A US Government Standstill: How The September 11th Terrorist Attacks Were Successful

The Darkened Hour

As American Airlines Flight 11 steered directly into the World Trade Center's North Tower, the response by mostly everyone watching or hearing about it was unsurprising, many were in shock and in a state of paralysis. As United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower, however, many people believed the nation was under a terrorist attack. What was the government response? In this episode i specify the actions and inactions made by certain officials and the complete and utter incompetence of specific people who seemed to have either been caught "off guard" or simply just paralyzed to undertake any action that could have prevented attacks on the nations capitol and in Pennsylvania at the very least.