{"id":2040,"date":"2004-06-24T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-24T20:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2004-06-24T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-24T20:01:00","slug":"call-no-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2004\/06\/24\/16\/01\/call-no-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Call No Call"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/5251871\/site\/newsweek\/\">Cheney didn&#8217;t flinch, the [911] report said. &#8220;In about the time it takes a batter to decide to swing,&#8221; he gave the order to shoot it down, telling others the president had &#8220;signed off on the concept&#8221; during a brief phone chat &#8230; Then Joshua Bolten, after what he described in testimony as &#8220;a quiet moment,&#8221; spoke up. Bolten, the White House deputy chief of staff, asked the veep to get back in touch with the president to &#8220;confirm the engage order.&#8221; Bolten was clearly subordinate to Cheney, but &#8220;he had not heard any prior conversation on the subject with the president,&#8221; the 9\/11 report notes. Nor did the real-time notes taken by two others in the room, Cheney&#8217;s chief of staff, &#8220;Scooter&#8221; Libbywho is known for his meticulous record-keepingor Cheney&#8217;s wife, Lynne, reflect that such a phone call between Bush and Cheney occurred or that such a major decision as shooting down a U.S. airliner was discussed &#8230; The report concluded &#8220;there is no documentary evidence for this call.&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheney didn&#8217;t flinch, the [911] report said. &#8220;In about the time it takes a batter to decide to swing,&#8221; he gave the order to shoot it down, telling others the president had &#8220;signed off&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}