"When he took the oath of office on Septemb..."

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Hmmmm....

[KyuzoGator]

1. Context? nt

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2. Scotty's slip in reference to something or other about **

I only had it on in the background and didn't catch it all; I posted hoping that someone else had noticed it too. Just goes to show how conditioned these RWers are to using/exploiting/saying "September 11."

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3. Maybe Scotty was talking about the "shadow government"

washingtonpost.com
Shadow Government Is at Work in Secret
After Attacks, Bush Ordered 100 Officials to Bunkers Away From Capital to Ensure Federal Survival

By Barton Gellman and Susan Schmidt
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, March 1, 2002; Page A01

President Bush has dispatched a shadow government of about 100 senior civilian managers to live and work secretly outside Washington, activating for the first time long-standing plans to ensure survival of federal rule after catastrophic attack on the nation's capital.

Execution of the classified "Continuity of Operations Plan" resulted not from the Cold War threat of intercontinental missiles, the scenario rehearsed for decades, but from heightened fears that the al Qaeda terrorist network might somehow obtain a portable nuclear weapon, according to three officials with firsthand knowledge. U.S. intelligence has no specific knowledge of such a weapon, they said, but the risk is thought great enough to justify the shadow government's disruption and expense.

Deployed "on the fly" in the first hours of turmoil on Sept. 11, one participant said, the shadow government has evolved into an indefinite precaution. For that reason, the high-ranking officials representing their departments have begun rotating in and out of the assignment at one of two fortified locations along the East Coast. Rotation is among several changes made in late October or early November, sources said, to the standing directive Bush inherited from a line of presidents reaching back to Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Officials who are activated for what some of them call "bunker duty" live and work underground 24 hours a day, away from their families. As it settles in for the long haul, the shadow government has sent home most of the first wave of deployed personnel, replacing them most commonly at 90-day intervals.

rest of article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A20584-2002Feb28?language=printer

Maybe Bush/Rove/Cheney decided that Bush should take another "oath of office" for the presidency of the shadow government. Since it was set up on September 11th, it would explain Scotty's statement. :tinfoilhat: