Jul 19th, 2007
Cheney’s Official Autobiography Conflicts with 9/11 Reports
Vice President Cheney’s official autobiography - The Untold Story of America’s Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President, by Stephen F. Hayes - blatantly conflicts previous reports and time lines about the events of 9/11 and the 9/11 commission report. The autobiography says in reference to the Flight 93 crash:
“Everyone had the same question, says Rice referring to the WTC Towers demolition. “Was it down because it had been shot down or had it crashed?” Rice and Cheney were both filled with “intense emotion,” she recalls, because they both made the same assumption. “His first thought, my first thought–we had exactly the same reaction–was it must have been shot down by the fighters. And you know, that’s a pretty heady moment, a pretty heavy burden.”
And it goes on to say: For several impossible minutes, Cheney believed that a pilot following his orders had brought down a plane full of civilians in rural Pennsylvania. Even then, he had no regrets.
But a CNN report on September 11, 2002 states otherwise:
“The vice president was a little bit ahead of us,” said Eric Edelman, Cheney’s national security advisor. “He said sort of softly and to nobody in particular, ‘I think an act of heroism just took place on that plane.’”
The anomalies and conflicts are astounding, but like with many other 9/11 events and facts, they are ignored by the main stream media. The time line discrepancies between Norman Mineta’s 9/11 commission testimony and Cheney’s assertions raise a lot of unanswered questions also:
9:20 AM - Mineta reaches the White House bunker to find Cheney already there with others. In later testimony before the 9/11 Commission, he recalls that Cheney is already there when he arrives and supports accounts of Cheney reaching the bunker not long after the second WTC crash, but the 9/11 Commission concludes Cheney doesn’t arrive until a few minutes before 10:00 a.m.
Mineta says that, while a suspicious plane is heading toward Washington, an unidentified young man comes in and says to Cheney, “The plane is 50 miles out.” Mineta confers with Acting FAA Deputy Administrator Monte Belger, who is at the FAA’s Washington headquarters. Belger says to him, “We’re watching this target on the radar, but the transponder’s been turned off. So we have no identification.” According to Mineta, the young man continues updating the vice president, saying, “The plane is 30 miles out,” and when he gets down to “The plane is 10 miles out,” asks, “Do the orders still stand?” In response, Cheney “whipped his neck around and said, ‘Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary?’”
What does Norman Mineta and others stand to gain by falsifying time lines? Why was Mineta’s Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) testimony edited out of the 9/11 Commission video archive?
Is it our responsibility, right and duty to impeach President Bush and / or Vice President Cheney? For the sake of our children, grandchildren and all of humanity? After all, this administration lied us into a “100 year” war, fabricated for our minds a false link to Saddam Hussein and 9/11, ignored our military generals, killed thousands of Americans and Iraqis, subverted the constitution to stifle dissent and exploited all of us by creating fear and terror.
