All Roads Lead to Dick Cheney
Updated to include Seymour Hersh's new revelations.
http://georgewashington.blogspot.com/2006/02/all-roads-lead-to-dick-cheney.html
Most people know that Vice President Dick Cheney is former CEO of Halliburton, which makes billions of dollars a year from oil and primarily defense-related construction contracts (and that war and chaos increase Halliburton's profits, which in turn increase the value of Cheney's stock options). Most people also know that Cheney was secretary of Defense under George H. W. Bush.
Many people know that Cheney was a congressman from Wyoming. Some even know that he was one of the founders of the Project for a New American Century.
Well-read people know that the Project for a New American Century, in turn, called for a new American empire well before 9/11, and lamented that, without a "catastrophic and catalyzing event — like a new Pearl Harbor", transformation of America into an empire would be very slow.
But even well-informed people probably don't know that -- in the 70's -- Cheney was instrumental in generating fake intelligence exaggerating the Soviet threat in order to undermine coexistence between the U.S. and Soviet Union, which conveniently justified huge amounts of cold war spending. See also this article. This scheme foreshadowed Mr. Cheney's role in generating fake intelligence about Iraq by 30 years.
And did you know that Cheney has been perhaps the leading advocate for strengthening the powers of the White House to the point of monarchy for at least 20 years?
Or that newly-released documents show that Cheney was involved in debates concerning illegal wiretaps 30 years ago?
And guess who is the prime architect of efforts to bomb Iran? Yup, Mr. Cheney (see also this article).
And, according to to the Pulitzer prize-winning reporter who uncovered the Iraq prison torture scandal and the massacre against Vietnamese civilians, Cheney is the main guy helping to fund groups which the U.S. claims are terrorists.
To recap, Cheney's past includes:
• Oil
• Defense
• Faking intelligence and using scare tactics about enemies to justify a pre-planned military agenda
• Lobbying to give the president the powers of the king
• Calling for an American empire and lamenting the lack of a "new Pearl Harbor"
• Police state type wiretapping
• Selling war
• Funding Al-Qaeda
Did all of these aspects of Mr. Cheney's background converge in the Iraq debacle? Well, a top official at the State Department stated there was a secret "cabal" involving Cheney, and that Cheney and a handful of others had hijacked the country's foreign policy.
Did they converge on 9/11?
This last question is not merely academic: vice President Cheney was apparently in charge of ALL 5 of the war games which occurred on 9/11 and coordinated the government's "response" to the attacks. See this CNN article; and this essay.
And Cheney is the one who monitored flight 77 for many miles as it approached the Pentagon and -- when a military man asked "do the orders still stand?" -- Cheney responded affirmatively:
"The plane is 50 miles out. The plane is 30 miles out." And when it got down to, "The plane is 10 miles out," the young man also said to the vice president, "Do the orders still stand?" And the vice president turned and whipped his neck around and said, "Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary?"
Watch the video for yourself (and see this essay).
Mr. Cheney's motive concerning 9/11 was strong. As a well-known writer said:
Postscript: Of course, Cheney has not acted alone in his actions. But he's been an important player in many different arenas and is, perhaps, the most widely-known figure who has had a hand in all of the above-described events. Cheney might not be the ultimate Mr. Big in these crimes, but he appears to have gotten his hands dirtier -- and to be closer to the true seat of power -- even than Mr. Bush.
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It is pretty amazing to see
It is pretty amazing to see all of that information listed out like that. One of the comments on the GW blog site struck me as probably true: that Cheney isn't "Mr. Big" but the conduit between Mr. Big and the Administration.
Remember those scenes in "Ghost" when the bad guys would die and black spirits would swoop in and drag away their souls kicking and screaming?
Yep, that's what is in store for Darth Cheney.
Amanda (Nico)..no more tries with Todd Beamer?
It's not the military that pulled off 9/11, that would be to obvious. Military experience more likely, and who has military experience that are not in the 4 services? CIA has their own, sub-contracted mercenaries with plenty of resources to create a hijacking of our senses and pull off something like this.
Dr. Evil, a.k.a. Dick Cheney, has the position, the experience in black-ops, the connections, and the motive to be fully behind the operation. The little weasel to help him out was Rumsfeld and his little known Himmleresque type, Steve Cambone. Bush is just the puppet.
The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.
Stuff...
