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Gold9472
06-26-2007, 05:43 PM
New Details About Dick Cheney's Response On 9/11

http://www.911blogger.com/node/9620

Shoestring
6/26/2007

An article in the Washington Post (http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/chapters/chapter_1/) reveals new details of Vice President Dick Cheney's immediate response to the 9/11 attacks:

In a bunker beneath the East Wing of the White House, Cheney locked his eyes on CNN, chin resting on interlaced fingers. He was about to watch, in real time, as thousands were killed on Sept. 11, 2001.

Previous accounts have described Cheney's adrenaline-charged evacuation to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center that morning, a Secret Service agent on each arm. They have not detailed his reaction, 22 minutes later, when the south tower of the World Trade Center collapsed.

"There was a groan in the room that I won't forget, ever," one witness said. "It seemed like one groan from everyone" -- among them Rice; her deputy, Stephen J. Hadley; economic adviser Lawrence B. Lindsey; counselor Matalin; Cheney's chief of staff, Libby; and the vice president's wife.

Cheney made no sound. "I remember turning my head and looking at the vice president, and his expression never changed," said the witness, reading from a notebook of observations written that day. Cheney closed his eyes against the image for one long, slow blink.

Three people who were present, not all of them admirers, said they saw no sign then or later of the profound psychological transformation that has often been imputed to Cheney. What they saw, they said, was extraordinary self-containment and a rapid shift of focus to the machinery of power. While others assessed casualties and the work of "first responders," Cheney began planning for a conflict that would call upon lawyers as often as soldiers and spies.
Furthermore, already that morning, Cheney was consulting his lawyer to arrange extraordinary presidential powers in response to the attacks:

In expanding presidential power, Cheney's foremost agent was David S. Addington, his formidable general counsel and legal adviser of many years. On the morning of Sept. 11, Addington was evacuated from the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House and began to make his way toward his Virginia home on foot. As he neared the Arlington Memorial Bridge, someone in the White House reached him with a message: Turn around. The vice president needs you.

Down in the bunker, according to a colleague with firsthand knowledge, Cheney and Addington began contemplating the founding question of the legal revolution to come: What extraordinary powers will the president need for his response?

Before the day ended, Cheney's lawyer joined forces with Timothy E. Flanigan, the deputy White House counsel, linked by secure video from the Situation Room. Flanigan patched in John C. Yoo at the Justice Department's fourth-floor command center. White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales joined later.

Thus formed the core legal team that Cheney oversaw, directly and indirectly, after the terrorist attacks.
Does anyone else find Cheney's response to the attacks, described here, rather sinister and suspicious?

beltman713
06-27-2007, 07:40 PM
So, let me get this straight. The Vice President watches the south tower of the world trade center collapse, with a room full of people, and he has absolutely NO reaction to what he just saw. If fact, he is the ONLY person in the room who seems NOT to be effected by it.

Gee, he really needs to reign in those emotions.

Gold9472
06-27-2007, 07:51 PM
So, let me get this straight. The Vice President watches the south tower of the world trade center collapse, with a room full of people, and he has absolutely NO reaction to what he just saw. If fact, he is the ONLY person in the room who seems NOT to be effected by it.

Gee, he really needs to reign in those emotions.

Don't forget that he was also wondering, "What extraordinary powers will the president need for his response?"

Gold9472
06-27-2007, 08:03 PM
I just showed this to Peter Dale Scott because I think, and I'm not sure, but this confirms his hypothesis about Continuity Of Government.

He seemed interested.

simuvac
06-27-2007, 09:03 PM
I think he's on the right track. He has the "long view" that so many 9/11 researchers are missing. They treat 9/11 as if the principal players just showed up for the first time in history on that day.

Cheney's reaction is as incriminating as Bush's.

And who were those two guys who wouldn't testify under oath or on the record or apart....?

Gold9472
06-27-2007, 09:23 PM
I think he's on the right track. He has the "long view" that so many 9/11 researchers are missing. They treat 9/11 as if the principal players just showed up for the first time in history on that day.

Cheney's reaction is as incriminating as Bush's.

And who were those two guys who wouldn't testify under oath or on the record or apart....?

Interesting. I hadn't compared the two reactions.

Gold9472
06-27-2007, 09:24 PM
However, the situations were different. Bush should have been taken away, and Cheney was already in the PEOC.