On 9/11 2016 let’s remember the lesson in Intelligent Disobedience from 9/11/2001 that saved 2700 lives

Excerpt from the book
Intelligent Disobedience: Doing Right When What Youre Told to Do Is Wrong
by Ira Chaleff, Chapter Eleven, p.159-161

On the morning of September 11, 2001, Cyril Richard “Rick” Rescorla was on the job as a vice president for security at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, which had some 3,700 employees in the World Trade Center, including 2,700 in the south tower…

Rescorla had come to Dean Witter years earlier, prior to its acquisition by Morgan Stanley, to head up its securit...