{"id":14441,"date":"2014-06-25T10:42:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-25T08:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=14441"},"modified":"2014-06-25T10:42:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-25T08:42:44","slug":"dick-cheney-says-far-deadlier-911coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=14441","title":{"rendered":"Dick Cheney says &#8216;far deadlier&#8217; 9\/11coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday predicted there would be an attack on the United States within the next decade that is &#8220;far deadlier&#8221; than the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney has come under intense fire for his role in the devastation of\u00a0Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I doubt it,&#8221; Cheney told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, when asked if he thinks the U.S. would &#8220;get through this decade&#8221; without another &#8220;massive attack on the homeland.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think there will be another attack. And the next time, I think it&#8217;s going to be far deadlier than the last one. Imagine what would happen if somebody could smuggle a nuclear device, put it in a shipping container, and drive it down the beltway outside Washington, D.C.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hewitt then asked Cheney if another attack would lead to &#8220;military rule&#8221; and the reconstitution of the U.S. government. Cheney detailed the &#8220;continuity of government&#8221; program, which he said was set up during the Cold War so that a &#8220;government in waiting&#8221; could be in place if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>Fox News host Megyn Kelly grilled Cheney last week on his role in the Iraq War, after Cheney had co-bylined a Wall Street Journal op-ed with his daughter, Liz, trying to portray\u00a0himself as an innocent party to the destruction of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney and GeorgeW Bush used 9\/11 as an excuse to bomb Iraq &#8220;because they had WMD&#8217;s&#8221;. No WMD&#8217;s were ever found.<\/p>\n<p>Many actually view Cheney as one of the architects of 9\/11.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday predicted there would be an attack on the United States within the next decade that is &#8220;far deadlier&#8221; than the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. Cheney has come under intense fire for his role in the devastation of\u00a0Iraq. &#8220;I doubt it,&#8221; Cheney told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt, when &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=14441\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dick Cheney says &#8216;far deadlier&#8217; 9\/11coming&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[9297,3213,2471,1638],"class_list":["post-14441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-architect-of-911","tag-dick-cheney","tag-iraq","tag-us"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14441"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14441\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14442,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14441\/revisions\/14442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}