911 Treason: The Case Against Dick Cheney

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Crossing the Rubicon

Simplifying the case against Dick Cheney

by

Michael Kane

January 18, 2005 (FTW) - In an argument of over 600 pages and 1,000

footnotes, Crossing the Rubicon makes the case for official complicity

within the U.S. government and names Dick Cheney as the prime suspect in the

crimes of 9/11. Since the publication of this book (to which I had the

privilege of contributing a chapter), many people have asked to hear the

case against Cheney argued "short & sweet."

I will make it as short as possible, but it can never be sweet.

There are 3 major points made within this book that are crucial to proving

Cheney's guilt. I shall first list them and then go on to prove each point

as laid out in Crossing the Rubicon.

1. Means - Dick Cheney and the Secret Service: Dick Cheney was running a

completely separate chain of Command & Control via the Secret Service,

assuring the paralysis of Air Force response on 9/11. The Secret Service has

the technology to see the same radar screens the FAA sees in real time. They

also have the legal authority and technological capability to take supreme

command in cases of national emergency. Dick Cheney was the acting Commander

in Chief on 9/11. (Click here for a summary of these points)

2. Motive - Peak Oil: At some point between 2000 and 2007, world oil

production reaches its peak; from that point on, every barrel of oil is

going to be harder to find, more expensive to recover, and more valuable to

those who recover and control it. Dick Cheney was well aware of the coming

Peak Oil crisis at least as early as 1999, and 9/11 provided the pretext for

the series of energy wars that Cheney stated, "will not end in our

lifetime." (Click here for a summary of these points)

3. Opportunity - 9/11 War Games: The Air Force was running multiple war

games on the morning of 9/11 simulating hijackings over the continental

United States that included (at least) one "live-fly" exercise as well as

simulations that placed "false blips" on FAA radar screens. These war games

eerily mirrored the real events of 9/11 to the point of the Air Force

running drills involving hijacked aircraft as the 9/11 plot actually

unfolded. The war games & terror drills played a critical role in ensuring

no Air Force fighter jocks - who had trained their entire lives for this

moment - would be able to prevent the attacks from succeeding. These

exercises were under Dick Cheney's management. (Click here for a summary of

these points)

Here is the supporting documentation as laid out in Crossing the Rubicon,

making a legal case against Dick Cheney for the crimes of 9/11.

.. MEANS: Dick Cheney and the Secret Service

As the 9/11 plot unfolded, it has been reported that Secret Service whisked

Dick Cheney into an underground presidential bunker at 9:03. 1 This

establishes that the Secret Service was in the loop giving orders by at

least 9:03, and almost certainly much earlier, as we will show.

Former counter-terrorism advisor Richard Clarke writes in Against All

Enemies: "Secret Service had a system that allowed them to see what FAA's

radar was seeing." The Kean Commission (also known as the 9/11 Commission)

would have us believe that the chain of command on 9/11 was a complex web,

but in reality the Secret Service had the authority to communicate

presidential and vice presidential orders directly to fighter pilots in the

air. 2

In Air War Over America, a book commissioned by the Air Force documenting

the morning of 9/11, it is stated that the FAA contacted Otis Air Force base

informing them Flight 11 was headed to Manhattan and had lost its

identification signal by 8:30. 3 This indicates Secret Service was in the

loop by the same time, or shortly thereafter, since they are able to see FAA

radar screens in real time and FAA is reaching out to the military. There is

no question that by 8:45 at the absolute latest, likely much earlier, Secret

Service is in the decision-making loop. They were most likely in the loop

after 8:15 when flight 11 turned its transponder off.

National Special Security Event

It is the Secret Service who has the legal mandate to take supreme command

in case of a scheduled major event - or an unplanned major emergency - on

American soil; these are designated "National Special Security Events." The

Atlanta Olympic Games and the Republican & Democratic National Conventions

are notable examples of NSSE's. In preparation, the Secret Service runs

training initiatives of simulated attacks and field exercises for such

events. 4

The Secret Service works with state and local authorities as well as the

military to coordinate security efforts; it has the best communication

system of any agency in the country; and its personnel are always present

with both the President and Vice President - making it the perfect agency to

take supreme command in case of a major emergency on American soil. 5

When 9/11 occurred, the legal framework was in place to allow the Secret

Service to take supreme command over any and all American agencies,

including the Air Force. 6

Richard Clarke writes in Against All Enemies: "I was amazed at the speed of

the decisions coming from Cheney and, through him, from Bush." 7 This is to

be expected. Everything was in place for the Commander in Chief to be

calling all the shots as the 9/11 plot unfolded, but Bush was in an

elementary school reading about goats with Secret Service agents right

beside him.

