Monday, January 26, 2004
From Out of the Caves of Okinawa or Wyoming or Somewhere...
...Comes our beloved Shadow President for Life Dick Cheney, a/k/a "The Mole."0 comments
It seems he's above ground for the first time in years. While he's shielding the harsh light of day from his eyes and re-adjusting the "vision thing," perhaps he'd like to talk about the hot topics of the day (brought to you with the assistance of the wonderful folks at The Center of American Progress and MSNBC's First Read).
Washington Post: Cheney Is a Silent Partner No Longer
Republican officials said Cheney's new visibility, which is likely to increase as his reelection race heats up, is partly the result of strategists' determination that his long silences had helped make him a punching bag for Democrats and a lightning rod for criticism of President Bush over secrecy, corporate connections and reliance on unproven intelligence.
The RNC thought he was a punching bag before...? Cheeeeesh! I thought they were on top of things over there.
Well, OK. Now perhaps he can answer questions that are sure to swirl about, concerning his connections to Halliburton subsidiaries in the face of Halliburton's admission that their personnel took over $6 million in kickbacks in Iraq.
Or he might like to chat about his allegedly breaking federal law in a January 9th interview with M.E. Sprengelmeyer of the Rocky Mountain News. In this interview, Cheney verifies Top Secret information contained in a classified Department of Defense report that was originally leaked to Stephen F. Hayes of the Weekly Standard, and printed in the magazine's November 24, 2003 issue. Cheney maintains in the interview that the Standard's story is where the administration got a lot of its al-Quaida/Iraq connection info.
A few major problems with this jump out—it was illegal for the original goverment perp to leak classified reports to Hayes (kinda, sorta like the illegal leak to Bob Novack, outing Ms. Plame of the CIA); it was illegal for the Standard to publish it; it was illegal for Cheney to confirm its still-classified information to the Rocky Mountain News. Oh, and also, the DoD has said the info in it, classified or not, was incorrect anyway.
So, OK, let's see here...Cheney breaks federal law by verifying the still-classified contents of a report he claims the administration had used as gospel to lead us into a war, where thousands have been killed and maimed, our economy bankrupted and no al-Quaida routed, although this report had already been discredited by the DoD.
And the administration is eager to use him in the upcoming campaign.
Oh.
Now, listen, if Attorney General John Ashcroft keeps having to recuse himself every time he turns around like this, there'll be nothing left for him to do to earn his pay. At the rate his friends in this administration keep breaking the law, the AG's getting to be as useless as more warts on a toad.
Well..., perhaps Cheney can always get a lot of interview milage out of the international bribery scandal which seems to point towards including him that we talked about in the previous post.
I would assume he'll be pining for those ol' stone walls of home soon.
Maybe it won't throw him too much in a few years, then, when he trades them in for some concrete walls in one of our fine country club prisons. He may feel downright comfortable. "At Home," even.
posted by Gotham 6:32 PM
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