Cheney uses fear to promote political agenda

Dick Cheney comes out from the crypt and throws criticism at his elected successors.

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Here's the skinny on Dick Cheney's rant....Obama's failing because see this one nut job got through...I told you...I told you....you didn't listen did you?...but I told you.

Listen Dick, there will always be a lunatic fringe, just take a look in the mirror.

This guy got through and thank God didn't have the sense, ability, luck on his side to succeed

HARDLY a platform to come out of retirement from whatever board your sitting on now to hurl hindsight, sideline criticism.

As I recall 9/11 happened on your watch....not the current sitting President.

White house communications director , Dan Pfeiffer sums it up well I think:

"For seven years after 9/11, while our national security was overwhelmingly focused on Iraq -- a country that had no al Qaeda presence before our invasion -- Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda's leadership was able to set up camp in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, where they continued to plot attacks against the United States."

Cheney and his boy toy Bush had very nearly installed a permanent, illegal and immoral military-industrial coop that almost ruined this country by taking rights away from law abiding American citizens and rendering most of the countries population financially precarious in the process with de-regulating their pals on wall street and in the mortgage industry AND Al-Qaeda was able to get through with a effective, undetected and successful attack on U.S. soil.

Way to go Dick.

Since Dick's arm chair coaching seems to be based on the "hind sight is 20/20" mentality perhaps he would appreciate the same burning examination of his track record?

Dick Cheney is what the fore-fathers of this nation wanted to protect us from.

Dick Cheney is lucky his isn't in one of his illegal prisons for high crimes against the state.




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Defense Secretary Unaware Army Already Is In Afghanistan

Gates Calls for Anti-Drug Campaign in Afghanistan

Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates called on NATO allies Thursday to target drug lords running Afghanistan's flourishing heroin trade as part of a wider effort to confront a resurgent Taliban.

"Part of the problem that we face is that the Taliban makes somewhere between 60 and 80 or more million dollars a year from the drug trafficking," said Gates, who is attending a two-day meeting of NATO defense ministers. "The drug trafficking is not only corrosive of good governance because it contributes to corruption. It also directly funds the people who are killing Afghans, Americans and all of our coalition partners there."

Gates, however, ruled out any large-scale crop eradication campaign, which would likely alienate the country's farmers, many of whom survive on income from growing opium poppies.

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Wait a minute Bobby.....

Who is the biggest consumer of heroin in the world?

The U.S.

Who has an entire army occupying Afghanistan currently?

The U.S.

What U.S. official is failing at his job with epic proportion?

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates.

This guy is unreal, the U.S. army is there....what more muscle do you need you tool?

Here is an idea, cut the market by legalizing it, make it totally unprofitable to grow.

Here is another, you own the country, walk in and burn the crap.

Here is a third, DO NOT buy it from the farmers....I repeat DO NOT OFFER TO BUY IT FROM THE FARMERS....I see the idea forming in your tiny head now and frankly I don't have the money to buy your heroin from Afghanistan. 

I am too busy sending all my money to your boss so he can undo the mess he made of the U.S.  and now global economy.

If I ever do want to buy heroin I don't need the government to do it for me. 

I will make two or three phone calls and get it off the street...oh wait...the war on drugs eliminated illegal domestic drug use didn't it?

I forgot...we are cured.

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Fed To Lend $85 billion Of Our Money To AIG

The U.S. Federal Reserve Board on Tuesday said the Federal Reserve Bank of New York will lend up to $85 billion to the American International Group in a plan aimed at saving the insurer from a "disorderly failure" that could wreak economic havoc.

The Fed said under the two-year facility the U.S. government will receive a 79.9 percent equity interest in AIG and has the right to veto payment of dividends to common preferred shareholders in the deal, which has the full support of the Treasury Department.

"The Board determined that, in current circumstances, a disorderly failure of AIG could add to already significant levels of financial market fragility and lead to substantially higher borrowing costs, reduced household wealth and materially weaker economic performance," the Fed said in a statement.

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This is what you get when the government deregulates per republican economic doctrine.

That doctrine being when you deregulate those with the most money from making more money it will enable those "big wheels" to drive the economy through further investment.

