This is a rebuttal letter I also sent to an Andrew Klavan, who wrote another one of those Ted Kennedy/Chappaquidick pieces that the Far Right has been endlessly regurgitating this week.
Then, Far Right news web baron Andrew Breitbart re-posted Klavan’s column on FB, which led to another NEOCON attack dog procession:
MY REBUTTAL TO THE “FAR RIGHT” TED KENNEDY PRE-BURIAL “PILE ON” – Bush Administration Official Norman Mineta’s Omitted Testimony to the 911 Commission on VEEP CREEP Dick Cheney’s “Stand Down” Orders on the day 189 Americans Died at the Pentagon:
This is a gift to FAR RIGHT “frienemies,” like Andrew Breitbart and Andrew Klavan, who keep regurgitating Kennedy’s personal life and role in the drowning of Mary Joe Kepechne. Please check out this YouTube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v… .
This is an attached link to a YouTube video replay of a 9/11 Commission hearing in which then-Secretary of Transportation head, Norman Mineta, testified how then-Vice President Dick Cheney maintained a STAND-DOWN ORDER with NORAD not to intercept American Airlines Flight 77 about a half-hour before and up until it crashed into the Pentagon on that fateful day.
In all, 189 bodies were recovered from the Pentagon, with 55 dead military personnel, 80 civilian deceased Pentagon workers and 54 dead from Flight 77 (not counting the hijackers).
The 911 Commission Report completely OMITTED Mineta’s testimony, despite Mineta’s later assertion that he was in the Command Bunker at the same time with Cheney and military aides who kept asking if the STAND-DOWN ORDER could be lifted (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suKKhDWbnSk).- mind you that the DC Beltway has long been a RESTRICTED NO-FLY ZONE!
And why didn’t Cheney at least order IMMEDIATE EVACUATIONS of all key federal government buildings/installations along the Beltway while NORAD was tracking this incoming hijacked jet and as reaction to the plane crashes into the World Trade Center earlier that morning on 9/11?
So, while I have never condoned the way in which Ted Kennedy did not face a thorough INVESTIGATION into Mary Jo Kopechne’s drowning at Chappaquick, how is it the 911 Commission completely OMITS Mineta’s testimony and any other evidence about Dick Cheney’s role in the non-intercepted Pentagon crash?
Maybe, as you (and Andrew Breitbart) are again regurgitating the same things about a wrongful death in Chappaquidick, you should take some time out to consider calling a TRUE investigation into Dick Cheney’s role in the unnecessary deaths of 189 people at the Pentagon?
Even outside of a Pentagon inquiry, Cheney and others on the Bush Jr. team, should still be investigated for their roles in torture. Cheney, alone, in addition to potential murder charges, should be considered for outright TREASON charges as well – there appears to be enough published source accounts to seriously corroborate that FALL GUY Scooter Libby got his orders from above (Cheney, Karl Rove) on outing CIA agent Valerie Plame.
By the way, I would like to applaud Mineta as being the only man of “conscience” from the Bush Jr. Administration to publicly testify and speak of the events that transpired from Cheney’s command bunker that day – although it was in vain with a completely whitewashed, final 911 Commission Report that was released to the public.
So, Andrew, maybe you could also hope the souls of 189 dead from the Pentagon crash rest-in-peace (just like Mary Jo Kopechne), but maybe also rise in spirit/en masse to seek justice!
Sincerely,
Michael A. Freeman, Executive Director
Trans-American Alliance for a National Consensus (TANC)