On Dick Cheney (During a "Meet the Press" Interview Five Days After the 9/11 Attacks) Asserting that the Intercepting of Dangerous Aircraft Was a "Presidential-Level Decision" (an Attempt, I Gather, to Explain Away the Government's Slow Response to the Calamity)

Well, being that the intercepting of suspicious aircraft had long occurred routinely in the past, the Vice President was either immensely ill-informed or lying his ass off (his motivation for doing so a subject for future posts, perhaps)............and being that the fellow was a former Defense Secretary under Bush Sr., you probably know how I'm leaning here.