u/Reassess_Reevaluate in another thread wrote this about Sandy Hook:

There's a scene where Gordon and others are standing around a map making plans to stop whatever attack is happening. Gordon circles a spot on the map that's labeled Sandy Hook and written next to it is "STRIKE ZONE"

It blew my fucking mind.

That reminded me of the "Lone Gunman" TV show pilot. It aired in March 2001, 6 months before 9/11. The storyline was that operatives inside the US government would stage a hijacking of a commercial airliner via remote control, to be crashed into the WTC, for the purpose of perpetuating war in the Middle East:

https://hooktube.com/watch?v=GkQpkTexKC0