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Plane Interception Without Notification

This was in the Post today:

D.C. in Dark While Plane Was Intercepted
Police Chief Sees Problems In Lack of Communication
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/12/AR2005051201614.html

D.C. police officials had no idea that fighter jets and helicopters were being deployed over Washington to intercept an errant plane on Wednesday, even though they had a sergeant in the nation's homeland security command center and the ability to monitor what was taking place at their own headquarters.

At the Homeland Security Operations Center, a command post built after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, the D.C. government was relying on a sergeant to keep track of any potential crisis. But it was not until the air scare was nearly over that he got word to police commanders.

At police headquarters, someone had disconnected a phone line that would have provided emergency communications from the Federal Aviation Administration, the officials said....

Mike Panetta @ 09:54 AM
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