Reply #14: The Commission didn't "distort" the time Cheney arrived

[William Seger]

They decided that all the other witnesses, the live media reports, and the Secret Service logs, all of which contradicted Mineta timeline, were more probably correct. That's how discrepancies in witness accounts are usually decided, and deciding that Mineta was the one person who got it right would have been irrational. They also didn't have any good reason to ascribe the sinister implications that the "truth movement" would like to put on the discrepancy. The one and only reason that the "truth movement" prefers Mineta's timeline is that it helps to imply that Cheney was actually talking about a stand-down order to not shoot down Flight 77 headed to the Pentagon, when all the testimony presented to the Commission said it was a shoot-down order. All the evidence except for Mineta's timeline indicate that he was talking about Flight 93, and when it crashed, Cheney asked if we had shot it down.

Getting back to the topic at hand, show me just one case where Mineta says he found out it was a stand-down order. That quick "yeah" where it's clear he didn't understand that the interviewer had just misquoted with that "not the case" added on the end ain't it.

This is nonsense.