Unfortunately what the republican doctrine does NOT take into effect is that same volatility that enables massive profits also enables massive loss.

This is further outlined in the book "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency," by The Post's Barton Gellman.

I recommend it.

So where do we stand today?

$100 billion for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
$25-50 billion for the auto industry
$85 billion to AIG
$467 billion for military contracts since 2006

I don't have enough toes to count that high, but what I do know is I still can't find a job in this market.

What the government does in situations like this and has for the last 60 years is print more money.

This results in devaluing your wage and mine providing we have jobs and amounts to an unauthorized taxation.

On the plus side it was sunny and nice outside in Detroit.


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Government Workers In Oil Industry Sex And Drug Scandal

WASHINGTON - U.S. Interior Department employees who oversaw oil drilling on federal lands had sex and used illegal drugs with workers at energy companies where they were conducting official business, an internal government report said on Wednesday.

Employees at the department's Minerals Management Service "socialized with, and received a wide array of gifts and gratuities from, oil and gas companies," according to the department's inspector general, Earl Devaney.

"When confronted by our investigators, none of the employees involved displayed remorse," Devaney said.

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The findings came as Congress considers legislation to expand offshore oil drilling, a priority of the Bush administration, which has been criticized for having close ties to the oil industry.

"It just underlies the fact that we shouldn't be putting the future of our coasts and beaches in the hands of people who obviously care nothing about the public," said Anna Aurilio, Washington office director for Environment America.

Devaney said he discovered "a culture of substance abuse and promiscuity" among workers in the royalty-in-kind program.

He said one supervisor engaged in illegal drug use and had sex with subordinates. Several staff admitted to illegal drug use and "illicit sexual encounters," he added.

There was also alcohol abuse among government workers when they socialized with employees at regulated oil companies, he said.

For example, Minerals Management Service staff accepted lodging from energy companies "after industry events because they were too intoxicated to drive home or to their hotel."

One agency worker went so far as to say that a goal of the royalty-in-kind program was to be "part of the industry," Devaney said.

Rep. Nick Rahall, chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, said the activities of the Minerals Management Service staff "are so outlandish that this whole IG report reads like a script from a television miniseries -- and one that cannot air during family viewing time."

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Wow!

What do you even say about this kind of news?

Rock stars don't even live this kind of life, here I am I can't even find a job in Michigan and these asses are partying on my dime like it's 1999.

Thank You U.S. Government for looking out for my best interest and protecting me from corruption.

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Is That A Particle Collider In Your Pants Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?

GENEVA — The world’s largest particle collider passed its first major tests by firing two beams of protons in opposite directions around a 17-mile underground ring today in what scientists hope is the next great step to understanding the makeup of the universe.

After a series of trial runs, two white dots flashed on a computer screen at 10:26 a.m. indicating that the protons had traveled clockwise along the full length of the $3.8-billion Large Hadron Collider — described as the biggest physics experiment in history.

The organization, known by its French acronym CERN, began firing the protons — a type of subatomic particle — around the tunnel in stages less than an hour earlier, with the first beam injection at 9:35 a.m.

The CERN experiments could reveal more about “dark matter,” antimatter and possibly hidden dimensions of space and time. It could also find evidence of the hypothetical particle — the Higgs boson — which is sometimes called the “God particle” because it is believed to give mass to all other particles, and thus to matter that makes up the universe.

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Who cares right?

Well I bring this story to your attention for a comparison of investments and priorities.

Our Government just decided to give Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac $100 billion dollars of tax payer money because they failed at their own basic mission statement.

i.e. "Make money by lending money to people buying a house."

Geneva builds the world's largest particle collider for the bargain basement price of $3.8 billion....we could have built 25 of these things for the 25 best Universities in the U.S and STILL had money left over.

Other countries are making "quantum" leaps ahead of the U.S. in all kinds of fields of scientific research because we blow our collective wads on the war effort (currently $576 billion) and bail outs for our top business economic majors who have grossly failed at what they went to school for in the first place.

The United States of America - I don't know of anywhere else in the world where failure is so readily accepted and worse yet, rewarded.

