Comments on: Cheney Interview Materials

By: kindGSL

kindGSL — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:26:13 +0000

Another one to add to that list is, “Fool me once, don’t get fooled again.” I think that is a thinly veiled death/torture threat.

By: kindGSL

kindGSL — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 07:23:46 +0000

That is called ‘maintaining deniability’ and when you see it in a pattern (like w/ Cheney) it strongly indicates they are covering things up.

By: person1597

person1597 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:04:08 +0000

Since this is a contest, I’d like to add one more thing Emptywheel shouldn’t say on TeeVee:

“If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.”

By: Neil

Neil — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 06:03:10 +0000

Chney interjects maximum ambiguity into every response so as to escape being pinned down.

By: person1597

person1597 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:38:54 +0000

~~Pig Missile~~ “The President listens to his Commanders on the economy.” ~~Pixie Dust~~ “He is to the vice president what the vice president is to the president.” ~~Papa Dick~~ Chuck Norris has to have a concealed weapon license in all 50 states in order to legally wear pants. ~~time line~~ “I have no memory of this.” ~~blow job~~“I took an oath to the President…and I take that oath very seriously…. ~~Scottish Haggis~~ "Ignorant elf, aip, owll irregular, Skaldit skaitbird, and common skamelar;" ~~Fourth Branch~~ “And I want to know who the leakers are.”

By: person1597

person1597 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:25:01 +0000

~~Pig Missile~~ “The President listens to his Commanders on the economy.” ~~Pixie Dust~~ “He is to the vice president what the vice president is to the president.” ~~Papa Dick~~ Chuck Norris has to have a concealed weapon license in all 50 states in order to legally wear pants. ~~time line~~ “I have no memory of this.” ~~blow job~~“I took an oath to the President…and I take that oath very seriously…. Scottish Haggis ~~Fourth Branch~~ “And I want to know who the leakers are.”

By: timbo

timbo — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:24:02 +0000

Oh, and can you post a link that reviews the correlation between the torture regime and the false information to gin up the war…and how that proceeded through all of 2001-2004? That is of special interest in this case, as I know you know, since the reason the WMD question was of concern to the administration was because of their paranoia about investigations discovering the torture regime by the 3rd branch.

By: timbo

timbo — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:21:33 +0000

I agree. It appears that Cheney was protecting his own keister with the interview.

Another observation is that it appears that there are areas where an argument could be made that claims of “executive privilege” were used to cover up possible leak avenues from becoming apparent to Fitzgerald. Fortunately, the eventual realization (I realized that at the time of the investigation) that Armitage, fortunate for the conspirators, is that he provided a non-privileged explanation of who had leaked the information to the press. The thing is…we still don’t have proof positive that the entire leadership of the executive was involved in breaking the law in this case…due to “executive privilege concerns”.

By: person1597

person1597 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:16:13 +0000

~~Pig Missile~~ "The President listens to his Commanders on the economy." Pixie Dust ~~Papa Dick~~ Chuck Norris has to have a concealed weapon license in all 50 states in order to legally wear pants. ~~time line~~ “I have no memory of this.” ~~blow job~~“I took an oath to the President…and I take that oath very seriously…. Scottish Haggis ~~Fourth Branch~~ “And I want to know who the leakers are.”

By: person1597

person1597 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:13:13 +0000

Pig Missile
Pixie Dust
~~Papa Dick~~ Chuck Norris has to have a concealed weapon license in all 50 states in order to legally wear pants.
~~time line~~ “I have no memory of this.”
~~blow job~~“I took an oath to the President…and I take that oath very seriously….
Scottish Haggis
~~Fourth Branch~~ “And I want to know who the leakers are.”