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Hey, remember back in 2003 when CNN accidentally revealed that they had pre-written

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obituaries on a number of people and we got to see Dick Cheney's obituary?

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Well, if you don't remember, the internet remembers.

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Yeah, back then, the fake news fraudsters at CNN got everyone's hopes up.

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If only, many people said at the time.

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Well, guess what? That time has arrived. Yes, the Grim Reaper comes for everyone.

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And earlier this week, Dick Cheney, vice president of the United States under George W.

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Bush, finally met his end. So what does this actually mean?

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Well, we can't rely on the dinosaur fake news fraudsters to tell us about that.

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So let's roll up our sleeves and do it ourselves.

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Welcome back, friends. Welcome back to The Corbett Report. I'm your host,

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James Corbett of CorbettReport.com, coming to you, as always,

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from the sunny climes of Western Japan here in November of 2025 with episode

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485 of The Corbett Report podcast,

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The Dark Legacy of Dick Cheney.

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Yeah, that's right. You heard it here first, or maybe you didn't,

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but in case you didn't, Richard B.

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Cheney, the former U.S. Vice President, passed away peacefully on November 3rd,

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2025 at the age of 84 due to complications from pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease.

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Well, there it is. It's finally happened.

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And although I'm sure that the fake news lying liars of the lying corporate

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press can be trusted at least to report those bare bones basic facts about the

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time, date and place and perhaps even the causes of Cheney's death,

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I'm sure that we can't trust them to tell us about Cheney's legacy.

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This is a Fox News alert. We have just learned as Carly was talking that Dick Cheney has died.

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We're learning more information as we do. We will continue to pass that along to you, of course.

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We just literally got this information a few seconds ago. Cheney's family says

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he died due to complications of pneumonia and cardiac and vascular disease.

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Cheney was called the force behind President George W. Bush,

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a notoriously silent but powerful vice president who became an outspoken defender

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of the Bush administration, arning critic of President Obama.

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He was chief of staff under Gerald Ford.

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He was former Secretary of Defense under George H.W. Bush. He went on to be

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vice president for two terms with George W. Bush.

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And is considered the conservatives conservative.

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He faced challenges in and out of the White House, shooting a campaign contributor

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in the face during a 2006 quail hunt.

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The Cheney family released a statement saying in part, Dick Cheney was a great

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and good man who taught his children and grandchildren to love our country and

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to live lives of courage, honor, love, kindness, and fly fishing.

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Oh, yeah. Do you remember that time that Dick Cheney shot his lawyer in the

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face by accident while out quail hunting?

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I had almost forgotten about that incident. So thank you, ABC News, for the reminder.

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But yeah, other than that little tidbit, I think you're not going to learn about

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all of the details of Dark, Dark, Darth Cheney's dark legacy and his career

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from those fake news corporate media liars.

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So in good old Corbett Report deep dive fashion, let's roll up our sleeves and do it ourselves.

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And in that fashion, you will hopefully have a pen and paper ready for you with

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you, because there's going to be a data dump of information in this episode.

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And as always, everything I talk about, everything I cite will be in the show

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notes at CorbettReport.com slash Chaney.

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Having said that, let's let's get to it. And let's start like every boring and

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predictable biography always does by noting dutifully the birth of its subject,

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specifically Richard Bruce Cheney, who was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in January

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of 1941, but was raised in Wyoming,

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had a typical American school child adolescence and ended up becoming the captain

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of his high school football team and meeting and dating the high school homecoming queen prom,

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whatever you call that in America, and eventually marrying her.

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Dick Cheney's life of privilege started, really, when he got an admission to Yale.

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He got a family friend, specifically Casper Oilman and Yale alumnus Tom Struke, to get him into Yale.

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And as Bush later joked, a Yale degree is worth a lot, as I often remind Dick Cheney,

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who studied here but left a little early. So now we know.

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If you graduate from Yale, you become president. If you drop out,

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you get to be vice president.

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Yes, well, I wonder if Bush's membership in Skull and Bones had anything to

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do with his political career. Oh, no, that's crazy conspiracy talk.

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Anyway, so as a fresh dropout from Yale, with nothing in particular to engage

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himself with, Cheney was prime draft bait in the years of the draft for the Vietnam War.

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Specifically from 1962 until 1967, Cheney was eligible to be drafted every single year.

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And wouldn't you know it, somehow or other, every single year,

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he managed to successfully get a deferment on that draft.

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Back in Wyoming, there were other things on Cheney's mind.

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He took a job with a local power company. He got arrested for drunk driving.

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Even worse, he had lost his student draft deferment just as the U.S.

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Was becoming embroiled in Vietnam.

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The man who would eventually send Americans off to war wasn't enthusiastic about going to war himself.

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In 1963, with thousands of G.I.s already in Southeast Asia, Cheney went back

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to college and got another student deferment.

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In 1964, when Congress approved unlimited force in Vietnam, that student deferment

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was renewed, and he wed his high school sweetheart, Lin.

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In 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson doubled the number of draftees,

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Cheney graduated. He should have been prime draft bait, but he wasn't.

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Because he was now a married man.

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When the U.S. announced it would start drafting married men without children,

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call it good luck or good timing, but nine months and two days later,

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the Cheney's first child was born.

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Cheney was rewarded with a fifth and final exemption from military service.

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At last, on his 26th birthday, he could relax. He was officially too old to be drafted.

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Now, instead of avoiding the U.S. government, he set out to join us.

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When Dick Cheney first arrived here in Washington from Wyoming,

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he went to work for a Republican congressman.

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Ironically, the first project for the man who'd engineered a series of draft

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deferments to keep himself out of Vietnam was writing a law to punish colleges

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for allowing anti-war protests.

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And Dick Cheney's career had only just begun.

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That's right. Like every good chicken hawk, Richard B. Cheney was certainly a draft dodger himself.

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Although he later, of course, went on to advocate that people send their sons

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and daughters off to die in foreign lands for wars for oil and other purposes.

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So perhaps part of Dick Cheney's legacy is the legacy of the chicken hawk.

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But there are other things that we will add to his list, much more ignoble besides.

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So let's keep on rolling because eventually Cheney did land an interview for an important position.

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Not necessarily the position itself was important, but the friendship that he

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made was an important one for him and his rise through the ranks in Washington.

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Specifically, he went for an interview for the position of assistant to Donald

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Rumsfeld, who was then running for his fourth term as U.S.

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Representative for Illinois. He did not get that particular job,

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but when Rumsfeld was then brought into the Nixon administration as assistant to the president,

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Rumsfeld remembered and thought fondly of Cheney enough to invite him to become his assistant,

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essentially the presidential assistant's assistant.

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And that is how the pair formed, and Rumsfeld and Cheney certainly formed a

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duopoly that continued to have reverberations on American politics for decades to come.

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But the pair did get split up when Rumsfeld was appointed by Nixon to become

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the ambassador to NATO, so he went off to Europe.

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But it wasn't too long before they were reunited again, specifically after Nixon

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was taken down by Watergate, and I'm sure there's much to be said about

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that particular intrigue. But after that event and after Ford came in,

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well, that's when Rummy and Cheney ended up serving, Rummy and then Cheney ended

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up serving as Ford's chief of staff.

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So what did they do while they were in that position?

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Once again, close to the inner circle of power in the executive branch of the U.S.

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Government, or should that be in one of the top spots from which deep state

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operatives can work their deep state machinations. Oh, well,

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of course, that's exactly what they proceeded to do.

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So we can take this, for example, from a report from the online journal from

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back in 2009, Cheney and Rumsfeld pressured CIA to mislead Congress in the 1970s, too.

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And this goes on to state that the first time Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld

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pressured the CIA to mislead Congress was in 1975 and 1976, when Cheney was

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chief of staff to President Gerald Ford,

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and Rumsfeld was Ford's Secretary of Defense.

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It goes on to say the mission of the three men. So they're talking about Cheney,

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Rumsfeld and George H.W.

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Bush, who at that point was the head of the CIA, appointed out of nowhere.

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I tell you he had no previous experience with the CIA for just for no particular reason.

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Ford appointed him to be the director of the CIA.

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Interesting. Anyway, a lot more to say about that, as I'm sure many of my audience

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know. But anyway, the mission of those particular three horsemen of the apocalypse

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was to protect the Ford presidency and some elements in the CIA from the church committee.

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And I hope that my audience is familiar with the church committee,

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specifically responding to, of course, all of the political intrigue and conspiracy

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and craziness around Watergate that started to open the doors into some avenues

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and areas of exploration that the deep state probably wanted to keep shut.

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And it is from those hearings that, for example, we know, for example,

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a little bit about Operation Mockingbird, as it has come to be called.

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The implanting of intelligence assets in the media, the heart attack gun,

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for example, the dramatic revelation, other such things besides.

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I have talked about the church committee hearings before, but again,

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that could probably be its own particular episode.

