New Photos show Bush Administration Reaction to 9/11 attacks
Source: PBS
n never-before-released photographs taken on Sept. 11, 2001, the shock, horror and gravity of the terrorist attacks can be read on the faces of President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, their wives Laura and Lynne, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, CIA Director George Tenet and other senior Bush and Cheney staffers.
The photos were released in response to a Freedom of Information Act request filed by Colette Neirouz Hanna, coordinating producer for the Kirk Documentary Group, which covered the Bush administration in many films for FRONTLINE, including Bush’s War, Cheney’s Law and The Dark Side.
The photographs, which were taken by the vice president’s staff photographer, show Cheney watching footage of the World Trade Center attack in his office. Other photos show Cheney and other senior staffers meeting in the President’s Emergency Operations Center, or the secure bunker deep underneath the White House.
Read more: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/new-photos-show-bush-administration-reaction-to-911-attacks/
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Response to irisblue (Reply #1)
Well the,n they should be proud of Obama instead of their criticism. They tried to sell that BS to the nation and the Republic0ns and FOX 'news' bought it...or pretended they did. 
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Why the hell is Laura Bush SMIRKING??!!?? 
This is how they felt on the inside.
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Because the only look I see on Bush's face is his usual confused look of "Who am I? What am I doing here? Where's the beer?" 
The Jet fuel in the planes melted several thousand tons of steel within minutes of the impact. Not possible on any large or small scale model, experiment or test, period
does the staff photographer just hang out in the v.p. office because - you never know what might happen?
Does Joe Biden share office space with a photographer?
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Right foot outstretched on his desk in his West Wing office watching live news coverage minutes after Flt. 175 hit the Second WTC tower (9:03am). That was just the first glimpse we have of the Vice President's odd and unexplained behavior and orders that morning.
Vice President Cheney effectively took control over the U.S. Government and acted as Commander-in-Chief as the attack unfolded on 9/11. His actions and decisions that day in the White House bunker became the focus of questions after the Secretary of Transportation, Normal Mineta, testified to the 9/11 Commission that Cheney had issued cryptic orders related to incoming aircraft approaching Washington, D.C. Mineta recalled events in the bunker that morning to the 9/11 Commission:
Some have questioned whether Secretary Mineta actually heard Cheney issue orders concerning Flt. 77, which had been detected approaching the Pentagon some minutes before it crashed at 9:37am. These new photos provide new context to the Vice President's actions.
According to the testimony of the supervising Secret Service agent, Carl Truscott, the White House bunker, the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) wasn't opened and top personnel evacuated there until after a Secret Service meeting at 9:18 am.
Put that together with Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta's testimony about his recollection of the Vice President's words and actions in the White House bunker. AA Flt. 77 smashed into the Pentagon at 9:37am; at 10:02, Flight 93 crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pa., 125 miles from Washington. This is Sec. Mineta's exchange with 9/11 Commissioner Lee Hamilton:
MR. MINETA: No, I was not. I was made aware of it during the time that the airplane coming into the Pentagon. There was a young man who had come in and said 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 orders 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?" Well, at the time I didn't know what all that meant. And --
MR. HAMILTON: The flight you're referring to is the --
MR. MINETA: The flight that came into the Pentagon.
MR. HAMILTON: The Pentagon, yeah.
MR. MINETA: And so I was not aware that that discussion had already taken place. But in listening to the conversation between the young man and the vice president, then at the time I didn't really recognize the significance of that. And then later I heard of the fact that the airplanes had been scrambled from Langley to come up to DC, but those planes were still about 10 minutes away. And so then, at the time we heard about the airplane that went into Pennsylvania, then I thought, "Oh, my God, did we shoot it down?" And then we had to, with the vice president, go through the Pentagon to check that out.
MR. HAMILTON: Let me see if I understand. The plane that was headed toward the Pentagon and was some miles away, there was an order to shoot that plane down.
MR. MINETA: Well, I don't know that specifically, but I do know that the airplanes were scrambled from Langley or from Norfolk, the Norfolk area. But I did not know about the orders specifically other than listening to that other conversation.
MR. HAMILTON: But there very clearly was an order to shoot commercial aircraft down.
MR. MINETA: Subsequently I found that out.
http://www.911myths.com/index.php/Norman_Mineta
The photos from that morning may help us better understand the timeline of events the morning of 9/11. We now know that Cheney was watching live network broadcast of the second WTA plane crash until he was hustled downstairs to the PEOC after 9:18, when the White House evacuation was ordered. It would have taken Sec. Mineta arriving by car at the White House during the evacuation at least five to ten minutes to reach the underground command center.
And as the minutes passed, the developing picture from air traffic control towers and radar screens became increasingly more alarming. Some aircraft could not be contacted. While on a normal day that may be just a communications snafu, we were faced with trying to quickly sort out minor problems from significant threats. We did not know how many more attacks might be in progress.
The FAA began to restrict air travel in the Northeast United States by a combination of actions which included sterilizing air space in certain regions and at various airports, and ultimately a nationwide ground stop of all aircraft for all locations, regardless of destination. Within a few minutes, American Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon.
If Mineta's recollection of events is correct -- the 9/11 Commission concluded he was "confused" and overheard a later conversation -- he would have entered the bunker just in time to overhear the Vice President's strange exchange with the aide during the last few minutes before Flt. 77 impacted the South Wall of the Pentagon at 9:37.
