The 9-11 Commission cannot be assumed to be above deceit.

At the Commissions’ hearing on May 23, 2003, Norman Mineta testified that on the morning of 9-11, after arriving at the White House and stopping to see Richard Clarke (the national coordinator for security and counterterrorism), he went down to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) under the White House, where Vice President Cheney was in charge. Mineta then told Vice Chair Lee Hamilton of the 9-11 Commission:

“During the time that the airplane was coming in to 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 order 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?”

When Mineta was asked by Commissioner Timothy Roemer how long this conversation occurred after he arrived, Mineta said: “Probably about five or six minutes.” Which, as Roemer pointed out, would mean “about 9:25 or 9:26.

This story was very threatening to the account that would be provided in the 9-11 Commission Report. According to that account, Cheney did not even enter the PEOC until almost 10:00, perhaps at 9:58.

According to Mineta’s testimony, Cheney had arrived some time prior to 9:20. Mineta’s time is consistent with many other reports about Cheney’s descent to the PEOC.

The Zelikow-led Commission even contradicted Cheney’s own account. Speaking on NBC’s Meet the Press five days after 9-11, Cheney said: “ After I talked to the president, I went down into…the Presidential Emergency Operations Center…When I arrived there within a short order, we had word the Pentagons’ been hit.

In an Interview for a CNN story a year later, Cheney repeated that he was in the PEOC before word about the Pentagon strike was received,.(which reportedly occurred at about 9:38).

This fact was also confirmed by Condoleezza Rice on ABC news television program one year after 9-11 based on interviews by Peter Jennings.

The 9-11 Commission’s time of 9:58 is clearly false and cannot be considered anything other than an outright lie. This shows that nothing the Commission says can be accepted on faith.

According to Mineta’s account, the vice President knew at least ten minutes earlier, by 9:26, that a plane was headed towards the Pentagon. The Commission’s claim is that the military did not know that an aircraft was approaching the Pentagon until 9:36, so that it had at most one or two minudtes to react to the unidentified plane approaching Washington.

So the 9-11 Commission simply OMITTED Mineta’s testimony from the final report.

One can understand such an omission of course because the purpose of the Zelikow-led Commission was to protect the Bush administration’s account of 9-11.

This omission is not consistent with the claim that the Commission’s purpose as stated by Kean and Hamilton was “to provide the fullest possible account of the events surrounding 9-11.

I want to know how Cheney knew where the plane was going?

This post claims he knew 10 minutes before it hit the pentagon that it was going to hit the pentagon..

As if the pentagon is the only building of note in the DC area.

Please explain how anyone knew that the pentagon was the target 10 minutes prior to it being struck..

Why would you ask me that question? Well maybe you were not asking ME. Why don't you ask Cheney?

And I did not see where it stated that Cheney knew what target the plane was going for. It was just headed for DC......

I am simply relating a testimony given to the 9-11 commission by Norman Mineta that the Zelikow-led 9-11 Commission simply OMITTED from the final report.

I am not personally making any claims that I "know" how anyone (like Cheney) would know anything. You figure that out and make your own decision.

I am simply showing that the 9-11 Commission controlled what they would keep and what they would omit from the official rewriting of their new account of 9-11 that absolves the Military and the Bush administration of anything that could be construed as complicity in the attack.

"According to Mineta’s account, the vice President knew at least ten minutes earlier, by 9:26, that a plane was headed towards the Pentagon."

Again... This implies that Cheney knew the plane that was 17 minutes away from DC was headed to the pentagon.. When it would completely and totally impossible for anyone to know where this plane was going.

Do you not see how illogical this timeline is?

Do you think that Mineta would honestly implicate Cheney by purposely admitting that 17 minutes prior to the plane hitting the pentagon that he knew its precise destination?

seriously?

It is my opinion that Major General Larry Arnold and Colonel Alan Scott, did not lie to the 9-11 Commission in the reporting of the first official account of the response to 9-11.

It is my opinion that the NORAD TAPES were altered and fabricated to rewrite the official account and absolve the Military of being complicit and treasonous and to absolve someone of shooting down flight 93 and standing down on the Pentagon attack.

The reason is, that the first official account of 9-11 was far more obviously damaging and was the fuel to the flames of numerous conspiracy theories and there were too many questions that could not be answered.

So the NORAD tapes were concocted so that history of 9-11 could be rewritten whereby all the incompetence and blame was laid upon the FAA. And yet no one in the FAA was fired.

I think the events that led to the shooting down of flight 93 are where the story gets really interesting.