Vice President Dick Cheney was placed in charge of a domestic terrorism study group within the White House, to monitor and develop plans to deal with a catastrophe such as 9/11.
"In Sarasota, Florida, now Major Garrett joins us. Major, what are you being told? MAJOR GARRETT, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Hello. President Bush has notified -- or talked, rather, to Vice President Cheney. He has talked to the FBI director Robert Mueller, and he has also spoken with the governor of New York, Governor Pataki about this catastrophe. The president, as we just saw a few moments ago, identifying this as an apparent act of terrorism against the United States. Said there will be full investigation. The entire apparatus of the United States government, FBI, national security, CIA, the vice president, who you may remember was placed in charge of a domestic terrorism study group within the White House, to monitor and develop plans to deal with a catastrophe of just this kind." - CNN (09/11/01)
(See also: March 21, 1989 - Cheney becomes the 17th US Secretary of Defense)
"In Sarasota, Florida, now Major Garrett joins us. Major, what are you being told? MAJOR GARRETT, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Hello. President Bush has notified -- or talked, rather, to Vice President Cheney. He has talked to the FBI director Robert Mueller, and he has also spoken with the governor of New York, Governor Pataki about this catastrophe. The president, as we just saw a few moments ago, identifying this as an apparent act of terrorism against the United States. Said there will be full investigation. The entire apparatus of the United States government, FBI, national security, CIA, the vice president, who you may remember was placed in charge of a domestic terrorism study group within the White House, to monitor and develop plans to deal with a catastrophe of just this kind." - CNN (09/11/01)
(See also: March 21, 1989 - Cheney becomes the 17th US Secretary of Defense)
