From an unedited e-mail exchange with Tim McNiven, brainchild of the 'boxcutter- stewardess-throatslit" meme:

" I was not told if the discussions with the Building Engineers brought about the decision to use Explosives to bring down the Twin Towers but we did discuss that Idea.

One day Lt.Teague asked the question: What about using Explosives? When we looked at him like we didnot know what he was talking about he expanded the question to: What about using Explosives to bring the Building down? Then we knew what he was talking about, since I had seen a tv show about this.

My answer was: It would have to be done by someone who worked there or someone who had access to the inside of the Building. Since I didnot have any knowledge of Explosives this is as far as their quesioning of me went but others in my Unit who knew about Explosives could have discussed it further. Whether the Building Engineer discussions influenced their decision to discuss using Explosives to bring down the WTC Twin Towers or whether they already had that Idea the US Government did discuss in this Study using Explosives to bring the WTC Twin Towers down.

Another item we discussed is the setting up of Training Exercises to cover-up an Air Security Stand Down. One day while discussing the current US Air Defense System (Circa 1976) Sgt.Henderson said that there was "No Way" that an airplane could inflitrate US Air Space "Unnoticed" since the Policy was to send Jets to inspect any unidentified aircraft in US Air Space. Then Lt.Teague said; that Our Air Space Defense could be put on Stand Down status for Training Exercises. The way that he said this wasnot that he had just thought of it but that it was said as if it had already been decided by the DoD in advance to do this. The effect of what he said and how he said it left us in shocked silent disbelief."