"The response to hi-jacking has never been to launch interceptor aircraft, not in the USA, nor anywhere else for that matter."

You as a private citizen with no access to national security information, have no way of knowing this as fact Teribus, so why do you even attempt to state it as such?

The reason why an investigation into what happened on 9/11 is so damn necessary is so we can learn from our mistakes. I think everyone now agrees that with four commercial airliners being hijacked simultaneously, there certainly should have been interceptor aircraft launched. Claims that there wasn't enough time for it to happen really calls the credibility of the US military and it's air.

It doesn't matter what the policies and procedures were prior to 9/11. We need an independent, high level investigation into events surrounding the day, that isn't impeded by the Bush administration's obsession with secrecy. That isn't happening. Why doesn't the media focus on the Bush administrations efforts to impede the investigation, especially when they engage in truly manipulative, cynical, and evil exploitation of those events by doing things like scheduling the Republican National Convention for the 2004 election year in NYC for the express purpose of getting political mileage out of it?

How come none of that sort of despicable behavior bothers you Teribus? Would you say that actions like exploiting 9/11 for purely partisan political gain in such obvious, arrogant ways, is an admirable trait? A trait of a political leader you wish to follow?