Let's focus on the pentagon hit.
How long does it take for hijackers to gain control of the crowd with boxcutters, break into the cockpit, force out the co-pilots, take control of the plane, turn off transponders, etc? Long enough period of time for NORAD to respond. American Airline 77 took off from Dulles Airport in DC, and after it had been hijacked, the hijacker pilot diverted AA77 back to DC for full 45 minutes before hitting the pentagon. So where was NORAD on this one? Not one single fighter jets were scrambled to either intercept AA77 nor protect the skies in DC. Remember, the pentagon impact occured 35 minutes after the 2nd hit in NYC when it became obviously apparent to anyone that america was under attack. The only possible explanation was that the air force was given a stand down order. Who has the authority to order a stand down? Those inside the government.
Here is the catch, Dick Cheney was given direct order by W. Bush in may of 2001 to schedule and operate military exercises along with the help of Generals Ralph Eberhart and Richard Myers. In august of 2001, several fighter jets from virginia's langley air force base were deployed to Iceland for a guardian operation, which was scheduled to last until december of 2001. On the morning of 9/11, several fighter jets from DC's andrew air force base were deployed to North Carolina for scheduled wargame exercises. These jets were not recalled until 11 am, after the attacks were completed. While W. Bush was stranded in florida, take a wild guess who was already in DC and took over as the acting commander in chief? Cheney, the person who directed the responses from an emergency bunker.
Norman Mineta, the secetary of transportation had arrived into PEOC at 9:20 am on 9/11, and claimed in a damaging testimony in front of the commission in 2003, that Cheney was already there with the staff.
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Mineta: "During the time that the airplane was coming into the Pentagon, there was a young man who would come in and say to the Vice President...the plane is 50 miles out...the plane is 30 miles out...and when it got down to the plane is 10 miles out, the young man also said to the vice president "do the orders still stand?" And the Vice President turned and whipped his neck around and said "Of course the orders still stand, have you heard anything to the contrary!??"
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Mineta assumed the "the orders still stand" statement by cheney was a reference to shooting down the plane. But that obviously didn't happen and there was not a single fighter jet in the air. The only conclusion is that it was a reference to a stand down order coming from Cheney.
This caused Cheney to to testify to the commission along with Bush in closed session, with no transcript, no witnesses, and no public accountiblity. Mineta's testimony was completely omitted from the 9/11 report and the time of Cheney's arrival at PEOC had been changed to 9:58 am.
Since 9/11 had opened the doors for the military industrial complex such as KBR and Halliburton in which Cheney is linked to, for Project for New America Century in which Cheney is also linked to, who stood to benefit the most from the attacks?