Gilbert posted a paragraph of the article, which detailed the flight he was on during the time of the attacks.
“Mr. Cheney thought the plane that crashed near Shanksville, United Airlines Flight 93, had been shot down by U.S. military aircraft,” The Wall Street Journal article states. “Mr. Bush was asked for authority to shoot down an airliner coming from Madrid, only to be told minutes later that the plane had actually landed in Madrid. Even on Air Force One, ‘communications were not as good as they should have been,’ Mr. Bush told the commissioners.”
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“So basically, this one time, the President of the United States authorized the U.S. Air Force to kill me—and I’m still here,” Gilbert said. He then jokingly added, “I am Jason Bourne.”
