911 tangent what else 020108 ... *_the missing link_* clarchie scan. 020108 ... kelli crane can you hold please? 020115 ... HL they tell us we should feel safe but didn't they say that a year ago people looking out the windows and knowing the only way out is below burning buildings falling bodies the shit hit the fan like no one's business tears tumbling down faces frowns being bestowed everyone asking themselves "what is this?" they say everything's different now at least that's what they want us to believe they say everything's really different now lives wasted on warnings that no one would heed the government says if something happens with their power it'll be intercepted loaded weapons around millions of people and they call this "being protected" 020911 ... jayseehc I will remember. 020911 ... silentbob i will not care 020911 ... ~gez~ 999 here in england someone told me that if you dial 999 on your mobile and press call by mistake then the police can tell and will dismiss your call, i do not think it is possible, but if anyone can inform me of the technology implied then i would be very grateful to know 020911 ... BrotherDB Romeo, I miss your smile, or laugh, your warm and open heart. You never met a person you didn't like, and anyone who met you felt as though they had known you all their lives. You will always be more than just a stastic to me. Your kindness and friendship will be with me always. Although we move on without, we can only imagine how you would have reacted to the events of September 11, 2001. Kris Romeo Bishundat (Sept. 14, 1977-Sept. 11, 2001) Was Killed In The Attack On The Pentagon. 020911 ... Neal Bortz It would seem that the Neal Boortz bobblehead doll has attracted the interest of a young Afghan girl in Kabul. Also, if you could see the enlarged picture you would note that his golf club is broken. Probably the work of the Taliban who outlawed golf and cancelled the PGA Tour stop in Afghanistan when they took over. 021212 ... minnesota_chris In Romania, cell phones are all the rage. There, you prepay for your minutes, and when they're up, no more cell phone service. Except for emergency calls. So one day I was sitting on a park bench with some Romanian high schoolers, they were smoking of course. And they explained the whole "no money no minutes" thing to me. They decided they were going to call the fire department and say they were so hot! 021212 ... that girl over there a sensible hypothetical... "911. state your emergency." "yes, i live at 69 Focker Lane. i've just shot and killed an intruder. please come quickly!" ::hangs up the phone:: ::aims .38 special at Neal Boortz:: "FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE FIRE!...stay down now!" ::sits back on comfy leather sofa and awaits many uniformed officers, with a stiff shot of whiskey in hand:: 021212 ... that girl over there just teasing! 021212 ... niska HIT ME! somebody call the ambulance! dan-naaaa... 911 IS A JOKE! just dumb memories. you go, flava flav... 030405 ... kx21 EU 911 = US 911 + 911 Days 040316 ... kx21 Former US Counterterrorism Adviser Richard Clarke "Your government failed you, those entrusted with protecting you failed you and I failed you." http://story.news.yahoo.com/fc?cid=34&tmpl=fc&in=US&cat=Terrorism 040329 ... z i was there 040329 ... kx21 The Butterfly_effect of its ' Shock_and_Awe ':- White_House's_911... 040409 ... zeke it was the most cooperative merge i have ever been in. we just blended togrther, through the door and began a nearly silent descent down the stairs. as i neared the bottom, i became aware that the relative peace was being broken by someone shouting "out! out! get the fuck out! get fucking out! out." she was creaming at the top of her lungs. I rounded switchback of the last half a flight and was confronted with a security gaurd, holding a door (to the lower level of the mall) propping it open with her hip, waving in big armed circles. in her waving right she held a walkie talkie which was squalking as loudly as it was able. what had been a relatively ordered descent became a wild stampede as we neared the bottom. of course as i raced from the last step to the bottom of the well, i miscounted, expecting one fewer and fell, skidding onto my back. i was not hurt. it was then that i discovered that i had grabbed my iced tea, which was now upended on my chest. i was up and through the door, passed the gaurd who was now yelling "go, go, go go!"in the mall i found that i was near the south west exit. up a flight and a half to the double glass doors and out onto liberty street and into a sea of chaos. 