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But it was in attempting to cover up some of the deep state family jewels and

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key secrets that Rumsfeld, Cheney, and Bush managed to withhold documents.

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Specifically, this article goes on to state that reacting to public outrage

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over a series of abuses, including domestic surveillance exposed during Watergate,

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the Nixon impeachment, and the winding down of the Vietnam War.

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In 1975, Congress authorized a special Senate committee chaired by Democrat

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Frank Church of Idaho to look into abuses of the intelligence agencies,

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primarily the CIA and FBI.

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And so what did the three amigos do?

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They, well, they took a massive amount of vital information and withheld it

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from the Senate's Church Committee, specifically the White House and top echelon

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of the CIA, withheld from the committee information about the CIA's manipulation of the news media,

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domestic spying, and material about Cuba, including JFK's plan to topple Fidel

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Castro on December 1st, 1963,

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the mafia's infiltration of the anti-Castro plan, and the CIA's unauthorized

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continuation of the agency plotting to use the mafia to assassinate Castro.

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So it goes on to talk about their legacy of secrecy, and perhaps that is another

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legacy, part of the Cheney dark legacy that we can add, a legacy of secrecy,

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or more particularly cover-up and withholding information from Congress.

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But of course, that was just the beginning. This was by no means the nadir of

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the Cheney legacy. So what else was he involved in with Rumsfeld during that time period?

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Well, as we start to move into the 1980s and the Reagan era.

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Cheney and Rumsfeld ended up heading something called the Armageddon Plan.

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Of course, that was not an actual official title, but that That is the name

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of the Atlantic article on this subject that came out a decade or two ago,

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but started to open the kimono, but not all the way,

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on continuity of government operations planning.

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For people who don't know what that is, well, let's take a look at some of this article.

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It says, at least once a year during the 1980s, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld vanished.

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Cheney was working diligently on Capitol Hill as a congressman at that time,

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rising through the ranks of the Republican leadership.

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Yet, for periods of three or four days at a time, no one in Congress knew where

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Cheney was, nor could anyone at Searle, where Rumsfeld is working, locate Rumsfeld.

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Even their wives were in the dark. They were handed only a mysterious Washington

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phone number to use in case of emergency.

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After leaving their day jobs, Cheney and Rumsfeld usually made their way to

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Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington.

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From there, in the middle of the night, each man, joined by a team of 40 to

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60 federal officials and one member of Ronald Reagan's cabinet,

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slipped away to some remote location in the United States, such as a disused

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military base or an underground bunker.

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A convoy of lead-lined trucks carrying sophisticated communications equipment

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and other gear would head to each of the locations.

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Rumsfeld and Cheney were principal actors in one of the most highly classified

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programs of the Reagan administration. Under it, U.S.

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Officials furtively carried out detailed planning exercises for keeping the

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federal government running during and after a nuclear war with the Soviet Union.

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The program called for setting aside the legal rules for presidential succession

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in some circumstances in favor of a secret procedure for putting in place a

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new president and his staff.

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The idea was to concentrate on speed, to preserve continuity of government,

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and to avoid cumbersome procedures.

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You know, all this Congress stuff and getting approval for things out the window.

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There's a new president in town. You didn't vote for him. You don't get a chance

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to vote for him. This is continuity of government, guys.

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So this is the plan that Cheney and Rumsfeld were working on diligently.

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And yes, this plan will come back later on in our story.

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Just a hint of it here. The program is of particular interest today because

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it helps to explain the thinking and behavior of the second Bush administration in the hours,

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days, and months after the terrorist attack on September 11th, 2001, dot, dot, dot.

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So yes, we will be coming back to this subject and in more detail,

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but suffice it to say right now, part of the money quote here,

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one of the awkward questions we faced, one participant in the planning of the program explains,

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was whether to reconstitute Congress after a nuclear attack.

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It was decided that no, it would be easier to operate without them.

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Anyway, as you can see, this article frames the continuity of government planning

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squarely and solely in the context of dealing with a nuclear strike by the Soviets,

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but even by the 80s, and certainly as it evolved in the 90s,

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it was no longer about a nuclear attack specifically.

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It was any sufficiently large enough declared emergency that could threaten

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continuity of government.

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Well, they had to have a plan in place for that, didn't they?

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So in this case, it goes on to say that Cheney and Rumsfeld were,

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in a sense, a part of the permanent hidden national security apparatus of the United States,

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inhabitants of a world in which presidents come and go. But America keeps on fighting.

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Yes. So permanent hidden national security apparatus is quite a circumlocution

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for a much simpler phrase that I think is more apt, the deep state.

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So yes, Cheney as a key architect of the deep state that literally exists and

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literally convenes in bunkers to talk about continuity of government planning, etc.

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That could be certainly part of dark Cheney. I keep wanting to call him dark.

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Dick Cheney's dark legacy.

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But again, that was the 80s. Man, you're living in the past if you're thinking about the 80s.

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So what did he do after that point? Well, after spending a decade as a congressman,

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then Cheney got back into the cabinet as George W.

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Bush's, sorry, not George W. Bush's, George H. W.

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Bush's Secretary of Defense, obviously during the first Bush administration.

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And you'll never guess what he did from that position.

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Oh, wait, you totally will. He used that position to lie the U.S. into war.

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Tonight, the first pictures of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.

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It was almost a decade and a half ago when Iraqi troops took control of Kuwait.

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But what happened next is today eerily familiar.

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Then, as recently, men named Bush and Cheney denounced Saddam Hussein as a threat

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to the world and claimed they had proof.

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Top secret satellite photos from Cheney's Pentagon showing a quarter of a million

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Iraqi troops and 1,500 tanks massed along the border with Saudi Arabia, poised to invade.

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There was no reason to believe that the administration wasn't being candid about what was there.

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But we had a chance to find out, to test the theory and we took it.

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Back in 1991, reporter Jean Heller was based in Washington.

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Through a stroke of luck, she learned about another set of high-altitude photos

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of Kuwait taken by a Soviet satellite on the very same day the Pentagon said

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there showed a quarter of a million Iraqi troops and 1,500 tanks preparing to invade Saudi Arabia.

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And what did that second set of images reveal? It's what it didn't show. It was more important.

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What you would have expected to have seen were tanks on the border.

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There were none that could be seen.

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There was nothing behind the

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border that could have supported that kind of number of troops and tanks.

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We've obtained copies of those Soviet satellite photos from September 1990.

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With powerful magnification, the photographs are detailed enough for experts

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to identify vehicles around the Kuwaiti oil fields.

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But in southern Kuwait, along the Saudi border, there are no Iraqi tanks to

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be seen whatsoever, let alone 1,500 of them. Just sand and wind.

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Not a sign of what Defense Secretary Cheney insisted were a quarter of a million Iraqi troops.

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It became a critical issue because it was the administration convinced the Saudis

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they were in imminent danger and got the Saudis to invite the coalition to come in and defend them.

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And that's how we got involved in Gulf War I.

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Surprise! Otherwise, yeah, everyone seems to think that the decision,

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obviously, for the Saudis to invite America onto their soil was some sort of

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just spontaneous thing that happened as a result of Saddam Hussein's mad gestures and his threatening.

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No, it turns out Dick Cheney was the one who lied the Saudis into that decision.

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Fateful decision and fateful, obviously, for people who know anything about,

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say, the history of the development of Alciedda and the development of the terror

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threat, the war of terror.

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They will know that that is a foundational event along there for people who

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know anything about the Arabian Peninsula or the incredible importance of inviting

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foreign troops onto Arabian soil.

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That was not a minor thing.

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That was a very large thing. And yes, it was deliberately due to the absolute

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knowing lying of Secretary of Defense, Richard B.

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Cheney, back in the early 1990s. So there you go. That's another feather in

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the cap of part of the dark legacy of Cheney.

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But it does not end there. Of course, it goes on.

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So another very important thing happened while Cheney was Secretary of defense

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that had reverberations for decades afterwards and to this very day.

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What am I talking about? Well, as I talked about in a report that I filed in

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2012 on the announcement of Cheney's heart transplant, do you remember that?

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Change of heart, the legacy of Darth Cheney. I threw in this little factoid

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that I think is worth noting.

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It says perhaps one of his most important acts during his tenure as George H. W.

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Bush's secretary of defense came after the Gulf War was over.

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Under the pretense of downsizing the American military to implement George H.W.

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Bush's post-Soviet New World Order, Cheney's Pentagon awarded a contract to

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KBR, a Halliburton subsidiary, to investigate the possibility of contracting

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out military services to private companies.

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Unsurprisingly, KBR concluded that this would be a very good thing,

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and soon Halliburton and other private companies were receiving a larger and

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larger slice of the washington defense budget pie,

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Also, unsurprisingly, Cheney left his post as defense secretary at the end of

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the Bush administration and became, you'll never guess, oh, that's right, CEO of Halliburton.

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And that's despite not having any relevant business experience up to that point.

