Rumsfeld referred to the "the people who attacked the United States in New York, shot down the plane over Pennsylvania."

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This prompted a statement from the Pentagon: A Pentagon spokesman insisted that Rumsfeld simply misspoke, but Internet conspiracy theorists seized on the reference to the plane having been shot down. Operation Truth sent a letter to the Senate demanding that it hold hearings on Donald Rumsfeld's tenure as Secretary of Defense, and then hold an official vote on confidence in him.