A typical Maureeen Dowd article. Much ado, about literally nothing......Talk about spin!
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 2:39 AM, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > > *Cheney Admits that He Lied about 9/11 > *Posted on March 8, > 2013<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/03/cheney-admits-that-he-lied-about-911.html>by > WashingtonsBlog <http://www.washingtonsblog.com/author/washingtonsblog> > > > *What Else Did He Lie About? > > *The New York Times’ Maureen Dowd > writes<http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/opinion/perspectives/maureen-dowd-repent-dick-cheney-678240/>today: > > In a documentary soon to appear on Showtime, “The World According to > Dick Cheney,” [Cheney said] “I got on the telephone with the president, who > was in Florida, and told him not to be at one location where we could both > be taken out.” Mr. Cheney kept W. flying aimlessly in the air on 9/11 while > he and Lynn left on a helicopter for a secure undisclosed location, leaving > Washington in a bleak, scared silence, with no one reassuring the nation in > those first terrifying hours. “I gave the instructions that we’d > authorize our pilots to take it out,” he says, referring to the jet headed > to Washington that crashed in a Pennsylvania field. He adds: “After I’d > given the order, it was pretty quiet. Everybody had heard it, and it was > obviously a significant moment.” *** When they testified together before > the 9/11 Commission, W. and Mr. Cheney *kept up a pretense* that in a > previous call, the president had authorized the vice president to give a > shoot-down order if needed. But the commission found “no documentary > evidence for this call.” > > In other words, Cheney pretended that Bush had authorized a shoot-down > order, but Cheney now admits that he never did. In fact, Cheney acted as if > he was the president on 9/11. * > > Cheney lied about numerous other facts related to 9/11 as well. For > example, Cheney: > > - Falsely linked Iraq with > 9/11<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/5-hours-after-the-911-attacks-donald-rumsfeld-said-my-interest-is-to-hit-saddam-he-also-said-go-massive-sweep-it-all-up-things-related-and-not-and-at-2.html>(indeed, > the entire torture > program was aimed at establishing such a false > linkage<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/10/5-hours-after-the-911-attacks-donald-rumsfeld-said-my-interest-is-to-hit-saddam-he-also-said-go-massive-sweep-it-all-up-things-related-and-not-and-at-2.html>; > and Cheney is the guy who pushed for > torture<http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Cheney_admits_authorizing_detainees_torture_1215.html>, > pressured the Justice Department lawyers to write memos saying torture > was > legal<http://pubrecord.org/torture/311/newly-released-e-mails-reveal-cheney-pressured-doj-to-approve-torture/>, > and made the pitch to Congress justifying > torture<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/02/AR2009060203999.html?hpid=topnews>. > The former director of the CIA said Cheney oversaw American torture > > policies<http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/cheney-oversaw-torture-former-cia-director/2005/11/18/1132016963907.html>) > > - Falsely claimed that spying on Americans, torture, the Patriot Act, > the Afghanistan war, the Iraq war and the “war on terror” were all > necessitated by 9/11 … when all of > them<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/08/u-s-government-planned-indefinite-detention-of-citizens-long-before-911.html>started > or were planned > before9/11<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/08/u-s-government-planned-indefinite-detention-of-citizens-long-before-911.html> > - Falsely stated that an attack such as 9/11 was > unforeseeable<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2008/04/911-was-foreseeable.html>, > when Al Qaeda flying planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon was > something which American military and intelligence services -- and our > allies -- > knew<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/06/al-qaeda-flying-planes-into-the-world-trade-center-and-pentagon-was-foreseeable.html> > could > > happen<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/06/al-qaeda-flying-planes-into-the-world-trade-center-and-pentagon-was-foreseeable.html> > - Falsely pretended that he was out of the loop during the 9/11 > attacks<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2007/03/minetas-testimony-confirmed.html> > - Falsely blamed others for > 9/11<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/02/cheney-pins-blame-for-911_n_210300.html>, > when Cheney was in charge of all of America’s counter-terrorism exercises, > activities and responses on 9/11. See this Department of State > > announcement<http://web.archive.org/web/20010630041038/http://www.usinfo.state.gov/regional/af/security/a1050878.htm>and > this > CNN > article<http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/09/11/ar911.king.cheney/>… > - … And when Cheney was apparently responsible for letting the > Pentagon get hit by an > airplane<http://www.911truthmovement.org/video/hamilton_win.wmv>(confirmed > here <http://www.youtube.com/v/u-5PKQTUz5o> and here) > - And was instrumental in squashing a real investigation into > 9/11<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/03/the-reason-for-this-cover-up-goes-right-to-the-white-house.html> > > > * Indeed, Cheney initiated Continuity of Government plans on 9/11 which > essentially > nullified America’s constitutional form of > government<http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2011/02/america-might-be-a-more-gilded-cage-than-egypt-but-it-still-looks-like-a-cage.html> > . > > > http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/03/cheney-admits-that-he-lied-about-911.html > > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. 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