Richard

Events (839)

• (Between 8:48 a.m. and 9:00 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Vice President Cheney Sees Footage of WTC Crash on Television, but Allegedly Does Not Realize It Is Terrorism 2001-09-11
• Shortly After 9:03 a.m. September 11, 2001: Secret Service Learns of Additional Suspicious Planes, but Vice President’s Agents Supposedly Not Alerted 2001-09-11
• (Shortly After 9:03 a.m.) September 11, 2001: White House Officials Reportedly Converge on Vice President Cheney’s Office, but Accounts Conflict 2001-09-11
• Shortly After 9:03 a.m. September 11, 2001: Vice President Cheney’s Daughter Calls Father about Crash at the WTC 2001-09-11
• (9:04 a.m.-9:45 a.m.) September 11, 2001: House Speaker Has Problems Contacting the Vice President; Receives Nuisance Call 2001-09-11
• (Between 9:04 a.m. and 9:36 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Vice President Cheney’s Special Assistant Is Worried that the White House Might Be Attacked 2001-09-11
• (9:05 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Clarke, Cheney, and Rice Talk; Clarke Concludes that Al-Qaeda Is behind Attacks 2001-09-11
• (9:10 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Cheney Apparently Goes to White House Bunker; Other Accounts Have Him Moving Locations Later 2001-09-11
• (9:16 a.m.-9:29 a.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Works on Speech with Staff; Makes No Decisions 2001-09-11
• (Between 9:20 a.m. and 9:27 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Transportation Secretary Mineta Reaches Bunker, Meets Vice President Cheney 2001-09-11
• (Between 9:22 a.m. and 9:40 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Airline Managers Join Teleconference but Receive No Guidance; Timing Unclear 2001-09-11
• (9:26 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Cheney Given Updates on Unidentified Flight 77 Heading toward Washington; Says ‘Orders Still Stand’ 2001-09-11
• (9:29 a.m.-9:37 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Pentagon Command Center Begins High Level Conference Call 2001-09-11
• (9:33 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Reagan Airport Informs Secret Service about Aircraft Approaching the White House, but Cheney Reportedly Not Evacuated 2001-09-11
• (9:35 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Secret Service, Concerned about Aircraft Approaching the White House, Orders Evacuation of Vice President Cheney 2001-09-11
• (Shortly After 9:35 a.m.) September 11, 2001: DC Air National Guard Officer Receives Call from Secret Service at White House, Requesting Armed Fighters 2001-09-11
• (9:36 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Vice President Cheney Evacuated from Office, according to Some Accounts 2001-09-11
• (9:35 a.m.-9:36 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Several Witnesses See Helicopter near the Pentagon 2001-09-11
• (9:37 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Vice President Cheney Enters Tunnel Leading to PEOC, Learns about Pentagon Attack 2001-09-11
• (9:45 a.m.-9:56 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Vice President Cheney Tells President Bush to Stay Away from Washington 2001-09-11
• (9:38 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Clarke Possibly Told to Pass on Shootdown Authorization, Earlier than Other Accounts Claim 2001-09-11
• (After 9:40 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Officials at White House Bothered by TV and Video Conference Technical Problems 2001-09-11
• 9:44 a.m. September 11, 2001: NMCC Conference Thinks Flight 1989, Not Flight 93, Is Fourth Hijack 2001-09-11
• (9:50 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Speaker of the House Hastert Evacuated to Secure Location outside Washington 2001-09-11
• (9:52 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Lynne Cheney Joins Husband in White House Bunker 2001-09-11
• (9:54 a.m.-2:50 p.m.) September 11, 2001: President Bush Has Problems Communicating with Washington while He Is on Air Force One 2001-09-11
• (9:56 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Air Force One Gets Airborne Without Fighter Escort 2001-09-11
• (Shortly After 9:56 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Bush and Cheney Confer; Bush Supposedly Gives Shootdown Authorization 2001-09-11
• (9:56-10:40 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Air Force One Takes Off, Then Flies in Circles While Bush and Cheney Argue 2001-09-11
• (9:58 a.m.) September 11, 2001: Vice President Cheney and Wife Enter Emergency Operations Center under the White House 2001-09-11
• Shortly Before 9:58 a.m. September 11, 2001: Vice President Cheney’s Military Aide Joins Cheney in a Tunnel below the White House, Learns about the Pentagon Attack 2001-09-11
• 9:59 a.m. September 11, 2001: Vice President Cheney Appears Unemotional as South Tower Collapses 2001-09-11
• (Before 9:59 a.m.) September 11, 2001: EMT Worker Given Message That WTC Towers Are Going to Collapse; High-Level Officials Evacuate Lobby of North Tower 2001-09-11
• After September 11, 2001: Cheney Lawyers and Justice Department Subordinates Drive White House Expansion of Presidential Power 2001-09-11
• Shortly After September 11, 2001: ’War Council’ Sets Legal Course for White House’s Response to Terrorism 2001-09-11
• September 12, 2001: Top Bush Officials Privately Decide to Focus on Al-Qaeda First, then Alleged State Sponsors of Terrorism like Iraq 2001-09-12
• September 12, 2001: Threat to Air Force One? Stories Conflict 2001-09-12
• September 12, 2001-2002: Vice President Cheney Moves between Secure Locations to Preserve ‘Continuity of Government’ 2001-09-12
• September 12, 2001: CIA Briefing to President Bush Lays Out Evidence of Bin Laden Responsibility for Attacks 2001-09-12
• September 12-18, 2001: Congress Refuses to Give Bush Wiretapping Authority 2001-09-12
• September 13, 2001: Bush and Saudi Ambassador Discuss Evacuating Saudis and Terrorist Renditions 2001-09-13
• September 14, 2001: Conflicting Accounts about Planes Near Flight 93’s Crash 2001-09-14
• September 15, 2001: CIA Director Presents Bush and his Cabinet with Extensive Plan for Combating Terrorism Worldwide 2001-09-15
• September 15, 2001: Wolfowitz Suggests Striking Iraq Immediately; Bush Decides to Focus on Afghanistan First 2001-09-15
• September 16, 2001: Vice President Cheney Says There Was No Warning of ‘Domestic Operation or Involving What Happened’ 2001-09-16
• September 16, 2001: Vice President Cheney Vows US Will Respond to 9/11 with ‘Dark Side’ of Intelligence Methods 2001-09-16
• September 16, 2001: Bin Laden, in Statement Read on Al Jazeera, Denies Involvement in 9/11 Attacks 2001-09-16
• September 16, 2001: Cheney Says Iraq Is ‘Bottled Up,’ Not Tied to 9/11 2001-09-16
• September 18, 2001-April 2007: Claims of an Atta-Iraqi Spy Meeting Are Repeatedly Asserted and Denied in Media 2001-09-18
• September 19, 2001: Bush Directs CIA to Investigate Al-Qaeda-Hussein Link; Cheney Pushes Atta in Prague Story 2001-09-19