Cheney has been talking a lot about 9/11. So what was he doing that day? —By James Ridgeway

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2009/05/cheneys-bunker-mentality

Say what you will about Dick Cheney, at least he's consistent. While he was in office, the Vice President made a practice of exploiting the fear and loss wrought by the 9/11 attacks to advance his own political agenda—and he's still doing it now. During his speech at the American Enterprise Institute on Thursday, according to Dana Milbank's calculations in the Washington Post, "Cheney used the word 'attack' 19 times, 'danger' and 'threat' six times apiece, and 9/11 an impressive 27 times."

In this putative rebuttal to Obama speech on national security, Cheney described how he spent the morning of 9/11 "in a fortified White House command post," receiving "the reports and images that so many Americans remember from that day," and then declared:

In the years since, I've heard occasional speculation that I'm a different man after 9/11. I wouldn't say that. But I'll freely admit that watching a coordinated, devastating attack on our country from an underground bunker at the White House can affect how you view your responsibilities.

Since he's evoking his experience as a rationalization for torture, this might be a good time to review exactly what it was that Cheney was doing in the bunker on that terrible day. Here again, consistency is the rule: A preponderance of evidence points to the fact that Dick Cheney spent the morning of September 11, 2001, violating the Constitution of the United States....

..that turned out not to be drills at all. And he also spent the previous evening in the White House in a Bush Crime Family slumber party with Poppy Bush (the dumbass was out of town, of course)

Is it normal for the VP to sleep over at the White House?

Perhaps you should read it.

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who were standing around in the streets of New York, trying to help kids in school, dealing with parents whose friends or families were on planes, wondering which city was next....and to think all we needed was a bunker to make a difference.

What a fucking asshole. All about Cheney, All the time.

Stand Down orders.

He was busy giving shootdown orders that weren't his to be giving.

We still don't know whether Cheney was issuing a Standdown order for Flt. 77 or a Shootdown order for Flt. 93, a half hour later. The references to "50 miles out, 30 miles out, 10 miles out" seem to indicate the former explanation.

Really, this is still not a settled issue. This article tells us little we didn't already know from other sources. Cheney's order at 10:30 am to shoot-down what turned out to be a medivac helicopter I had not seen, though.

Here are the two interpretations of Transportation Secretary Mineta's account (Wiki):



This remains an unanswered question.

Even Mineta says that it was a shoot down order.

Cheney was not in the PEOC while Flight 77 was in the air.

are nearly useless. Sounds like a stellar example of gubmint contracting to me.

And I wonder: Did DICK ever call for an ambulance? As they say in the commercial "An erection lasting more than four hours...."