Jesse Ventura On CNN : Dick Cheney Knew 9/11 Was Going To Happen

Dick Cheney declared himself president and commander in chief of the US military on 9/11. In the two years before the Sept. 11 attacks, the North American Aerospace Defense Command conducted exercises simulating what the White House says was unimaginable at the time: hijacked airliners used as weapons to crash into targets and cause mass casualties. One of the imagined targets was the World Trade Center. In another exercise, jets performed a mock shootdown over the Atlantic Ocean of a jet supposedly laden with chemical poisons headed toward a target in the United States. In a third scenario, the target was the Pentagon — but that drill was not run after Defense officials said it was unrealistic, NORAD and Defense officials say. NORAD, in a written statement, confirmed that such hijacking exercises occurred. It said the scenarios outlined were regional drills, not regularly scheduled continent-wide exercises."Numerous types of civilian and military aircraft were used as mock hijacked aircraft," the statement said. "These exercises tested track detection and identification; scramble and interception; hijack procedures; internal and external agency coordination and operational security and communications security procedures." A White House spokesman said Sunday that the Bush administration was not aware of the NORAD exercises. But the exercises using real aircraft show that at least one part of the government thought the possibility of such attacks, though unlikely, merited scrutiny. On April 8, the commission investigating the Sept. 11 attacks heard testimony from national security adviser Condoleezza Rice that the White House didn't anticipate hijacked planes being used as weapons. On April 12, a watchdog group, the Project on Government Oversight, released a copy of an e-mail written by a former NORAD official referring to the proposed exercise targeting the Pentagon. The e-mail said the simulation was not held because the Pentagon considered it "too unrealistic." President Bush said at a news conference Tuesday, "Nobody in our government, at least, and I don't think the prior government, could envision flying airplanes into buildings on such a massive scale."The exercises differed from the Sept. 11 attacks in one important respect: The planes in the simulation were coming from a foreign country. Until Sept. 11, NORAD was expected to defend the United States and Canada from aircraft based elsewhere. After the attacks, that responsibility broadened to include flights that originated in the two countries. But there were exceptions in the early drills, including one operation, planned in July 2001 and conducted later, that involved planes from airports in Utah and Washington state that were "hijacked." Those planes were escorted by U.S. and Canadian aircraft to airfields in British Columbia and Alaska.NORAD officials have acknowledged that "scriptwriters" for the drills included the idea of hijacked aircraft being used as weapons."Threats of killing hostages or crashing were left to the scriptwriters to invoke creativity and broaden the required response," Maj. Gen. Craig McKinley, a NORAD official, told the 9/11 commission. No exercise matched the specific events of Sept. 11, NORAD said."We have planned and executed numerous scenarios over the years to include aircraft originating from foreign airports penetrating our sovereign airspace," Gen. Ralph Eberhart, NORAD commander, told USA TODAY. "Regrettably, the tragic events of 9/11 were never anticipated or exercised."NORAD, a U.S.-Canadian command, was created in 1958 to guard against Soviet bombers. Until Sept. 11, 2001, NORAD conducted four major exercises a year. Most included a hijack scenario, but not all of those involved planes as weapons. Since the attacks, NORAD has conducted more than 100 exercises, all with mock hijackings. NORAD fighters based in Florida have intercepted two hijacked smaller aircraft since the Sept. 11 attacks. Both originated in Cuba and were escorted to Key West in spring 2003, NORAD said.

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[SuperBrokenpencil]

they all contain the same info.so look up any book on specific thing like ww2 and it will tell u how the war started for each country.the nazi created an excuse by framing poland,the britsx used their treaty with brussels etc aned the americans used pearl harbour by letting it happen just like 911

[IranContraScumDid911]

@SuperBrokenpencil America supplied Japan with all the scrap steel they needed AFTER they had begun their expansionist conquest in ASia. America supplied Japan with the oil and the blueprints for modern western weaponry. Japan took the scrap steel from America and made the worlds largest battleship, then used the steel battleship to attack us. American steel companies supplied Japan with steel AFTER Pearl Harbor. Nobody was ever tried for treason? Hmmmm.

[interfan63]

What a dumb accusation against a American vice-president . And what was the master plan? Getting their asses kicked for 9 years , accomplishing the lowest approval ratings since Nixon , and nothing ? Bad economy always produces conspiracy theories . During Clinton ,which we were also attacked by bin Laden , there was no "inside job".

[IranContraScumDid911]

@interfan63 The inside job was where the vice president made himself president before the president even had a chance to get on the phone. Dick Cheney and many others plotted to rewrite the US Constitution after 9/11 which he swore to protect. Read the Declaration of Independence, they warn about rewriting the government over a passing caveman and tell us people like you will follow despotism. The laws of motion and thermodynamics tell us that a caveman in the Himalayas is impossible theory

[thejacalofskaro74]

"There's a theory about everything". Yes Piers, like the theory that you are a massive twat.

[IranContraScumDid911]

@thejacalofskaro74 There is also the facts about everything, those facts Piers will not even discuss.

[TheGetjiggy]

MORE: People can only bury their head in the sand for so long. Sooner or later they're going to get a rude awaking and a blunt reminder that burying your head in the sand is a foolish thing to do. Do you think Germany didn't have a criminal government in 1939? You can ignore stark evidence but that won't make tyranny go away. That's why americans can carry guns - to fend-off tyranny if it should happen. This is why Obama wants your guns. You need to wake-up.

[TheGetjiggy]

@interfan63 If only you knew!! I'd never been inclined towards conspiracy theories but I AM aware that tyrants always create terrorist attacks to take peoples' rights from them. More than one president said America would be attacked through being infiltrated from within. Think about that. This is why Kennedy started producing state-owned currency instead of private-corporation currency from a family that was already known to be as crooked as a cucumber -hence his assassination.

[shooter686]

@SuperBrokenpencil Give me a few titles of such "history books".

"try research that doesnt involve pop up pics"

Why do you use CT websites to corroborate your research, when you should be doing it the other way around?

[SuperBrokenpencil]

@shooter686 no they are called history books an i use ct websites to confirm my hypothesis that americans are the missing link.

justb watched ramseys nightmares an guy thought that as he british he speaks english an it as different language

try research that doesnt involve pop up pics

[shooter686]

@SuperBrokenpencil "through defruading and deceiving the people as an EXCUSE to go to war this ww1,ww2,Korea,vietnam,iraq,afg­­hanistan."

Says the guy that uses CT websites as proof of anything.

[shooter686]

BREAKING NEWS...Fake SEAL gets punched and dropped by real SEAL.

Jesse got slammed like a wet noodle.

What a pansy.