You may have missed.
http://www.911blogger.com/node/3580
"So where is the oil going to come from?... The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies."
Richard Cheney - Chief Executive Of Halliburton
Thanks, Jon
I hadn't seen this. You've got alot of good stuff there!
I agree in big parts
But Cheney didn't monitor or even foil the attack of Flight 77 (here I disagree strongly). He was not in the PEOC bunker at that time, and Mineta wasn't there, too.
Richard Clarke's "Against all enemies" is clear proof that at 9:20~9:25 Mineta was in his car on the way to the White House. He was not in the PEOC then. I really don't understand how Clarke can be so heavily misinterpretated.
Read "The contradictory statements of Norman Mineta":
http://911woodybox.blogspot.com/2007/03/contradictory-statements-of-norm...
Hmmm...
is it not allowed to disagree? Did I offend someone?
I think I only presented reproducible information.
Personally I would trust his earlier testimony...
to the 9/11 Commission, which was recorded and I believe "under oath" (correct me if I'm wrong).
I suppose we need to get hold of the "young military aide" that's reporting to Cheney, there should be record of this.
Best wishes
It boils down to the question...
when Mineta arrived at the White House (West Wing).
Was it more like 9:10 or more like 9:40?
Reading Clarke's book, I have no doubts that it happened at about 9:40 +- 5 minutes.
A missile, drone, or planted explosives blew-up the Pentagon on
9/11; not AA-77! (Charades played by Cheney, the "young man" and/or Mineta notwithstanding.)
I don't think your account is correct.
From Page One of "Against All Enemies"...
"Right. Activate the CSG on secure video. I'll be there in less than five," I told her as I ran to my car. The CSG was the Counterterrorism Security Group, the leaders of each of the federal government's counterterrorism and security organizations. I had chaired it since 1992. It was on a five-minute tether during business hours, twenty minutes at all other times. I looked at the clock on the dashboard. It was 9:03 a.m., September 11, 2001.
That means he arrived at the White House sometime around 9:08.
From Page Two...
"Secret Service wants us to go to the bomb shelter," Condi added.
I nodded. "I would and...I would evacuate the White House."
Cheney began to gather up his papers. In his outer office the normal Secret Service presence was two agents. As I left, I counted eight, ready to move to the PEOC, the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, a bunker in the East Wing.
From Pages Three And Four...
"You're going to need some decisions quickly," Rice said off camera. "I'm going to the PEOC to be with the Vice President. Tell us what you need."
That's a pretty good indication that Cheney was already moved to the PEOC. Let's be generous, and say he arrived there sometime between 9:10 and 9:15.
Considering David Bohrer reported that "Just after 9 a.m. ET on Sept. 11, 2001, Vice President Dick Cheney was in his West Wing office when two or three agents came in and told him "Sir, you have to come with us. [...] They took him into an underground bunker known as PEOC, the President's Emergency Operations Center" it appears that that is the more accurate time.
Then, we take into account Mineta's 9/11 Commission testimony which says he got there at 9:20 and Cheney was already there. Also, Mineta's news appearance that's available somewhere on this site where he repeats the same exact testimony he gave before the 9/11 Commission. Then, there's Mineta's prepared written statement that says he arrived at the PEOC and then the Pentagon was struck.
Then we have Dick Cheney saying on September 16th on "Meet The Press", "when I arrived there (at the PEOC) within a short order, we had word the Pentagon's been hit."
So it seems to me, and I could be wrong, but I doubt it, that the Vice President most definitely arrived at the PEOC before the Pentagon was hit.
That means the time of 9:58 given by the 9/11 Commission is wrong.
Now let's talk about the "young man", and how I would like to see him on the witness stand...
"So where is the oil going to come from?... The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies."
Richard Cheney - Chief Executive Of Halliburton
THAT'S
what I'm talking about...
I have carefully studied Clarke's remarks
on Cheney's whereabout.
Surely - you can get the impression that Cheney moved to the PEOC immediately after Clarke's visit ("gathered up his papers"..."ready to move to the PEOC").
But this is no proof that Cheney actually did. Clarke didn't see him again when he left his office.
Remember that Bush called Cheney in his office at 9:15, according to many sources. And the call was logged.
The same goes for Condi Rice. From Clarke's description, It looks like she moved to the PEOC soon after the begin of the video conference. But she was still in the Situation Room when the Pentagon crash occurred (source: 911 CR).
