Former Transportation Secretary Disputes 9/11 Commission Report Timetable for Dick Cheney and Reveals Lynn Cheney Was Also in PEOC Bunker Before Attack
Former Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta answered questions from members of 9/11 Truth Seattle.org about his testimony before the 9/11 Commission report.
Mineta says Vice President Cheney was “absolutely” already there when he arrived at approximately 9:25 a.m. in the PEOC (Presidential Emergency Operations Center) bunker on the morning of 9/11. Mineta seemed shocked to learn that the 9/11 Commission Report claimed Cheney had not arrived there until 9:58– after the Pentagon had been hit, a report that Mineta definitively contradicted.
Norman Mineta revealed that Lynn Cheney was also in the PEOC bunker already at the time of his arrival, along with a number of other staff.
Mineta is on video testifying before the 9/11 Commission, though it was omitted in their final report. He told Lee Hamilton:
“During the time that the airplane was coming into the Pentagon, there was a young man who would come in and say to the Vice President…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!?
Mineta confirmed his statements with reporters, saying “When I overheard something about ‘the orders still stand’ and so, what I thought of was that they had already made the decision to shoot something down.”
Norman Mineta made it clear to reporters– who verified his quotes in written text alongside him– that Mineta was indeed talking about a stand down order not to shoot down hijacked aircraft headed for the Pentagon.
After no shoot down took place, it became clear that Cheney intended to keep NORAD fighter jets from responding– evidence that Cheney is guilty of treason, not negligence for allowing the Pentagon to be hit.
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The idea that “the order still stands” matches up with a change in NORAD and Pentagon orders– issued on June 1, 2001, only months before 9/11. The document revoked the default standing orders to shoot down errant or hijacked aircraft and instructed them instead to stand down until they were given orders by the President, Vice President or Secretary of Defense.
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Mineta was still in the PEOG bunker when the plane was reported down in Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
“I remember later on when I heard about the Shanksville plane going down, the Vice President was right across from me, and I said, ‘Do you think that we shot it down ourselves?’ He said, ‘I don’t know.’ He said, ‘Let’s find out.’ So he had someone check with the Pentagon. That was about maybe, let’s say 10:30 or so, and we never heard back from the DoD until probably about 12:30. And they said, ‘No, we didn’t do it.’”
Of course, Donald Rumsfeld has stated before that the plane over Shanksville was “shot down,” though whether it was a mistatement or a freudian slip of the truth is arguable. It certainly would seem that the story presented in United 93– a dramatized account of the official government story– is much, much less plausible than the plane simply being shot down.
Norman Mineta’s Testimony Before the 9/11 Commission– which was NOT included in the final report and which DISPUTES the Commission’s timetable for Vice President Dick Cheney on 9/11
Also, the two hour time delay is suspicious given the Vice President’s own account of the dedicated video communications available that morning, as he told it to Tim Russert of Meet the Press on September 16, 2001.
“We had access, secured communications with Air Force One, with the secretary of Defense over in the Pentagon. We had also the secure videoconference that ties together the White House, CIA, State, Justice, Defense–a very useful and valuable facility. We have the counterterrorism task force up on that net. And so I was in a position to be able to see all the stuff coming in, receive reports and then make decisions in terms of acting with it.”
At a bare minimum, this confirmation by Norman Mineta is in gross contradiction to the 9/11 Commission Report and poses serious questions about the Vice President’s role in ordering NORAD to stand down on 9/11.
Oct. 19, 2009
I heard about the Norm Mineta testimony while watch the History Channel this past Sunday, while they were trying to debunk the 9-11 Conspiracy theories.
I am more of a LIHOP than a MIHOP.
However, to prove any thing, we need to find and question the people involved. Has anyone tried to find out the name of, and locate the “young man” who was relaying the information to Cheney in the bunker, and ask him what the ‘standing order” was – Shoot down or Stand Down?
I would also like to know the name of the young man who delivered the “Al-Queda ready to attack in the USA” to Dubya?
In the book, “Two Percent Solution”, this encounter smells fishy. Dubya was almost upset, and snapped at the young guy, “Okay you’ve done your job! Now get out of here!”
I consider the fact that Bush remained on vacation (as did CIA Director Tenent, and Condi Rice), on getting the Bin laden memo on August 6, 2001, and did not return to the White House, to prepare a War Room, to prevent the 9-11 attacks, as a dereliction of duty, for which he should be IMPEACHED.
The fact that his ratings went up to 91% after standing on the truck with his arm around the old firefighte, and said “Can you hear me”, shows how gullible a people we are.
Danka,
Ayesha