040410 ... zeke outside on liberty and church was total pandemonium. being alone and not liking big insane crowds, i looked around to see what had happened. toewr 1 was burning, you have all seen the images. i reasoned that the leeward side of tower 2 was a good place to shelter and get my bearings. i made a call from there on my cell (the last for 3 and a half hours) which was cut off by the explosion from the second plane going in 60 stories up. blue sky then black and orange. big noise like in the movies. it sounded like a rocket coming in. obviously i had to run. the hole on the south side was closer to the east than west, was unbelievably big, and had an angled linear depression from the wings. they must have just folded in. more later 040412 ... iMay172004 iLink:- "Live_systematic_terrorist_acts_on_earth" George Soros on Monday stepped up his attack on President Bush's international policies:- "the U.S. war on terror had claimed more innocent lives than the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States." 040517 ... iMay182004 Time & Causality of "the_images_of_Americians"... 040518 ... iMay182004 Time & Causality of "the_images_of_Americans"... 040518 ... May252004 More "911"? Given Report: al-Qaida Ranks Swelling Worldwide 1 hour, 37 minutes ago LONDON - Far from being crippled by the U.S.-led war on terror, al-Qaida has more than 18,000 potential terrorists scattered around the world and the war in Iraq is swelling its ranks,... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=6&u=/ap/20040525/ap_on_re_eu/al_qaida_6 040525 ... iMay252004 Specifically, "a_wrong_war_in_the_21st_century" 040525 ... America Attacked 911 Flash File, Stephen Golding, 2001, 19:02 minutes] Memorial to the victims of 9/11 and a call for military retaliation. Warning: This digital creation contains graphic images that some viewers may find offensive. http://www.911digitalarchive.org/diganimbackup/americaattacked/index1.html 040630 ... kx21 iLink:- The_Message_from_Heaven 040630 ... The_missing_dot http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=1&u=/ap/20040721/ap_on_re_us/attacks_surveillance_video 58 minutes ago Video Shows 9/11 Hijackers' Security Check 040721 ... dudeinanigloo I watched it live on TV in grade 8. We skipped all of English to watch it. 040722 ... 11 Sep 2004 906 + 5... 040906 ... 9 Sep 2004 AP Poll: Fear of Terror Attack Persists Thu Sep 9, 1:26 PM ET WASHINGTON - Americans today are as fearful of becoming victims of terrorism as they are of losing their jobs or having their homes burglarized. http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/sept_11_ap_poll 040910 ... 10 Sep 2004 Kin to Honor 9/11 Victims on Anniversary 2 hours, 20 minutes ago 911 - 1 + 3 Years 040910 ... 911 A September 11, 2001 file photo shows a group of firefighters walk amid rubble near the base of the destroyed South World Trade Center in New York http://us.news1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20040910/s/r2990007256.jpg 040911 ... . Flash File, Stephen Golding, 2001, 19:02 minutes] Warning: This digital creation contains graphic images that some viewers may find offensive. http://www.911digitalarchive.org/diganimbackup/americaattacked/index1.html 040911 ... . ...while other foreign protesters such as these Islamists in Pakistan marked the day with anti-US rallies.:- http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40059000/jpg/_40059834_rally-ap-300x220.jpg 040911 ... 26th day "Sep. 11 2004" a_pet_within_100_days_'soda_flavor'_everywhere 040914 ... an "amazing" newslink Moment by moment Sept. 11-14, 2001 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6741862/ 041221 ... andru235 ever seen a building blown with dynamite tucked in its stone? strange to see those towers fall i don't think it was planes at all then again, what do i know? i've only my life's evidence to show and though i've seen ten buildings razed the people are yet clearly dazed 041229 ... 911 what's your emergency? 050201 ... 1 hour 49 minutes ago Report: FAA Had 52 Pre-9/11 Warnings 2102005 050210 ... link United 93 060428 ... Osama Bin Laden tape denies Moussaoui in 9/11 060523 ... Yahoo! Search about 3,970,000 for Moussaoui in 9/11 060523 ... Yahoo! Search propaganda_911 070730 ... sadefasefaefaes Crossing the Rubicon Simplifying the case against Dick Cheney by Michael Kane January 18, 2005 (FTW) - In an argument of over 600 pages and 1,000 footnotes, Crossing the Rubicon makes the case for official complicity within the U.S. government and names Dick Cheney as the prime suspect in the crimes of 9/11. Since the publication of this book (to which I had the privilege of contributing a chapter), many people have asked to hear the case against Cheney argued "short & sweet." I will make it as short as possible, but it can never be sweet. There are 3 major points made within this book that are crucial to proving Cheney's guilt. I shall first list them and then go on to prove each point as laid out in Crossing the Rubicon. Means - Dick Cheney and the Secret Service: Dick Cheney was running a completely separate chain of Command & Control via the Secret Service, assuring the paralysis of