Reply #62: I'm not completely sure about Mihop 9/11, but I DO feel threatened almost every time the man speaks.

[patrice]

I think they protect their plausible deniability in EVERY way.

BUT I do think there could be plans that consist of decision trees something like:

In situation such-and-so I will decide whether I will do A, B, or C:
When/if I do A, person(s) such-and-so will decide whether to do D, E, or F and persons X, Y, and Z will each make their decisions from their own sets of pre-defined options, depending upon what previous persons in the decision tree did.
When/if I do B, person(s) such-and-so will decide whether to do G, H, or I and persons U, V, and W will each make their decisions from their own sets of pre-defined options, depending upon what previous persons in the decision tree did.
When/if I do C, person(s) such-and-so will decide whether to do J, K, or L and persons R, S, and T will each make their decisions from their own sets of pre-defined options, depending upon what previous persons in the decision tree did.

In situation such-and-so-other-things, I will decide which of M, N, or O etc. etc. etc.

Each person in the chain would have no need to know anything other than "If I see situation ________, I make a decision about and implement ______, or ______, or ______." The whole thing could be quite huge, but triggered by a single catalyst who makes a very powerful choice at a certain time and All of which COULD look completely reasonable up to some point at which airplanes are hijacked or whatever.

This is why I am

AFRAID

of Dick Cheney.

And To me, this explains Bush's intentional looking behaviors on 9/11 AND the surprised look on his face.