The dog that did not bark in the night..

[The Vinyl Ripper]

One of the fiction genres I enjoyed as a child and teenager was the detective story. There is a Sherlock Holmes story called "Silver Blaze" in which the clue that leads Holmes to the solution of the mystery is a dog which did not bark in the night when it should have done so.

http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/d/doyle/arthur_conan/d75me/silver.blaze.html

When the president is in danger, the Secret Service takes over, the president is just along for the ride and the SS does whatever it takes to protect the president. Prudence is the Secret Service's policy when protecting the president.

On the morning of 9/11/2001, president Bush was sitting in a grade school classroom in Florida reading "The Pet Goat" to the children in the class. Andrew Card came into the classroom and whispered in Bush's ear that a second plane had hit the WTC and that America was without question under attack. Bush did not react at all, not even to ask a question of Card and he continued to sit in the classroom for at least another six minutes.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SqBRDJ90H-k

The president's visit to the school was on the public itinerary, it was known he was to be at that school that morning. At the time of the WTC attacks it was not known how many planes were involved or what targets those planes might be headed toward.

Given the facts I have just laid out, in your own mind, what would have been the prudent course for the Secret Service to take in properly protecting the president that day?

Did the SS take what you would consider to be the prudent course in protecting the president on the morning of 9/11/2001?

Sometimes a lack of reaction to an event is even more revealing than a reaction would be.

Why did this particular dog not bark in the night?

[BrklynLib at work]

1. Because it was not a stranger that approached the house???????

[BanzaiBonnie]

2. I wondered about that too

It seems that Secret Service should have been right there, moving him to a safe location.

[jojo54]

3. But he didn't want to alarm the children!!!!

Don't you remember that? Yet, he'll deny them health insurance or their parents ability to procure insurance for them to stay healthy and fit.

He's nothing but a f*cking hypocrite!! A lying, two-faced hypocrite.

[AndyA]

4. Why did this particular dog not bark in the night?

Why indeed...

The answer is too gruesome to even mention.

[bbgrunt]

5. That is the big question and one that no "anti-conspiracy"

apologists can put to rest.

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. He also stayed at the school for another 30 - 40 minutes

after he left that classroom. That just makes no sense. He claims he stayed in the classroom so he wouldn't alarm the kids but he stayed in that school, putting every kid in the building at risk if an attack was directed at him. Nuts, completely nuts.

[ljm2002]

7. Absolutely, this is the first question...

...that should have been asked, repeatedly, by our so-called news media.

The second question should have been, who was running things? There is a chain of command that goes to the President. He is in charge when our country is threatened, which it certainly was on that morning, regardless of what any of us thinks about the true source of the action that day. Yet he went on with a photo-op, knowing that one plane had crashed into the WTC and that 3 other airliners had been hijacked and were in the air. He continued sitting there even after the second plane struck. He spent another 30 minutes to organize the photo-op, making a different speech than planned (that's their story and they're sticking to it...), then hightailed it off in AF1 without addressing the American people at all. Back in the day, there was a name for that kind of behavior: it was called "dereliction of duty", and Bush was clearly guilty of that, on the record -- no need for any "wacko conspiracy theory" to support that position.

Yet, he is our "strong leader" who has "protected" us.

Gaak.

[OneBlueSky]

8. that's a question I've been asking for the past six years . . .

why didn't the Secret Service respond? . . . did they know Bush was in no danger? . . . and if they did, how did they know? . . . and who told them? . . .

the mind boggles . . .

[The Vinyl Ripper]

10. I think it is quite clear that there is more to this story than has yet been told..

Like the Kennedy assassination, I wonder if we will ever know the truth.

[The Backlash Cometh]

12. Are all those secret service agents still alive?

[juno jones]

9. a quick K&R before this drops into

...well, where everything marked with a particular date goes, regardless.

[Contrary1]

11. Knock, knock...

[ananda]

13. quandary question

If it was known that the pretz would be at a FL school that day,
then why was it thought that the United flight was going to hit
the WH? WTF??!!

[quiet.american]

14. Well put! - And why *did* the dogs bark as they should have for Cheney? No silence there. n/t

[raccoon]

15. That's the $64,000 question. nt

[tblue37]

16. The SS DID hurry int CHENEY'S office and

physically lift him out of his chair by his armpits and hustle him off to a safe location. In other words, they did rush to protect the president--while leaving the decoy out there in the open to draw fire if necessary.

[raccoon]

17. kick nt

[truedelphi]

18. The next dog that did not bark was when Wellstone's plane went down

All aboard were killed.

Two weeks prior to this aircrash, an alert went out that "Chatter"indicated that the terrorists were gonna take out A Senator or two.

Wellstone was a Senator, but before the plane had even finished burning out, it was announced that the crash had nothing to do with terrorism.

"Please continue on - there's nothing here to see."

[raccoon]

19. Another kick. This is the main thing about 9/11 that raises my antennae. nt