Air Force response on 9/11. The Secret Service has the technology to see the same radar screens the FAA sees in real time. They also have the legal authority and technological capability to take supreme command in cases of national emergency. Dick Cheney was the acting Commander in Chief on 9/11. (Click here for a summary of these points) Motive - Peak Oil: At some point between 2000 and 2007, world oil production reaches its peak; from that point on, every barrel of oil is going to be harder to find, more expensive to recover, and more valuable to those who recover and control it. Dick Cheney was well aware of the coming Peak Oil crisis at least as early as 1999, and 9/11 provided the pretext for the series of energy wars that Cheney stated, "will not end in our lifetime." (Click here for a summary of these points) Opportunity - 9/11 War Games: The Air Force was running multiple war games on the morning of 9/11 simulating hijackings over the continental United States that included (at least) one "live-fly" exercise as well as simulations that placed "false blips" on FAA radar screens. These war games eerily mirrored the real events of 9/11 to the point of the Air Force running drills involving hijacked aircraft as the 9/11 plot actually unfolded. The war games & terror drills played a critical role in ensuring no Air Force fighter jocks - who had trained their entire lives for this moment - would be able to prevent the attacks from succeeding. These exercises were under Dick Cheney's management. (Click here for a summary of these points) Here is the supporting documentation as laid out in Crossing the Rubicon, making a legal case against Dick Cheney for the crimes of 9/11. • MEANS: Dick Cheney and the Secret Service As the 9/11 plot unfolded, it has been reported that Secret Service whisked Dick Cheney into an underground presidential bunker at 9:03. 1 This establishes that the Secret Service was in the loop giving orders by at least 9:03, and almost certainly much earlier, as we will show. Former counter-terrorism advisor Richard Clarke writes in Against All Enemies: "Secret Service had a system that allowed them to see what FAA's radar was seeing." The Kean Commission (also known as the 9/11 Commission) would have us believe that the chain of command on 9/11 was a complex web, but in reality the Secret Service had the authority to communicate presidential and vice presidential orders directly to fighter pilots in the air. 2 In Air War Over America, a book commissioned by the Air Force documenting the morning of 9/11, it is stated that the FAA contacted Otis Air Force base informing them Flight 11 was headed to Manhattan and had lost its identification signal by 8:30. 3 This indicates Secret Service was in the loop by the same time, or shortly thereafter, since they are able to see FAA radar screens in real time and FAA is reaching out to the military. There is no question that by 8:45 at the absolute latest, likely much earlier, Secret Service is in the decision-making loop. They were most likely in the loop after 8:15 when flight 11 turned its transponder off. National Special Security Event It is the Secret Service who has the legal mandate to take supreme command in case of a scheduled major event - or an unplanned major emergency - on American soil; these are designated "National Special Security Events." The Atlanta Olympic Games and the Republican & Democratic National Conventions are notable examples of NSSE's. In preparation, the Secret Service runs training initiatives of simulated attacks and field exercises for such events. 4 The Secret Service works with state and local authorities as well as the military to coordinate security efforts; it has the best communication system of any agency in the country; and its personnel are always present with both the President and Vice President - making it the perfect agency to take supreme command in case of a major emergency on American soil. 5 When 9/11 occurred, the legal framework was in place to allow the Secret Service to take supreme command over any and all American agencies, including the Air Force. 6 Richard Clarke writes in Against All Enemies: "I was amazed at the speed of the decisions coming from Cheney and, through him, from Bush." 7 This is to be expected. Everything was in place for the Commander in Chief to be calling all the shots as the 9/11 plot unfolded, but Bush was in an elementary school reading about goats with Secret Service agents right beside him. Bush's Secret Service detail was in real-time communication not only with the FAA, but also the PEOC (Presidential Emergency Operations Center), into which Dick Cheney had reportedly been whisked by the Secret Service. While Bush continued his elementary school photo-op after being told, "America is under attack," Ari Fleischer - according to the Washington Times, 10/7/02 - caught the