Humint Events Online: Is Dick Cheney the 9/11 "Maestro"?

Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Is Dick Cheney the 9/11 "Maestro"?

Here is the case against him.

So was Dick Cheney the 9/11 "maestro"?

Frankly, I have a hard time believing he was orchestrating the attacks, as much as I dislike the man. The scenario Ruppert portrays makes sense but it also seems too transparent, too obvious. Would Cheney conduct such a horrendous attack in plain view of the White House staff like this? Also, I find it hard to see that much of what happened on 9/11 was affected by what Cheney was doing on the morning of 9/11. The attacks must have been planned well ahead of time.

Personally, I do not think Cheney was involved in the attack planning, and rather he was taken by surprise to some extent by what happened. Part of the reason for thinking this is the way Cheney went into seclusion after 9/11-- he seemed seriously freaked out. It is hard to believe this was all an act (but possible). Also, while Cheney likely knew something might happen on 9/11, for political cover he would want to "stay out of the loop" as much as possible.

Possibly, Cheney was framed in some way on the morning of 9/11, or that the exercise he was running backfired "unexpectedly" on him. My general opinion is that the 9/11 exercises went off in a very different way than Cheney planned.

The FTW article also mentions NATO commander Ralph Eberhart as an other possible 9/11 maestro. Unfortunately, it is extremely hard to know how much Eberhart knew about the 9/11 attacks ahead of time.

I think the key question, as always, with these wargames, is: was part of the drill to have remote-controlled planes targeted to specific structures?

Thus, what was the exact nature of the Vigilant Warrior hijacking drill?

Until we know the answers to those questions, it is almost impossible to assign blame for the attacks.


This article also has a good run-down on the NORAD wargames being run on 9/11.

And they mention yet ANOTHER 9/11 wargame: Northern Denial

That makes SIX different aircraft drills on 9/11!

1) Northern Vigilance
2) Northern Guardian
3) Vigilant Guardian
4) Vigilant Warrior
5) Northern Denial
6) NRO plane crash drill

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