Richard

Events (839)

• July 26, 2001: Cheney Turns Request for Records into Battle between White House, Congress 2001-07-26
• July 31, 2001: GAO Scales Back Request for Energy Task Force Documents 2001-07-31
• August 1, 2001: Cheney’s Lawyer Again Rebuffs GAO’s Request for Task Force Information 2001-08-01
• August 2, 2001: Cheney Accuses GAO of Exceeding Constitutional Authority in Energy Task Force Document Request 2001-08-02
• August 4-30, 2001: Bush Nearly Sets Record for Longest Presidential Vacation 2001-08-04
• August 14, 2001: Clinton Appointee Replaced at FERC by Enron Selection 2001-08-14
• August 17, 2001: GAO Chief Reiterates Position regarding Cheney Task Force Information 2001-08-17
• September 2, 2001: Time Magazine: Powell Increasingly Marginalized in Bush Administration 2001-09-02
• September 4, 2001: Cabinet-Rank Advisers Discuss Terrorism, Approve Revised Version of Clarke’s Eight Month-Old-Plan 2001-09-04
• September 6, 2001: Cheney’s Office Sends GAO List of ‘Support Staff’ 2001-09-06
• January 20-September 10, 2001: President Bush Briefed on Al-Qaeda over 40 Times 2001-09-10
• January 20-September 10, 2001: Bush Administration Very Secretive Even Before 9/11 2001-09-10
• September 10, 2001: Vice President Cheney’s Domestic Terrorism Task Force Finally Beginning to Hire Staff 2001-09-10
• September 10, 2001: Review of Counterterrorism Legislation May Take Six Months, Says Cheney Aide 2001-09-10
• (Late Afternoon) September 11, 2001: Blood Test Suggests Vice President Cheney Is in Imminent Danger of Suffering a Heart Attack 2001-09-11
• Evening, September 11, 2001: White House Staff, Including Cheney’s, Start Taking Anthrax Antibiotic Cipro 2001-09-11
• (Between 10:00 a.m. and 10:15 a.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush and Vice President Cheney Said to Confer on Shootdown Orders; 9/11 Commission Later Doubts Their Account 2001-09-11
• (Between 10:00 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.) September 11, 2001: Vice President Cheney Refuses to Give a Blood Sample, despite Possibly Having a Life-Threatening Condition 2001-09-11
• Shortly After 10:00 p.m. September 11, 2001: Vice President Cheney and Family Spend Night at Camp David 2001-09-11
• (After 10:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Vice President Cheney Assembles Legal Team for Expanding Presidential Power 2001-09-11
• (Between 10:10 a.m. and 10:15 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Vice President Cheney Is Told that Flight 93 Is Still Heading to Washington, Orders It Shot Down 2001-09-11
• 10:02 a.m. September 11, 2001: Secret Service Warns Vice President Cheney that Hijackers Are Headed Toward Washington 2001-09-11
• (After 10:06 a.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Is Told of Flight 93 Crash, Wonders If It Was Shot Down 2001-09-11
• (Shortly After 10:06 a.m.) September 11, 2001: CIA Director Tenet Tells Vice President Cheney Attackers Are ‘Done for the Day’ 2001-09-11
• 10:14 a.m.-10:19 a.m. September 11, 2001: White House Informs NMCC that Cheney Has Given Shootdown Authorization 2001-09-11
• (10:18 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Navy Commander Passes on Vice President Cheney’s Shootdown Authorization to the Pentagon 2001-09-11
• 10:18 a.m.-10:20 a.m. September 11, 2001: Cheney Calls Bush; Receives Shootdown Authorization, According to 9/11 Commission 2001-09-11
• (10:25 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Staff in White House Bunker Learns of Flight 93 Crash; Vice President Cheney Already Thinks an ‘Act of Heroism’ Occurred 2001-09-11
• (10:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Medevac Helicopter Provides Scare for Bunkered Vice President Cheney and Others 2001-09-11
• (10:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001: White House Receives Phone Call in Which Caller Threatens Air Force One 2001-09-11
• 10:32 a.m. September 11, 2001: Cheney Warns Bush of Apparent Threat to Air Force One; Official Account Murky, Disbelieved by Many 2001-09-11
• (10:45 a.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Heads for Louisiana on Air Force One, Following Warning from Cheney and Rice 2001-09-11
• (10:15 a.m.) September 11, 2001: DC Air National Guard Permitted to Shoot Down Threatening Planes over Washington 2001-09-11
• 10:39 a.m. September 11, 2001: Vice President Cheney Brings Defense Secretary Rumsfeld Up to Date, but Errs about Pilot Knowledge of Shootdown Order 2001-09-11
• 10:41 a.m. September 11, 2001: Cheney Calls Bush, Warns Him against Returning to Washington 2001-09-11
• (10:42 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Status of Three Planes Unknown; False Rumors Persist of More Terrorist Activity 2001-09-11
• (12:11 p.m.-1:20 p.m.) September 11, 2001: President Responds to Attacks from 8th Air Force Commander’s Office 2001-09-11
• (Shortly Before 12:30 p.m.) September 11, 2001: Richard Clarke Heads to White House Bunker; Told that Vice President Cheney Keeps Hanging up Clarke Telephone, and Cheney’s Wife is Interfering 2001-09-11
• (After 12:30 p.m.) September 11, 2001: Vice President’s Chief of Staff Libby Connects the Assassination of Northern Alliance Leader Massoud to the Attacks on the US 2001-09-11
• (12:58 p.m.-1:25 p.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Argues with Cheney and Others about Where He Should Go Next; Agrees to Stay Away from Washington 2001-09-11
• (Between 1:30 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.) September 11, 2001: Non-Essential Staff Removed from White House Bunker 2001-09-11
• (Between 2:50 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.) September 11, 2001: Vice President Cheney Tells Congressional Leaders They Cannot Return to Washington 2001-09-11
• (3:15 p.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Meets with Top Officials via Video Conference Call 2001-09-11
• 6:30 p.m. September 11, 2001: First Lady Driven to White House by Secret Service Agents, Taken to Underground Command Center 2001-09-11
• (Shortly Before 7:00 a.m.-7:45 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Vice President Cheney Receives Daily Intelligence Briefing; Heads to White House 2001-09-11
• 7:10 p.m. September 11, 2001: President Bush Reunited with First Lady in White House Underground Command Center 2001-09-11
• (8:25 a.m.-8:50 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Office of Management and Budget Deputy Director Speaks with Cheney Neither Can Later Recall What They Discuss 2001-09-11
• (8:30 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Some US Leaders Are Scattered; Others in D.C. 2001-09-11
• (8:50 a.m.-9:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Vice President Cheney’s Military Aide Learns of the First Crash, Goes to Cheney’s Office 2001-09-11
• (After 8:55 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Serious Communications Problems Experienced in Washington Area, Affect Key Government Officials 2001-09-11