Evil piece of shit Dick Cheney gave a stand down order on 9/11.
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00:00I wanted to focus just a moment on the Presidential Emergency Operating Center.
00:08You were there for a good part of the day.
00:11I think you were there with the Vice President.
00:14And we had that order given, I think it was by the President, that authorized the shooting
00:20down of commercial aircraft that were suspected to be controlled by terrorists.
00:28Were you there when that order was given?
00:30No, I was not.
00:32I was made aware of it during the time that the airplane coming in to the Pentagon, there
00:40was a young man who would come in and say to the Vice President, the plane is 50 miles
00:45out, the plane is 30 miles out.
00:49And when it got down to the plane is 10 miles out, the young man also said to the Vice President,
00:57do the orders still stand?
01:00And the Vice President turned and whipped his neck around and said, of course the orders
01:06still stand.
01:07Have you heard anything to the contrary?
01:09Well, at the time, I didn't know what all that meant.
01:13And the flight you're referring to is the one that came into the Pentagon.
01:21And so I was not aware that that discussion had already taken place.
01:28But in listening to the conversation between the young man and the Vice President, then
01:37at the time, I didn't really recognize the significance of that.
01:43And then later I heard of the fact that the airplanes had been scrambled from Langley
01:51to come up to D.C., but those planes were still about 10 minutes away.
01:58And so then at the time we heard about the airplane that went into Pennsylvania, then
02:07I thought, oh my God, did we shoot it down?
02:13And then we had to, with the Vice President, go through the Pentagon to check that out.
02:20Let me see if I understand.
02:22The plane that was headed toward the Pentagon and was some miles away, there was an order
02:29to shoot that plane down?
02:32Well, I don't know that specifically.
02:36But I do know that the airplanes were scrambled from Langley or from Norfolk, the Norfolk
02:47area.
02:48But I did not know about the order specifically, other than listening to that other conversation.
03:00But there very clearly was an order to shoot commercial aircraft down?
03:04Yes, I found that out.
03:10With respect to Flight 93, what type of information were you and the Vice President receiving
03:17about that flight?
03:20The only information we had at that point was when it went into, when it crashed.
03:30I see.
03:31You didn't know beforehand about that airplane?
03:33No, I did not.
03:35And so there was no specific order there to shoot that plane down?
03:40No, sir.
03:43But there were military planes in the air in position to shoot down commercial aircraft?
03:49That's right.
03:50The planes had been scrambled, I believe, from Otis at that point.