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Bush Chief of Staff Recalls Iconic Moment He Delivered 9/11 News to the President

Sep. 11, 2012 12:45pm
Andy Card Describes Moment He Told Bush of Terrorist Attacks on 9/11

FILE - In this Sept. 11, 2001 file photo, President Bush's Chief of Staff Andy Card whispers into the ear of the President to give him word of the plane crashes into the World Trade Center, during a visit to the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Fla. (AP Photo/Doug Mills, File

In 2001, Andy Card was serving as the chief-of-staff for new President George W. Bush. On 9/11, Card captured the nation’s attention when he became known as the man who delivered the news of the terrorist attacks to Bush while the president was at a book-reading for young students. And today, Card offered an interesting glimpse into that iconic moment, which was captured on video.

According to Card, in an interview with Fox News,  he only delivered the news to the president after the second plane hit. He also offered a little-known tidbit: He made sure to withdraw from the president immediately after delivering the news so as not to invite a follow-up.

Watch Card describe the moment in his Tuesday-morning interview:

You can watch another detailed explanation Card gave in 2009, which includes more information on what happened after Card disappeared behind a closed door:

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Comments (35)

  • Sumrknght
    Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:47pm

    Now after lambasting Bush for ‘torture’ – those in the intelligence community clearly state that waterboarding and other forms of intel gathering clearly lead to the final turnout with Bin Laden.

    But now BHO wants to claim that victory… when he’s blamed EVERYTHING else on Bush – he might as well tell the truth and serve credit where credit is due.

    To the folks who made this tape – thank you for sharing your images of that day with us. I may be clear out in Nebraska… but in the months leading up to 9/11 I’d bookmarked the Windows on the World restaurant. I was hoping to take my wife there someday. The entire country shared the shock, the outrage, the grief….

    We need to return to that spirit of coming together – to carry this country towards our founding fathers goals.

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  • OperationNorthwoods
    Posted on September 11, 2012 at 5:50pm

    Why didn’t the secret service get him out of that school? There could have been a plane or a truck bomb on the way there. Unless they knew he was in no danger, and how would they know that?

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    • pennycrosson
      Posted on September 12, 2012 at 9:55pm

      That’s an interesting question and maybe I can help. I read an article last year where the writer interviewed the kids who had been in the classroom that day. Each of them said they had no idea that anything was wrong, that President Bush finished reading, then cut the meeting a bit short and left. The teacher was also interviewed and said she understood that President Bush didn’t want to just jump up and run away because it would’ve scared the kids too much. Apparently, he must’ve been safe or they would have whisked him away to a secure location. It was interesting, though, how grateful and impressed each of those young people were with the way he and his team handled the situation. Each one expressed their appreciation. Hope that helps!

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  • ichbin
    Posted on September 11, 2012 at 5:42pm

    The conspiracy freaks are out in droves! Lookout the sky is falling!

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on September 11, 2012 at 6:02pm

      Right out of the Alinsky playbook. Call the truth a conspiracy… over and over again.

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    • ichbin
      Posted on September 12, 2012 at 10:53am

      And I bet you believe we didn’t land on the moon too.

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    • K Chad Roberts
      Posted on September 12, 2012 at 2:12pm

      The biggest problem with the “Truth” movement, is that they claim the science is on their side.

      As an engineer, and a physicist, I can tell you that the science and engineering does, in fact, back up the official explanation. Those buildings, including #7, did, in fact, receive enough damage from just the 2 planes to collapse.

      I’d be happy to explain it in great detail, but you truthers have got to prompt me with something specific. Make your case, back it up the best you can, and I will destroy your “evidence”, which is nothing more than pseudo science.

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  • DOra Glasberg
    Posted on September 11, 2012 at 4:32pm

    One will never reach most of you posters no matter how many facts come out
    from members of Bush’s own inner circle.
    You are a very sad group, clinging to your guns and your bibles, as was said.

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    DOra Glasberg  
    • The_Jerk
      Posted on September 11, 2012 at 4:48pm

      “A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm,” is real. Its authors are real people. It was written in 1996, five years before 9/11, and seven years before the Iraq war. The authors became high office policy makers in the Bush administration. The authors are the same men who massaged the intelligence that led to a war… a war that was described in the above mentioned study of 1996… a study that was written, by Jews, for Israel, not America.

      Do your homework.

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  • DOra Glasberg
    Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:55pm

    The 9/11 attackers were all Saudis, so why did we go after Sasdam?
    Saddam and Iraq has NOTHING WHATSOEVER to do with 9/11.
    And anyone who believes they did must still believe Bush/Cheney’s lies about WMD.
    Now you can all go back to name-calling, it’s all ya got. Really. And pathetic.

    DOra Glasberg  
  • AzThunder
    Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:37pm

    obama would have ignored the whisper in his ear and gone golfing!

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  • Dustoff
    Posted on September 11, 2012 at 2:55pm

    One thing is for sure. the name (Jerk) fits you so well.

    Another Jewish 911 nut!

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on September 11, 2012 at 4:39pm

      Dustoff, disprove the provable facts that I have stated, then maybe you can find some credibility. Since you can not, you’re nothing more than a name calling propagandist.

