(9 Sep 2011)
1. Former US Vice President Dick Cheney walks into room, people stand and clap
2. Cutaway cameras
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dick Cheney, Former US Vice President:
"Those were the two sort of major concerns that occupied most of our time (on 9/11). One was, as I say, getting all the airplanes down out of the sky, and the other was guaranteeing that there would be somebody in the line of succession in a position to be able to take over."
4. Cutaway audience member pull out to cameramen
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Steve Hayes, interviewing Dick Cheney:
"On a personal note, I remember coming back from New York driving across the Roosevelt Bridge, hearing Martin Sexton''s version of ''America the Beautiful,'' and I broke down crying. Did you ever have a moment like that?"
(Cheney: "Not really.")
"You understand that people will find that peculiar?"
(Cheney: "Yes.")
6. Wide shot Cheney and Hayes on stage
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dick Cheney, Former US Vice President:
"I''m convinced a key part of our success, in terms of preventing further attacks against the United States, I think we saved thousands of lives, by what we were doing. I think it''s one of the great success stories, especially with respect to NSA (National Security Agency), how they put the programme together, and developed the capability, one of the great success stories of American intelligence, and maybe some day it''ll all be told."
8. Wide shot Cheney and Hayes on stage
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dick Cheney, Former US Vice President:
"Three people were water boarded, not dozens, not hundreds, three. And the one who was subjected most often to that was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and it produced phenomenal results for us."
10. Cutaway of audience
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dick Cheney, Former US Vice President:
"I would argue that the policies we put in place back in those days that were available to us and were utilised over time, and I''ve seen some comment to this effect from current officials of the government, helped produce, for example, the intelligence that allowed us to get Osama bin Laden. It was out of the enhanced interrogation techniques that some of the leads came that ultimately produced the result when President Obama was able to send in Seal Team 6 to kill bin Laden."
12. Wide shot Cheney on stage
STORYLINE:
Former US Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday recounted his experience of September 11, 2001, and the policy decisions the Bush administration made in the weeks and months following the attacks.
Speaking at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC, Cheney said he was confident that the choices the Bush administration made in response to the attacks were the right ones.
He recounted the events of that day, and the subsequent rollout of various controversial national security and counter terrorism policies.
On the day of the attack, the secret service burst into the vice president''s office and forcefully ushered him to an underground bunker after receiving a report that an unresponsive plane could be heading for the White House.
That plane crashed into the side of the Pentagon.
President George W. Bush was travelling in Florida, and Cheney began assembling top administration advisors and staff in the bunker to focus on two key goals - air safety and continuity of government.
"Those were the two sort of major concerns that occupied most of our time," said Cheney. "Getting all the airplanes down out of the sky and the other was guaranteeing that there would be somebody in the line of succession in a position to be able to take over."
The audience laughed.
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