Maybe Clarke - for whatever reason - deliberately intended to create a false impression regarding Cheney's and Rice's timeline. I don't know.
But we have no clear time stamp when Cheney and Rice actually moved to the PEOC.
A opposed to this, Clarke states clearly that Mineta called him from his car - some minutes into the video conference. If this is true, it is impossible that Mineta arrived at the PEOC at 9:20.
But...
You're citing the 9/11 Report. The report that didn't even bother to cite Mineta's testimony. The report that arbitrarily came up with 9:58 as Cheney's time of arrival. I don't put much stock in the 9/11 Report, especially for this account.
Also, you're disregarding Bohrer's account, Cheney's own account, and Mineta's account that puts Cheney in the bunker prior to the Pentagon being hit.
"So where is the oil going to come from?... The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies."
Richard Cheney - Chief Executive Of Halliburton
The 9/11 report cites many sources
The 9/11 report cites many sources for a late arrival of Cheney (White House logs, documents, witnesses etc.). I find it hard to believe that they faked the whole stuff.
Bohrer's account is pretty, pretty thin. It's only one sentence with a vague time stamp (just after 9:00...) without any supporting evidence.
Which account of Cheney supports Mineta's testimony? The interview with Tim Russert? I don't see that.
Basically its Mineta's testimony + Bohrer vs.
9/11 report + Mineta's interview + Clarke's account + Cheney's own account. And the evidence of the latter group is much more extensive.
Even...
The 9/11 Report admits there is conflicting evidence, however, they don't mention the conflicting accounts.
The 9/11 Report says:
There is conflicting evidence about when the Vice President arrived in the shelter conference room. We have concluded, from the available evidence, that the Vice President arrived in the room shortly before 10:00, perhaps at 9:58.
That cites Footnote #213 which says:
213. On the Vice President’s call, see President Bush and Vice President Cheney meeting (Apr. 29, 2004). For the Vice President’s time of arrival in the shelter conference room, see White House record, PEOC Shelter Log, Sept. 11, 2001 (9:58); USSS memo, OVP 9/11 Timeline, Nov. 17, 2001 (9:52; Mrs. Cheney arrived White House and joined him in tunnel); White House notes, Lynne Cheney notes (9:55; he is on phone with President); White House transcript, Lynne Cheney interview with Newsweek, Nov. 9, 2001, p. 2 (“And when I got there, he was on the phone with the President . . . But from that first place where I ran into him, I moved with him into what they call the PEOC”); White House transcript, Vice President Cheney interview with Newsweek, Nov. 19, 2001, p. 4 (9:35 or 9:36 arrival; he estimated a 15-minute stay); Carl Truscott interview (Apr. 15, 2004) (arrived with Rice and the Vice President in conference room; called headquarters immediately; call logged at 10:00); President Bush and Vice President Cheney meeting, Apr. 29, 2004 (Vice President viewed television footage of Pentagon ablaze in tunnel); White House transcript, Rice interview with Evan Thomas, Nov. 1, 2001, p. 388 (Rice viewed television footage of Pentagon ablaze in Situation Room). For the Vice President’s recollection about the combat air patrol, see President Bush and Vice President Cheney meeting (Apr. 29, 2004); White House transcript, President Bush interview with Bob Woodward and Dan Balz, Dec. 17, 2001, p. 16.
No mention of Mineta or Bohrer's account. Mineta's account, which again, he mentioned on a Mainstream News show, in a prepared statement for the 9/11 Commission, and during his testimony in front of the 9/11 Commission, is so vivid it doesn't make sense NOT to believe it. Reason being, EVERYONE remembers exactly what they were doing when they found out what was going on.
If it's one thing I've learned about this administration, they have NO PROBLEM forging documents.
Cheney's account on "Meet The Press" confirms Mineta's testimony in that he was in the PEOC before the Pentagon was hit.
Bohrer's account coincides more with Richard Clarke's account, and Mineta's account than with the Logs.
Also, the second tower was hit at 9:03am. Everyone in the world knew America was under attack at that point. Doesn't it make more sense that the Secret Service whisked him away around that time rather than wait almost three quarters of an hour to do so? Or were his Secret Service agents as asleep as Bush's were? I don't think so because the White House is the FIRST TARGET on the mind's of the Secret Service when America is "Under Attack", and Cheney's own account states:
"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."
