Cheney has lied too much to defend himself. On Mar 10, 8:39 pm, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > Cheney Admits that He Lied about 9/11Posted onMarch 8, > 2013byWashingtonsBlogWhat Else Did He Lie About?The New York Times’ Maureen > Dowdwritestoday: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. Cheneykept up a > pretensethat 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:Falselylinked Iraq with 9/11(indeed, the entiretorture program was > aimed at establishing such a false linkage; and Cheney is the guy whopushed > for torture,pressured the Justice Department lawyers to write memos saying > torture was legal, andmade the pitch to Congress justifying torture. The > former director of the CIA saidCheney oversaw American torture > policies)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 … whenall of themstarted or were planned > before9/11Falselystated that an attack such as 9/11 was unforeseeable, when > Al Qaeda flying planes into the World Trade Center and Pentagon was something > which American military and intelligence services -- and our allies > --knewcould happenFalselypretended that he was out of the loop during the > 9/11 attacksFalselyblamed others for 9/11, when Cheney was in charge of all > of America’s counter-terrorism exercises, activities and responses on 9/11. > Seethis Department of State announcementandthis CNN article…… And when Cheney > was apparentlyresponsible for letting the Pentagon get hit by an > airplane(confirmedhereand here)And wasinstrumental in squashing a real > investigation into 9/11 > * Indeed, Cheney initiated Continuity of Government plans on 9/11 > whichessentially nullified America’s constitutional form of > government.http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/03/cheney-admits-that-he-lied-about-911.html
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