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Dick Says What?...Dick Says What?...

Dick Cheney is at it again, hopefully he'll have Halliburton supplying a whole new war before he is kicked out of his bunker.

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“Does Russia really want to separate itself from the community of values that has fueled so much of its own economic progress?” Mr. Cheney asked an annual gathering of political leaders and business executives organized by the European House-Ambrosetti, a private consultancy. “Does the Russian government really wish to operate in the modern world as an outsider, alienating free countries and trying to rally the world’s dictatorships?”

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Wanna play a fun game?....

Read big Dick's comment above and just substitute America where you see Russia...isn't this fun?

The hypocrisy continues...

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Mr. Cheney has long been the Bush administration’s most vocal hawk, but his remarks on Saturday, originally intended to reflect broadly on Euro-Atlantic security, amounted to a sweeping indictment of Russia’s actions in recent years and a challenge to its leaders to reverse course. The speech, his aides said, was carefully vetted in Washington and reflected the administration’s deep anger over Russia’s incursion into Georgia a month ago.

“We know that if one country is allowed to unilaterally redraw the borders of another, it will happen and it will happen again,” he (Cheney) said.

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Can this tool try any harder to be a total hypocrite?

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Cheney Wants More Business For Halliburton

Cheney Pledges Support for Ukraine

As tensions with Moscow continued over Russia’s invasion of Georgia last month, Vice President Dick Cheney renewed Washington’s backing for Ukraine on Friday, asserting America’s claim to act as a guarantor in country that was part of the former Soviet Union.

Mr. Cheney’s pledge, offered during a visit here, coincided with the arrival of a United States Navy command ship, the Mount Whitney, off the Black Sea port of Poti, close to positions taken by the Russian military in last month’s invasion.

American officials said the warship was delivering blankets and other relief supplies, but Russia immediately questioned whether its presence contravened international agreements, dating to 1936 and governing access by military vessels to the Black Sea.

Mr. Cheney reiterated, in some of the strongest language yet, administration statements that Russia had jeopardized its international standing.

“Russia’s actions have cast grave doubt on Russia’s intentions and on its reliability as an international partner, not just in Georgia but across this region and indeed throughout the international system,” he said.

His remarks drew a sharp riposte from Moscow Friday. “The new promises to Tbilisi relating to the speedy membership of NATO simply strengthened the Saakashvili regime’s dangerous feelings of impunity and encourages its dangerous ambitions,” the Russian foreign ministry spokesman, Andrei Nesterenko, said.

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What the hell is wrong with Cheney?

What does this have to do with the U.S. interests?...nothing.

Does he not realize his arguments are exactly the kind of criticism the U.S has received because of Afghani and Iraqi occupations?

What la la land do you have to come from to be this idiotic?

Oh wait....I see....Halliburton could profit from yet another U.S. Military operation OR is this just wag the dog....do we need another imaginary enemy invented in order to coincide with Republican re-election aspirations?

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In that light, one expert said, Mr. Cheney’s presence is potentially an aggravating factor.

“Given Cheney’s reputation in Moscow, given his rhetorical history, sending him to Georgia risks escalating the situation,” Clifford Kupchan of the Eurasia Group, a consultancy in Washington, said. “We’re in a stage of mutual overreaction.”

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Detroit Daily Dirt's Tool of the Month for September 2008

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Halliburton Bribes Government Officials....Its How Things Get Done

Halliburton Ex-Official 
Pleads Guilty in Bribe Case

In a wide-ranging foreign-corruption investigation, fired former Halliburton Co. executive Albert J. "Jack" Stanley pleaded guilty to orchestrating more than $180 million in bribes to senior Nigerian government officials. The bribes were used to win a contract to build a liquefied-natural-gas plant in Nigeria.

Under a plea agreement entered Wednesday in a Houston federal court, Mr. Stanley faces seven years in prison and a $10.8 million restitution payment. His lawyer, Lee Kaplan, said, "We're hopeful the government finds his cooperation merits" a reduction in his prison sentence.