The 9/11 Report's account makes no sense whatsoever. The accounts that contradict what the 9/11 Report says makes more sense. At least to me.
"So where is the oil going to come from?... The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies."
Richard Cheney - Chief Executive Of Halliburton
One more thing...
"The plane is 50 miles out." Flight 93 never came within 50 miles of Washington D.C. I doubt Norman Mineta is so delusional that he fabricated the entire story about the young man.
Subpoena for the phone records, the roster sheets, the videos from the conferences. Bring everyone who was in attendance at the PEOC, and at the Pentagon to testify, under oath.
That's what a real investigation would be.
"So where is the oil going to come from?... The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies."
Richard Cheney - Chief Executive Of Halliburton
Peter Dale Scott
has done extensive research and an intensive analysis of Cheney's movements during this time period. He gave a very detailed presentation on this at the Chandler, AZ conference and this will be part of his next book (coming in fall 2007).
Unfortunately, I can't find an excerpt from this online, so I will give you my short version on this (I hope this helps).
Cheney was rushed out of his office just after 9:00 and arrived at the PEOC before Minetta arrived at 9:20, he then stepped out into the tunnel to make the phone call to Bush and went back into the PEOC at about 9:58. The 9/11 Commission very selectively cites the USSS logs to imply that Cheney first entered the PEOC after the event at the Pentagon took place. We need to have a complete accounting of Cheney's movements as recorded in the USSS logs with no gaps in order to nail this down. Yet one more reason for a new investigation.
I believe that Peter Dale Scott dedicates an entire chapter in his forthcoming book to Cheney's activities between 9:00 and 10:30 on the morning of 9/11/01. The book will be published by UC Berkeley press and will be peer-reviewed. I look forward to reading it.
I hope that you and yours are well.
The truth shall set us free. Love is the only way forward.
I know...
I missed it. Dr. Scott goes after the documents and sees what they have to say. He told me he likes documents.
"So where is the oil going to come from?... The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies."
Richard Cheney - Chief Executive Of Halliburton
I've substantially updated this essay.
Thanks to Jon for the extra ammunition.
What...
Was added if you don't mind me asking?
"So where is the oil going to come from?... The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies."
Richard Cheney - Chief Executive Of Halliburton
New
reference to Cheney's stock options (rawstory).
to Cheney's involvement in debates concerning illegal wiretaps 30 years ago
to statement by former top official at the State Department stated there was a secret "cabal" involving Cheney, and that Cheney and a handful of others had hijacked the country's foreign policy.
and to statement: "For his entire career, he sought untrammeled power. The Bush presidency and 9/11 finally gave it to him . . ."
Excellent...
Glad I could help.
ca·bal – noun
1. a small group of secret plotters, as against a government or person in authority.
2. the plots and schemes of such a group; intrigue.
3. a clique, as in artistic, literary, or theatrical circles.
4. to form a cabal; intrigue; conspire; plot.
"So where is the oil going to come from?... The Middle East, with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies."
Richard Cheney - Chief Executive Of Halliburton
Old Scratch
Cheney truly IS the devil.
Sauron Cheney represents another syndicate
He has HUGE power but I think Poppy O Bush has called most of the shots using Candi Rice.
The Bush dynasty is americas version of Euro royalty
Ruthless patricians whom have become a power to themselves ..
Chenys has similar blue blood history but does NOT have the very large family like Bush
Cheny is enriching his syndicate and his family will be well protected.
Bush is plannning a 2 family aristocracy between Bush and Clintons to 2016.
Cheney will gladly return to his dungeon to count loot ,
smell blood and read the WSJ.
Check out this article on the Mineta testimony!
Norman Mineta and Richard Clarke Prove 9/11 Was an Inside Job: The Dick Cheney Stand-Down Order
by Adam Letalik
http://www.members.shaw.ca/truth914/mineta.html
Excellent piece of research.
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It is really not my intention
to bash fellow researchers, but I stronlgy disagree with this piece, too, especially regarding the claim that Clarke's book confirms Mineta's testimony.
Again, it does not. It is evidence that Mineta arrived later at the WH. One simple question:
At what time did Mineta call up Clarke (when Mineta was in his car on the way to the WH and Clarke in the Situation Room)? We know that this call occurred during the video conference.