Five years after 9/11, ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern got an opportunity to question then Transport Secretary Norman Mineta about the meaning of his testimony at the Commission of Inquiry about the attacks of 9/11 (at 2:55 into the above video). They talked for about 8 minutes. McGovern wanted to know what Mineta made of the akward situation he witnessed that day in the White House bunker.
Was Mineta getting senile and "out of it"? At any rate he kept referring to Flight 93 that crashed in Shanksville, Pa, and not to Flight 77 which "alledgedly" crashed into the Pentagon.
This brief excerpt of the Q&A portion of the evening is followed by the actual testimony of Mineta at the 9/11 Commission where he was answering questions by co-chairman Lee Hamilton. His testimony never made it into the 9/11 Commission Report and the video of that exchange, which was for some time available on the 9/11 Commission's website, has since been removed.
The name of the "young man" Mineta was referring to has finally surfaced. He is Capt. Douglas F. Cochrane (Navy) and was Military aide to Dick Cheney on 9/11. A researcher who tracked him down and who managed to talk to him gives an account of that conversation here (I'm not sure YouTube allows me to provide the URL of an external website, but I'll give it a try) :
http://911blogger.com/news/2011-11-15/911-stand-down
Apparently, Capt Cochrane has testified at the 9/11 Commission but his testimony, as that of Bush and Cheney, has remained secret.
