that they had been tracking flight 93 and were minutes away from tracking it down had the passengers and crew not fought back to try and regain control of the plane causing the terrorists to crash it. In reality, the FAA contacted NEADS about six minutes before Flight 11 hit the north tower of the WTC, the military had no warning about Flight 175, and the FAA was not even sure that 175 was hijacked until it was a minute or two from hitting the south tower of the WTC, the FAA told the military about a plane headed toward the White House a few minutes before Flight 77 hit the Pentagon and did not tell the military about Flight 93 until after it had crashed. So, there was no way fighter jets were minutes away from taking Flight 93 down.
The book reprints transcripts of the communications which, at the time of the 9/11 commission report's release, were classified, which showed how the reality of the day conflicted with what the commission was being told by witnesses. There is also a very detailed timeline of events involving the hijackers and other members of Al Queda that at least put them on the radar of various US agencies, and sent up huge red flags that were either missed or ignored. The key takeaway from the book is that there were plenty of opportunities to find out about the attacks and stop them before they happened had the "system" not failed time and again.
The book reprints transcripts of the communications which, at the time of the 9/11 commission report's release, were classified, which showed how the reality of the day conflicted with what the commission was being told by witnesses. There is also a very detailed timeline of events involving the hijackers and other members of Al Queda that at least put them on the radar of various US agencies, and sent up huge red flags that were either missed or ignored. The key takeaway from the book is that there were plenty of opportunities to find out about the attacks and stop them before they happened had the "system" not failed time and again.
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