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They just spontaneously, out of the goodness of their hearts,

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because he just seemed like a guy with some pluck, decided to make him the CEO

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of Halliburton, which obviously had effects from that point on and into the Bush Jr.

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Administration and obviously the Halliburton contracts in Iraq, etc.

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As we hopefully all know about, but if not,

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this link here in this article links to a HalliburtonWatch.org article on the

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log cap military contract standing for the Logistics Civilian Augmentation Program.

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Which was part of what Cheney was getting the KBR on behalf of the Pentagon

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to look into in 1992 there, right before becoming the CEO of Halliburton.

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Anyway, the whole assorted story is here, links and documents, etc.

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So please check that out, because it is another important event in the career of Dick Cheney.

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But moving right along, that leads us, I think, quite nicely by way of Cheney's

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membership in something called the Project for a New American Century,

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that hopefully my listeners know about,

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to his next stint in a Bush administration, not the George H.W.

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Bush administration, but the George W.

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Bush administration, when he was appointed as vice president for Bush Jr.,

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And that happened. Well, obviously, they got inaugurated in 2001.

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And what happened during that year, that first year of the Bush Jr.?

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I think there was some sort of important event that happened,

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just as Cheney was assuming the vice president. Ah, that's right. That 9-11 thing.

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And who was behind 9-11? I've been told it was Osama bin Laden or KSM or someone like that, right?

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Muhammad Atta or something. But if you asked Michael Rupert,

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for example, at the time, he would have told you it was Cheney in the PEOC with P-TECH.

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But one thing I am certain of, and I believe I have proven the case beyond a

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reasonable doubt in crossing the Rubicon, I am certain,

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I am absolutely certain that Richard Cheney was not only a planner in the attacks,

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but also that on the day of the attacks, he was running a completely separate

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command and control and communication system,

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which was superseding any orders being issued by the National Military Command

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Center, that's the Pentagon, or the White House Situation Room.

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To accomplish that end, he relied on a redundant and superior communication

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system maintained by the United States Secret Service in or near the Presidential

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Emergency Operations Center, the bunker,

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to which he and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice were reportedly rushed

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sometime after Flight 175 struck the south town.

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I will demonstrate that the Secret Service possessed radar screens which gave

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them and the Vice President, whose side they never left,

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real-time information as good or better than anything available to the Pentagon,

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the FAA, or anybody else, and that it was on the basis of that information that

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Cheney overrode and took complete operational control on September the 11th.

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I have shown that in what are called national special security events.

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I encourage you to all Google that on your computers. The U.S.

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Secret Service is the supreme U.S.

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Agency for operational control with complete authority over the military and all civilian agencies.

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I have established conclusively that in May 2001, by presidential order,

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Richard Cheney was put in direct command and control of all war game and field

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exercise training and scheduling through several agencies, especially FEMA.

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This also extended to all of the conflicting and overlapping NORAD drills.

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I will also demonstrate that the tripod exercise being set up on September 10th

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in Manhattan was directly connected to Cheney's role in number three above.

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That, again, was veteran researcher Michael Rupert summarizing in a very,

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very truncated and brief fashion some of his voluminous research on the subject

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of 9-11 and specifically the actual who and how perpetration of that event.

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And even that is really just scratching the surface of the surface of that topic,

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as I'm sure my listeners can appreciate.

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But if you do want more on that, specifically the context of that clip,

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that was part of Michael Rupert's presentation to the 9-11 Citizens Commission,

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which took place in September of 2004,

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which was, I believe, right on the eve of the publication of his seminal work

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on the subject Crossing the Rubicon.

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The decline of the American empire and at the end of the age of oil,

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which for whatever flaws may have existed in his analysis about peak oil,

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et cetera, and where he went in his research after that point,

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I think there was some very solid research in that book.

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And I would specifically direct people to chapter 19, where he talks more about

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those war games that Dick Cheney was in charge of directing and scheduling in

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that time period of the opening months of the first Bush administration,

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all to coincide with September of 2001.

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And for people who need more context on that, what on earth is P-TECH in the PEOC?

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Well, you clearly need to watch or listen to episode 45 of the Corporate Report

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podcast on P-TECH and the 9-11 software, where all will be explained.

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But yes, essentially, at least what Michael Rupert and Indira Singh's proposal

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for how a 9-11 an operation could have been actually perpetrated in real time

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on the computer systems, injecting fake radar blips, etc.

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Well, you can find out all about that in that particular rabbit hole of an episode.

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And then, of course, if you want to know more in more detail about what war

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games were running on and around 9-11 and how they impacted the events of that day,

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and thus by proxy, what Dick Cheney was doing as he was directing and literally

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in charge of emergency planning and operations put in charge by Bush shortly

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before those events took place.

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Well, you can go to episode 346 on 9-11 War Games, where all will be explained.

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Plenty of information there.

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But you can keep going down this rabbit hole. There are other things besides.

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For example, do you know about CJCSI 3610.01A?

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Probably not, but it is a chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff instruction

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that was issued in June of 2001.

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Which amended previously operating instructions for specifically the event of aircraft piracy,

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hijacking, and destruction of derelict airborne objects,

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which was a longstanding instruction that had essentially was the military's

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protocols for how to deal with hijackings and hijacked jets and what to do and

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potential shoot down of such jets, etc.

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Well, that was changed in June 2001 to specifically require Secretary of Defense approval.

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DOD assistance to the FAA will be provided in accordance with reference D.

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Specifically, they must forward requests for DOD assistance to the Secretary

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of Defense for approval.

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So in June of 2001, this was changed suddenly for no particular reason that

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was ever proffered to specifically bring the Secretary of Defense,

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in this case, Donald Rumsfeld,

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into that loop and require his approval for DOD assistance in the event of a hijacking.

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What a weird thing to change three months before the day that changed everything.

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And, uh, as again, I'm sure my astute and informed listeners will know where

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was Rumsfeld for the first hour or two of the events of nine 11,

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completely out of touch.

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Even his own staffers could not get to him, um, as he had been whisked out of

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a morning meeting and was,

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occupied in his office and uncount contactable, even by his own staff until

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he made his little PR appearance on the Pentagon lawn, picking up the pieces

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of whatever it was that was there on the on.

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Interesting. All right. So that's an important piece of this puzzle,

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because as has been talked about, is this the stand down order?

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Is essentially the changing of this long standing chairman of the Joint Chiefs

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of Staff instruction just months prior to the event, is this actually what affected

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that stand down that did happen, demonstrably did happen?

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It has to do with also the war games and the taking of so many of the fighter

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jets in the Northeast air defense sector away from needs in the days and weeks prior to 9-11.

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It's a big subject and there's a lot to dig into. So I'll leave this link.

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Again, you can start going down that rabbit hole.

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And just as one more tidbit, we'll throw one more in. Why not?

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So I'm sure you've heard me talk about another 19 before, investigating legitimate

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9-11 suspects by Kevin Ryan.

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And I'll just leave this tidbit from his section on Rumsfeld and Cheney and

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their connections to 9-11.

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Did you know, quote, in 1999, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld joined the advisory

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board of Salomon Smith Barney, SSB.

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On September 11, 2001, that investment firm occupied all but 10 floors of WTC Building 7.

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Oh, right. Oh, yeah. I'm sure if memory serves, doesn't Jane Stanley refer and

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the anchor that she's talking to, aren't they talking about the Salomon Brothers building?

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As you can see, WTC7 standing behind her. Yes, it went down.

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And then 20 minutes later, it goes down. Remember that?

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Yeah. And the Salomon Brothers? Yeah, that Salomon Brothers,

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as in Salomon Smith Barney.

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And oh, it just happens that Cheney and Rumsfeld were on their advisory board,

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although not at the time of 9-11.

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No, of course, once they went into the Bush administration in January of 2001,

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they stepped down from the board.

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Wouldn't want any conflicts of interest to come up. So there you go.

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Anyway, just one more little tidbit that we can throw in there with regards to 9-11.

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But come on, people like Michael Rupert and others who have specifically talked

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about the ways that Cheney's fingerprints are literally all over the events

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of 9-11, the planning, the operation, etc.

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What are you talking about? The sitting U.S. vice president involved in an attack on his own country.

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Why? What could he possibly stand to gain from participating in such an act?

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In the seconds after the attack on the World Trade Center, the Bush administration

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went into an absolute tailspin of confusion and anarchy.

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There were moments in this country where no one had any idea who was in control.

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No one had any idea who had executive power, who was calling the shots.

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The American people were completely in the dark. Much of our national security

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apparatus and our political system was in the dark.

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That information void expanded across

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most of the federal government and definitely across the population.

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As the National Coordinator for Security, Richard Clarke is also in charge of

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the Continuity of Government program.

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For the first time in the history of the continuity of government system, we activated it.

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It's to ensure the security of the principles, the separation and the security

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of the President, the Vice President, and the Speaker of the House,

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that no matter what happened, one of them would be available to step into the Oval Office.