president's eye and held up a handwritten sign that said "DON'T SAY ANYTHING YET." 8 Bush was intentionally being kept out of the decision-making loop during the critical moments of 9/11. The Vice President has no place in the official military chain of command.9 Thus far we have established that: Secret Service was the supreme command on 9/11. Bush was not in the role of Commander in Chief at critical times on 9/11. The acting Commander in Chief as the 9/11 plot unfolded was Dick Cheney. • MOTIVE: Peak Oil By definition, world hydrocarbon (oil and gas) production peaks when half the planet's reserves have been used up. After that point, every barrel of oil will be harder to find, more expensive to obtain, and more valuable to whoever controls it. Many of the world's foremost experts place that peak between 2000 and 2007. We live in a global economic system based on endless growth, and that growth is only possible with endless hydrocarbons to burn. Demand for oil and gas is increasing at staggering rates; after peak, there will be demand that simply cannot be met, and energy prices will rise inexorably. The resulting economic catastrophe may see oil hit $100 per barrel before the end of this decade. Oil not only keeps us warm and moves our cars, it is used to make all plastics and is, together with natural gas, the most important ingredient keeping modern agriculture afloat. It is a little known fact that for every 1 calorie of food energy produced, 10 calories of hydrocarbons are consumed. 10 We eat oil. Without cheap oil, billions of people will freeze or starve and unfortunately, there is no combination of renewable energy sources that can replace oil and gas consumption without massive conservation efforts that are nowhere in sight. Cheney knew about this. There are no national plans for conservation in America. As Dick Cheney has stated, "The American way of life is not negotiable." Over-consumption is as American as apple pie. Many industry experts have been speaking to the reality of Peak Oil for some time. One of those experts - perhaps the most prominent in the world - was in Dick Cheney's National Energy Policy Development Group (NEPDG). Just four days after Dick Cheney became Vice President he convened the NEPDG. 11 Among the experts whose opinion Cheney paid for (with taxpayer dollars) was Matthew Simmons, one of the most respected energy investment bankers in the world. Simmons has been speaking out about Peak Oil for years, and there is no question that the urgent story of Peak Oil is what he told Cheney's NEPDG. The content of the NEPDG documentation has been illegally withheld from the American public with a rubber stamp of approval from the Supreme Court. FTW has always contended that the deepest, darkest secrets of 9/11 are in those documents. That's why they've been guarded so tightly. Cheney knew about Peak Oil in 1999 as CEO of Halliburton, long before was Vice President. A speech he gave at the London Institute of Petroleum demonstrates this clearly. 12 As stated in Crossing the Rubicon, "By way of confirmation, people in and close to the oil industry are reporting that increased drilling is not resulting as yet in significantly increased supply." 13 A crisis of this magnitude required a crisis plan, something the Neo-Liberals didn't have. The Neo-Conservatives, including Dick Cheney, had such a plan: manufacture a crisis - one that had long been imagined as necessary by elite planners inside the national security state 14- and use it to maintain permanent war to steal the world's last remaining hydrocarbons and temporarily stave off the Peak Oil crisis. • OPPORTUNITY: 9/11 War Games - a perfect "match" On May 8, 2001 - four months prior to 9/11 - the president placed Dick Cheney in charge of "[A]ll federal programs dealing with weapons of mass destruction consequence management within the Departments of Defense, Health and Human Services, Justice, and Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other federal agencies…" This included all "training and planning" which needed to be "seamlessly integrated, harmonious and comprehensive" in order to "maximize effectiveness." This mandate created the Office of National Preparedness in FEMA, overseen by Dick Cheney. 15 Dick Cheney was placed directly in charge of managing the seamless integration of all training exercises throughout the entire federal government and all military agencies. On 9/11 Cheney oversaw multiple war games and terror drills, including several exercises of NORAD, the Air Force agency whose mandate is to "watch the sky." The evening before September 11th, 2001, the National Security Agency intercepted a communication between Khalid Shaikh Muhammad and the alleged ringleader of the 9/11 attacks, Mohammed Atta. The communication stated, "The match is about to begin." Were they "matching" their activities to the war games? Was the attack a rigged "match" between the defenders on one side, and the attackers with their accomplices on the other? The Whitehouse was so infuriated when this communication leaked from the Senate Intelligence Committee that they threatened Senators with polygraphs and office searches for disclosing classified information. This leak struck a nerve within the Whitehouse. We know multiple Air Force war games were running on the morning of 9/11, as documented extensively in the mainstream press. 