From where did Cheney get his command authority?

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sometimes you can convince me from the official position.

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Well I'm not usually a big believer in anything Karl Rove claims, but according to him Bush gave the order. Cheney should have passed it on. I really don't understand what the problem there would be?

I think that's pretty much what everyone here (with one glaring exception) agrees happened.

Now I'm not positive about the timing but I think when this is claimed to have occurred there were still two hijacked planes in the air. So if the order was given when Bush first got in the air then why weren't any planes intercepted?

Uh, you know that the military has all the authority it needs to intercept commercial planes, right? No presidential approval needed. So why are you asking this in the context of Bush's orders?