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With no destination in mind, President Bush is rushed onto Air Force One and

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launched into the sky, the number one priority of the pilot,

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to get the plane as high as possible and as far away from anyone else as he could.

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At that point, Washington was the combat zone. We were literally still waiting

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for the combat aircraft from the Air Force to get up and to protect us in the White House.

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The Secret Service Director and I and the Vice President all urged the President not to come back.

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Throughout the Cold War, the plan had been to evacuate top government officials

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out to mountain bunkers in Raven Rock, Pennsylvania, and Mount Weather, Virginia.

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The hope was that everyone could be evacuated in the first 15 minutes after an attack.

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Over the course of that morning, though, none of that happened.

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Most of the top people in the president's line of succession are unable to get

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to the bunkers or are never contacted.

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Others are uncooperative. Vice President Dick Cheney refuses to evacuate the White House.

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At about 9.30 in the morning on 9-11, Vice President Cheney was bundled up by

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a secret service and moved to a basement next to the White House Situation Room.

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I think within an hour or so, they moved him through a long tunnel and blast

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doors to a presidential emergency operations center beneath the east wing of the White House.

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With Air Force One flying at 45,000 feet for extra security,

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communication becomes difficult.

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And they don't even really know where to go. They don't know really what to

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do. They don't know whether more attacks are coming.

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The Pentagon is a smoldering mess, and that's what the president is facing as

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he's flying in Air Force One.

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George W. Bush, in a strange turn of events,

00:36:30.889 --> 00:36:34.569
sort of became an observer to the tragedy and the spectacle,

00:36:34.789 --> 00:36:39.289
leaving Vice President Dick Cheney to basically take over the authority of the

00:36:39.289 --> 00:36:46.269
presidency and start to handle this burgeoning newborn war that America was finding itself in.

00:36:46.828 --> 00:36:50.128
So it was a total, absolute collapse of authority.

00:36:52.528 --> 00:36:58.188
Oh, that's right. What did the U.S. vice president have to gain from participating

00:36:58.188 --> 00:37:00.448
in, let alone planning or orchestrating such attacks?

00:37:00.668 --> 00:37:03.508
Oh, well, just complete and total control of the government,

00:37:03.728 --> 00:37:08.628
which is what Cheney apparently had on the morning of 9-11 up until the evening,

00:37:08.868 --> 00:37:11.648
presumably, when Bush finally returned to the White House.

00:37:11.808 --> 00:37:16.568
Do you remember as he went on his wild goose chase around America in Air Force One?

00:37:16.828 --> 00:37:21.468
Being chased by phantom threats, Angel is next. Remember all of that?

00:37:21.648 --> 00:37:24.988
Well, again, there's another 9-11 rabbit hole for those who haven't discovered

00:37:24.988 --> 00:37:28.808
it yet. But anyway, yes, someone was keeping Bush away.

00:37:29.008 --> 00:37:32.468
And who was in charge during that time? Well, it seemed to have been Cheney,

00:37:32.568 --> 00:37:37.128
or at least he was definitely part of the continuity of government that we know

00:37:37.128 --> 00:37:41.668
was enacted following the events of 9-11.

00:37:41.668 --> 00:37:46.708
And we can take that from a number of sources, but probably the one that we

00:37:46.708 --> 00:37:51.108
want to go to is this comprehensive report that was filed at the Asia Pacific

00:37:51.108 --> 00:37:56.728
Journal back in November of 2010 by Peter Dale Scott,

00:37:57.068 --> 00:38:00.768
a researcher who I am sure my audience needs no introduction to.

00:38:00.768 --> 00:38:05.088
But if you are unfamiliar with Peter Dale Scott, please familiarize yourself

00:38:05.088 --> 00:38:06.288
with him and his writings.

00:38:06.648 --> 00:38:10.388
The progenitor of the term deep state, at least in the English language.

00:38:10.748 --> 00:38:16.288
So someone who is probably worth your time and attention, especially so in this

00:38:16.288 --> 00:38:21.048
very comprehensive article, is the state of emergency superseding the U.S.

00:38:21.168 --> 00:38:24.788
Constitution, continuity of government planning, war, and American society.

00:38:25.268 --> 00:38:29.808
And this, as I say, is a thorough going through of the story of continuity of

00:38:29.808 --> 00:38:35.408
government operations and planning and what they were and how they were implemented on 9-11.

00:38:35.768 --> 00:38:39.428
Lots and lots of very important details in here that we don't have time for,

00:38:39.508 --> 00:38:42.588
but just some of the things that happened as a result of this,

00:38:43.047 --> 00:38:46.747
implementation of continuity of government on 9-11. The president established

00:38:46.747 --> 00:38:50.067
an office of Homeland Security within the presidential executive office.

00:38:50.627 --> 00:38:54.607
They created a terrorism screening center to consolidate the government's approach

00:38:54.607 --> 00:38:58.487
to terrorism screening, which led to, of course, the no-fly list and the terrorist watch list.

00:38:58.707 --> 00:39:02.987
You have the militarization of domestic United States law enforcement back in

00:39:02.987 --> 00:39:04.947
2002 with the creation of NORTHCOM,

00:39:05.507 --> 00:39:09.987
which, amongst other things, also behind the scenes, operated in so-called fusion

00:39:09.987 --> 00:39:14.567
centers, fusing the military, the FBI, state police, along with private intelligence

00:39:14.567 --> 00:39:15.867
corporations like SAIC,

00:39:16.387 --> 00:39:20.427
S-A-I-C, another important player in the 9-11 events, maintain and analyze data

00:39:20.427 --> 00:39:23.427
to identify potential threats to those in power.

00:39:24.187 --> 00:39:27.927
And finally, still in the 90-day shadow government period after 9-11,

00:39:28.467 --> 00:39:31.807
President Bush proclaimed two important emergencies that are still in force

00:39:31.807 --> 00:39:35.467
today, at least at the time of 2010, and one of them definitely still in force.

00:39:36.027 --> 00:39:39.267
Specifically, proclamation 7463 declaration

00:39:39.267 --> 00:39:43.027
of national emergency by reason of certain terrorist attacks which is issued

00:39:43.027 --> 00:39:50.347
every september 14th 2001 which uh together with executive order 13223 ordering

00:39:50.347 --> 00:39:55.587
the ready reserve of the armed forces to active duty um presents an interesting

00:39:55.587 --> 00:39:58.167
double punch and you might,

00:39:58.729 --> 00:40:02.749
You might be familiar with the fact that me and James Evan Pallotto put this

00:40:02.749 --> 00:40:08.289
on record every single September, because every single September since 2001,

00:40:08.649 --> 00:40:12.949
whichever puppet is sitting in the Oval Office has signed their John Hancock

00:40:12.949 --> 00:40:20.649
to the renewal order for this never-ending declaration of emergency.

00:40:20.649 --> 00:40:24.229
The emergency by reason of certain terrorist attacks.

00:40:24.529 --> 00:40:29.489
It has been renewed by every single puppet every single year since 2001.

00:40:29.729 --> 00:40:34.269
And yes, as we put on record earlier, just a month or two ago on New World Next

00:40:34.269 --> 00:40:38.949
Week, Donald Trump, of course, signed off on the renewal of the emergency for another year.

00:40:39.069 --> 00:40:43.109
So this emergency order rule by emergency is still in effect.

00:40:43.789 --> 00:40:48.629
And as Peter Dale Scott goes on to point out it was simply the declaration as

00:40:48.629 --> 00:40:51.349
it stood in 2001 for the first six years.

00:40:51.509 --> 00:40:56.529
But after 2007, there was a significantly expanded scope for that proclamation.

00:40:56.529 --> 00:40:57.629
We'll come to that in a minute.

00:40:57.769 --> 00:41:02.409
But as he goes on to say, there is no way to determine how many of the constitutional

00:41:02.409 --> 00:41:07.049
changes since 9-11 can be traced to COG planning, continuity of government planning.

00:41:07.269 --> 00:41:12.329
However, we do know that new COG planning measures were still being introduced

00:41:12.329 --> 00:41:17.869
in 2007 when President Bush issued National Security Presidential Directive 51.

00:41:18.149 --> 00:41:23.049
The directive set out what FEMA later called a new vision to ensure the continuity

00:41:23.049 --> 00:41:24.829
of our government and was followed

00:41:24.829 --> 00:41:28.829
in August by a new National Continuity Policy Implementation Plan.

00:41:29.009 --> 00:41:34.809
So for people who don't remember that, NSPD 51 was a substantial and important

00:41:34.809 --> 00:41:38.409
presidential directive that threatened to completely...

00:41:39.302 --> 00:41:42.222
Break down the pretense of posse comitatus and all of that. Well,

00:41:42.322 --> 00:41:45.362
anyway, that's, that's agent history by now.

00:41:45.462 --> 00:41:51.382
But it was interesting that in 2007, there's that new national security presidential directive.