16 What Crossing the Rubicon has documented conclusively is that there was a live-fly drill taking place on 9/11 titled Vigilant Warrior. Richard Clarke disclosed the name of this drill on page 4 of his book, but it was Major Don Arias of NORAD who confirmed the definition of the title "Warrior" to Mike Ruppert via email. Warrior = JCS/HQ NORAD sponsored FTX, or field training exercise (live-fly). 17 That means that the Vigilant Warrior drill conducted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff involved at least one real commercial aircraft in the skies, intended to simulate exactly the kind of airliner hijack emergency presented on 9/11. Coincidence? This was further supported by an April 18 2004 USA Today article titled, "NORAD had drills of jets as weapons." The report cited NORAD officials who confirmed live-fly drills were conducted using hijacked airliners originating from the continental United States used as weapons crashing into targets including the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The specific drill USA Today referred to was "planned in July [2001] and conducted later" - likely on 9/11 itself. 18 Remember, on 9/11 the Bush administration claimed it had "no idea" aircraft would be used as weapons. Then why were they drilling such scenarios before and during 9/11? The Whitehouse dodged this by saying it wasn't aware of these drills but that is a transparent lie. The drills took place in the Whitehouse! 19 Secret Service runs simulated attack field exercises - exactly what Vigilant Warrior was. This Joint Chiefs of Staff drill was likely being run through Secret Service lines of communication by a central command under Cheney's control. 20 Additional war games on 9/11 included Northern Vigilance, an exercise that pulled Air Force fighters from the east coast of the United States up into Canada and Alaska simulating an attack out of Russia. All of those fighters were rendered useless as the 9/11 plot unfolded - too far away to respond. One of the components of this drill included "false blips" (radar injects simulating aircraft in flight) placed on FAA radar screens. 21 At one point FAA head Jane Garvey said they suspected up to 11 hijackings on 9/11. Was she saying they couldn't determine which were real, which were simulated, and which were live-fly military exercises? Regardless, all of this rendered Air Force response on 9/11 useless. In Air War Over America it is documented that General Arnold of NORAD didn't pull out of the war game titled Vigilant Guardian until reports of flight 93 being hijacked were coming in. That was at 9:16, a total of 54 minutes after it was known that flight 11 was a hijacking. 22 What took so long? Were there still "false blips" on FAA radar screens at this time? There were likely false blips on screen even after 9:16. The Kean Commission's report introduced "phantom flight-11" as being reported by the FAA at 9:25 on 9/11. The FAA reported flight 11 was heading to Washington D.C. at that time when in fact it had already struck the World Trade Center. The Kean Commission's report stated they were "unable to locate the source of the mistaken FAA information." 23 "Phantom flight-11" was a false blip, but since the war games are classified, specific information on "false blips" and other details can't be reported. Now imagine being an air traffic controller with both real planes and "false blips" simulating hijackings on your screens when suddenly there are real, multiple, hijackings. Where do you send the few Air Force fighters that you have? You can't guess wrong, you don't have enough assets for that. The FAA doesn't even make that decision, the military does. The Kean Commission managed to scapegoat the FAA in their report, but the Air Force itself confirmed the FAA did its job properly on 9/11 in Air War Over America. 24 There were more 9/11 war games including Northern Guardian, Northern Denial (recently confirmed by an Assistant Editor at Harper's magazine) and an unnamed National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) drill for a plane crashing into NRO headquarters at precisely the time of an actual crash in New York. Another coincidence? War games, terror drills and exercises are run by the military quite frequently. In this case, they mirrored the real attacks of 9/11 with such shocking congruence as to be beyond the realm of coincidence. This is made clear when we consider the warnings that had flooded U.S. Intelligence prior to 9/11, indicating that terrorists were planning to hijack aircraft and crash them into American targets on the ground during the week of September 9th, 2001. 