Cheney's in the Bunker - Songwriter Cites Footnotes to Scholarly Research on the Crimes of 9/11/01

Cheney's in the Bunker was written in 2005 by Vic Sadot after reading page 201 of David Ray Griffin's critique of the official conspiracy story released in 2004. The 9/11 Commission Report told a story of 19 named Muslims who had allegedly been able to overcome the trillion dollar US intelligence and military apparatus to hijack 4 jets; to take down 3 World Trade Center buildings with 2 planes; to crash another jet in rural Pennsylvania fields; and to attack the US central military command's accounting department at the Pentagon a day after Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and Pentagon Comptroller Dov Zackheim declared on 9/10/01 "a war on the bureaucracy" to find the missing 2.3 trillion dollars!

History Commons - Complete 911 Timeline - Dick Cheney's Actions on 9/11
Quote: Dick Cheney in the White House bunker, speaking to administration officials including (from left) Joshua Bolten, Karen Hughes, Mary Matalin (standing), Condoleezza Rice and I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby. [Source: David Bohrer / White House]

There is much to say about 9/11, but here in this "Truth Troubadour" blog in this 16th year of prodigious research and reports that have been published by world class scholars, let us focus for a moment on the Vice President who was in the Presidential bunker at some very disputed time on the morning of 9/11/01. David Ray Griffin is professor emeritus at Claremont School of Theology. The professor is a master logician and detective. Plus, he's articulate, genial, and funny! The opposite image of Alex Jones to brand the 9/11 Truth movement with. Thanks to folks like David Ray Griffin, I overcame my fears, and cited him as the source of my information, and released this song in a public way on 9/11/11 on a CD titled "9/11 Truth & Justice Songs". Below the lyrics you will see footnotes for this song.

David Ray Griffin

Photo credit: “Press for Truth” & “Geopolitical Report” at “Newsbud” 8-31-17 Kurt Nimmo

The Lies of 9/11 Miracle Workers: A Review of David Ray Griffin’s book “Bush And Cheney: How They Ruined America And The World” by Edward Curtin. Posted August 27, 2017 at Aletho News

Janice Mathews was a key organizer of a conference called the D.C. Emergency Truth Convergence on July 22 and 23, 2005 that my brother Rob and I got invited to sing for at American University. I sang at a 9/11 Truth rally in Lafayette Square across from the White House too. I sang "Mad Cowboy Disease" and "Are You A Citizen Or Are You A Slave" for the first time ever. I met a lot of great researchers, authors, and video makers that weekend! 

Rob Sadot on electric guitar with Vic Sadot on vocals and acoustic guitar doing a set of songs at American University for the D.C. Emergency Truth Convergence on July 23, 2005

Janice Mathews gave me a copy of David Ray Griffin's new book "The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions & Distortions". The Joint Congressional Committee had released it's report in 2002 minus "28 pages" said to be top secret, and the 9/11 Commission released its report written by Philip Zelikow in 2004. So Griffin was able to effectively debunk the narrative in short order.

When I read about the completely "omitted testimony" of Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, the information fairly jumped off the page at me! This calls for a song! Mineta describes how "a young man" kept asking Vice President Cheney, at intervals of 50, 30, and 10 miles, as he reported to Cheney that a plane was heading toward Washington, DC, the young officer asked, "Do the orders still stand?" By the third time, Mineta says, "Cheney whipped his neck around and said, "Of course the orders still stand! Have you heard anything to the contrary?"

It left us all wondering what the orders were, a shoot down or a stand down?

For years the truth seeking world wondered who this unnamed "young man" Mineta mentioned in his omitted testimony actually was? Researchers eventually determined that he was Naval Aide Douglas Cochrane - See 911 Blogger. But when he was pressed to answer questions by journalists, he simply deferred to the 9/11 Commission Report as the final authority on the subject. Those who failed were all rewarded and promoted.

Thanks to the movie 9/11 In the Academic Community, we now know that 25% of the footnotes in that cover-up report came from Zelikow's use of torture "testimony"! 
Nobody at the Pentagon was warned or evacuated! This results in no demotions, reprimands, firings, or law suits? (Note: April Gallop's law suit was dismissed without being heard!) Nothing but praise and promotions for those who failed to protect the now deceased at military headquarters?

