Vancouver Hearings—Evidentiary Submission #2 of 5 by James H. Fetzer, Ph.D.

[James H. Fetzer]

Vancouver Hearings—Evidentiary Submission #2 of 5 by James H. Fetzer, Ph.D.

At the Vancouver Hearings, held 15-17 June 2012, judges asked participants to write an evidentiary submission of at least two persons regarding their complicity in the 9/11 plot.

I submit the names of Philip Zelikow, Richard B. Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, and Lt. Col. Steve O’Brien, MANG, based upon the facts as noted and sourced below.

Name: Richard B. Cheney

Title at the Time of his Offense:  Vice President of the United States

Probable Cause:  In his capacity as Vice President of United States, Richard Cheney issued orders that a plane approaching the Pentagon not be shot down, which thus allowed the plane to approach the building unimpeded. This appears to have been the plane that flew toward and then swerved over the Pentagon, while explosives were set off in the building, in an elaborate charade, which was used as the pretext for the following “declaration of war”, and to justify invasions of Afghanistan and of Iraq; and subsequently made false claims about the events of 9/11.  Consider the following:

Department of Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta tesified to The 9/11 Commission about his experience in the Presidential Emergency Operating Center with Vice President Richard Cheney, as (what would be identified as)  American Airlines Flight 77 approached the Pentagon. According to Mineta, the vice president was asked about orders concerning the approaching aircraft:

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. 11

Commissioner Lee Hamilton queried if the order was to shoot down the plane, to which Mineta replied that he did not know that specifically.¹²  That interpretation, moreover, appears to be inconsistent with the aide’s concern.  Since planes were being used as weapons, an order to shoot it down should not have caused any concern:  You lose the pilots and the passengers, but not the personnel and the property that is being targeted.  Instead,125 lives were lost at the Pentagon. 13 

Mineta's testimony to the Commission on Flight 77 differs rather significantly from the account provided in the 22 January 2002 edition of The Washington Post, as reported by Bob Woodward and Dan Balz in the series "10 Days in September".14 This article reports that the conversation between Cheney and the aide occurred at 9:55 am, about 30 minutes later than the time Mineta cited (9:26 am) during his testimony to the 9/11 Commission.  However, Cheney’s earlier arrival was independently confirmed both by Condoleezza Rice15 and by Richard Clarke. 16

Cheney’s remarks on “Meet the Press” (16 September 2001) support the earlier entry, ¹⁷ as does a newly discovered Secret Service document.¹⁸   The Woodward and Balz article thus appears to have been an effort to conceal his earlier arrival at the bunker, when the exchange with the aide occurred. Remarkably, the day after I appeared on “Hannity & Colmes” and reported Mineta’s testimony on FOX NEWS, ¹⁹ The White House announced that he had retired from the government. ²⁰

SUMMARY:  News leaks are a tried and true method for disseminating both true information (when it would be helpful) and false (when it would be more helpful). The Woodward and Balz article appears to have been intended to defect public attention from Cheney’s presence prior to the alleged hit on the Pentagon, since his order—that it not be shot down—facilitated the fabrication of a fake attack.  It therefore reflects the consciousness of guilt, as did the abrupt “retirement” of the Transportation Secretary immediately after I publicized his story on FOX NEWS.

The Pentagon is among the most heavily defended building in the world. If the order had been to shoot it down, it would have been shot down.  The plane now appears to have been a prop in an elaborate charade.  This makes Cheney not only an accessory after the fact but an accomplice to the mass murder of 125 persons. While this aircraft itself does not appear to have been their cause of death (because they appear to have been killed by a series of explosions that simulated a plane crash), many of the dead were budget analysts and financial experts attempting to locate the $2.3 trillion Rumsfeld reported missing on 9/10.

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11 Mineta’s testimony is at http://www.9-11commission.gov/archive/hearing2/9-11Commission_Heari...

¹² http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Mineta#cite_note-Commission_Hea...

¹³ http://libertyforlife.com/eye-openers/911/pentagon_missile_911_vict...

¹⁴ Dan Balz and Bob Woodward, “10 Days in September”, The Washington Post, http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42754-2002Jan26_3.html

¹⁵ David Ray Griiffin, “9/11 Contradictions: When Did Cheney Enter the Underground Bunker?” http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8788

¹⁶ Griiffin, http://globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8788

¹⁷ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibdl2OogFPI

¹⁸ http://forums.randi.org/showpost.php?p=6959886&postcount=131

¹⁹  22 June 2006, First appearance on “Hannity & Colmes” discussing Mineta’s 9/11 testimony: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQInlZvb_E8

²⁰ 23 June 2006, Announcement of Mineta’s retirement: http://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/news/releases/2006/06/20...