A presidency horrified: New images offer inside look at Bush administration on 9/11

Pictures show president, senior staff at White House grappling with immediate aftermath of terror attacks on New York, Washington

The US National Archives published hundreds of previously unseen images taken on September 11, 2001, showing then-president George W. Bush and senior members of his administration as they responded to the attacks in New York and Washington DC.

The photos were taken by the staff photographer of then-vice president Dick Cheney and published online following a request under the Freedom of Information Act.

The collection includes images of Bush, Dick and Lynne Cheney, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, CIA chief George Tenet and secretary of state Colin Powell.

All of the released images can be seen via the Flickr account of the US National Archives.

: Then-CIA director George Tenet watches from the Emergency Operations Center in the White House as then-president George W. Bush address the nation on September 11, 2001. (photo credit: US National Archives)

: Then-president George W. Bush talks to his vice president at the Emergency Operations Center in the White House on September 11, 2001. (photo credit: US National Archives)

: Then-secretary of state Colin Powell with former national security advisor Condoleezza Rice at the President’s Emergency Operations Center in the White House on September 11, 2001. (photo credit: US National Archives)

: Then-vice president Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne Cheney disembark from Marine Two at Camp David on September 11, 2001. (photo credit: US National Archives)

: Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice and administration staff at the President’s Emergency Operations Center in the White House on September 11, 2001. (photo credit: US National Archives)

: Dick Cheney is surrounded by administration members, including Condoleezza Rice, as he talks on the phone in the President’s Emergency Operations Center in the White House on September 11, 2001. (photo credit: US National Archives)

: Then-vice president Dick Cheney watches a TV broadcast of the Twin Towers burning following the attack on New York on September 11, 2001. (US National Archives)

: Then-president George W. Bush talks to his vice president Dick Cheney in the President’s Emergency Operations Center in the White House on September 11, 2001. (photo credit: US National Archives)

: Then-president George W. Bush confers with members of his administration, including his vice president Dick Cheney and national security adviser Condoleezza Rice in the President’s Emergency Operations Center in the White House on September 11, 2001. (photo credit: US National Archives)

: Dick Cheney and his wife Lynne sit in the President’s Emergency Operations Center at the White House on September 11, 2001. (photo credit: US National Archives)

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