00:41:51.662 --> 00:41:57.902
And from that point on, that declaration of emergency from the 9-11 events changed slightly.

00:41:57.902 --> 00:42:01.762
As Peter Dale Scott goes on to write, quote, I mentioned earlier that the proclamation

00:42:01.762 --> 00:42:05.302
of a national emergency issued by Bush on September 14th, 2001,

00:42:05.482 --> 00:42:10.362
and since renewed annually to this day changed significantly in 2007,

00:42:10.362 --> 00:42:16.422
all previous annual renewals had enumerated the emergency measures that were being renewed.

00:42:16.622 --> 00:42:20.582
For example, the measures taken on September 14th, 2001, November 16th,

00:42:20.682 --> 00:42:22.802
2001, and January 16th, 2002.

00:42:23.282 --> 00:42:31.082
After Bush issued NSBD 51 of 2007 with its new vision and its new classified COG annexes,

00:42:31.222 --> 00:42:35.902
the next renewal of the emergency proclamation replaced the previous specific

00:42:35.902 --> 00:42:38.602
enumerations with a more sweeping general sentence.

00:42:38.802 --> 00:42:44.522
Because the terrorist threat continues, the national emergency declared on September 14th, 2001,

00:42:44.842 --> 00:42:49.522
last extended on September 5th, 2006, and the powers and authorities adopted

00:42:49.522 --> 00:42:54.922
to deal with that emergency must continue in effect beyond September 14th, 2007.

00:42:55.902 --> 00:42:59.322
The powers and authorities adopted to deal with that emergency.

00:42:59.542 --> 00:43:04.602
This language is so vague, it is hard to see how we could not cover the classified

00:43:04.602 --> 00:43:07.942
continuity annexes of NSPD 51 as well.

00:43:08.784 --> 00:43:12.544
So anyway, that is the rule by emergency shadow secret government that I've

00:43:12.544 --> 00:43:16.604
been talking about and had an entire episode about rule by emergency.

00:43:16.784 --> 00:43:19.184
This is the governing paradigm of the 21st century.

00:43:19.464 --> 00:43:23.744
Know it or not, whatever you think about whatever legislative system you're

00:43:23.744 --> 00:43:27.064
living under and whatever you believe about Congress and Bill of Rights and

00:43:27.064 --> 00:43:30.524
Constitution and what have you, that was scrapped in the wake of 9-11.

00:43:30.744 --> 00:43:36.404
And that emergency, which has enabled that scrapping, has been renewed every

00:43:36.404 --> 00:43:42.064
single year since. America is still under a legally declared state of emergency from 9-11.

00:43:42.444 --> 00:43:47.084
And oh, by the way, it invokes all this classified continuity of government

00:43:47.084 --> 00:43:48.684
planning that you're not allowed to know about.

00:43:48.864 --> 00:43:52.284
Even people on the Homeland Security Committee, as he goes on to say.

00:43:54.184 --> 00:43:59.164
DeFazio, at the request of 9-11 truth constituents, attempted to see what was

00:43:59.164 --> 00:44:00.924
in those annexes and was denied.

00:44:00.924 --> 00:44:05.524
He even got the chairman of the Homeland Security Committee to make a request

00:44:05.524 --> 00:44:10.204
to see those hidden, private, secret documents and was denied again.

00:44:10.244 --> 00:44:15.504
So you're not even allowed to know what the actual governing system of the United

00:44:15.504 --> 00:44:16.764
States of America is right now.

00:44:16.784 --> 00:44:21.724
But it ain't it ain't the schoolhouse rock version about how to pass a bill

00:44:21.724 --> 00:44:22.824
or whatever you learned in school.

00:44:23.044 --> 00:44:28.204
No, there is a declared state of emergency. It stems from 9-11 and who had their

00:44:28.204 --> 00:44:31.104
finger on the trigger in the PEOC was Dick Cheney.

00:44:31.324 --> 00:44:36.484
So there you go. This is an incredibly important part of the dark legacy of Dick Cheney.

00:44:36.971 --> 00:44:41.111
Not only coup planner, not only coup plotter, but active coup participant,

00:44:41.351 --> 00:44:47.531
who, as was universally acknowledged, became essentially the driving force of

00:44:47.531 --> 00:44:51.411
the Bush administration, at least for the first several years of that administration,

00:44:51.831 --> 00:44:56.171
driving the war of terror as it began to unfold.

00:44:56.431 --> 00:45:02.291
And we didn't have to look very hard or wait very long to get a sense of what

00:45:02.291 --> 00:45:05.411
Dick Cheney's vision of that war of terror would entail.

00:45:05.591 --> 00:45:12.051
You may or may not remember on September 16th, 9-16, just five days after 9-11.

00:45:12.791 --> 00:45:17.111
Dick Cheney appeared on Meet the Press with Tim Russert.

00:45:17.271 --> 00:45:21.131
Remember him when he asked about skull and bones to Cheney and Kerry?

00:45:21.291 --> 00:45:22.491
He made a big joke about it.

00:45:22.871 --> 00:45:27.971
Anyway, Cheney appeared on Meet the Press to talk about what steps,

00:45:28.131 --> 00:45:32.411
what strategies the Cheney administration, oh, I mean the Bush administration

00:45:32.411 --> 00:45:35.051
was going to use in the War of Terror.

00:45:35.251 --> 00:45:39.571
I mean, we all remember when Cheney said that sometimes you have to work on the dark side.

00:45:42.846 --> 00:45:47.706
I want to be careful here, Tim, because it clearly would be inappropriate for

00:45:47.706 --> 00:45:54.646
me to talk about operational matters, specific options or the kinds of activities

00:45:54.646 --> 00:45:56.026
we might undertake going forward.

00:45:56.366 --> 00:45:59.966
We do indeed, though, have, obviously, the world's finest military.

00:46:00.366 --> 00:46:08.026
They've got a broad range of capabilities, and they may well be given missions

00:46:08.026 --> 00:46:10.466
in connection with this overall task, strategy.

00:46:10.726 --> 00:46:14.106
We also have to work, though, sort of the dark side, if you will.

00:46:14.266 --> 00:46:17.246
We've got to spend time in the shadows in the intelligence world.

00:46:18.046 --> 00:46:21.646
A lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly,

00:46:21.826 --> 00:46:25.866
without any discussion, using sources and methods that are available to our

00:46:25.866 --> 00:46:28.466
intelligence agencies, if we're going to be successful.

00:46:28.746 --> 00:46:33.546
That's the world these folks operate in. And so it's going to be vital for us

00:46:33.546 --> 00:46:38.546
to use any means at our disposal, The disposal, basically, to achieve our objective.

00:46:40.906 --> 00:46:44.346
Oh, perhaps we're reading too much into this.

00:46:44.606 --> 00:46:48.866
I mean, the dark side, of course, as he goes on to explain. That's just the

00:46:48.866 --> 00:46:52.426
intelligence world, you know, shadow stuff. He doesn't mean anything by that.

00:46:52.866 --> 00:46:56.646
Sources and methods. I wonder what kind of sources and methods for this war

00:46:56.646 --> 00:47:00.966
of terror that he was helping to wage would include. Oh, that's right.

00:47:01.246 --> 00:47:04.246
Torture. Of course. Torture. That's what he's talking about.

00:47:05.006 --> 00:47:12.246
And not torture even for the ticking time bomb 24 scenario of the good guy that

00:47:12.246 --> 00:47:16.246
just has to torture someone to get the secrets about the next terror attack.

00:47:16.526 --> 00:47:18.566
No, torture that was used to create,

00:47:19.147 --> 00:47:21.767
and fabricate the evidence that

00:47:21.767 --> 00:47:27.547
was needed, for example, to make KSM the mastermind of 9-11 from A to Z.

00:47:27.787 --> 00:47:31.527
Just don't talk about his being waterboarded 83 times in a month or having his

00:47:31.527 --> 00:47:36.527
children subject to torture by insects in boxes and other things that he was

00:47:36.527 --> 00:47:39.787
being threatened with if he didn't say exactly what they wanted him to say,

00:47:39.867 --> 00:47:43.347
at which point he said everything that they wanted him to say,

00:47:43.507 --> 00:47:45.367
including things they could not possibly have done.

00:47:45.627 --> 00:47:49.767
Again, I've talked about that before. But yes, who was the one behind that?

00:47:49.867 --> 00:47:52.467
Well, of course, it was Dick Cheney.

00:47:52.627 --> 00:47:56.447
And we can get that, for example, from this Libertarian Institute article,

00:47:56.787 --> 00:47:59.247
an obituary of sorts for Mr. Cheney.

00:47:59.427 --> 00:48:03.627
Dick Cheney, war criminal and torturer, dead at 84, which goes on to state that

00:48:03.627 --> 00:48:07.627
best known for steering national security policy after the 9-11 attacks,

00:48:07.887 --> 00:48:12.527
Cheney became the dominant force behind a global war on terror that unleashed torture,

00:48:13.007 --> 00:48:14.847
preemptive war, and mass surveillance.

