IF WE ARE ALL GOING TO BE SAFE HERE." the officials topping the chain of command for response to a domestic attack - George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Myers, Montague Winfield - all found reason to do something else during the actual attacks, other than assuming their duties as decision-makers. The US air defense system failed to follow standard procedures for responding to diverted passenger flights. NORAD, FAA, Pentagon, USAF, as well as the 9/11 Commission gave radically ...