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Cheney recalls taking charge from bunker (To de-bunk Richard Clarke)
CNN ^ | Sept 12, 2002 | unnamed

Posted on 09/11/2006 8:03:13 PM PDT by YaYa123

As horrified Americans watched the terror attacks of September 11, 2001, unfold on their television sets, Vice President Dick Cheney directed the U.S. government's response from an emergency bunker.

(Excerpt) Read more at images.google.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: 911; cheney; debunking; fifthanniversary; pathto911; richardclarke
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There's a picture of people in the bunker.
1 posted on 09/11/2006 8:03:16 PM PDT by YaYa123
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To: YaYa123

You mean Clark wasn't in charge!


2 posted on 09/11/2006 8:04:58 PM PDT by mystery-ak (My Son, My Soldier, My Hero..............)
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To: mystery-ak

Clark thought he was Al haig for a moment...its the stress man....


3 posted on 09/11/2006 8:07:03 PM PDT by wildcatf4f3 (level headed analyst here...armed to the teeth)
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To: YaYa123
Vice President Dick Cheney directed the U.S. government's response from an emergency bunker.

Remember the flap over the shootdown order supposedly coming from him and not the President?
4 posted on 09/11/2006 8:07:35 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: wildcatf4f3

Al Haig! I was struggling to remember his name! LOL!


5 posted on 09/11/2006 8:08:19 PM PDT by Ladysmith ((NRA, SAS) Gun owners have illustrated rights are individual and can be protected by individuals.)
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To: mystery-ak

And Mary Matalin was there... there is now way she would allow Clarke to trump Cheney either!


6 posted on 09/11/2006 8:08:53 PM PDT by rintense (Liberals stand for nothing and are against everything- unless it benefits them.)
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To: mystery-ak

I hope others will be able to add more photos from the bunker. Richard Clarke's "hero" status in the bunker...well actually throughout the movie, needs to be de-bunked before it becomes urban legend.


7 posted on 09/11/2006 8:09:10 PM PDT by YaYa123
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Remember the flap over the shootdown order supposedly coming from him and not the President?

Clarke was in the bathroom. He'd had a lot of iced tea--oh, wait, wrong Demo-bot...

8 posted on 09/11/2006 8:09:27 PM PDT by Darkwolf377
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To: wildcatf4f3

I think Al Haig gets a bad rap for that, if you listen to his entire statement instead of it being taken out of context, it's much hyped. :)


9 posted on 09/11/2006 8:10:04 PM PDT by Perdogg (If you stay home in November, you will elect Pelosi speaker)
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To: YaYa123

The ABC movie Part Two had two overall purposes:

1—Trash Tenet

2-Sell Richard Clarke


10 posted on 09/11/2006 8:10:45 PM PDT by sandra_789 (.)
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To: YaYa123

Dick Clarke was in charge........I saw the Movie!


11 posted on 09/11/2006 8:10:50 PM PDT by ConservativeGreek
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If anyone should be happy about the way they were portrayed in the "Path to 9-11" its Richard Clarke.
Thanks for this story. I wouldn't mind Cheyne as president.


12 posted on 09/11/2006 8:11:07 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission
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After the planes struck the twin towers, a third took a chunk out of the Pentagon. Cheney then heard a report that a plane over Pennsylvania was heading for Washington. A military assistant asked Cheney twice for authority to shoot it down.

"The vice president said yes again," remembered Josh Bolton, deputy White House chief of staff. "And the aide then asked a third time. He said, 'Just confirming, sir, authority to engage?' And the vice president -- his voice got a little annoyed then -- said, 'I said yes.'"

It is hard to imagine having to give that order. I am actually a little surprised that it wasn't the President who would have been asked.

13 posted on 09/11/2006 8:11:48 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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BUSTED! From Who's Hot to Who's Not in record time!


14 posted on 09/11/2006 8:11:50 PM PDT by small voice in the wilderness
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Amazing! Not ONE word about Clark in there with them! HA!


15 posted on 09/11/2006 8:11:53 PM PDT by Ladysmith ((NRA, SAS) Gun owners have illustrated rights are individual and can be protected by individuals.)
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16 posted on 09/11/2006 8:11:53 PM PDT by msnimje (What part of-- "DEATH TO AMERICA" --do the Democrats not understand?)
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To: SuzanneC

Can you help me look for what Mary Matalin has written about that day in the bunker? PHerhaps she has written articles.


17 posted on 09/11/2006 8:12:02 PM PDT by YaYa123
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To: YaYa123

Lol, It is like Richard Clarke's press agent wrote the script.


18 posted on 09/11/2006 8:12:12 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: msnimje

Yup, I think that was him........Condi froze in front of the TV sets and he did all the work. She begged him to take charge!


19 posted on 09/11/2006 8:13:16 PM PDT by ConservativeGreek
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To: Pete from Shawnee Mission

In a way I agree. Clarke came off rather well. At worst someone who made mistakes but overall knew what he was doing.


20 posted on 09/11/2006 8:13:19 PM PDT by Bogey78O (<thinking of new tagline>)
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