00:48:15.647 --> 00:48:19.307
Amnesty International has described him as one of the principal architects of

00:48:19.307 --> 00:48:22.967
a program that amounted to torture, while the Brown University Costs of War

00:48:22.967 --> 00:48:27.707
Project attributes more than 900,000 deaths and trillions of dollars in spending

00:48:27.707 --> 00:48:30.087
to the post-9-11 wars he championed.

00:48:30.327 --> 00:48:36.127
Dick Cheney's legacy is one of unprecedented destruction and the erosion of civil liberties.

00:48:36.487 --> 00:48:42.067
Yes, let's add that to the list, the dark legacy of chicken hawking and coup

00:48:42.067 --> 00:48:45.487
d'etat planning and continuity of government and everything else.

00:48:45.767 --> 00:48:50.227
Oh, also unprecedented destruction and the erosion of civil liberties.

00:48:51.051 --> 00:48:55.751
This goes on to describe this in more detail, some of the specifics, naming names.

00:48:55.911 --> 00:48:59.771
Cheney's longtime counsel, David Addington, and Justice Department lawyers,

00:48:59.911 --> 00:49:05.471
John Yu and Jay Bybee, drafted memos arguing that the Geneva Conventions did

00:49:05.471 --> 00:49:08.351
not apply to detainees captured in the global war on terror.

00:49:08.571 --> 00:49:12.311
The State Department's legal advisor warned that claiming the president could

00:49:12.311 --> 00:49:18.891
suspend the Geneva Conventions was legally flawed and would reverse over a century of U.S. policies.

00:49:19.691 --> 00:49:23.991
Cheney pressed ahead, telling the Washington Times that he signed off on the

00:49:23.991 --> 00:49:26.171
CIA's secret detention and rendition program.

00:49:26.451 --> 00:49:29.831
And as a principal participant in National Security Council meetings,

00:49:30.071 --> 00:49:34.491
he authorized the agency's interrogation program, including waterboarding.

00:49:34.771 --> 00:49:39.531
In 2006, he called waterboarding a no-brainer. And in 2009, he acknowledged

00:49:39.531 --> 00:49:43.531
knowing about the practice as a general policy that we had approved.

00:49:44.651 --> 00:49:48.351
And it goes on to state, um amongst

00:49:48.351 --> 00:49:51.611
many other things you should read the whole article but it quotes

00:49:51.611 --> 00:49:58.191
colonel wilkinson um uh who was uh colin powell's advisor chief of staff he

00:49:58.191 --> 00:50:04.191
told abc news that cheney was president for all practical purposes during george

00:50:04.191 --> 00:50:09.151
w bush's first term and he feared being tried as a war criminal,

00:50:09.974 --> 00:50:13.474
The Washington Post dubbed Cheney the vice president for torture,

00:50:13.694 --> 00:50:19.094
and Wilkerson said his push to disregard the Geneva Conventions amounted to

00:50:19.094 --> 00:50:20.314
an international crime.

00:50:20.554 --> 00:50:25.974
So there you go. I mean, it's not weird fringe conspiracy theorists sitting

00:50:25.974 --> 00:50:30.894
in Japan who have correctly identified Dick Cheney as a war criminal.

00:50:31.034 --> 00:50:35.714
It's people who were right there alongside him in the administration talking

00:50:35.714 --> 00:50:40.554
about it and calling him the real president, the president for all intents and

00:50:40.554 --> 00:50:42.554
purposes during the Bush administration.

00:50:43.154 --> 00:50:49.414
So that was, of course, a key method, sources and methods of the intelligence

00:50:49.414 --> 00:50:54.514
community and specifically of the war of terror that Cheney helped champion.

00:50:54.794 --> 00:50:58.474
But it wasn't just a war of terror. It wasn't just the war on the abstract now.

00:50:58.574 --> 00:51:00.674
And of course, there were the actual wars.

00:51:01.114 --> 00:51:04.834
And yes, it should be put on record, although it will be no surprise to anyone

00:51:04.834 --> 00:51:09.794
in my audience that, yes, Cheney helped to lie the U.S. into war.

00:51:11.334 --> 00:51:16.414
We've seen in connection with the hijackers, of course, Mohamed Atta,

00:51:16.734 --> 00:51:22.634
who was the lead hijacker, did apparently travel to Prague on a number of occasions.

00:51:22.854 --> 00:51:27.814
And on at least one occasion, we have reporting that places him in Prague with

00:51:27.814 --> 00:51:33.694
a senior Iraqi intelligence official a few months before the attack on the World Trade Center.

00:51:33.694 --> 00:51:41.294
He now is trying, through his illicit procurement network, to acquire the equipment

00:51:41.294 --> 00:51:44.074
he needs to be able to enrich uranium. Aluminum tubes.

00:51:44.474 --> 00:51:47.754
Specifically aluminum tubes. There's a story in the New York Times this morning.

00:51:48.014 --> 00:51:52.234
In the case of Iraq, we have a regime that is busy enhancing its capabilities,

00:51:52.954 --> 00:51:57.354
in the field of chemical and biological agents and is, by all available evidence,

00:51:57.914 --> 00:51:59.734
speeding up its nuclear weapons program.

00:52:00.314 --> 00:52:02.334
Simply stated, there is no doubt,

00:52:03.474 --> 00:52:06.914
that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction.

00:52:07.574 --> 00:52:12.774
There is no doubt that he is amassing them to use them against our friends,

00:52:13.034 --> 00:52:15.154
against our allies, and against us.

00:52:15.474 --> 00:52:18.954
Things have gotten so bad inside Iraq from the standpoint of the Iraqi people,

00:52:19.114 --> 00:52:21.794
my belief is we will in fact be greeted as liberators.

00:52:24.194 --> 00:52:28.114
Greeted as liberators. Yeah, indeed.

00:52:28.534 --> 00:52:32.574
I don't know what's more disgusting with regards to all of this,

00:52:32.674 --> 00:52:38.974
the fact that a cold psychopathic liar like Dick Cheney could lie straight on

00:52:38.974 --> 00:52:42.774
to the cameras like that without a hint of shame,

00:52:43.054 --> 00:52:48.354
or that he would years later double down, triple down, quadruple down on it

00:52:48.354 --> 00:52:52.194
by over and over repeating that the Iraq war was the right decision,

00:52:52.354 --> 00:52:56.914
he's glad he made it, and he would do it again in a heartbeat, or...

00:52:57.587 --> 00:53:03.067
That apparently enough of the American public was fine enough with such blatant

00:53:03.067 --> 00:53:08.587
and outright lying that they are now willing to laud this patriotic American,

00:53:08.587 --> 00:53:13.207
or at least certain segments of the population are doing that.

00:53:13.387 --> 00:53:15.507
But you know what? We're not even done.

00:53:15.767 --> 00:53:19.687
There are many, many things that we could add to our list if we're keeping this

00:53:19.687 --> 00:53:21.967
list of the dark legacy of Dick Cheney.

00:53:24.527 --> 00:53:27.687
But the waning days of the Bush Jr.

00:53:27.947 --> 00:53:32.807
Administration, when Cheney was still up to his plotting and tactics,

00:53:33.107 --> 00:53:38.287
when, of course, the Seven Countries in Five Years plan was still unfolding

00:53:38.287 --> 00:53:40.487
and they were still trying to get that done.

00:53:41.227 --> 00:53:45.847
Cheney was the one who came up with the plan, the bold and brilliant plan to,

00:53:46.047 --> 00:53:51.927
I don't know, blow up Americans in order to get the U.S. involved in a war in Iran.

00:53:53.807 --> 00:53:58.427
There's a bit at the end of this latest article that you wrote that I found

00:53:58.427 --> 00:53:59.947
actually most interesting in the article.

00:54:00.067 --> 00:54:03.747
It hasn't got that much attention, but I want to get your take on this.

00:54:03.867 --> 00:54:07.387
And this relates to a story or an incident that happened a couple of months

00:54:07.387 --> 00:54:09.687
ago. Many of you remember it. It was in the Strait of Hormuz.

00:54:09.867 --> 00:54:14.667
There was an incident where an American carrier almost blew a couple of Iranian

00:54:14.667 --> 00:54:19.067
speedboats out of the water and perhaps would have started the next war,

00:54:19.127 --> 00:54:21.847
a war against Iran or potentially a World War III.

00:54:22.307 --> 00:54:25.647
And it was averted, thankfully, at the last second.

00:54:25.787 --> 00:54:29.327
We later learned that there was really nothing to be terribly concerned about,

00:54:29.407 --> 00:54:33.147
that the incident was overblown, and that there was a vice-admiral in charge

00:54:33.147 --> 00:54:38.247
of the fleet in the Strait of Hormuz who said basically there was no concern

00:54:38.247 --> 00:54:39.887
there, that it was overblown.