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  • DOra Glasberg
    Posted on September 11, 2012 at 2:45pm

    Bush wanted to take out Saddam before any of this occurred.
    The Kowboy from Kennebunkport a-wanted to kill the may-en who tried to kill his pa.
    He need a war to make him seem like an IMPORTANT American president, but as usual, for his whole life, it was just another screw-up. (Screw, not being my first word of choice).

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    • Dustoff
      Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:05pm

      Yawn….. Proof usually helps when you make a foolish claim, but being another dumb lib. I see why do didn’t even try.

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    • SITDOWNANDSHUTUP
      Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:35pm

      DUSTOFF

      Dora is a NYC lib…..she knows nothing about facts. Facts don’t matter to people like her. They are all the same, they spew incoherent crap whilst they think everyone is comprehending their fallacious dribble.

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    • banjarmon
      Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:40pm

      @ dora & the jerk

      You two amaze me at how much comes out of your mouths that a dog would not eat and that a cat would want to cover up!!

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    • DOra Glasberg
      Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:44pm

      This has been written about extensively .
      YOU need a life.

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      DOra Glasberg  
    • OhioRifleman
      Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:48pm

      @ Sit Down & Shut Up

      We comprehend DORA GASSBAG readily; I for one have no problem understanding her. That said, I also don’t believe one iota of the bullsj1t she spews.

      Much as you said, it comes down to proof. She can’t provide evidence from an unbiased source; when she does bother to cite sources, it is usually lefty mags or rags I would be afraid to use to wipe my arse with, lest it somehow contaminate me.

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    • Balpit
      Posted on September 11, 2012 at 4:56pm

      They say it’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

      Dora’s rebuttal:

      “BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH BLAH!”

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  • Stuck_in_CA
    Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:23pm

    9/11’s Aftermath of Lethal Tolerance
    by Alan Caruba
    The one thing I have never understood is the way Americans seem to refuse to accept the fact that the worst attack on the homeland since Pearl Harbor was planned, funded, carried out by Muslims, and was celebrated by Muslims around the world.
    Perhaps the reluctance to relate the attack to “a religion” had to do with the way whole generations of Americans since the 1960s have passed through schools that indoctrinated them to believe that America has been invading other nations wrongly, supporting allies like Israel wrongly, and deserved to be attacked because of it.
    Perhaps the election of a President with a Muslim name makes people reluctant to associate 9/11 with Islam?…

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:34pm

      “… the worst attack on the homeland since Pearl Harbor was planned… .”

      Then why did Bush/Cheney block any investigation onto this attack? They did not capitulate until forced, and that was 1.5 years after the attack. Then, neither would go under oath. And, neither would appear alone to answer questions. And, most importantly, the one’s chosen to clear the classified information that could be viewed by the 9/11 commission were both Jewish and from the Clinton and Bush administrations: Gorelick and Zelikow.

      http://www.haaretz.com/news/features/white-man-s-burden-1.14110

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:46pm

      It should also be noted that the first man chosen to lead the investigation 1.5 years after the attack was, Kissinger, also Jewish. He was dethroned because of his ties to the bin Laden family.

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      The_Jerk  
  • RaydocX
    Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:12pm

    i was initially amused, but over the years have become angry at the Maher, Moore, et al ‘jokes’ about the President’s reaction…

    How would they react to go from reading a book to children to being told there was an ongoing attack on the country? If they jump up and start shouting orders they would be overreacting without adequate information. If they resume reading, they would be burying their head in the sand and dithering, much like i suspect the current administration does about everything (form a committee, ignore the cabinet… er committee, and blame them when problems arise).

    The President acted wtih deliberation, let the people who were already hard at work begin to provide information, and acted accordingly. Anyone who says otherwise is lying to themself and to you, and you can discount anything else they say about a past Predidential administration that an honest future history will look upon kindly, to be followed by an unending circus.

    and before the wackos trying to flame everything on this site go to work, be careful, there are plenty of examples of dithering to offer to support my suspicion about BHO’s potential response to such a crisis… unless it can be staged for a photo op a a the pizza man’s ‘spontaneous’ bear hug, he’s not into making decisions, just organizing for others

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    • Gonzo
      Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:13pm

      Well said Doc, well said.

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:25pm

      It’s really not the deliberation after the fact that was the problem. It was the lack of preparation with the actionable intelligence at the time. Clinton and Bush both dropped the ball. Sandy Berger didn’t risk everything, long jail time at his age, to remove old birthday party invitations from the NSA.

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    • floridareader
      Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:36pm

      It’s easy to criticize when it isn’t you the one in front of the bull’s horns.

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    • The_Jerk
      Posted on September 11, 2012 at 1:50pm

      Floridareader, no. It’s easy to criticize when history reveals how much they really knew about al Qaeda before the attack. And, how a small group of policy makers used this crisis to attack a nation that had nothing to do with 9/1, most of who were Jewish… the result of which was beneficial to Israel and not America; in lives and wealth.

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    • DOra Glasberg
      Posted on September 11, 2012 at 2:41pm

      I heard they had to bury the short’s Bush was wearing in that pick under 6 feet of concrete.

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      DOra Glasberg  
    • banjarmon
      Posted on September 11, 2012 at 3:37pm

      9-11-2001 The day George W. Became PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES!!

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    • DOra Glasberg
      Posted on September 11, 2012 at 4:30pm

      He reacted because HE WAS WARNED.
      And ignored the warnings because he WANTED to take out Saddam
      who had ABSOLUTELY nothing to do with 9/11

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      DOra Glasberg  

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