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Mr. Cheney's Cover-up Part 2 of 'Guilty for 9-11: Bush, Rumsfeld,
Myers' By Illarion Bykov and Jared Israel
This text will come to you in *2* sections.
[Posted 20 November 2001] [Updated 21 November 2001]
Dedicated to the firefighters of New York.
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* Introductory Note *
-- Second Exposi in the Historic series, "Guilty for 911!" --
Of course, members of the Establishment have many ways to organize
and cover up crimes. In trying to decide whether powerful officials
are *in fact* criminals, one of the things we must look for is
actions that betray 'consciousness of guilt.' The powerful may
manifest consciousness of guilt by their behavior before or during
the occurence of a crime or by their attempts or the attempts of
their associates to confuse and mislead, that is, to cover-up, later
on.
So we have an irony: in the attempt to hide guilt, guilt may be
revealed.
In the first article in this series, Jared Israel and Illarion Bykov
raised the question: why weren't fighter jets sent up to protect
Washington, DC until after the Pentagon was hit?
They took on what they called Lie # 1: that no combat- ready fighters
were stationed anywhere near the Pentagon. To read Part 1, please
go to http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/indict-1.htm
In Part 2 (below) Bykov and Israel pulled off a real coup: they
caught Vice President Richard Cheney in the act of cover-up. Or
attempted cover-up. A clever attempt, but as it turns out not so
clever.
The information and arguments in Part 1 have been quoted or (more
often) simply used without crediting the authors, and often by
people with an orientation very different from Emperor's Clothes.
An example: the recent (London) Guardian article by former British
Cabient Member Michael Meacher.
Part 2 has been quoted less, perhaps because the argument is more
complex and subtler; thus, harder to paraphrase.
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-- John Flaherty, Emperor's Clothes
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Lie # 2: Presidential Authorization Was Needed To Scramble Jets To
Intercept Flight 77
On Sunday, September 16th, Vice-President Richard Cheney was
interviewed on NBC TV's 'Meet the Press'. During that interview he
created the impression that the military would have needed presidential
authorization to scramble fighter jets to intercept American Airlines
Flight 77 before it hit the Pentagon.
Mr. Cheney did not present this lie in a straightforward manner.
Instead he did two things. First, he avoided discussing the failure
to intercept Flight 77. Instead he talked only about the choices
Mr. Bush supposedly made after the Pentagon was hit.
Second, he took it for granted that presidential approval was
required to intercept a commercial jet, as if this were an accepted
fact. Then based on this false foundation, he emitted a fog of
emotional misinformation to confuse the millions of Americans who
wanted to know: why didn't jet fighters scramble to intercept Flight
77 before it crashed into the Pentagon? Doesn't the U.S. have radar
and an Air Force anymore?
It is common for officials attempting to cover-up a capital crime
to put the blame on a subordinate. However Mr. Cheney used a different
approach on 'Meet the Press.' Relying on his skills in public
deception, Cheney tried to create the impression that nothing
improper had occurred, that faced with horrendous choices a brave
President had done the right thing.
But as soon as one sees through this verbiage, one realizes Mr.
Cheney has actually placed the responsibility for the failure to
intercept American Flight 77 on George W. Bush.
Here is the relevant excerpt from 'Meet the Press':
"Mr. Russert: What's the most important decision you think he made
during the course of the day?
"Vice Pres. Cheney: Well, the--I suppose the toughest decision was
this question of whether or not we would intercept incoming commercial
aircraft.
"Mr. Russert: And you decided?
"Vice Pres. Cheney: We decided to do it. We'd, in effect, put a
flying combat air patrol up over the city; F-16s with an AWACS,
which is an airborne radar system, and tanker support so they could
stay up a long time...
"It doesn't do any good to put up a combat air patrol if you don't
give them instructions to act, if, in fact, they feel it's appropriate.
"Mr. Russert: So if the United States government became aware that
a hijacked commercial airline[r] was destined for the White House
or the Capitol, we would take the plane down?
"Vice Pres. Cheney: Yes. The president made the decision...that if
the plane would not divert...as a last resort, our pilots were
authorized to take them out. Now, people say, you know, that's a
horrendous decision to make. Well, it is. You've got an airplane
full of American citizens, civilians, captured by...terrorists,
headed and are you going to, in fact, shoot it down, obviously, and
kill all those Americans on board?
"...It's a presidential-level decision, and the president made, I
think, exactly the right call in this case, to say, "I wished we'd
had combat air patrol up over New York."
--NBC, 'Meet the Press' 16 September 2001 (1)
* * *
Note that Mr. Cheney has performed a sleight of hand here.
First he says, "the toughest decision was...whether we would intercept
incoming commercial aircraft."
Later he says, "The president made the decision... that if the plane
would not divert as a last resort, our pilots were authorized to
take them out..." that is, "shoot it down."
But "intercept": and "shoot it down" do not mean the same thing.
"in7ter7cept
"in7ter7cept (nn4ter-shpt9) verb, transitive in7ter7cept7ed,
in7ter7cept7ing, in7ter7cepts "1. a. To stop, deflect, or interrupt
the progress or intended course of"
--'American Heritage Dictionary'
"shoot7down
"shoot7down (sh!t9doun4) noun
"Destruction of a flying aircraft by a missile attack or gunfire."