Bush's Secret Service detail was in real-time communication not only with

the FAA, but also the PEOC (Presidential Emergency Operations Center), into

which Dick Cheney had reportedly been whisked by the Secret Service. While

Bush continued his elementary school photo-op after being told, "America is

under attack," Ari Fleischer - according to the Washington Times, 10/7/02 -

caught the president's eye and held up a handwritten sign that said "DON'T

SAY ANYTHING YET." 8 Bush was intentionally being kept out of the

decision-making loop during the critical moments of 9/11. The Vice President

has no place in the official military chain of command.9

Thus far we have established that:

1. Secret Service was the supreme command on 9/11.

2. Bush was not in the role of Commander in Chief at critical times on

9/11.

3. The acting Commander in Chief as the 9/11 plot unfolded was Dick

Cheney.

.. MOTIVE: Peak Oil

By definition, world hydrocarbon (oil and gas) production peaks when half

the planet's reserves have been used up. After that point, every barrel of

oil will be harder to find, more expensive to obtain, and more valuable to

whoever controls it. Many of the world's foremost experts place that peak

between 2000 and 2007.

We live in a global economic system based on endless growth, and that growth

is only possible with endless hydrocarbons to burn. Demand for oil and gas

is increasing at staggering rates; after peak, there will be demand that

simply cannot be met, and energy prices will rise inexorably.

The resulting economic catastrophe may see oil hit $100 per barrel before

the end of this decade. Oil not only keeps us warm and moves our cars, it is

used to make all plastics and is, together with natural gas, the most

important ingredient keeping modern agriculture afloat. It is a little known

fact that for every 1 calorie of food energy produced, 10 calories of

hydrocarbons are consumed. 10

We eat oil.

Without cheap oil, billions of people will freeze or starve and

unfortunately, there is no combination of renewable energy sources that can

replace oil and gas consumption without massive conservation efforts that

are nowhere in sight.

Cheney knew about this.

There are no national plans for conservation in America. As Dick Cheney has

stated, "The American way of life is not negotiable." Over-consumption is as

American as apple pie. Many industry experts have been speaking to the

reality of Peak Oil for some time. One of those experts - perhaps the most

prominent in the world - was in Dick Cheney's National Energy Policy

Development Group (NEPDG).

Just four days after Dick Cheney became Vice President he convened the

NEPDG. 11 Among the experts whose opinion Cheney paid for (with taxpayer

dollars) was Matthew Simmons, one of the most respected energy investment

bankers in the world. Simmons has been speaking out about Peak Oil for

years, and there is no question that the urgent story of Peak Oil is what he

told Cheney's NEPDG.

The content of the NEPDG documentation has been illegally withheld from the

American public with a rubber stamp of approval from the Supreme Court. FTW

has always contended that the deepest, darkest secrets of 9/11 are in those

documents. That's why they've been guarded so tightly.

Cheney knew about Peak Oil in 1999 as CEO of Halliburton, long before was

Vice President. A speech he gave at the London Institute of Petroleum

demonstrates this clearly. 12

As stated in Crossing the Rubicon, "By way of confirmation, people in and

close to the oil industry are reporting that increased drilling is not

resulting as yet in significantly increased supply." 13

A crisis of this magnitude required a crisis plan, something the

Neo-Liberals didn't have. The Neo-Conservatives, including Dick Cheney, had

such a plan: manufacture a crisis - one that had long been imagined as

necessary by elite planners inside the national security state 14- and use

it to maintain permanent war to steal the world's last remaining

hydrocarbons and temporarily stave off the Peak Oil crisis.

.. OPPORTUNITY: 9/11 War Games - a perfect "match"

On May 8, 2001 - four months prior to 9/11 - the president placed Dick

Cheney in charge of "[A]ll federal programs dealing with weapons of mass

destruction consequence management within the Departments of Defense, Health

and Human Services, Justice, and Energy, the Environmental Protection

Agency, and other federal agencies." This included all "training and

planning" which needed to be "seamlessly integrated, harmonious and

comprehensive" in order to "maximize effectiveness." This mandate created

the Office of National Preparedness in FEMA, overseen by Dick Cheney. 15

Dick Cheney was placed directly in charge of managing the seamless

integration of all training exercises throughout the entire federal

government and all military agencies. On 9/11 Cheney oversaw multiple war

games and terror drills, including several exercises of NORAD, the Air Force

agency whose mandate is to "watch the sky."

