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Boris Legume's avatar

There is a typo.

Should read: President Cheney was the chief architect of the 9/11 attack operation.

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Corrin Strong's avatar

You beat me to it!

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John Day MD's avatar

Indeed, he and Rumsfeld had worked on "continuity of government" contingencies since 1975, and that all fell into Dick's lap the morning of 9/11/2001.

Where was Dick that day? What was he doing when everybody else was tucked-away out of the loop?

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Boris Legume's avatar

In Crossing the Rubicon, Michael Ruppert positions Vice President Dick Cheney as the central figure in operational control on September 11, 2001, effectively acting as Commander in Chief while President Bush was sidelined and kept out of key decision loops. Ruppert argues that Cheney's placement in the White House Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC)—a secure bunker beneath the East Wing—placed him at the helm of a parallel chain of command run through the U.S. Secret Service, which had direct authority to relay presidential or vice-presidential orders to fighter pilots and override standard protocols.

This setup, per Ruppert, allowed Cheney to manage the response (or lack thereof) amid multiple hijackings, with foreknowledge enabled by real-time FAA radar feeds accessible to the Secret Service as early as 8:15 a.m. (when American Airlines Flight 11's transponder was disabled) or no later than 8:45 a.m.

Ruppert details Cheney's timeline as follows:

Cheney was evacuated to the PEOC by Secret Service agents around 9:03 a.m., shortly after the second plane struck the South Tower of the World Trade Center, but Ruppert contends he was already integrated into the crisis loop well before this, given the Secret Service's early involvement and Cheney's oversight of national security exercises.

From the PEOC, Cheney directed rapid decisions, as corroborated by counterterrorism chief Richard Clarke (quoted in the book from Clarke's Against All Enemies): "I was amazed at the speed of the decisions coming from Cheney and, through him, from Bush."

Clarke also noted the Secret Service's unique system for viewing FAA radar in real time, implying Cheney's awareness of inbound threats like United Airlines Flight 93 and American Airlines Flight 77 exceeded public timelines.

Cheney supervised a series of war games and drills scheduled for that morning—such as Vigilant Warrior (a NORAD live-fly hijacking simulation) and others involving false radar blips and plane crashes into buildings—which Ruppert argues created deliberate confusion, paralyzing Air Force intercepts.

These exercises fell under Cheney's May 2001 mandate to integrate WMD consequence management and training across agencies, including seamless blending of real events with simulations. Ruppert suggests Cheney (or a subordinate "maestro" under his purview, like General Ralph Eberhart) orchestrated this overlay to mask the attacks, noting an intercepted NSA message from the night before ("The match is about to begin") as potential coordination signaling.

Regarding Flight 77 (which hit the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m.), Ruppert highlights timeline discrepancies and testimony indicating Cheney's prior knowledge.

A young naval aide reportedly informed Cheney of the plane's approach, but Cheney claimed ignorance until after impact; however, Norman Mineta's 9/11 Commission testimony (referenced by Ruppert) describes Cheney in the PEOC fielding repeated queries from a military officer about whether "the orders still stand" as Flight 77 neared Washington—implying a pre-existing directive not to engage, effectively a stand-down that allowed the strike.

Later, around 10:00 a.m. (post-Pentagon hit), Cheney purportedly issued vague confirmation for shoot-down authority to scrambling jets, but Ruppert frames this as too late and performative, given the earlier paralysis from exercises and Cheney's command structure. The Secret Service's supreme authority over Air Force responses ensured no jets intervened effectively against the hijacked planes.

Ruppert frames Cheney's role as enabling the attacks through inaction and misdirection, tied to broader motives like securing oil flows and geopolitical dominance, with the PEOC serving as his de facto war room.

He accuses Cheney of exploiting intelligence warnings of imminent hijackings that week to schedule the confusing drills, positioning himself to "let it happen" for strategic gain. This forms the core of Ruppert's "simplifying the case against Dick Cheney," portraying him as the prime suspect in official complicity.

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John Day MD's avatar

Thank You. Good answer. Poor Mr. Ruppert did his best while he was alive.

It was a missile that hit the Pentagon and destroyed the area where the Office of Naval Intelligence was going over the Pentagon budget books. Vladimir Putin called to warn George Bush about that.

Hence, no plane parts, luggage or bodies, and a cleanly punched-through series of holes in the ring walls of the Pentagon.

Dick Cheney ran the war room against America that day, didn't he?

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Boris Legume's avatar

I believe it was an Israeli submarine launched POPEYE missile.

