Vanity Fair:DOUBT ON 9/11 'SHOOTDOWN' ORDER

[Richardson08]

It seems an article in Vanity Fair points to more deception

October 5, 2004 -- WASHINGTON — Vice President Dick Cheney may not have had the proper authority to issue orders to shoot down commercial aircraft on Sept. 11, according to a new account of the deadly day.

The account in Vanity Fair magazine is partly based on interviews with some staff and members of the 9/11 commission who raise doubts about whether the vice president had received the shootdown authority from President Bush before he gave the order.

Just who exactly is in charge around here?

http://www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/31358.htm

[annxburns]

1. What the hell is going on with the NY Post?

They knock down Drudge and than this? WTF is going on?

[Richardson08]

2. Rupert Murdoch must be getting senile

[txindy]

9. Weird, isn't it?

At first it makes me think I'm in an alternate reality. Then I remember that the NY Post and Faux News have been in the alternate reality and are creeping back into the real world. I've given up expecting honest news from them and then THIS happens! It's all very confusing! :crazy:

[DenverDem]

3. dickie and donnie were running the operations on 9/11.

"Authority, we don't need no stinking authority."

[librechik]

7. Rummy got the shootdown authority transferred to himself in July

2001.

[DenverDem]

14. Right, too bad he didn't exercise that authority.

Oh, wait, he did, the wrong way.

[nyhuskyfan]

15. Rumsfeld didn't show up on 9/11 until almost 11 a.m.

Unless he was running the operation from an undisclosed location.

http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0813-08.htm

[seventhson]

4. If the Post is going over then the rats are abandoning the ship

Bush is a Millstone, a liability, a loser, and EVERYONE knows it., He is a dangerous dumbass hungover drunk with a pistol and a grudge and EVERYBODY thinks he is a dangerous and even murderous buffoon and wants him GONE.

Even his own family is pissed at him for beiong such a royal fuckup and getting the muck dragged up and tsrnishig them even MORE than possible before.

RATS

ABANDONING

SHIP

bye bye rats

[HysteryDiagnosis]

11. Taking their briefcases with them.....

[RaleighNCDUer]

5. Well, of course he had the authority --

As VP he's supposed to step up to the plate if the president is incapacitated. It's obvious from 'The Pet Goat' that Bush was totally incapacitated with TERROR, leaving the responsibility with Darth Cheney.

[librechik]

6. Precious! And just in time for the debate! n/t

[seabeyond]

8. we have known this

bush was the only one that could give that order.

cheney denied giving it

rumsfield told the jets to stand down

this is what we know. until after the hit on the pentagon.

so what is the story????????

[leetrisck]

10. The 9/11 Commission book repeated

bush's words and cheney's words and just left it hanging out there. One was left with the distinct impression (maybe just me) that Cheney never got permission to do the shootdown but they both lied about it. I think somewhere mixed up in this is Mr. Maneta & Maneta still has a job - is it what he knows? Interviews and Woodward's books would lead one to believe other than the 9/11 Commission report and what bush/cheney said.

[seabeyond]

13. i dont think he did

i think bush was scramblin and runnin and they didnt order it. the planes got up, but didnt have order. then the jet in dc kept repeating do i have order, and eventually rumsfield gave him a stand down. i heard somewhere they couldnt get a hold of bush. busy with photo op and all

[DemocracyInaction]

12. That brings up a debate point whether they use this particular info

or not. Edwards needs to stress that he will be there for Kerry to do what is ever asked of him; BUT that he will not, and Kerry will never let him, be the puppetmaster who runs the presidency from behind the curtain. Let the public know that Bush has been a puppet for 3 years.