The evening before September 11th, 2001, the National Security Agency

intercepted a communication between Khalid Shaikh Muhammad and the alleged

ringleader of the 9/11 attacks, Mohammed Atta. The communication stated,

"The match is about to begin."

Were they "matching" their activities to the war games? Was the attack a

rigged "match" between the defenders on one side, and the attackers with

their accomplices on the other?

The Whitehouse was so infuriated when this communication leaked from the

Senate Intelligence Committee that they threatened Senators with polygraphs

and office searches for disclosing classified information. This leak struck

a nerve within the Whitehouse.

We know multiple Air Force war games were running on the morning of 9/11, as

documented extensively in the mainstream press. 16 What Crossing the Rubicon

has documented conclusively is that there was a live-fly drill taking place

on 9/11 titled Vigilant Warrior. Richard Clarke disclosed the name of this

drill on page 4 of his book, but it was Major Don Arias of NORAD who

confirmed the definition of the title "Warrior" to Mike Ruppert via email.

Warrior = JCS/HQ NORAD sponsored FTX, or field training exercise (live-fly).

17

That means that the Vigilant Warrior drill conducted by the Joint Chiefs of

Staff involved at least one real commercial aircraft in the skies, intended

to simulate exactly the kind of airliner hijack emergency presented on 9/11.

Coincidence?

This was further supported by an April 18 2004 USA Today article titled,

"NORAD had drills of jets as weapons." The report cited NORAD officials who

confirmed live-fly drills were conducted using hijacked airliners

originating from the continental United States used as weapons crashing into

targets including the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The specific

drill USA Today referred to was "planned in July [2001] and conducted

later" - likely on 9/11 itself. 18

Remember, on 9/11 the Bush administration claimed it had "no idea" aircraft

would be used as weapons. Then why were they drilling such scenarios before

and during 9/11? The Whitehouse dodged this by saying it wasn't aware of

these drills but that is a transparent lie. The drills took place in the

Whitehouse! 19

Secret Service runs simulated attack field exercises - exactly what Vigilant

Warrior was. This Joint Chiefs of Staff drill was likely being run through

Secret Service lines of communication by a central command under Cheney's

control. 20

Additional war games on 9/11 included Northern Vigilance, an exercise that

pulled Air Force fighters from the east coast of the United States up into

Canada and Alaska simulating an attack out of Russia. All of those fighters

were rendered useless as the 9/11 plot unfolded - too far away to respond.

One of the components of this drill included "false blips" (radar injects

simulating aircraft in flight) placed on FAA radar screens. 21 At one point

FAA head Jane Garvey said they suspected up to 11 hijackings on 9/11. Was

she saying they couldn't determine which were real, which were simulated,

and which were live-fly military exercises?

Regardless, all of this rendered Air Force response on 9/11 useless.

In Air War Over America it is documented that General Arnold of NORAD didn't

pull out of the war game titled Vigilant Guardian until reports of flight 93

being hijacked were coming in. That was at 9:16, a total of 54 minutes after

it was known that flight 11 was a hijacking. 22 What took so long? Were

there still "false blips" on FAA radar screens at this time?

There were likely false blips on screen even after 9:16. The Kean

Commission's report introduced "phantom flight-11" as being reported by the

FAA at 9:25 on 9/11. The FAA reported flight 11 was heading to Washington

D.C. at that time when in fact it had already struck the World Trade Center.

The Kean Commission's report stated they were "unable to locate the source

of the mistaken FAA information." 23

"Phantom flight-11" was a false blip, but since the war games are

classified, specific information on "false blips" and other details can't be

reported.

Now imagine being an air traffic controller with both real planes and "false

blips" simulating hijackings on your screens when suddenly there are real,

multiple, hijackings. Where do you send the few Air Force fighters that you

have? You can't guess wrong, you don't have enough assets for that. The FAA

doesn't even make that decision, the military does. The Kean Commission

managed to scapegoat the FAA in their report, but the Air Force itself

confirmed the FAA did its job properly on 9/11 in Air War Over America. 24

There were more 9/11 war games including Northern Guardian, Northern Denial

(recently confirmed by an Assistant Editor at Harper's magazine) and an

unnamed National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) drill for a plane crashing into

NRO headquarters at precisely the time of an actual crash in New York.

Another coincidence?

War games, terror drills and exercises are run by the military quite

frequently. In this case, they mirrored the real attacks of 9/11 with such

shocking congruence as to be beyond the realm of coincidence.

