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Sent 1: At the conference room table was White House Deputy Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten.
Sent 2: Bolten watched the exchanges and, after what he called "a quiet moment,"suggested that the Vice President get in touch with the President and confirm the engage order.
Sent 3: Bolten told us he wanted to make sure the President was told that the Vice President had executed the order.
Sent 4: He said he had not heard any prior discussion on the subject with the President.
Sent 5: The Vice President was logged calling the President at 10:18 for a twominute conversation that obtained the confirmation.
Sent 6: On Air Force One, the President's press secretary was taking notes; Ari Fleischer recorded that at 10:20, the President told him that he had authorized a shootdown of aircraft if necessary.
Sent 7: Minutes went by and word arrived of an aircraft down in Pennsylvania.
Sent 8: Those in the shelter wondered if the aircraft had been shot down pursuant to this authorization.
Sent 9: At approximately 10:30, the shelter started receiving reports of another hijacked plane, this time only 5 to 10 miles out.
Sent 10: Believing they had only a minute or two, the Vice President again communicated the authorization to "engage or "take out" the aircraft.
Sent 11: At 10:33, Hadley told the air threat conference call: "I need to get word to Dick Myers that our reports are there's an inbound aircraft flying low 5 miles out.
Sent 12: The Vice President's guidance was we need to take them out."
Sent 13: Once again, there was no immediate information about the fate of the inbound aircraft.
Sent 14: In the apt description of one witness, "It drops below the radar screen and it's just continually hovering in your imagination; you don't know where it is or what happens to it."
Sent 15: Eventually, the shelter received word that the alleged hijacker 5 miles away had been a medevac helicopter.
Sent 16: Transmission of the Authorization from the White House to the Pilots The NMCC learned of United 93's hijacking at about 10:03.
Sent 17: At this time the FAA had no contact with the military at the level of national command.
Sent 18: The NMCC learned about United 93 from the White House.
Question: Who was a part of this conversation? (true/0)
Question: Who at the White House asked the Vice President to get in Touch with the President and what was top be confirmed? (true/1)
Question: Had there been previous intel regarding the low flying aircraft and what did it turn out to be? (false/2)
Question: Approximately how much time passed between when The Vice President was logged calling the President, and when the shelter first received reports of another hijacked plane? (true/3)
Question: What did Bolten talk about? (true/4)
Question: How long was the government monitoring the aircraft? (true/5)
Question: Did the President order the aircraft to stop? (true/6)
Question: Where was Joshua Bolten when he suggested that the Vice President get in touch with the President and confirm the engage order? (true/7)
Question: Where was the President at 10:18 when the Vice President called him? (false/8)
Question: HAd there been prior discussion and what was Bolten's concern? (true/9)
Question: What was the conversation between the Vice President and President about? (true/10)
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