Mineta accidentally on purpose mis answered the commissions question by changing the subject to AA77 because he maybe saw what had happened and saw it as his patriotic duty to discretely let the truth out but in a subtle enough way that he didn't get whacked.

take everything he says with a grain of salt, I believe he was put up to further confuse and muddying the water.

Secretary Mineta, when confronted by Ray McGovern on the issue, tried to imply that he was referring to Flt 93 and not Flt 77 during that testimony. This makes no sense unless one accepts Shanksville as the REFERENCE POINT to which the 'young man' was referring.

This hard evidence find is very important, but we must remember that logic is absent in the whole scenario. Let's complete the sentence for the 'young man': "Sir, the plane is 10 miles out (from shanksville!!!)." No disrespect to Shanksville intended.

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Mineta phoned Belger with his cell-phone? Where and when? Do you want to say, that Mineta phoned Belger in the bunker by his cell phone around 09:25 ?

Using the calculator here:

http://www.geobytes.com/CityDistanceTool.htm?loadpage

I determined that Shanksville to DC is 126 miles, straight line air distance.

Flight 93 never got within 50, 30 or 10 miles of DC.

DC is southeast of Shanksville, therefore no observation about circling west and returning could have been made.

The young man must be speaking about the Pentagon and therefore it must be prior to 9:32am.

There is something I noticed about the handwritten notes from Miles Kara which would seem to me that he couldn't have been writing these notes in real time at the times they were happening and that he must have fabricated or guessed these times after the events.

If you look at his notes at 9:38 he states that "AC crashes in to symbol (Pentagon)". But this raises a few questions....

How would he know that a plane had crashed into it the Pentagon at 9:38 when it was not clear from the news reports what had hit the Pentagon for a few more minute after the event had happened?

Cheney in his interview with Tim Russert dated 16th Sept 2001, says that they had heard the Pentagon had been hit but according to him there were conflicting report so they were not sure.

Cheney:- "But when I arrived there within a short order, we had word the Pentagon's been hit. We had word the State Department had been bombed, that a car bomb had gone off at the State Department. Turned out not to be true, but we didn't know that at the time. We had a report that Norm had provided that there were six airplanes that might have been hijacked, and that's what we started working off of, was that list of six.

Now we could account for two of them in New York. The third one we didn't know what had happened to it. It turned out it had hit the Pentagon. But the first reports on the Pentagon attack suggested a helicopter, and then later, a private jet, and it was only after we got ahold of some eyewitnesses that we knew it was an American Airlines flight."
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/timeline/2001/meetthepress091601.html

So according to Miles own account and if he was writing his notes in real times, he knew that an aircraft had hit the Pentagon long before Cheney himself knew and the people in the PEOC.

Even if we accept that Cheney and the people in the PEOC knew about the plane hitting the Pentagon at 9:38 then I have another witnesses who often gets overlooked who confirms that Cheney, along with Norman Mineta, were in the PEOC when they heard of the Pentagon attack. This shows that Miles is totally wrong when he claims that Mineta arrives sometime after 9:40am.

Eric Edelman gave an interview with Newsweek and says that Clarke sends him over to the PEOC. (Edited but full transcript in link below)

"So I made my way down to the PEOC. It took me a few minutes to get there, security was extremely tight. The Secret Service is posted at various way stations. And got in there, the Vice President was there, Scooter was there, Condi was down there. A lot of other staff were there. A small number, but (inaudible) numbers varied during the course of the day.

But I went to the Vice President, and spoke with him, explained that counterterrorism types were concerned about his safety. We knew we were dealing with -- and Secretary Mineta was down there, by the way -- concerned about his safety and raising the issue of relocation to an alternate site. He didn't" even hesitate for one second -- and Condi was there --he said, no; he said, I don't want to leave, we've got a lot of connectivity here with the President. And I'm not sure, he may have already spoken to the President by that point, I'm not sure.............

Q: So what time -- where are we in the time line?

MR. EDELMAN: Because the -- I don't believe that the -- well, I'm not sure -- the President -- let me say, the Vice President had been taken down there, I understand, when they, you know, were under the impression that one of the hijacked planes might be headed towards restricted airspace over Washington. And that's the plane that ultimately hit the Pentagon.

I was already down in the PEOC with the Vice President when we got word that there had been an explosion at the Pentagon.

Q: So you were actually in the PEOC when that happened?

MR. EDELMAN: When that happened."
http://www.911myths.com/images/a/a6/NYC_Box10_FarmerMisc-EricEdelmanInte...

So Edelman confirms in this interview that Cheney, Mineta and others were in the PEOC when they hear of the Pentagon attack and if Miles Kara thinks that he and the people in the PEOC knew at 9:38, then Mineta was definitely there.

Lewis "Scooter" Libby also confirms in an interview with Newsweek that he heads of the PEOC and sees Mrs Cheney with her SS detail, they see Dick Cheney in the tunnel on the phone with the president and they all head off to the PEOC when they hear of the Pentagon attack. Later on in his interview, he says that Mineta is working with Cheney on a 6 possible hijacked planes. This is the same report that Cheney mentions in his interview with Tim Russert on the 16th Sept and Libby's account confirms what Mineta said in an interview with We Are Change years later, where he says that Mrs Cheney was already in the PEOC when he arrives.

Mrs Cheney is often used by debunkers to discredit Mineta because of what he said in that interview with We Are Change but if Libby's account is anything to go by, Mrs Cheney could have been there when Mineta suggests.

So we have Karl Rove, Richard Clarke and David Bohrer who all suggest that the evacuation of Dick Cheney happened much earlier than the commissions suggests. We have Norman Mineta, Richard Clarke, Eric Edelman, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Condi Rice and Dick Cheney himself whose accounts are corroborating that Cheney was in the PEOC when he hears of the Pentagon attack which disproves the commissions claims that he heard about the Pentagon attack while in the tunnel leading to the PEOC and that he arrived at 9:58am, perhaps 10:00 were wrong.

It also strengthens the case that Mineta was exactly where he said he was around the time he said he was.

So the question is, what was the order Mineta overheard?

We know that there was no fighter jet within range to shoot down AA77 when it was 50, 30 and 10 miles.

The only person who knows is Dick Cheney and Douglas F. Cochrane who was the aide updating Cheney, but unfortunately, his interview is still classified.

But the order is significant and probably the reason for the cover up.

Was it an order to stand down fighters?
Was it an order to send fighters the wrong way?
Was it an order to not notify the Pentagon?

Although we know it was not a shoot down order, we can only speculate as to what it is.