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; 15)3)45-1+ &: An Interesting Day: President Bush's Movements and Actions on 9/11 Continued from Page 38 Offutt Air Force Base Air Force One left Barksdale for Offutt Air Force Base around 1:30 p.m. [CBS, 9/11/02, Telegraph, 12/16/01, Salon, 9/11/01, Washington Post, 9/11/01, MSNBC, 9/22/01, CNN, 9/12/01] The Air Force One entourage was pared down to a few essential staffers such as Ari Fleischer, Andrew Card, Karl Rove, Dan Bartlett, and Gordon Johndroe [White House, 9/11/01], plus about five reporters. [AP, 9/12/01 (D)] During the flight, Bush remained in White House [Salon 9/11/01], arriving shortly now.’… Looking at his face, you knew before 7:00 p.m. [CNN, 9/12/01, Telegraph, something was wrong. I said a little prayer for “continuous contact” with the White House Situation Room and Vice President Cheney. 12/16/01, AP, 8/19/02] him. He shook my hand and left.” Daniels also Bush gave a nationally televised speech [CNN, 9/11/01 (B)] at 8:30 p.m. [CNN, 9/12/01, White House, said, “I knew something was up when President Bush didn’t pick up the book and participate in Air Force One landed at Offutt shortly before 3:00 p.m. [Washington Post, 9/11/01] At 9/11/01], speaking for about five minutes. [US the lesson.” [Los Angeles Times, 9/11/02] 3:06, Bush passed through security to the US News, 9/14/01] In what would later be called However, the Booker video clearly shows that Strategic Command Underground Command the Bush Doctrine, he stated, “We will make no Bush did follow along after being told of the Center [Salon, 9/11/01, CBS, 9/11/02] and was distinction between the terrorists who second plane. [Video: Center for Cooperative committed these acts and those who harbor Research, Buzzflash, Global Free Press, The taken into an underground bunker designed to withstand a nuclear blast. [Telegraph, 12/16/01] them.” [Washington Post, 1/27/02] Emperor’s New Clothes, or Liberty DYNU] There, he held a teleconference call with Around 9:00 p.m., Bush met with his The New York Post reported, “A federal Vice President Cheney, National Security full National Security Council, followed agent rushed into the room to inform the Advisor Rice, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, roughly half an hour later by a meeting with a president of the United States. President Bush had been presiding over [Daniels’s] reading smaller group of key advisors. Bush and his Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage, CIA Director Tenet, Transportation Secretary advisors had already decided bin Laden was class last 9/11, when a Secret Service agent Norman Mineta, and others. [ABC News, behind the attacks. CIA Director Tenet told interrupted the lesson and asked, ‘Where can we Bush that al-Qaeda and the Taliban in get to a television?’ ” Daniels then claimed that 9/11/02, Telegraph, 12/16/01, Washington Times, 10/8/02] The meeting lasted about an Afghanistan were essentially one and the same. Bush left the class even before the second crash: hour. [Telegraph, 12/16/01, Salon, 9/11/01, AP, [Washington Post, 1/27/02] “The president bolted right out of here and told 8/19/02] Rice recalled that during the meeting, Before going to sleep around 11:30 p.m., me: ‘Take over.’ ” When the second crash Tenet told Bush, “Sir, I believe it’s al-Qaeda. Bush wrote in his diary, “The Pearl Harbor of occurred, she claims her students were watching TV in a nearby media room. [New York Post, the 21st century took place today…. We think We’re doing the assessment but it looks like, it feels like, it smells like al-Qaeda.” [CBS, it’s Osama bin Laden.” [Washington Post, 9/12/02] This article is riddled with errors. As 9/11/02] 1/27/02] mentioned previously, the Secret Service was already watching the second plane crash live on By this time, people were anticipating and expecting another reassuring public Rewriting History television in an adjacent room at 9:03—long before this supposedly happened. Nor did Bush statement from Bush. [Orlando Sentinel, 9/12/01] The White House staff was preparing The many accounts of what happened to “bolt” out of the room; in fact, even pro-Bush for Bush to address the nation from the Offutt Bush on 9/11 are riddled with disinformation of author Bill Sammon called Bush “the dawdler in chief” for taking so long to leave the room. bunker, but Bush decided instead to return to false threats, omitted details, fudged timing, and Washington. [CBS, 9/11/02] more. But around September 11, 2002, the [Fighting Back: The War on Terrorism—From Inside the Bush White House, by Bill Sammon, As a side note, Warren Buffett, one of heavily publicized first anniversary of the the richest people in the world, was hosting an attacks, there was an obvious attempt to further 10/02, p. 90] Bush himself took part in the historical unpublicized charity benefit inside the high rewrite the story. revisionism. In an extensive video interview security Offutt military base at 8:00 a.m. With Chief of Staff Andrew Card claimed that him were business leaders and several after he told Bush about the second World Trade shown on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” he again executives from the World Trade Center, Center crash, “it was only a matter of seconds” repeated his bizarre belief that he was watching including Anne Tatlock of Fiduciary Trust Co. before Bush “excused himself very politely to television when the first crash took place. CBS International, who likely would have died had it the teacher and to the students, and he left” the also revived the false story that terrorists had broken Air Force One’s secret codes, even not been for the meeting. [San Francisco classroom. Card also stated that Bush “quickly Business Times, 2/1/02] They watched a lot of excused himself to a holding room.” [San though it was CBS who debunked that same the television coverage that morning, but it’s Francisco Chronicle, 9/11/02] In a different story nearly a year earlier. [CBS, 9/11/02] unknown if any of these people were still at account, Card said, “Not that many seconds Offutt by the time Bush arrived in the afternoon. later the president excused himself from the Continued on Page 41 classroom.” [MSNBC, 9/9/02] The Booker Back in Washington school video shows these statements are lies— unless “a matter of seconds” means over 700 Air Force One left Offutt around 4:30 seconds! p.m. [MSNBC, 9/22/01, CNN, 9/12/01, Sandra Kay Daniels, the teacher whose Telegraph, 12/16/01] and landed at Andrews Air second-grade classroom Bush visited on 9/11, Force Base at 6:34 p.m., escorted by two F-15 told the Los Angeles Times that after Card informed Bush of the second crash, Bush got up fighters and one F-16. [CNN, 9/11/01] Bush then took the Marine One helicopter to the and left. “He said, ‘Ms. Daniels, I have to leave