David Ray Griffin at the 9/11 Truth DC Emergency Truth Convergence 

at the National Press Club (57:54) 911TVorg YouTube Channel

Here at this 16th year of research and reports, the official story has been proven to be just as David Ray Griffin described it in an article titled The 9/11 Commission Report: A 571-Page Lie by David Ray Griffin, May 22, 2005, that was posted at www.911Truth.org 

Dr. Griffin led off with this: "In discussing my second 9/11 book, The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions, I have often said, only half in jest, that a better title might have been “a 571-page lie.” (Actually, I was saying “a 567-page lie,” because I was forgetting to count the four pages of the Preface.) In making this statement, one of my points has been that the entire Report is constructed in support of one big lie: that the official story about 9/11 is true. Another point, however, is that in the process of telling this overall lie, The 9/11 Commission Report tells many lies about particular issues. This point is implied by my critique’s subtitle, “Omissions and Distortions.” Then Dr. Griffin said, "I now list (of 115 Lies cited) the omissions and claims of The 9/11 Commission Report that I, in my critique of that report, portrayed as lies." 

"Cheney's in the Bunker" was inspired and informed by the exposure of Lie #85, which David Griffin describes as: "The omission of Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta’s testimony, given to the Commission itself, that Vice-President Cheney and others in the underground shelter were aware by 9:26 that an aircraft was approaching the Pentagon (p.220).

Norman Mineta testimony to the 9/11 Commission at Derdy YouTube Channel

Cheney's in the Bunker is for the people willing to pay attention and willing to be challenged. I have had to change my opinion many times when new information has come my way. Why wouldn't we want to base our opinions on evidence and truth? To be willfully ignorant is a sad and insensitive reaction to a treasonous tragedy that led to so much unjustifiable war abroad and repressive laws at home.Songwriter Cites Footnotes to Scholarly Research on the Crimes of 9/11/01: Here is the video I made years ago for "Cheney's in the Bunker". It's one of my first videos and lacks the finesse later learned. It was posted at "Vic Sadot" & "Truth Troubadour" YouTube Channels.

Released on 9/11/11 Songs that question what happened 

and how the cover story was used

Cheney’s in the Bunker

Verse: 8 X Em D C Em

Cheney’s in the bunker …now we’re under attack (1)
Someone seized our jets... in a terror hijack…
They flew into the Towers with a mighty impact
The Trade Center fell in a total collapse…
Now Bush is in the classroom for a photo-op show…
The story of the goat is what he wants “kids” to know
The day is Nine-Eleven… year Two-Thousand and One
Now who the hell’s attacking us, and what’s to be done?

Chorus: 2 X G D C B7 / B7 Em Em Em

Do the orders still stand, sir? Do the orders still stand?
Do the orders still stand, sir? Do the orders still stand?
“Do the orders still stand?”

The Transportation Secretary, he testified (2 Norman Mineta, May 2003 Commission Staff Report)
By 9:20 AM he was by Cheney’s side
Cheney’s in charge in the White House war room
When did the teleconference start? And it involved whom? (3)
Mineta said a “young man” asked Cheney in doubt…
“Do the orders still stand, sir? They’re 50 miles out”
“They’re 30 miles out, sir…” He reports to command…
“The plane is 10 miles out, sir… Do the orders still stand?” (4) (chorus) - Instrumental

Cheney’s in the bunker… “Is it real or a drill?” (5)
They’re flying toward the Pentagon, the White House, the Hill…
Dubya’s with the children… lookin’ out of the loop…
The orders pass secretly within a small group…
The “young man” returns … He’s askin’ Cheney again!
“Do the orders still stand, sir?, He questions command…
Cheney “whipped his neck around, ‘of course!,’ says he,
‘Have you heard anything to the contrary?’”(6) (chorus)

Was there one order to “stand down”, and one “shoot to kill”?
At 9:38 the Pentagon was hit with great skill (7)
The cover for the capitol was sent out to sea!
That’s where they sent our fighter jets from loyal Langley! (8)
Incompetence, complicity, conspiracy?
Everyone of those requires a penalty!?
If Rumsfeld and Myers failed us all on that day?
Why was one promoted? Why’d the other one stay? (chorus) - Instrumental

Cheney’s in the bunker, “now” it’s not til near 10! (9 National Commission final report 2004)
They’re changing all the timelines we were given back then…
There’s no time “now” to stop the DC attack…
The Pentagon batteries couldn’t even fight back …
No “shoot down” order aimed at Flight 93… (10)
When passengers were on the verge of victory… (11)
Mineta was omitted from the final report…
Many other matters they dismiss and distort… (12) (chorus)

© 2005 Victor René Sadot/BMI/Orbian Love Songs

Please read my 12 footnotes to this song. And read The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions & Distortions by David Ray Griffin, author of The New Pearl Harbor, by Olive Branch Press: www.interlinkbooks.com

These footnotes are from the original release of the song lyrics in 2005, and some from From The Wilderness may no longer be functional. There is one additional citation from David Ray Griffin sent in on Sept 6, 2017 added to footnote #10 about the timelines having “been verified by three recently declassified Secret Service documents (contained in Griffin’s 2017 book, Bush and Cheney: How They Destroyed America and the World, p 239.)”. VRS

Footnotes to the song Cheney’s in the Bunker/Do the Orders Still Stand?

