[–] OWNtheNWO [S] 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
He definitely knew, control of NORAD was ceded, for the first time in it's history from the join chiefs to the SecDef and VP just weeks before 9/11. Concurrently eyewitness testimony by under sec of transportation Norman Mineta puts Cheney in charge of the stand down order in the bunker as an aid kept coming up to him and telling him the cruise missile headed for the Pentagon was "15 miles out... 10 miles out.. do the orders still stand?".