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Originally posted by Zaphod58
The Football is ALWAYS with the President. It doesn't "stay in Washington" when the President travels. And Cheney saying "Angel" didn't make Bush or AF1 "run in fear". It simply meant that he was talking about the plane.
Originally posted by Zaphod58
There IS NO CODE involving the word "Angel". Why is this so hard to understand? Angel is the Secret Service code name for Air Force One. The Secret Service has code names for EVERYTHING and EVERYONE under their protection. It makes it a LOT easier and safer to say "Thumper heading to Angel" instead of "President Bush is heading to Air Force One." And no, this is NOT my opinion or my thoughts, this is FACT. I have known people on the protection detail, and I know that Angel has been the code name for Air Force One for YEARS. They don't advertise it simply because they don't talk about things like that with the public. It's not a "Oh my god there's a threat to the President climb as high as you can!" code. It wouldn't do any good to climb as high as they can, because it's STILL just a 747 and it's STILL limited to the same flight envelope as every OTHER 747 and commercial plane out there, so climbing just means that they would have farther to fall.
And even if the Football doesn't contain the codes, it doesn't mean that CHENEY has them when Bush travels. CHENEY would ONLY receive the codes if something happened to Bush. And the military would ONLY launch a strike with the proper codes.
[edit on 8/21/2006 by Zaphod58]
Originally posted by mondegreen
As you so stated yourself there is no code "Angel", yet you stated angel is the Secret Service code word for AF1? Rather a slick way to change the subject without biting one's foot in mouth.
Originally posted by mondegreen
How do you know that there is no code called "Angel", citing your quote. How do you know its a fact without some proof of this fact. So the Secret Service tells you about the Presidents personnel movements and what names its gives them or him.
So your certified as to the airforce one limits and specific software that ennables it to fly and manoeuvre(BRIT). Your statement on who has the football does not contain factual information, So if climbing high would do no good then why fly, should bush stay in the armour protected car and seek military protect on the ground. Cheney has the second copy of the codes per the secret bunker complex, he had them on that day, did he try to key them in? The military has the launch codes and can launch per the mention of the Brookings investigation.
As you so stated yourself there is no code "Angel", yet you stated angel is the Secret Service code word for AF1? Rather a slick way to change the subject without biting one's foot in mouth.
Please post information pertaing to FACT, as you have stated it is a Fact.
White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer explains that President Bush went to Nebraska because “[t]here was real and credible information that the White House and Air Force One were targets.” The next day, William Safire of the New York Times writes, and Bush’s political strategist, Karl Rove, confirms, that the Secret Service believed “‘Air Force One may be next,’ and there was an ‘inside’ threat which ‘may have broken the secret codes [i.e., showing a knowledge of presidential procedures].’” [New York Times, 9/13/2001 ]
By September 27, Fleischer begins to backpedal on the claim that there were specific threats against Air Force One and/or the president, and news stories flatly contradict it. [Washington Post, 9/27/2001]
A well-informed, anonymous Washington official says, “It did two things for [Cheney]. It reinforced his argument that the president should stay out of town, and it gave George W. an excellent reason for doing so.” [Daily Telegraph, 12/16/2001]
By 2004, a Bush spokesperson says there was no threat, but Cheney continues to maintain that there may have been. Cheney also claims the Secret Service passed him word of the threat, but two Secret Service agents working that day deny their agency played any role in receiving or passing on such a threat. The threat was allegedly based on the use of the word "Angel,” the code word for Air Force One, but Secret Service agents later note that the code word was not an official secret, but a radio shorthand designation that had been made public well before 2001. [Wall Street Journal, 3/22/2004]
Source
www.cooperativeresearch.org...:55pm+11+Sept+2001+-+2001
Sept. 27, 2001: The monthly French newsletter Reseau Voltaire writes on its website (www.reseauvoltaire.com) that "extremist American circles attempted on Sept. 11 to carry out a military coup against the U.S. government." In its full printed text, Reseau Voltaire's Sept. 27, 2001 issue goes so far as to state that:
"From 10:00 A.M. to approximately 8:00 p.m. [on Sept. 11], U.S. government officials were not thinking that this was the work of Arab terrorists, but rather that it was an expression of a military coup being carried out by U.S.-based extremists who were capable of provoking a nuclear war."
Source
www.schillerinstitute.org...
The threat was allegedly based on the use of the word "Angel,” the code word for Air Force One, but Secret Service agents later note that the code word was not an official secret, but a radio shorthand designation that had been made public well before 2001. [Wall Street Journal, 3/22/2004]
Originally posted by Zaphod58
There IS NO CODE involving the word "Angel". Why is this so hard to understand? Angel is the Secret Service code name for Air Force One. The Secret Service has code names for EVERYTHING and EVERYONE under their protection. It makes it a LOT easier and safer to say "Thumper heading to Angel" instead of "President Bush is heading to Air Force One." And no, this is NOT my opinion or my thoughts, this is FACT. I have known people on the protection detail, and I know that Angel has been the code name for Air Force One for YEARS. They don't advertise it simply because they don't talk about things like that with the public. It's not a "Oh my god there's a threat to the President climb as high as you can!" code. It wouldn't do any good to climb as high as they can, because it's STILL just a 747 and it's STILL limited to the same flight envelope as every OTHER 747 and commercial plane out there, so climbing just means that they would have farther to fall.
And even if the Football doesn't contain the codes, it doesn't mean that CHENEY has them when Bush travels. CHENEY would ONLY receive the codes if something happened to Bush. And the military would ONLY launch a strike with the proper codes.
[edit on 8/21/2006 by Zaphod58]
Originally posted by Zaphod58
Ohhhh right. Because your claim that Angel is some top secret codeword that the nuclear codes were active is wrong I'm a troll. Riiiiight. As far as the football, I was going on memory what I was told before. Maybe I was wrong, I'm not afraid to admit it. Now can YOU admit you were wrong about the code name? I doubt it.
Originally posted by Mirthful Me
On topic discussion... That's what we're here for, not discussing members.
The topic 911 and the codeword "ANGEL" is the focus... Let's keep it that way.