00:54:40.167 --> 00:54:44.027
Well, yeah, the second part, basically. He was concerned, but it was overblown.

00:54:44.107 --> 00:54:45.667
He was never threatened. We were never threatened.

00:54:45.887 --> 00:54:50.527
And you talk about this vice admiral's name is Kevin Cosgrove,

00:54:50.667 --> 00:54:55.627
and in your article you write, nonetheless, Cosgrove's demeanor angered Cheney.

00:54:56.030 --> 00:54:59.370
According to the former senior intelligence official but

00:54:59.370 --> 00:55:02.410
a lesson was learned in the incident the public had supported

00:55:02.410 --> 00:55:05.990
the idea of retaliation and was even asking why

00:55:05.990 --> 00:55:09.130
the u.s didn't do more the former official said

00:55:09.130 --> 00:55:12.310
that a few weeks later a meeting took place in the

00:55:12.310 --> 00:55:15.450
vice president's office quote the subject was

00:55:15.450 --> 00:55:18.990
how to create a casus belli between tehran

00:55:18.990 --> 00:55:22.190
and washington he said what you're writing there is

00:55:22.190 --> 00:55:24.930
that Cheney there was a meeting in the White

00:55:24.930 --> 00:55:27.870
House where Cheney presided over looking to

00:55:27.870 --> 00:55:31.530
cook up the next war a false war

00:55:31.530 --> 00:55:38.490
based on false intelligence my oldest son is a lawyer and when I sent him the

00:55:38.490 --> 00:55:44.130
story before it was published basically in a final form just a day and he wrote

00:55:44.130 --> 00:55:48.190
back and he said you really buried the lead in this one but cost his belly um.

00:55:50.926 --> 00:55:56.366
How many press are here anyway there was a meeting among the among the items,

00:55:56.886 --> 00:56:00.306
among the items considered and rejected which is

00:56:00.306 --> 00:56:04.686
why the New Yorker did not publish it on grounds that it wasn't accepted one

00:56:04.686 --> 00:56:09.606
of the items was why not every there was a dozen ideas profit out of how to

00:56:09.606 --> 00:56:14.246
trigger war the one that interested me the most was why don't we build we and

00:56:14.246 --> 00:56:19.766
our shipyard build four or five I rate boats that look like Iranian PT boats put Navy SEALs on them,

00:56:20.326 --> 00:56:23.726
with a lot of arms and the next time one of our boats goes through the Straits

00:56:23.726 --> 00:56:25.806
of Vermouths, start a shoot-up.

00:56:26.286 --> 00:56:30.366
Might cost some lives and it was rejected because you can't have Americans killing

00:56:30.366 --> 00:56:34.606
Americans, but that's the kind of, that's the level of stuff we were talking

00:56:34.606 --> 00:56:37.366
about, provocation. But that was rejected.

00:56:37.926 --> 00:56:43.046
So I could understand the argument of not writing something that was rejected.

00:56:43.966 --> 00:56:48.646
Maybe. I basically, my attitude always towards editors is they're maestro need to be rats.

00:56:49.466 --> 00:56:55.246
So, but, but you have to, you have to, you know, they're, but the point is, J.

00:56:55.406 --> 00:57:00.346
June, if you know what that means, silly, maybe,

00:57:01.206 --> 00:57:04.726
but potentially very lethal, because one of the things they learned in the incident

00:57:04.726 --> 00:57:09.466
was the American public, if you get the American, if you get the right incident,

00:57:09.686 --> 00:57:12.346
the American public will support, you know, bang, bang, kiss,

00:57:12.446 --> 00:57:13.606
kiss, you know, we're into it.

00:57:14.026 --> 00:57:18.186
And the public, although that was the other side that had issued that was important,

00:57:18.186 --> 00:57:22.246
what happened in the Gulf, in the Straits in early January, the President was

00:57:22.246 --> 00:57:24.806
just about to go to the Middle East for a visit.

00:57:25.246 --> 00:57:28.346
So it was all, that was one reason they wanted to gin it up,

00:57:28.826 --> 00:57:32.686
get it going. Look, is it high school? Yeah.

00:57:33.406 --> 00:57:37.626
Are we playing high school with, you know, five, five thousand nuclear warheads

00:57:37.626 --> 00:57:38.826
in our arsenal? Yeah, we are.

00:57:39.166 --> 00:57:44.246
We're playing, you know, who's the first guy to run off the highway with us in Iraq.

00:57:47.638 --> 00:57:52.218
Operation Northwoods, anyone? Yeah. Why don't we just build an Iranian PT boat

00:57:52.218 --> 00:57:57.618
and then dress up American soldiers as Iranians and start shooting at Americans? Why not?

00:57:58.258 --> 00:58:01.018
Sure. That's a good way to start a war. Oh, maybe we can't do that.

00:58:01.158 --> 00:58:04.878
Okay. We won't do that. Don't worry, guys. We won't do a thing like that.

00:58:06.138 --> 00:58:09.938
It's unbelievable unless you are tuned into reality.

00:58:09.938 --> 00:58:14.198
And unfortunately, you will never get that from, as I say, the glazing of the

00:58:14.198 --> 00:58:19.498
corporate media, who has done nothing but sing the praises of this wonderful

00:58:19.498 --> 00:58:22.078
American patriot in recent days.

00:58:22.358 --> 00:58:26.458
Whereas we can now see the real dark legacy of someone like Cheney.

00:58:26.878 --> 00:58:33.158
Cover-up perpetrator, deep state facilitator, coup plotter, false flag executioner.

00:58:33.258 --> 00:58:41.658
And that's just the beginning of this list. So what was the fate of this arch enemy of humanity?

00:58:41.938 --> 00:58:45.058
Was he subjected to war crimes prosecution?

00:58:45.618 --> 00:58:50.478
Well, as you may or may not remember, I had this post up in March of 2012.

00:58:50.758 --> 00:58:52.918
Who's afraid of war crimes prosecution?

00:58:53.418 --> 00:58:58.158
Cheney cancels Toronto speaking event, which reported that former U.S.

00:58:58.358 --> 00:59:02.438
Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Elizabeth have cancelled a planned

00:59:02.438 --> 00:59:05.998
speaking engagement at Toronto's Metro Convention Center next month,

00:59:06.458 --> 00:59:07.918
citing safety concerns.

00:59:08.178 --> 00:59:11.518
According to the president of the promotion company that booked Cheney for the

00:59:11.518 --> 00:59:17.518
April 24th speech, he felt that in Canada, the risk of violent protest was simply too high.

00:59:18.662 --> 00:59:24.602
Do you remember that? You remember when the Cheneys, both Dick and Liz, were reprehensible.

00:59:26.162 --> 00:59:31.842
Absolutely unredeemable exemplars of everything that the left seemed to hate

00:59:31.842 --> 00:59:34.222
and was pledged to be against?

00:59:34.422 --> 00:59:38.622
And remember how now, all of a sudden, Liz Cheney, for speaking out against

00:59:38.622 --> 00:59:42.422
Trump, is just the greatest and the left embraces her. And she's one of the

00:59:42.422 --> 00:59:43.422
good people on the right.

00:59:44.062 --> 00:59:47.162
Funny how a decade or two can change things, isn't it?

00:59:47.302 --> 00:59:52.522
Well, of course, there was good reason for Cheney and others to be concerned

00:59:52.522 --> 00:59:55.822
about their safety at such events at such a time because,

00:59:56.442 --> 00:59:59.822
well, you might remember, for example, just a few months after that incident,

01:00:00.002 --> 01:00:06.942
there was an actual delivery of a guilty verdict in a war crimes tribunal for

01:00:06.942 --> 01:00:09.202
Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and five others.

01:00:09.202 --> 01:00:14.822
They were found responsible for war crimes, specifically at the Kuala Lumpur

01:00:14.822 --> 01:00:17.982
War Crimes Tribunal that was taking place at that time.

01:00:18.142 --> 01:00:22.762
It was, I believe, founded in 2007. In 2012, it convicted Bush,

01:00:23.082 --> 01:00:25.762
Cheney, Rumsfeld and five others of war crimes.

01:00:25.962 --> 01:00:29.182
You probably don't know about that conviction unless you watch the corporate

01:00:29.182 --> 01:00:33.402
report, but it did happen. And of course, you don't know about it because the

01:00:33.402 --> 01:00:38.042
Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, well, obviously the United States and other

01:00:38.042 --> 01:00:39.462
countries didn't recognize it.

01:00:39.642 --> 01:00:43.362
And although that is on the record, it stands as a verdict.

01:00:43.862 --> 01:00:49.062
Bush and, of course, Cheney were never actually arrested by any of the states

01:00:49.062 --> 01:00:53.922
that could have used this as a war crimes conviction, which would obligate them

01:00:53.922 --> 01:00:56.242
to actually arrest the war criminals.

