Sunday, February 11, 2007
Cheney: My Kingdom For A King!
Shuuuuuuush! This is something SOOOOOOO secret, from a White House attack on Seymour Hersh in 1975 for finding YET ANOTHER administration abuse of power, Dick Cheney hasn't even told himself! Even from 1975! Boy, can he keep a secret!0 commentsThen, as in 1975, Mr. Cheney played a central role in managing the White House’s relationship with the press. It was not precisely the same, however. In 2003, for instance, Mr. Cheney was not protecting secrets but authorizing Mr. Libby to peddle them to Judith Miller, then a reporter for The Times, in an effort to counter the points made in the opinion article, according to Mr. Libby’s grand jury testimony. But his combative relationship with the press and the goals that animate it have not changed.
“He’s had the same idea for the past 30 years,” said Kathryn S. Olmsted, a history professor at the University of California at Davis, who wrote about the Cheney file in her 1996 book, “Challenging the Secret Government.”
“His philosophy is that the president and the vice president and the people around the president decide what’s secret and what’s not,” she said [emphasis ours -- GN]. “They thought they had to aggressively go after the press and Congress to reclaim the powers the president lost in Watergate.”
Ahhh, well offered Mr. Cheney! But, then, only the American people decide who's a crook and who's not!
Perhaps Mr. Cheney should consider emigrating to the country with the monarchy of his choice. For it's clear that he's just not going to be happy here, or get very far trying to turn the chief executive of a republic into a king. But that's certainly not for trying!
posted by Gotham 7:45 PM
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