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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
You can't link the two. Communications were a bit awkward, and Clarke in the Situation Room was urging that a decision had to be made on the flight immediately. Cheney in the WH bunker sez OK, and then calls to the President to inform and confirm. That's no negative reflection on Bush -- just a function of where he was at the time.
S_A_M
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According to Cheney, the President gave him the go-ahead to give the order before he (Cheney) gave it. The problem is, no one logged the purported call. Cheney gave the order, and then someone suggested that he "confirm" this with the President, and he did. Your account may be the correct one, but Cheney disagrees with it.