The guilty plea exposes the corruption that sometimes goes hand in hand with enormous energy investments in Africa and other parts of the world. As energy companies search the world for oil and gas and related projects, they sometimes encounter foreign government officials whose approval is needed for investments but who seek bribes. Bribing such officials subjects companies and executives to possible prosecution under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Several of the bribes Mr. Stanley has said were paid occurred after that acquisition, during the time when Vice President Dick Cheney led Halliburton, and they continued after Mr. Cheney left.

Mr. Stanley also pleaded guilty to taking $10.8 million in kickbacks from an agent of the construction firms.

In the earlier focus on Halliburton over its supply work in Iraq, Democratic lawmakers accused Mr. Cheney of having helped steer work to Halliburton, and held hearings on the subject. The matter became an issue in the 2004 presidential election, during which Democratic candidate Sen. John Kerry accused the Bush administration of being soft on Halliburton. The Stanley case, especially if it balloons to include still-more-senior Halliburton officials, could supply fresh ammunition for Democrats to attack the Bush administration and the Republican Party as being overly cozy with Big Oil.

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Me...I can't even find a F-ing job and this guy gets $10.8 Million on one kick back alone?

I guess crime is the answer, my government and business leaders are doing a fine job leading by example.

Note: I tried to find Halliburton executive officers pictures but strangely enough they are hard to find online, I wonder why they are hiding?

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I Am The T1000 - How Tight Do You Want Your Lug Nuts?

U-M builds on robotics program

With $4M help from Army, 8 schools look to grow Michigan job base.

The University of Michigan's engineering college is expanding its reach into robotics.

To meet a burgeoning demand for robotics expertise in the state, the university established a research center last month on its Ann Arbor campus and will begin offering a master's program this fall.

Expansion of U-M's robotics programs follows a move in 2005 by the Army to relocate its robotics development program from Alabama to the military's Detroit Arsenal in Warren. The office focuses on technology for the battlefield.

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The only business in town is the business of killing, beware the military-industrial complex.

We USED to make cars here in Michigan, now we make robot armies to kill people by remote control.

Is this really the best way to use our most creative minds? Think about that.

Oh and THANK YOU UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN...you really have out done yourselves this time.

When you see blood on the battlefield and it is YOUR toys that are responsible, please know, it's on your hands.

If you don't think some asshole terrorist organization in some God forsaken place in the world won't make the connection it's YOU making these things in some future war, your terribly wrong.

It's in the newspaper brainiac.

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Bush Signs New Rules For Spy Agencies - Sells You Out For A Box Of Milk Duds

Bush signs new rules for spy agencies

President Bush has issued an executive order that revises the rules for intelligence agencies and strengthens the authority of the national intelligence director, the White House said Thursday.

"The revised order directs the intelligence community to produce timely, accurate and insightful intelligence with special emphasis on the threats posed by international terrorism and the spread of weapons of mass destruction," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said.

Executive Order 12333, which lays out the responsibilities of each of the 16 agencies, maintains the decades-old prohibitions on assassination and using unwitting human subjects for scientific experiments, according to a power point briefing given to Congress that was reviewed by The Associated Press. The CIA notoriously tested LSD on human subjects in the 1950s, which was revealed by a Senate investigation in 1977.

The new order gives the national intelligence director, a position created in 2005, new authority over any intelligence information collected that pertains to more than one agency — an attempt to force greater information exchange among agencies traditionally reluctant to share their most prized intelligence. The order directs the attorney general to develop guidelines to allow agencies access to information held by other agencies. That could potentially include the sharing of sensitive information about Americans.

"Today's actions will help create a more effective intelligence community capable of providing the president and his advisers with information necessary to defend our national and homeland security," Perino said.

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Nice...like we could trust them before to do the right thing. Now there is expanded power seated with the National Intelligence Director...let me guess who appoints that position?

What bugs me about Dana Perino is she is a spin doctor...kind of a disgusting career choice if you ask me.

Take the crappiest policies ever made, policies that stomp on your rights a U.S. citizen and explain them in a better light to your fellow U.S. citizens like a kindergarten teacher explaining why we all have to take a nap now.

College paid off for Dana

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Is The US Retarded?

I am sorry but I have to ask...is the US retarded?

Jobless rates the highest in 20 years.