1. The “bunker” is actually called the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC). It is located in the basement of the east wing of the White House. Griffin, When Did Cheney Go to the Shelter? P 241.

2. Secretary of Transportion, Norman Mineta’s testimony before the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States, Staff Report of May 23, 2003, available at:

www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline/2003/commissiontestimony052303.htm,

Griffin, p 208.

3. There were actually at least three teleconferences going on at once during the morning crisis of 9/11/01. Griffin explains who initiated them and what is known about them p 233.

4. The full quote of Vice President Cheney by Norman Mineta was actually, “Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary?” Commissioner Timothy Roemer did ask Mineta what he “assumed” the orders were. Mineta said that he assumed that “the orders” were to shoot any incoming attacks down (David Ray Griffin, The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions, page 220).

5. War games ongoing on 9/11/01: Griffin p 268 – 269; “Vigilant Guardian”, and “Vigilant Warrior”, and other drills on 9/11/01 raise questions about the military response and the purpose of those exercises. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reported to the Notheast Air Defense Sector (NEADS) of the North American Airospace Defense Command (NORAD) that they have “hijacked aircraft headed to New York and ‘need someone to scramble some F-16s or something up there.” The person at NEADS replies, “Is this real-world or exercise?” Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies, p 5; Peter Lance, Cover Up, p 226, citing William B Scott, “Exercise Jump-Starts Response to Attacks,” Aviation Week and Space Technology, June 3, 2002;

www.aviation.now.com/content/publications/awst/20020603/avi_stot.htm,

and Mike Kelly, “Atlantic City F-16 Fighters Were Eight Minutes Away From 9/11 Hijacked Planes”; Michael Kane, “The Final Fraud: The 9/11 Commission Closes Its Doors to the Public: Cover-Up Complete,” From the Wilderness Publications

www.fromthewilderness.com/members/071204_final_fraud.shtml

6. Griffin, p 220/ Richard Clarke, Against All Enemies, p 5.

7. Changing Timelines, Griffin chart p 152, 153.

8. Griffin, p 201/National Commission Staff Report, March 23.2004, quoted in Paul Thompson’s The Terror Timeline, 424, 426.

9. Ongoing teleconferences involving Rumsfeld, Myers, Cheney, Clarke, Rice, etc. Griffin p 208, Richard Clark at 9:39 am, “I can still see Rumsfeld on the screen, so the whole building didn’t get hit.” Three simultaneous teleconferences going on 9/11/01 p 230 – 235.

10. Changing Timelines, Griffin chart p 152, 153; Cheney’s arrival in the PEOC bunker, Griffin p 241/Reports on 9-11-01 to 9-14-01 timelines said that AA #11 struck the North Tower at 8:46 am /UA #175 struck the South Tower at 9:03 am /AA # 77 departed Dulles, DC at 8:20 am, and is claimed to have hit the Pentagon at 9:38 am/AA # 93 departed Newark, NJ at 8:42 am, and is claimed to have crashed at at10:06 am in a field in the Pennsylvania country-side amidst a passenger/crew attempt to re-take the plane. Without saying so, this Commission is stating that no planes were shot down on 9/11/01 by the United States Military or any special ops “war games” scenario à la Operation Northwoods (see Griffin, p 269).The truth of Cheney’s timeline has been verified by three recently declassified Secret Service documents (contained in Griffin’s 2017 book, Bush and Cheney: How They Destroyed America and the World, p 239.)

11. When Was the Shoot-Down Order Authorization Given?, Griffin, p 237. When Did AA Flight #93 Crash?, Griffin, p 249.

12. Mineta testimony excluded from the final report, Griffin, p 221. There are so many other omissions and distortions that you could write a book about it. In fact, a number of people have produced very credible works as part of a global research effort by such authors as Michael Chossudovsky, Thierry Meyssan, Nafeez Ahmed, Michael Ruppert, Wayne Madsen, Eric Hufschmid, Peter Lance, and Paul Thompson to name just a few. Several of the most notable omissions by this Commission would have to include the three and a half hours of testimony and documentation presented by FBI translator and whistleblower, Sibel Edmonds, who was put under a gag order, WTC janitor and rescue hero William Rodriguez’s testimony that there were explosions at the core of the North Tower where he worked that he heard while he helped explosion burn victim, Felipe David, to safety outside and returned to the building to save others twice, and much of Richard Clarke’s testimony, The National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism for the Clinton and G.W. Bush administrations.

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False Flag Islamophobia Conference Organized by Kevin Barrett

Kevin Barrett, PhD, organized an alternative Islamophobia Conference when his paper was accepted and then rejected when it was realized that the scope of his study included false flag psychological operations as part of a deliberate demonization "divide and rule" strategy of tension. The event was four hours long. It is now archived at No Lies Radio and at No Lies Radio YouTube Channel. This blog will showcase some screenshots for the excellent and informative presentation by a world class line-up of commentators.

