Here is an archived article from CNN describing how Cheney took charge on 9/11. I find it is important to go back and re-read old articles as new insights are gained. Several interesting paragraphs from the horses mouth. "It was a clear day, there were no weather problems, and then we saw the second airplane hit in real time," Cheney told CNN's John King in an interview in the vice president's office. "At that moment, you knew this was a deliberate act. This was a terrorist act." So Cheney, being in charge, had plenty of time to scramble jets over DC, knowing the country is under attack. ""My [Secret Service] agent all of a sudden materialized right beside me and said, 'Sir, we have to leave now.' He grabbed me and propelled me out of my office, down the hall, and into the underground shelter in the White House," Cheney said. In White House terminology, it is the PEOC, short for the Presidential Emergency Operations Center." Confirmed again, Cheney was definately in the PEOC very shortly after 2nd plane impact. "After the planes struck the twin towers, a third took a chunk out of the Pentagon. Cheney then heard a report that a plane over Pennsylvania was heading for Washington. A military assistant asked Cheney twice for authority to shoot it down." So the Pentagon had already been struck, which means the Mineta 50,30,10 miles out situation already occurred, and if "of course the orders still stand", the orders are confirmed in the article as SHOOT DOWN orders. Also, we MUST identify who this "military assistant" is, since he appreas to have access to vital info. ""The vice president said yes again," remembered Josh Bolton, deputy White House chief of staff. "And the aide then asked a third time. He said, 'Just confirming, sir, authority to engage?' And the vice president -- his voice got a little annoyed then -- said, 'I said yes.'" Why the need to ask 3 times? His statement, "I said yes", implies he has given the orders twice already. Why were'nt any planes shot down? Or was one? "Word came that Flight 93 crashed in Pennsylvania. Aides frantically called the White House to find out whether a military jet had shot it down. "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.'" This quote is very important to analyze. Either Cheney is psychic and knew exactly what happened on flight 93, he is writting the 9/11 official story on the fly to cover for something gone wrong in the plan. "Lynn Cheney was a constant presence. She leaned in at one point to tell the vice president that their daughters were fine. "It's something you think about, but again, it's not so much a personal consideration at that point. It may have been for people who didn't have anything to do," Cheney said." This quote shows how Cheneys lack of compassion for human life on 9/11 extends even to his daughters. Compassion is not limited to "people with nothing to do" sir. "Cheney wanted to track TV reports of the devastation and listen in on communications with the Pentagon. "You can have sound on one or the other and he found that technically imperfect," Matalin recalled. Why on earth would he give 2 shits what MSM is reporting when it is his people who the MSM the information? Over analyzing perhaps, but it shows how he was frustrated that he couldn't keep an eye on the public myth. My 2 cents.

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/11/ar911.king.cheney/