25 With that type of information, who in their right mind would then schedule war games that would leave New York and Washington D.C. completely undefended? We've already shown that the man in charge of managing all such programs was Dick Cheney. Among the central decision-makers for the scheduling of so many simultaneous exercises would be Dick Cheney and Ralph Eberhart, head of NORAD. It certainly was a perfect "match." The Maestro The most important revelation made about the 9/11 war games comes again from Major Don Arias of NORAD. With multiple war games running, there had to be someone coordinating them. "Yes, there is an exercise maestro," said Don Arias in a phone interview. 26 So who was the maestro? Mike Ruppert called every relevant military and government office looking for an answer to this question and received no response. At the final 9/11 Commission hearing on June 17, 2004, I asked General Ralph Eberhart - the man in charge of NORAD on 9/11 - who was in charge of coordinating the war games that day. His only response was, "No comment." None of the commissioners, including Chairman Kean, could answer this question. 27 FTW's research has concluded the maestro was either Dick Cheney, Ralph "Ed" Eberhart, or both. Whoever the maestro was, he was certainly under Cheney's management as per the May 2001 presidential mandate. Additionally, Tripod II was a bio-terror exercise being set-up on the west side of lower Manhattan, reportedly scheduled to begin the next day. This exercise was being coordinated with FEMA and the Department of Justice - two of the agencies placed directly under Cheney's control in May of 2001 by presidential mandate. Another coincidence? There is no question that Cheney would be responsible for managing this exercise. The Tripod II drill became the command & control emergency response center on 9/11. The command center in WTC 7 was reportedly evacuated by 9:30 on 9/11, but Tripod II provided a new command center organized just as the original was. 28 How convenient. The Air Force war games ensured the air attack would be successful, and Tripod II assured Cheney would have control of the response to the crisis of his making. Matching the war games with hijackings - or hijacking the war games - was the opportunity for Cheney to help ensure the 9/11 attacks would be successful, justifying what he calls, "The war that will not end in our lifetimes." The "war on terror" is actually a war for the world's last remaining hydrocarbon reserves. This energy war is a response to a coming energy crisis that Cheney was well aware of at least as early as 1999. Conclusion Crossing the Rubicon demonstrates much more than is presented here. The book goes into the failures of the 9/11 Commission, 9/11 insider trading, the curtailing of civil liberties, coming economic crisis, biological warfare, the real history of the Osama bin Laden, and many other issues critical to an understanding of today's historical reality. Crossing the Rubicon also looks into the evolution of PROMIS software, a well-documented artificial intelligence and datamining program whose current descendants played an integral role in the crimes of 9/11. As Dick Cheney was running a separate chain of command via the Secret Service, he also had the capability to intervene in the functions of the FAA through an evolution of PROMIS software developed and sold by Ptech, Inc. - a company funded by Saudi terrorist financier Yassin Al Qadi. Al Qadi claims he met Dick Cheney in Jeddah before he was Vice President, a claim Cheney hasn't publicly refuted. FTW will soon be releasing an in-depth report on Ptech and its role in the crimes of 9/11. What we have placed in front of you here is the legal case against Dick Cheney and other persons of interest within the U.S. government. Such evidence should constitute the foundation for articles of impeachment and criminal prosecution against George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and their accomplices. - I CHECKED THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE TO VERIFY WHETHER OR NOT IT IS TRUE. HERE IS THE INFORMATION I HAVE GATHERED SO FAR AS WELL AS LINKS TO MY SOURCES. 