Federal bail outs for businesses too stupid or greedy to run efficiently, or legally, or morally, or ethically.

A war on two fronts, Afghanistan and Iraq, which has been a military no-no since Sun-Tzu.

CEO's of major industries making grotesque profits while normal workers suffer to the point of hunger or homelessness.

1 in 100 citizens in the US in prison.

Suspension of constitutional rights in the name of homeland security.

Energy consumption outstripping the capability of the world to provide.




What will you do today?



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US Unemployment Lines Hit 20-Year Peak

More workers are living on unemployment checks in the US today than at any time in more than 20 years, the US Department of Labor reported last week. Figures released July 10 indicated that 439,000 workers filed new claims for unemployment benefits in the week ending July 5, an increase of 5,000 from the week before. At the same time, the number receiving benefits jumped to 3,818,000, increasing by 87,000 in just one week, and reaching a level not seen since February 1983.

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YEEEESSSS! I knew we could do it, screw you 1983!

I knew we'd beat you if we tried hard enough.

Cost of a single 500-pound GBU (guided bomb unit) is $10,000


YEEEEHAAAW! 10 grand going bye-bye.

How much did you make last year?

Could you have bought 4 or 5 bombs for the war effort?

Depends on how patriotic you are I guess.




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Foreclosure Filings Up 120% - GO GO TEAM REPUBLICANS!

220,000 homes were lost to bank repossessions in the second quarter, and the annual forecast for 2008 will have to be revised upward.
As foreclosures continue to soar, 220,000 homes were lost to bank repossessions in the second quarter, according to a housing market report Friday issued by RealtyTrac.

That's nearly triple the number from the same period in 2007.

A total of 739,714 foreclosure filings were recorded during that three-month period, up 14% from the first quarter, and 121% from the same period in 2007. That means that one of every 171 U.S. households received a filing, which include notices of default, auction sale notices and bank repossessions.

Detroit continued to suffer more than any other non-Sun Belt area, with one filing for every 66 households. And several Ohio cities were also hard hit, led by Toledo (one in 92 households), Akron (one in 93) and Cleveland (one in 108).

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Detroit? Yaaaahh thats us!

What no one has compared yet is very nearly the same exact economic conditions that are occurring now in the U.S. are those that occurred just prior to World War II in the U.S. and more eerily in Germany.

Mark my words. The U.S. Government will now be considering war as a viable economic option because it stimulates economic growth and the U.S has ravenous energy needs that predispose the U.S. to military intervention to countries that have oil as a natural resource.

Although the reasons given for war will actually be much different.

National security for example or Border control or the proliferation of Democracy.

"Wait!" you say. "we're in Iraq and Afghanastan to ensure Democracy will take hold and free the peoples of those countries from tyranny!"

If that's truly the case why aren't we attacking Sweden? Those commie bastards are just asking for it.

But what's missing in Sweden besides Democracy? Oh yes, they have no oil.

War is big business, bigger than the entire U.S. GNP and more reliable.

Be aware of the military industrial complex when you see it. It comes in many disguises.



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Skull And Bones Society Pays Off

I can look you in the eye and tell you I feel I've tried to solve the problem diplomatically to the max, and would have committed troops both in Afghanistan and Iraq knowing what I know today.

--George w. Bush

Irving, CA
04/24/2006


Sorry, Any President that says "to the max" is to me a probable product of fetal alcohol syndrome.



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What's Wrong With This Statement?

2.2 million people are incarcerated in the U.S. More than 1 in 100 American adults were incarcerated at the start of 2008. The People's Republic of China ranks second with 1.5 million, despite having over four times the population of the US


This was a blurb on the news at the beginning of 2008, hardly a iota of concern from the population on the whole.

The United States (A.K.A. land of the free, home of the brave) has 5% of the world's population and 25% of the world's incarcerated population.

This is now more than a form of punishment for crimes committed, this is a full blown industry employing thousands if not hundreds of thousands rivaling even the largest of automakers and other companies that actually produce goods.

