More than 21 years after the Sept. 11 attacks, new details of how Pres. George W. Bush and Vice Pres. Dick Cheney reacted that day in the lead-up and aftermath are now public.
President Bush stands with firefighter Bob Beckwith on a burnt fire truck during a tour of the devastation as rescue efforts continue in the rubble of the World Trade Center in New York, Sept. 14, 2001.More than 21 years after the Sept. 11 attacks, new details of how President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney reacted that day in the lead-up and aftermath are now public.
One of the more dramatic portions is Bush, who was being rushed from Florida onto Air Force One for a day of hopscotching around the nation, recounting giving Cheney the authority to authorize a shootdown of a plane if necessary. Cheney would then order the military to shoot down any unresponsive aircraft. What exact authority Bush gave to Cheney that day has been an ongoing question since that time.Bush, in his 2010 memoir "Decision Points," wrote he initially thought the crash of United Airlines Flight 93 in Pennsylvania was the result of the shootdown order as did Cheney.
President George W. Bush signs a document that makes additional assistance available to the state of New York following the attacks on the World Trade Center in the White House in Washington, Sept. 18, 2001.The notes, first reported on by the Wall Street Journal, also detail how Bush and Cheney were questioned about some of the intelligence controversies regarding the attacks. Commission chairman Tom Kean asked about the famous Aug.
Vice President Dick Cheney, center, talks to reporters while on a tour of the World Trade Center site for the first time in New York, Oct. 18, 2001.Both men also discussed pushing Saudi Arabia, home to 15 of the hijackers and had come under criticism for not taking more action to crack down on terrorism financing, to do more.
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