Cheney's control of NORAD on September 11, 2001 had nothing to do with wargames. All wargames before had been conducted without transferring control of NORAD from military to civilian control. NORAD had been in existence for half a century, always under military control, then on June 1, 2001 it was transferred to the Department of Defense with this order:
And this order transferred control of NORAD to the Department of Defense (Secretary Donald Rumsfeld), not to the White House.
Yet we know Dick Cheney was in control of the airspace because the Secretary of Transportation, Norman Mineta, testified to this before congress:
"During the time that the airplane was coming in to the Pentagon, there was a young man who would come in and say to the Vice President, 'The plane is 50 miles out.' 'The plane is 30 miles out.' And when it got down to 'the plane is 10 miles out,' the young man also said to the Vice President, 'Do the orders still stand?' And the Vice President turned and whipped his neck around and said, 'Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary?'"
This was the Pentagon plane Cheney ordered not to be shot down.
The video of this is on youtube, etc. It was broadcast live on C-SPAN.
So the above contradicts Olesko's statement, We know Dick Cheney was in charge of NORAD because of the war games. Tell us where the "stand down" has been proven.
Please cite sources in the future, and if you have a source proving that we know Cheney was in charge of NORAD because of the wargames, please add a link to it.