D&C opinion gets it right on Cheney
Even the conservative Democrat and Chronicle Editorial page is disgusted by Dick Cheney’s claim that he is not part of the executive branch:
Though Cheney complied with the executive order in 2001 and 2002, he hasn’t allowed a visit by the ISOO since 2003. In 2004, Cheney’s office blocked the agency from conducting an on-site inspection meant to ensure that classified documents were being properly protected. Cheney’s chief of staff, David Addington, insisted that Cheney’s office did not meet the definition of an executive branch agency.
How ludicrous. That’s even more so when it’s considered that there are ample reasons to believe suspicions that it’s Cheney who is setting White House policy in the first place.
(it you want to disgusted yourself, read some of the comments from the knuckle-dragging Bush worshippers below the article here.)
Of course, we learned yesterday in the Washington Post that this was just the tip of iceberg — that Cheney has essentially been secretly running the government and destroying all evidence of his having done so. I’ll give you one of the hightlights:
That same day, Aug. 1, 2002, Yoo signed off on a second secret opinion, the contents of which have never been made public. According to a source with direct knowledge, that opinion approved as lawful a long list of specific interrogation techniques proposed by the CIA — including waterboarding, a form of near-drowning that the U.S. government classified as a war crime in 1947. The opinion drew the line against one request: threatening to bury a prisoner alive.
Maybe to a guy who lives in a bunker, being buried alive doesn’t sound so bad.
Cheney’s oppressiveness is burying the U.S. alive.