This is made clear when we consider the warnings that had flooded U.S.

Intelligence prior to 9/11, indicating that terrorists were planning to

hijack aircraft and crash them into American targets on the ground during

the week of September 9th, 2001. 25 With that type of information, who in

their right mind would then schedule war games that would leave New York and

Washington D.C. completely undefended?

We've already shown that the man in charge of managing all such programs was

Dick Cheney. Among the central decision-makers for the scheduling of so many

simultaneous exercises would be Dick Cheney and Ralph Eberhart, head of

NORAD.

It certainly was a perfect "match."

The Maestro

The most important revelation made about the 9/11 war games comes again from

Major Don Arias of NORAD. With multiple war games running, there had to be

someone coordinating them.

"Yes, there is an exercise maestro," said Don Arias in a phone interview. 26

So who was the maestro?

Mike Ruppert called every relevant military and government office looking

for an answer to this question and received no response. At the final 9/11

Commission hearing on June 17, 2004, I asked General Ralph Eberhart - the

man in charge of NORAD on 9/11 - who was in charge of coordinating the war

games that day. His only response was, "No comment." None of the

commissioners, including Chairman Kean, could answer this question. 27

FTW's research has concluded the maestro was either Dick Cheney, Ralph "Ed"

Eberhart, or both. Whoever the maestro was, he was certainly under Cheney's

management as per the May 2001 presidential mandate.

Additionally, Tripod II was a bio-terror exercise being set-up on the west

side of lower Manhattan, reportedly scheduled to begin the next day. This

exercise was being coordinated with FEMA and the Department of Justice - two

of the agencies placed directly under Cheney's control in May of 2001 by

presidential mandate.

Another coincidence?

There is no question that Cheney would be responsible for managing this

exercise. The Tripod II drill became the command & control emergency

response center on 9/11. The command center in WTC 7 was reportedly

evacuated by 9:30 on 9/11, but Tripod II provided a new command center

organized just as the original was. 28 How convenient.

The Air Force war games ensured the air attack would be successful, and

Tripod II assured Cheney would have control of the response to the crisis of

his making. Matching the war games with hijackings - or hijacking the war

games - was the opportunity for Cheney to help ensure the 9/11 attacks would

be successful, justifying what he calls, "The war that will not end in our

lifetimes." The "war on terror" is actually a war for the world's last

remaining hydrocarbon reserves. This energy war is a response to a coming

energy crisis that Cheney was well aware of at least as early as 1999.

Conclusion

Crossing the Rubicon demonstrates much more than is presented here. The book

goes into the failures of the 9/11 Commission, 9/11 insider trading, the

curtailing of civil liberties, coming economic crisis, biological warfare,

the real history of the Osama bin Laden, and many other issues critical to

an understanding of today's historical reality.

Crossing the Rubicon also looks into the evolution of PROMIS software, a

well-documented artificial intelligence and datamining program whose current

descendants played an integral role in the crimes of 9/11. As Dick Cheney

was running a separate chain of command via the Secret Service, he also had

the capability to intervene in the functions of the FAA through an evolution

of PROMIS software developed and sold by Ptech, Inc. - a company funded by

Saudi terrorist financier Yassin Al Qadi. Al Qadi claims he met Dick Cheney

in Jeddah before he was Vice President, a claim Cheney hasn't publicly

refuted. FTW will soon be releasing an in-depth report on Ptech and its role

in the crimes of 9/11.

What we have placed in front of you here is the legal case against Dick

Cheney and other persons of interest within the U.S. government. Such

evidence should constitute the foundation for articles of impeachment and

criminal prosecution against George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and their

accomplices.

Review the documentation for yourself - purchase Crossing the Rubicon here.

1 Crossing the Rubicon, page 435

2 Ibid, 428 - 429

3 Ibid, 444

4 Ibid, 431 - 432

5 Ibid, 427 - 436

6 Ibid, 433

7 Ibid, 592

8 Ibid, 435

9 http://www.dtic.mil/jcs/core/overview.html

10 Ibid, 24

11 Ibid, 109

12 Ibid, 47

13 Ibid, 38

14 Ibid, 40, 575

15 Rubicon, 333

16 Ibid, chapter 19, 333 - 356

17 Ibid, 368

18 Ibid, 345

19 Ibid 346

20 Ibid, 433

21 Ibid, 339

22 Ibid, 444

23 Ibid, 400

24 Ibid, 443

25 Ibid, chapter 13, 225 - 237

26 Ibid, 367

27 Ibid, 394 - 399

28 Ibid, 406