1.) The existence of NSSEs and the role of the secret service NATIONAL SPECIAL SECURITY EVENTS In May of 1998, President Clinton issued Presidential Decision Directive 62 (PDD-62). In effect, this directive formalized and delineated the roles and responsibilities of federal agencies in the development of security plans for major events. The clarifying of responsibilities serves to focus more clearly the role of each agency and eliminate the duplication of efforts and resources. In 2000, the Presidential Protection Act of 2000 became public law. Included in the bill, signed on December 19, was an amendment to Title 18, USC § 3056 which codified PDD-62. Now, with the support of federal law, the Secret Service is authorized to participate "in the planning, coordination and implementation of security operations at special events of national significance." When an event is designated by the Secretary of Homeland Security as a National Special Security Event (NSSE), the Secret Service assumes its mandated role as the lead agency for the design and implementation of the operational security plan. The Secret Service has developed a core strategy to carry out its security operations, which relies heavily on its established partnerships with law enforcement and public safety officials at the local, state and federal levels. The goal of the cooperating agencies is to provide a safe and secure environment for Secret Service protectees, other dignitaries, the event participants and the general public. There is a tremendous amount of advance planning and coordination in preparation for these events, particularly in the areas of venue and motorcade route security, communications, credentialing and training. -link to source www.secretservice.gov 2.)WHO WAS IN CHARGE AS ACTING COMMANDER IN CHIEF ON 9/11? (obviously not the president) and Bush's reactions were very strange as well. He was definitely aware of Cheney's plot against America. You may have heard the strange story of how George Bush claimed to have seen the first plane hit the World Trade Tower on a television in Booker Elementary School before going into a classroom to hear some children read. This is a strange story because there were no live broadcasts of this impact at that time. Still stranger was Bush's reaction on being told of the second impact by chief of staff Andrew Card. There was none. Bush simply went on with the school visit and listened to children reading about a pet goat. For twenty minutes. But far more telling than Bush's reaction is that of Card himself who steps in to inform Bush of the second impact (without mentioning the fact that more hijacked planes were in the air), then immediately steps back without waiting for a reply. Bush's job is to make decisions. How does Card know that Bush will not make one then and there? What damns the Bush administration is not what is in this video, but what SHOULD be in the video and is not. Ostensibly, Bush and Card are reacting to a surprise attack, but Card acts like he is delivering a progress report to which he knows there will be no immediate response rather than unexpected news, and Bush does not act surprised. The only source to describe what happened next is Fighting Back by Bill Sammon. Publishers Weekly described Sammon's book as an "inside account of the Bush administration's reaction to 9-11 [and] a breathless, highly complimentary portrait of the president [showing] the great merit and unwavering moral vision of his inner circle." [Publisher's Weekly, 10/15/02] Sammon's conservative perspective makes his account of Bush's behavior at the end of the photo-op all the more surprising. Bush is described as smiling and chatting with the children "as if he didn't have a care in the world" and "in the most relaxed manner imaginable." White House aide Gordon Johndroe, then came in as he usually does at the end of press conferences, and said, "Thank you, press. If you could step out the door we came in, please." A reporter then asked, "Mr. President, are you aware of the reports of the plane crash in New York? Is there anything...", But Bush interrupted, and no doubt recalling his order, "DON'T SAY ANYTHING YET," Bush responded, "I'll talk about it later." But still the president did not leave. "He stepped forward and shook hands with [classroom teacher] Daniels, slipping his left hand behind her in another photo-op pose. He was taking his good old time. ... Bush lingered until the press was gone." [Fighting Back: The War on Terrorism - From Inside the Bush White House, by Bill Sammon, 10/02, p. 90] [cooperativeresearch] “I remember once the Secret Service thought they had another threat and tried to get the president to leave,” [Karen Hughes, a senior counselor to George W. Bush] said. “And he insisted that he wasn’t leaving. I'll never forget, he said: ‘In fact, I’m hungry. I want a hamburger.’ [MSNBC] President Bush knew the twin towers had been hit by commercial airliners. An unknown number of people were dead or injured, and some were jumping from the towers, but the main concern of the US forces commander-in-chief was getting a hamburger. How did he know it was safe to stick around and ask for a burger? How did he know he was not making targets of the school staff and students by staying with them? 110906 what's it to you? who go blather from