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PatriciaE's avatar

Ridiculous. And it swooped over Virginia and no one saw it ? Sure. You all make up anything to fit your narrative..

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Boris Legume's avatar

The most secure military base on the planet. Show me the video of the jet hitting the Pentagon.

Show me the remains of the jet the hit the Pentagon.

Show me the remains of the bodies that were in the jet that hit the Pentagon.

No remains. Zippo.

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CB's avatar

Just as some deny everything to fit their narrative.

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John Day MD's avatar

Russia saw it. Vladimir Putin called George Bush with a warning about an incoming missile from the Atlantic ocean, but did not get through.

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John Day MD's avatar

It sure had enhanced penetration. I don't know about that specific missile.

Thank You, again.

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PatriciaE's avatar

Except some of us are from military families and family members were in the Pentagon that night sifting through debris and Bodies And PLANES !

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John Day MD's avatar

The bodies were those of workers in the Office of Naval Intelligence, who had been auditing the Pentagon budget. Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld had announced on 9/10/2001 that there was a huge amount of money unaccounted for.

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BlueHorse's avatar

Just amazing. I never knew it was a missile until recently. Makes me want to cry - we just don't know anything.

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PatriciaE's avatar

It wasn’t a missile

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Boris Legume's avatar

It was a missile.

Hani Hanjour could not fly a Cessna let along a Boeing.

Too, 8 of the 19 suicide hijackers were alive the next day.

Kinda' funny.

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Boris Legume's avatar

Yes. and as soon as Bush was elected Cheney went into action as PEAK OIL was a concern and drilling results from the Caspian Basin were horrendous. IRAQ became the target as this small area contained 66% of world oil reserves.

In early 2001, following George W. Bush's inauguration on January 20 (after his November 2000 election victory), Vice President Dick Cheney was assigned broad oversight of U.S. government preparations for domestic emergencies, particularly those involving terrorism, weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and large-scale disruptions.

This consolidation centralized authority under Cheney's office, integrating fragmented response mechanisms across civilian and military agencies.

Key developments:

May 8, 2001 Mandate: Bush directed Cheney to lead a high-level review of federal antiterrorism and emergency preparedness efforts. Cheney headed a special interagency group tasked with coordinating "consequence management" (civilian-led post-event response, such as medical aid, evacuation, and recovery) and "crisis management" (military-led prevention or mitigation during an attack). This blurred traditional lines between Department of Defense (DOD) operations and civilian entities like FEMA, Health and Human Services (HHS), and the FBI, creating a unified framework for scenarios including biological/chemical attacks, natural disasters, and aviation incidents.

Office of National Preparedness (ONP): As part of this effort, Cheney oversaw the creation of the ONP within FEMA, announced in May 2001. The ONP focused on stockpiling supplies, training responders, and simulating integrated exercises for WMD events, plane hijackings/crashes, and cyber threats. Staffed largely from Cheney's office, it emphasized "seamless integration" of federal resources, effectively giving the vice president's team veto-like influence over protocols.

Exercise Oversight: Cheney's role extended to supervising national-level drills blending real-world threats with simulations, such as NORAD hijacking scenarios and continuity-of-government (COG) plans.

This included authority to direct responses during exercises that mimicked 9/11-like events (e.g., planes as weapons), positioning him as the de facto coordinator for blending military air defense with civilian emergency ops.

Broader Implications (per Ruppert): In Crossing the Rubicon, Michael Ruppert frames this as Cheney consolidating "emergency powers" into a parallel command structure, sidelining standard chains (e.g., via the Presidential Emergency Operations Center or PEOC).

Ruppert argues it enabled Cheney to oversee the confusing war games on September 11, 2001, under the guise of preparedness, while motives tied to peak oil and geopolitics loomed larger.

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John Day MD's avatar

Indeed. Mr. Ruppert got a different reception upon his passing than Mr.Cheney is having.

George W. Bush was not a "favorite son", but an "idiot son", who got to play "the decider", and was as evil as he could realistically be, but GHW Bush needed somebody who really had the fuill-bandwidth of evil skills to run the plans...

"President Cheney"

"Please allow me to introduce myself, I'm a man of wealth and taste..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgnClrx8N2k

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PatriciaE's avatar

I don’t believe any of that. Dick Cheney was a throughly compromised human being and I have no affection for him - but NORAD was not able to track those planes after they turned off the transponders. I doubt the secret service could have done it. He was an awful person - but not a James Bond evil Archetype.

