9/11 Attacks: A personal Account from the Pentagon
9/11/01 - K. Scott McMahon MEMORANDUM : A PERSONAL ACCOUNT OF THE 9 / 1 1 ATT ACK S Dear J ake , I want you to know that no one outside the United States Governmen t has asked me a bo ut the detailed questions tha t you have posed below . I will do my best for you , y o ung man . A nd I appreciate your inte r est in my personal experience during and after the 9 / 11 attacks . Please also know that you are safe from terrorist attacks in our powerful country . • Where were you when the plane hit the Twin Towers ? I was in the Arlington Virginia office of the RAND Corporation , the U . S . Government ' s national security brain trust . I was with some of our senior analysts discussing th e terrorist threat to U . S . territory . I was a staff member on the national commission tasked to assess the threat that the Al - Qaeda organization and other terrorist groups posed to the United States . My assistant entered the conference room after the first attack on the W orld Trade...