Question for the experts at DU

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27. There was a FEMA planned exercise the next day

Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's memoir of that afternoon reminds us of
two highly relevant facts.

The first is that a "NORAD [North American Air Defense Command] exercise with a simulated incoming missle attack had been
planned for the next day."

Weinberger agreed with General David Jones, the chiarman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, that this exercise should be
cancelled. [fn 12]

Weinberger also recalls that the group in the Situation Room was informed by James Baker that "there had been a FEMA [Federal Emergency Management
Administration] exercise scheduled for the next day on presidential
succession, with the general title 'Nine Lives.' By an immediate consensus, it was agreed that exercise should also be cancelled." [fn 13]

As Weinberger further recalls, "at almost exactly 7:00, the Vice President came to the Situation Room and very calmly assumed the chair at the head of the table."

[fn 14] According to Weinberger, the first item discussed was
the need for someonme to sign the Dairy Price Support Bill the next day so as to reassure the public. Bush asked Weinberger for a report on the status of US forces, which Weinberger furnished.

Another eyewitness of these transactions was Don Regan, whom the Tower Board later made the fall-guy for Bush's Iran-contra escapades. Regan records that
"the Vice President arrived with Ed Meese, who had met him when he landed to fill him in on the details. George asked for a condition report: 1) on thePresident; 2) on the other wounded; 3) on the assailant; 4) on the international scene. [...] After the reports were given and it was
determined that there were no international complications and no domestic conspiracy, it was decided that the US government would carry on business as usual. The Vice President would go on TV from the White House to reassure
the nation

http://www.voxfux.com/articles(closed)/00000013.htm

Nobody had really investigated the crime yet