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UNCLASSIFIED
July 15, 2004
DoD Comments on 9/11 Commission Draft Report
Chapter 1 (version 070204 PPR)

Additional Changes from Secretary Rumsfeld:

L Ch 1, Pg 43. Para 3, Lines 3-4

Comment: (U) Regarding Secretary Rumsfeld's conversation with the
President, a more precise timeframe is available.

Recommendation/Alternate wording: (U) Delete "sometime after 10:00"

and replace with "sometime between 9:50 and 10:10"

I Chl,Pg43,Para4.Lme2
Comment: (XJ) Use of the verb "tried" implies that either the Vice
President or Secretary Rumsfeld had a problem in communicating or
understanding the situation.

Recommendation/Alternate wording: (U) Delete the word "tried" and re-

word the sentence to read: " At 10:39, the Vice President brought the
Secretary up to date as both participated in the Air Threat Conference."

3. Ch 1, Pg 44, Para 1, Lines 3-4

Comment: (U) Amplifying information is available concerning the
Secretary's activities.

Recommendation/Alternate wording: (U) Delete the sentence: "He

arrived in the National Military Command Center shortly before 10:30."
Replace the sentence with: "After going to the crash site, he returned to his
office and spoke with the President by telephone. (As noted above, this
conversation did not include the subject of shootdown authorization for
hijacked aircraft.) Secretary Rumsfeld then moved to the Executive Support
Center (ESC), adjacent to the National Military Command Center (NMCC),
at about 10:10 where he joined the White House video teleconference. The
Secretary then moved to the NMCC at approximately 10:30. Smoke was
filling up the ESC, and the Secretary wished to be collocated with the
VCJCS. The Secretary refused evacuation from the Pentagon. If he had
accepted, he would have been on a helicopter and likely out of
communication with other principals. He told us that he was just gaining...."

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