According to the Wall Street Journal, US President Joe Biden will release transcripts of interviews between former President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney with the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States, known as the Commission on 11 September.
The move could take place by next Wednesday, the Wall Street Journal said, and according to a copy of the 31-page document, the review conducted in April 2004 with the bipartisan committee, which took place in the Oval Office, included a discussion of intelligence and warnings. before the attacks and the events that occurred after.
He recounted Bush’s admission that Air Force One had poor communications while on board shortly after the attacks began, and Bush confirmed that he had given Cheney the authority to shoot down an unresponsive civilian aircraft. .
According to the documents, Bush told Cheney: Yes, collide with the enemy, you have the authority to shoot down a plane.
In another paragraph, the documents quoted Cheney repeatedly telling Bush not to return to Washington and the latter’s agreement to do so.
Bush was in elementary school in Florida during the terrorist attacks and an aide told him what was going on. The president’s face has changed, but he has remained calm. He later told biographers that he didn’t want to scare the children.
The call was not recorded or filmed and no sick person was able to take notes. Neither Cheney nor Bush provided this information under oath, according to the Wall Street Journal.
