command post

The Louvre has been planning for years to spend more than $90 million to double the number of cameras outside the building and build new command posts with modern surveillance technology.

“That person had called a family member, the family member called dispatch, dispatch let the command post know,” Sorensen said on the podcast.

Though personnel from both agencies were working out of the same command post, they failed to “collectively establish a unified command structure or identify shared objectives, missions, or strategies,” the report said.

Cheney vividly recalled being hauled by Secret Service agents from his office to an underground command post, amid worries that one of the hijacked airliners was headed toward the White House.

An alarm had sounded in the Louvre’s command post the moment they entered the gallery.