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Boris Legume's avatar

Ruppert’s quote (paraphrased):

“Turning off a transponder doesn’t make a plane disappear — it just removes its name tag. With primary radar and Secret Service FAA feeds in the PEOC, Cheney’s team saw every move — and did nothing until it served the narrative.”

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PatriciaE's avatar

You have documented proof of that ?

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Boris Legume's avatar

That is RADAR. Picks up everything, transponder or not. Otherwise, everything would be stealth - the military's dream.

RADAR tracks UFOs, UAP even though they don't have transponders.

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Another WorldView Is Possible's avatar

If you don't believe in gravity - but walk off a cliff - your belief has no bearing on reality. This is one of those cases. Others have already responded to you, about the difference between Radar and Transponders - FAA Air Traffic Control uses BOTH. The transponders help them to keep track of which plane is which, and heading on what flight path - but even FAA Radar can 'see' a plane without a transponder. After all of the civilian air traffic was grounded, as it was on "9/11", there shouldn't have been enough objects to even get confused about which was which.

The Air Force interceptors that would have otherwise been tasked with protecting NY, DC and a field in Pennsylvania - were diverted up to the NORTH POLE, waiting for the fictional Russian Bomber wing attack, the formed the basis for the secret NORTHERN GUARDIAN war game. There were at least 7 secret war games underway, that morning, and a FEMA exercise called TRIPOD 2, in NYC that morning. One of the war games was being run by the National Reconnaissance Office (the spy satellite people). It was a "simulation" of planes being flown into buildings.

Of course, that was hardly the only glaring set of impossibilities, associated with the PSYOP, public spectacle events of that day. Richard Gage AIA (who has a great substack), and the many engineers and architects from Architects and Engineers for "9/11" Truth ( AE911.org ) can easily demonstrate that the official explanation for the Collapse of 3 buildings in NY (only two of which were hit (allegedly) by airplanes - is a complete impossibility ×3. And there are significant problems with the official Narrative of a 757 hitting the Pentagon, as well. AE911 did a great retrospective on the 24th Anniversary, on their Youtube Channel, and they even branched out to cover some of the problems with the Pentagon story, as well. It was an day event - but is inconceivable to me that anyone could watch more than a half hour of it, and come away still believing the official narrative - which Cheney himself promoted.

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John Day MD's avatar

"Is this real or exercise" is what air traffic controllers kept having to ask that day. Operation Northern Defender had drawn most of the usual NORAD fighter jets up towards the north pole that morning, out of range of New York and DC.

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PatriciaE's avatar

Well, NORAD was in colorado - they obviously send planes from everywhere.

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And it was 11 minutes from the time they were alerted to a highjacked plane and the plane hitting the towers. Planes from MA. Were scrambled but no time and planes from Langley were then scrambled . When this happened During an exercise we were at higher awareness and people ready to ‘rock and roll’ . It made it more likely that we could stop them but we didn’t. It was just too late.

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Pete Lincoln's avatar

The big tell is that everyone knew DC would be a prime target. So given multiple hijacked planes and allegedly limited resources logically you would deploy a couple of fighter jets to defend DC airspace to take out any flight entering DC restricted airspace. This was not done

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PatriciaE's avatar

Yes they were . This is not Star Trek - it takes time to go from land to air and then find your target . They could not See the target .

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Pete Lincoln's avatar

Andrews Air Force Base is 12 miles away. It takes no more than 15 minutes to launch a fighter jet. 34 minutes elapsed from the time the South Tower was hit and we knew it was a terror attack and the Pentagon was hit. It was a clear day and the plane hitting the Pentagon took a long looping flight path so should easily have been visible. Besides, we have radar.

The Military claimed they did not scramble at Andrews due to they were not on alert status. They did scramble at Langley 130 miles away, about 7 minute flying time but the F-16s were scrambled at 9:24 a.m. and they were sent east over the ocean instead of toward Washington😂

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Boris Legume's avatar

They did deploy but with the convenient War Games happening that day, the screens were full of "dots".

And some fighter jets were conveniently (there is that word again) pulled out of the area because of these War Games.

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Nancy Stratton's avatar

I can tell you where he isn’t right now. Heaven.

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DawnieR's avatar

GOD, The Creator, sends another DEMON, BACK to HELL, where it came from!

That was one EVIL PIECE OF SHIT!

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Jock Hislop's avatar

Judgement is mine say the Lord. But yeah good riddance!