--'American Heritage Dictionary' Mr. Cheney deliberately confused
these terms to stop people from asking: why weren't any of the
hijacked planes intercepted?
Since "stopping, deflecting, or interrupting the progress or intended
course of" a hijacked airplane does not necessarily involve violence,
there could be no moral obstacle to scrambling fighter jets to
intercept Flight 77. Therefore Mr. Cheney shifted quickly to the
morally charged question of whether to shoot down "an airplane full
of American citizens". By creating this emotional link between
interception (not necessarily violent) and shooting down a commercial
jet (very violent), Cheney hoped to create sympathy for a President
forced to make this "horrendous" choice: to intercept or not to
intercept.
Note that Cheney is speaking only of the period after Flight 77 hit
the Pentagon. By confusing the issues of "intercepting" vs. "shooting
down" AFTER the Pentagon was hit, Cheney was trying to get his
listeners to forget the real issue: that nothing had been done
BEFORE the Pentagon was hit.
Mr. Cheney attempted to hide the jump from "intercept" to "shoot
down" by means of the following connecting sentence:
"It doesn't do any good to put up a combat air patrol if you don't
give them instructions to act, if, in fact, they feel it's appropriate."
This is disinformation. Mr. Cheney was treating his viewers like
fools.
First, as anyone with a computer and basic knowledge of the Internet
can find out, Air Traffic Controllers request military jets to
intercept commercial aircraft on a routine basis. Sometimes the
purpose is to tell a commercial pilot that his plane has gone off
course; other times the interceptor goes up in order to observe the
situation directly - for instance, to see who is flying the plane.
None of this requires presidential approval.
Second, military interceptors (or 'escorts') already have clear
"instructions to act." These instructions can be read online in
detailed manuals from the FAA and the Department of Defense. The
instructions cover everything from minor emergencies to hijackings.
If a problem is serious, high-ranking military officers from the
National Military Command Center (NMCC) in the Pentagon can take
charge.
Let us consider the procedures used in intercepting commercial
aircraft.
An Air Traffic Controller (ATC) may request military jets to intercept
(or 'escort') a commercial aircraft in response to any serious
problem which the Air Traffic Controller cannot solve through radio
contact. Perhaps the most common problem is that a commercial jet
has deviated from its authorized flight path.
Every commercial jet is required to follow IFR, or Instrument Flight
Rules. IFR requires pilots to file a flight plan with the Federal
Aviation Administration (FAA) before takeoff.
(FAA Order 7400.2E 14-1-2) (2)
"Commercial flights fly according to predefined flight plans. These
flight plans are intended to provide quick routes that take advantage
of favorable winds while avoiding the routes traveled by other
aircraft. The usual flight plan is a series of three connected
routes: a standard instrument departure (SID) route, an en route
path, and a standard instrument arrival (STAR). Each route consists
of a sequence of geographic points, or fixes, which, when connected,
form a trajectory from the point of departure to the point of
arrival."
--'Direct-To Requirements' by G. Dennis & E. Torlak (3)
If a plane deviates from its flight plan, for example if it makes
the wrong turn at one of its 'fixes,' an Air Traffic Controller
(ATC) contacts the pilot. If the ATC cannot make contact, he or she
will request an escort - that is, a military jet - to scramble and
check out the situation. This is called 'interception.'
As you can see, interception is not necessarily an aggressive act.
Usually it is requested because routine communication has become
impossible.
For example, when the Lear jet chartered by Payne Stewart, the
famous golf pro, went off course, and the pilot did not respond by
radio, the FAA contacted the military:
"Several Air Force and Air National Guard fighter jets, plus an
AWACS radar control plane, helped the Federal Aviation Administration
track the runaway Learjet and estimate when it would run out of
fuel."
--'CNN,' 26 October 1999 (4)
[Continued! Next: The US military and FAA have procedures that were
not followed on September 11th. Why not? The conclusion of
'Cheney'as Cover-up' will be emailed to you in a few hours!]
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* Footnotes and Further Reading *
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For a map of Washington showing the distance from Andrews Air Force
base to the Pentagon go to:
http://emperors-clothes.com/indict/andrewsmap.htm
(1) 'NBC, Meet the Press' (10:00 AM ET) Sunday 16 September 2001.
Full transcript at:
http://stacks.msnbc.com/news/629714.asp?cp1=1 Backup transcript at:
http://emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/nbcmp.htm
(2) Regarding rules governing IFR requirements, see FAA Order 7400.2E
'Procedures for Handling Airspace Matters,' Effective Date: December
7, 2000 (Includes Change 1, effective July 7, 2001), Chapter 14-1-2.
Full text posted at:
http://www.faa.gov/ATpubs/AIR/air1401.html#14-1-2
(3) For a clear and detailed description of flight plans, fixes,
and Air Traffic Control, see: 'Direct-To Requirements' by Gregory
Dennis and Emina Torlak at:
http://sdg.lcs.mit.edu/atc/D2/D2Requirements.htm
(4) 'CNN,' 26 October 1999 "Pentagon never considered downing
Stewart's Learjet," Web posted at: 8:27 p.m. EDT (0027 GMT) Full
text posted at:
http://www.cnn.com/US/9910/26/shootdown/ Backup at:
http://emperors-clothes.com/9-11backups/cnnlearjet.htm
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