Why Did the 9/11 Commission Lie about Vice President Cheneys Activities?
ONE SIGN OF THE COMPLICITY of Vice President Cheney is the fact that the 9/11 Commission evidently felt a need to lie about the time of two of his activities on the day of the attacks: his entry into the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC) under the White House and authorization to shoot down any hijacked airliners. It had been widely reported that Vice President Cheney had gone down to the PEOC shortly after the second strike on the WTC, hence about 9:15 a.m. The most compelling witness was Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, who testified to the 9/11 Commission that when he entered the PEOC at 9:20, Cheney was already there. The 9/11 Commission Report, however, claimed that Cheney did not enter the PEOC until “shortly before 10:00, perhaps at 9:58.” Mineta’s testimony was simply omitted from the final report of the Zelikow-led 9/11 Commission. Why would the Commission go to such lengths—telling an obvious lie and omitting publicly available evidence—to conceal the
