[YaYa123]

There's a picture of people in the bunker.

[mystery-ak]

You mean Clark wasn't in charge!

[P-40]

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?

[ConservativeGreek]

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

[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

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.

[Lancey Howard]

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.

[small voice in the wilderness]

BUSTED! From Who's Hot to Who's Not in record time!

[Ladysmith]

Amazing! Not ONE word about Clark in there with them! HA!

[Anti-Bubba182]

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

[Darkwolf377]

A pretty sobering moment," said Lewis Libby, Cheney's chief of staff.

And ruthless criminal, traitor to our intelligence force, evil betrayer of secrets, teller of lies and--oh, wait, I thought this was a quote from David Corn, sorry...

[BigSkyFreeper]

The fact the left is painting this "take charge" picture of Richard Clarke, you'd think George Washington was a slacker.

[gaijin]

"Authority to engage?" (and possibly shoot down an airliner, later that day)

"I said, 'yes'!"

MAN I JUST LOVE CHENEY..! Just noooo hesistation.

HUGE confidence in the guy!

[shield]

OF COURSE CHENEY DID...anyone that'd believe liar clarke did...is about as stupid as it gets!!!

Cheney is the best man Bush could have ever picked!!!

These loons are nothing but a bunch of liars...I'm convinced none of them even know what the truth really is.

[shield]

On top of that....CHENEY ADVISED BUSH TO ORDER A SHOOT DOWN OF THE AIRLINER.

[TexasPatriot8]

Clarke thinks he was in charge. He's a legend in his own mind. After seeing Cheney as VP for six years, and knowing what he was like as Sec. Def, he was not a "follower" of Clarke. Cheney was in charge in that bunker. Not Clarke.

[shield]

I didn't even see clarke in that picture.

[blam]

[Mo1]

Gee .. I don't see Clark in the picture

[TomGuy]

Watching the movie, every time the Clarke character appeared, I heard the theme to Mighty Mouse playing in my mind.

lol.

[DTogo]

The same smoke-filled "bunker" where he and the PNAC long-ago planned the take-over of Iraqi oil fields...

/DNC tin foil mode

[TomGuy]

Complete 911 Timeline; Richard Clarke's Actions on 9/11

Above link is an interesting timeline. Of course, it is mostly based on Clarke's book and the 911 Commission Report, which based its account on Clarke's account.

But the article below is a different accounting that disputes many of Clarke's recollections:

Bush administration rejects Clarke charges

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Top members of the Bush administration sharply rebuffed their former counterterrorism chief Monday, calling his assertions in a new book about the White House's handling of terrorism and Iraq "deeply irresponsible" and "flat-out wrong."

And apparently, more Clarke fables here:

Richard Clarke's Tall Tale of 9/11 by Ronald L. Ecker.