The hosts, Kevin Barrett and Tony Hall, were joined in Paris by Gearóid Ó Colmáin, an outstanding reporter for RT on the 2015 Paris attacks of January 7 and November 13 attacks that have been used in similar fashion to how the Bush/Cheney administration used the 9/11 attacks. They are laughing here when Kevin jokes that cops, journalists, and scholars not doing their jobs, "so we're here doing it for them". Kevin Barrett's blog is Truth Jihad.

Anthony James Hall is Professor of Globalization Studies at the University of Lethbridge and Alberta Canada. He is a prolific author of many publications including the epic series, Bowl with One Spoon. Volume One is entitled The American Empire and the Fourth World. It won the Alberta book award in 2004 as the best non-fiction text by an Alberta author. Volume 2 is entitled Earth into Property: Colonization,Decolonization and Capitalism. Earth into Property was selected by The Independent in the UK as one of the best English-language history books in the world published in 2010. Both volumes are published by McGill-Queen’s University Press.

James Tracy, PhD in Media Studies and host of MemoryHoleBlog and Real Politik Radio was the first interview of a four hour show that was surprisingly well-paced and focused.

False Flag Islamophobia Conference: Live Stream from Paris on Dec. 12th (4:00:30) Archived at No Lies Radio YouTube Channel. Now in the “Inquiries into Possible False Flag & Psy Op Events” playlist at SOCIAL JUSTICE IN THE HEART OF BERKELEY” YouTube Channel.

Full Video Archived at NoLiesRadio YouTube Channel

“La Conférence des Refusés! (The Conference of Those Not Allowed to Participate!) Illuminating the Lies and Crimes of the Friday the 13th ISIS Paris Attacks Deception. WARNING TO OUR FRENCH AUDIENCE: France has started blocking websites like they do in China.” Catherine Shakdam; Patrick Henningsen of 21st Centurey Wire; Muslim scholar and author Imran Hosein; Robert David Steele; Scott Bennett, former Army Psy Ops Officer and Booze, Allen, Hamilton employee and whistle-blower on terrorist financing; Brandon Martinez, the foremost researcher of the Paris attacks of 2015; Summary. Questions: Are false flag attacks – attributed to Muslims, actually committed by the enemies of Muslims – a major factor behind the spread of Islamophobia? Is “Islamic State” a real Muslim group – or a false-flag group created, armed and deployed AGAINST Muslims by the enemies of Islam? Who was really behind the recent terror attacks in Paris?

 

Catherine Shakdam, author at London School of Economics & Political Science. Catherine is a political analyst ​and reporter ​for MintPress - Catherine Shakdam focusing on​ the Middle East and the rise of ​radical movements. The Associate Director of the Beirut Center for Middle Eastern Studies, she has contributed her analyses to the Middle East Monitor, Foreign Policy Association, Your Middle East, IslamistGate, Majalla, ABNA, Open Democracy, International Policy Digest, Eurasia Review and many more. She also writes for The Middle East Eye and Near Eastern Outlook

Patrick Henningsen of 21stCentury Wire and he is the host of the very popular Sunday Wire Show.

 Muslim scholar and author Sheikh Imran Hosein. 

He is considered an expert in Islamic Eschatology.

 

Robert David Steele is an American activist and former Central Intelligence Agency clandestine services case officer. He is known for his promotion of open source intelligence.  

His blog is called Public Intelligence Blog.

His most recent book is titled

 "TheOpen-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust"

(Manifesto Series) Paperback (June 5, 2012)  

Scott Bennett, former Army Psy Ops Officer and Booze, Allen, Hamilton employee and whistle-blower on terrorist financing. Here Scott is talking about the meaning of the oath "to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies both foreign and domestic". 

He is the author of "Shell Game: A Military Officer's Report To Congress".

Brandon Martinez, one of the foremost researchers of the Paris attacks of 2015.

Click on the photo for his home site The Thoughts & Writings of Brandon Martinez.

He also writes at Non-Aligned Media.

See also:

Decoding the Paris Attacks: ISIS Blowback or French-Israeli False Flag? 

By Brandon Martinez in Non-Aligned Media Blog 11-27-15. 

The ISISConspiracy: US-Israeli-Saudi Intrigue (Part 1) (12:44) Published on Aug 31, 2015 by Brandon Martinez YouTube Channel. “In the first part of a series, Brandon Martinez of Non-Aligned Media unravels the murky origins of ISIS and unveils how the group's meteoric rise in Iraq and Syria is a continuation of US psychological warfare designed to facilitate the Zionist-Neocon agenda of toppling seven sovereign Middle Eastern and North African States.”  

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