"[T]he assumption that we're going to have airplane mode," Mr Dreeben said,and that the Court should craft a constitutional rule around airplane mode assumes that cell phones are not going to be able to be used in airplanes in the next five years and that manufacturers will continue to make an easily available button for airplane mode.
6.35pm: Some reminders of how we got here … initially we were going to liveblog Airplane! which was given away free with yesterday's Guardian, but many of you felt it'd be more pointful to try Mulholland Drive instead.
We thought it was an embassy, an airplane, something, the usual thing, but to realize they were going to take airplanes and destroy [buildings], that is unbelievable.
But, he added, to discover after the event that the terrorists were going to take airplanes and destroy buildings, "that is unbelievable".
I'd already planned to be an engineer from the time I was 10 years old, but I was going to build airplanes".
And the answer is that had I had any inkling whatsoever that the people were going to fly airplanes into buildings we would have moved heaven and earth to save the country.
The criticism was "second-guessing": "Had I known that the enemy was going to use airplanes to kill on that fateful morning, I would have done everything in my power to protect the American people".This argument was convincing, because it is inconceivable a president would have knowingly taken risks with a threat of this sort.
The American people know this about me and my national security team and my administration: Had I known that the enemy was going to use airplanes to kill on that fateful morning, I would have done everything in my power to protect the American people".
The president added, during a ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, that "had I known that the enemy was going to use airplanes to kill on that fateful morning, I would have done everything in my power to protect the American people".
"Had I known," President Bush said the day after Mr. Clarke's testimony, "that the enemy was going to use airplanes to strike America, to attack us, I would have used every resource, every asset, every power of this government to protect the American people".
