President Bush flew to Nebraska instead of the White House after the 11 September 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon as part of an “Armageddon” program designed, in part, by Vice President Cheney and Defense Secretary Rumsfeld twenty years ago. So says Howard Kurtz in “‘Armageddon’ plan was put into action on 9/11, Clarke says” published in today’s Washington Post.
Under the plan, covered in ABC’s “Nightline” broadcast tonight:
“... three teams of 50 federal officials would be sent from Washington to locations across the country—each with a Cabinet member who was prepared to become president.”
Kurtz reports that ABC confirmed Rumsfeld ordered Paul Wolfowitz to leave Washington. Several Cabinet members also left for undisclosed locations, as did Cheney and Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert (R-Illinois).
Surprisingly, or not, most of Congress has not been told about the “Armageddon” program.
0 responses. Comments closed for this article.