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Realist's avatar

Too little...too late

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Science is Political 2.0's avatar

AMEN. YEP..

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Margaret C Huss's avatar

He was self serving and basically used George W. Bush to get what he wanted. As Halliburton President he made a fortune for himself and that company off of putting our soldiers in harms way.

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Realist's avatar

George W. Bush is a nutless, poor excuse of a man who will also escape justice.

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Marilyn Langlois's avatar

Don't forget, Dick Cheney was also among the likely masterminds and perpetrators of the shock and awe crimes of 9/11, which ushered in the endless War on Terror and maximized War Profiteering. See Kevin Ryan's book "Another Nineteen", reprinted at https://ic911.org

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Science is Political 2.0's avatar

apparently he universally REBUKED BY JUST EVERYONE I TALK TO ON SUBTACK. I can't say enough bad things about him because I can't describe the evil that he did when was on this planet.

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Realist's avatar

Cheney is a vile war-mongering son of a bitch, who escaped justice as Rumsfeld did.

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Carol Taylor's avatar

Dick Cheney was an evil man and a Warmonger! Read the book by Cathy O'Brian called "Trance" and you will see just how evil he was! I could not put this book down

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Mothertrucker's avatar

That book was horrifying.

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Carol Taylor's avatar

Yes! I agree! given to me by an ex-CIA agent!

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Blair's avatar

He was an exceptionally cruel and self-centered, evil man.

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Phil Davis's avatar

All wars are tragic and started by politicians. The Vietnam War was especially atrocious. It was a lie from the beginning; there was no Communist plot. The head Neocon at the time, Robert McNamara, admitted in a video and his book that they, the Neocons, mistook a civil war for a communist plot. It was no mistake, but at least he admitted they were wrong.

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Dave Wertz's avatar

He was actually fishing up here in Northern BC when 911 happened. We would watch the news that were saying they did not know where he was, while he was on our local rivers and dining in our small town. A few restaurant's here banned him and his entourage from attending. A very evil man according to Cathy O Brian's book "Trance|". He will not be missed...

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Corrin Strong's avatar

Not sure where you got that information. Cheney was in a bunker underneath the White House during 9/11 and he was very much involved in some of the decisions that in hindsight seem extremely questionable.

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Dave Wertz's avatar

This is 1st hand info. I live and fish in this area. The RCMP even had a boat behind Cheney's guide boat on the Bulkley river. A military US jet was stationed here at the Smithers airport. It is a well known Steelhead fishing area.

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Another WorldView Is Possible's avatar

Norman Minetta testified to "The 9/11 Commission" that he was with Cheney, in the Bunker, that morning.

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Corrin Strong's avatar

See the comment of Boris Lagume above. Unless he had a doppelgänger, it is clear from everybody’s testimony that day that he was in the bunker under the White House.

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Kathleen Janoski's avatar

Cheney and Rumsfeld pushed the toxic anthrax shots on US troops.

They also sent them into Iraq with soft-sided Humvees that resulted in horrific injuries and death caused by IEDs.

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Kurt's avatar

The bullet points of Cheney’s other offices reminds me of a scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. He held these five other offices. Three sir. Correction, three, other offices.

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Science is Political 2.0's avatar

Great post..

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Catholicgirl's avatar

And the hits just keep on coming. ..spot on AGAIN…..loved the inserted video and song ….love how articulate you are….love reading your stuff….it NEVER disappoints. 🙏💪👏👏👏👏🇺🇸❤️‍🩹. We all have a debt to settle in the end that we cannot escape….he ain’t no fortunate son nawwww nawwww…..

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denise ward's avatar

Goodbye to him!

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James Jones's avatar

"

Some folks are born made to wave the flag

Ooh, they're red, white and blue

And when the band plays "Hail to the Chief"

Ooh, they point the cannon at you, Lord

It ain't me, it ain't me

I ain't no senator's son, son

It ain't me, it ain't me

I ain't no fortunate one, no

Some folks are born silver spoon in hand

Lord, don't they help themselves, no

But when the taxman come to the door

Lord, the house lookin' like a rummage sale, yeah

It ain't me, it ain't me

I ain't no millionaire's son, no, no

It ain't me, it ain't me

I ain't no fortunate one, no

Yeah, some folks inherit star-spangled eyes

Ooh, they send you down to war, Lord

And when you ask 'em, "How much should we give?"

Ooh, they only answer, "More, more, more, more"

"

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Pete Lincoln's avatar

I believe he also facilitated 9/11.

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