March 22, 2004

September 11 - Immediate Response

Posted by Brian

Atrios links to this pretty good Wall Street journal article on the many conflicting accounts about the government’s immediate response to the September 11 attacks. Much of the confusion is probably due to the inevitable difficulty in remembering precise timelines, but I’d bet that at least some of the time some people are deliberately making things up.

One thing I didn’t know was that Cheney’s office is still sticking to the story that there was a credible threat to Air Force One that day. I thought that story had been officially inoperative for years now.

Posted on March 22, 2004 05:22 PM UTC
Comments

Not everybody gets every memo. Nor is every memo read. No big.

Posted by Ray · March 22, 2004 05:48 PM

Cheney’s done this before. IIRC, he talked about the ‘mobile biological warfare trailers’ a few months ago.

Kevin Drum (or somebody commenting there) had the theory that the mainstream media pays less attention to Cheney than to Bush. This means that Cheney can float lies to their base, while attracting less general attention.

Posted by Barry · March 22, 2004 06:45 PM

If anything, surely more attention should be paid to Cheney, no? It’s not quite organ-grinder and monkey, but…

Posted by james · March 22, 2004 10:00 PM

Yes, but the mainstream media only occasionally does what it should.

Posted by Barry · March 23, 2004 12:25 AM
Followups

→ Why Oh Why Are We Ruled by These Liars? (Yet Another Cheney Edition).
Excerpt: Brian Weatherson writes: Crooked Timber: September 11 - Immediate Response : Atrios links to this pretty good Wall Street journal article on the many conflicting accounts about the government’s immediate response to the September 11 attacks. Much...Read more at Brad DeLong's Semi-Daily Journal (2004)

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