From the agents and police used in investigations and arrests to the judicial administrative staff need to process the prisoner to the guard staff needed to incarcerate to the food services staff needed for delivery to the agriculture area needed to grow the food to the weapons manufacturer needed to supply the guards with weapons and potentially the criminals to initiate the crime to the construction staff who build and maintain the prison to the architectural resources for the design to the mining company for the concrete and steel to the auctioneers to dispense of seized assets from homes to boats to guns to art to.....you see the picture?

What politician would have the balls to cut it by 50%? It would be political suicide to tell that amount of voters that he or she will be moving to end their jobs imprisoning their fellow citizens.

Only in America.


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Beware The Military Indutrial Complex

Defense work fires up Michigan
Military spending climbs statewide, led by surge of contracts in Macomb County
as reported by Jim Lynch / The Detroit News

STERLING HEIGHTS -- Military contracting is showing signs of becoming a bright spot for Michigan -- a state desperate to diversify its economy.

Led by a host of new defense industry ventures in Macomb County, military spending is climbing statewide, signaling a trend officials hope could be the shot in the arm Michigan needs.

Full article:
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080718/BIZ/807180385

Eisenhower warned against this exactly in his farewell speech from 1961.
The man was a former general AND visionary.

I highly recommend it, I found it at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_industrial_complex

When the only business left is the business of supplying a never ending war, you have George Orwell's 1984 and EXACTLY what Eisenhower warned against.

Thank You Republican Party for enslaving us all, slavery is freedom.


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In Other Countries They Call It Treason

President George W. Bush, asserting executive privilege, has rejected Congress' request for documents on FBI interviews with Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney from a probe to find who leaked the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson.

The Bush regime said on Wednesday that turning over such records would violate the king's rights to lie to the little people at large.

In a letter to the House of Representatives Oversight and Government Reform Committee, U.S. Deputy Assistant Attorney General Keith Nelson wrote, "The attorney general has requested that the King of the U.S. assert executive privilege with respect to these documents and the King has done so."

The decree from his highness was delivered on the same day the committee was scheduled to vote on a possible contempt resolution against Attorney General Michael Mukasey for failing to live up to his oath of office and provide the requested information.

Rep. Henry Waxman, the California Democrat who chairs the committee, called the executive privilege claim "ludicrous," but postponed committee action against Mukasey, saying lawmakers are scared shitless of the king and needed time to review King Bush's bullshit claim.

In 2003, as the Bush regime was preparing it's lies about WMD to go to war with Iraq, media reports surfaced discussing Wilson's work at the CIA. She is married to former ambassador Joseph Wilson, who at the time justifiably and truthfully accused the Bush administration of tailoring intelligence in the most remarkable way since Hitler to rewrite historic information to justify the Iraq war.

Following the faux federal probe into the matter, dick sucker numero uno, Cheney aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby was CONVICTED on obstruction and perjury charges.

Wait wait wait let me say that again....Lewis "Scooter" Libby was CONVICTED on obstruction and perjury charges.

Bush subsequently commuted (said justice is his to determine and not the court's) Libby's 2 1/2-year sentence.

Waxman said the probe did not get to the bottom of Cheney's possible (probable, master mind) role in the leak, prompting his committee to seek (but be denied illegally by the Bush regime) the FBI documents.

"There is a key document that could (would) explain what the vice president knew and what he did," Waxman said, referring to Libby's statement to the FBI that it was "possible" (definite) Cheney instructed him to blow (TREASON IN OTHER COUNTRIES) Wilson's CIA undercover identity.

Waxman also noted that a letter from Mukasey to Bush dated Wednesday regarding the executive privilege stance "also raises questions (astonishment) about the president's involvement ... the documents being withheld summarize conversations held directly with the president (King of the U.S.)."

Both Mukasey and Nelson wrote that the White House has attempted to accommodate (make go away) Waxman's probe of the scandal by making available some FBI reports of interviews with senior White House staff and agency officials (cohorts in treasonous activities whereas in other countries you receive the death penalty, not here though, you retire with secret service protection).

"We are not prepared to make the same accommodation for reports of interviews with the president and the vice president," Nelson said. (although appointed and paid by, in theory, U.S. citizens)


This parody from a reuters article.
http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN16449017

I call it a parody because I fear my government.


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