01:00:57.102 --> 01:01:01.702
Well, at any rate, it is on the record and it is an important part of the record

01:01:01.702 --> 01:01:07.182
because it at least shows that free humanity is not buying the corporate propaganda

01:01:07.182 --> 01:01:14.462
of wonderful patriot Dick Cheney that we now must mourn the loss of because he was such a great guy.

01:01:15.989 --> 01:01:23.749
Well, again, where does that leave us now after Cheney's passing? What does this all mean?

01:01:24.769 --> 01:01:30.009
Well, you might remember as I reported in Change of Heart, the legacy of Darth

01:01:30.009 --> 01:01:35.969
Cheney, that report that I filed in the wake of Cheney's heart transplant there

01:01:35.969 --> 01:01:39.389
in those very hectic days of 2012.

01:01:39.649 --> 01:01:42.509
I don't know what was going on in 2012, but a lot of Cheney news.

01:01:43.029 --> 01:01:46.129
And as was reported at that time, Cheney had had a heart transplant.

01:01:46.409 --> 01:01:54.669
But for the previous two years, from 2010 to 2012, Cheney was literally heartless,

01:01:54.709 --> 01:01:57.449
as in he literally did not have a pulse.

01:01:57.649 --> 01:02:02.029
He was using a mechanical heart that functioned in a way to create a continuous

01:02:02.029 --> 01:02:05.529
flow of blood through the circulatory system. So there was no pulse.

01:02:05.789 --> 01:02:09.749
Cheney literally did not have a pulse. He was literally a heartless mechanical

01:02:09.749 --> 01:02:13.129
Darth Vader for those two years before the heart transplant.

01:02:13.509 --> 01:02:19.649
And maybe that's an apt way of describing Darth Chaney and his legacy.

01:02:20.841 --> 01:02:25.441
If you are inclined to feel sorry, sorry for him, oh, that he had to go through

01:02:25.441 --> 01:02:26.961
all of that, and oh, poor man.

01:02:27.221 --> 01:02:31.881
Well, don't worry. His corporate media buddies who pretended to be his opposition

01:02:31.881 --> 01:02:34.741
always, always had his back.

01:02:36.161 --> 01:02:41.261
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is reportedly feeling good and likely to leave

01:02:41.261 --> 01:02:43.501
George Washington University Hospital in D.C.

01:02:43.681 --> 01:02:47.381
Within a day or two after he experienced a mild heart attack yesterday.

01:02:47.381 --> 01:02:51.541
69 years old, Mr. Cheney has now suffered five heart attacks in his lifetime.

01:02:52.161 --> 01:02:56.181
Yesterday's led doctors to administer a stress test and a cardiac catheterization,

01:02:56.481 --> 01:03:00.661
which is something that examines blood flow to the heart and tests how well the heart is pumping.

01:03:00.981 --> 01:03:04.441
It is not known if the former vice president underwent an angioplasty,

01:03:04.621 --> 01:03:07.601
which is a procedure to clear blockages in the heart.

01:03:07.901 --> 01:03:11.721
Dick Cheney has, of course, said and done many things with which many people

01:03:11.721 --> 01:03:15.761
have taken angry issue, myself included. but Dick Cheney is also a husband and

01:03:15.761 --> 01:03:18.841
a father and an American who has spent most of his life in public service,

01:03:19.061 --> 01:03:22.781
and we wish him a full and speedy, speedy recovery. Sincerely.

01:03:24.641 --> 01:03:29.281
I can only hope that Ms. or Mr. Maddow is taking this news okay.

01:03:29.481 --> 01:03:33.701
I hope she's okay at this trying time for all of us.

01:03:35.021 --> 01:03:40.061
Yes, Dick Cheney is dead, and unfortunately not at The Hague,

01:03:40.061 --> 01:03:42.461
as one headline that I saw recently put it.

01:03:43.001 --> 01:03:48.801
But it's a comfortable death, surrounded by friends and family and lauded by

01:03:48.801 --> 01:03:50.781
the nation that mourns his loss.

01:03:50.801 --> 01:03:53.201
So it is not victory at all.

01:03:53.321 --> 01:03:58.261
I will repeat it here, as I repeated in the unauthorized biography of David

01:03:58.261 --> 01:04:04.361
Rockefeller and my remarks on the passing of Zbigniew Brzezinski and Henry Kissinger, etc.

01:04:04.701 --> 01:04:10.101
Death is no victory. This is not the way that we win, and nothing has been accomplished

01:04:10.101 --> 01:04:13.681
other than one more serviceable puppet for the deep state agenda,

01:04:13.681 --> 01:04:15.361
having shuffled off the mortal coil,

01:04:15.841 --> 01:04:20.901
to meet his rewards, or lack thereof, in the afterlife. But that is no victory. And,

01:04:21.939 --> 01:04:26.419
It is certainly no victory that we will never be able to haul someone like Cheney

01:04:26.419 --> 01:04:32.579
in front of a real 9-11 tribunal or commission to get on the record what really

01:04:32.579 --> 01:04:34.759
actually happened on that day.

01:04:34.939 --> 01:04:39.639
That will now never happen, at least not from the mouth of Cheney himself.

01:04:40.999 --> 01:04:47.899
But if there is any victory that we can take out of this, out of this ignoble

01:04:47.899 --> 01:04:51.959
legacy of this false flag Paul Potter and coup d'etat leader,

01:04:52.199 --> 01:04:59.259
it is that we can at the very least still try and convict someone like Cheney

01:04:59.259 --> 01:05:00.799
in the court of public opinion.

01:05:00.799 --> 01:05:09.019
If the comments on every single corporate media story and post that I have seen

01:05:09.019 --> 01:05:14.119
talking about the legacy of this great American patriot are to be believed,

01:05:14.339 --> 01:05:19.719
the public already know that what Cheney's real legacy actually is.

01:05:20.239 --> 01:05:26.439
There are many, many, many more people who understand what Cheney was and how

01:05:26.439 --> 01:05:29.359
he was operating than the corporate media would like you to know.

01:05:29.479 --> 01:05:32.999
They would like you to think, oh, everyone's so broken up about this.

01:05:33.119 --> 01:05:36.639
But then then go to the comment section. Take a look at how many people are

01:05:36.639 --> 01:05:38.019
really tearing up over Cheney.

01:05:38.159 --> 01:05:45.159
I think there has been, obviously, a monumental shift in public understanding

01:05:45.159 --> 01:05:49.439
of events like 9-11 and the role of people like Dick Cheney over the past two decades.

01:05:49.719 --> 01:05:56.339
The problem is that that understanding, that shift in consciousness is never going to be reported.

01:05:56.579 --> 01:06:02.839
The corporate media that is there to lie to you is not going to tell you about that cultural shift.

01:06:03.059 --> 01:06:06.999
And if nobody sees it on their telescreens, it must not be real,

01:06:07.279 --> 01:06:09.479
right? Don't believe it for a second.

01:06:10.019 --> 01:06:13.379
We know who Dick Cheney really was.

01:06:13.579 --> 01:06:18.139
We know what his legacy really is, and we will not stand for it.

01:06:19.041 --> 01:06:23.261
Now, there's a lot of information in today's episode, and even just the 9-11

01:06:23.261 --> 01:06:27.201
rabbit holes themselves no doubt deserve plenty more exploration.

01:06:27.201 --> 01:06:31.641
So I will leave this episode here today, but I exhort you to go to the show

01:06:31.641 --> 01:06:36.321
notes at corbettreport.com slash Cheney and avail yourself of all of those links

01:06:36.321 --> 01:06:39.721
to all of those resources and start digging into this more.

01:06:39.921 --> 01:06:45.441
The only way we lose here is if we do not remember and accurately reflect the

01:06:45.441 --> 01:06:49.121
history of someone like Cheney. So I hope you will do your part in helping to

01:06:49.121 --> 01:06:51.641
spread the word about this real information.

01:06:52.441 --> 01:06:55.301
Having said that, I'm going to end it here for today. I,

01:06:55.521 --> 01:07:00.281
as always, appreciate your support at corporatereport.com and also at reportagebook.com,

01:07:00.381 --> 01:07:04.321
where you can get my book, Reportage Essays on the New World Order,

01:07:04.521 --> 01:07:10.301
now in paperback and hardcover and coming in the very near future audiobook form.

01:07:10.561 --> 01:07:14.361
And hey, if you're a German speaker, the German version is already out.

01:07:14.361 --> 01:07:19.481
And I hope people are putting their orders in for that on Romanian speakers.

01:07:19.741 --> 01:07:22.241
There is a Romanian translation that is now available.

01:07:22.561 --> 01:07:25.161
I will put the link in the show notes as well in case you want that.

01:07:25.761 --> 01:07:29.281
But we're going to leave it here for today. This is James Corbett of CorbettReport.com.

01:07:29.301 --> 01:07:32.401
Thanking you for joining me for this exploration and looking forward to talking

01:07:32.401 --> 01:07:33.981
to you again in the near future.