Dick Cheney voted for the law he is now in jeopardy of being charged with

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http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0510/27/sitroom.03.html

<snip>BLITZER: You were in the House of Representatives when that 1982 statute was passed that -- that bars, makes it illegal to name a covert clandestine CIA officer. And you were very much in support of that.

COHEN: Indeed, I was. I was in the House back in the '70s, during the time when this really started to surface. Phillip Agee published...

BLITZER: He was a renegade CIA -- former CIA operative.

COHEN: Exactly. And he published a book, and he also named about a dozen covert operatives. One of those names in the book turned out to be Richard Welch, who was murdered. He was a CIA station chief in Athens at the time in Greece. He was murdered following the publication of his name.

That lead to the passage of the Intelligence Identity's Protection Act in 1982. There's some interesting facts involved in this. When Richard Welch was murdered...

BLITZER: Still in the '70s?

COHEN: This is back in the '70s, '75, as I recall. When he was murdered, the CIA director, Bill Colby, contacted my colleague, former colleague, Gary Hart, to ask him to help see to it that Welch could be buried in Arlington Cemetery. Gary Hart then placed a call to the White House, talking to Dick Cheney, who was on the chief of staff for President Ford. So there are some interesting ironies and twists and turns in our history.

BLITZER: And Dick Cheney then went ahead and voted for that legislation to make it illegal to pass -- to reveal the identity of a clandestine officer.

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1. It only makes sense so

what happened to dick's sense?

[DRoseDARs]

2. I wonder if, poetically, his attempt to exempt the CIA from anti-torture..

...laws will likewise come back to bite him in the ass. :shrug:

[Gabi Hayes]

3. not true about Welch being in Agee's book

Gary Hart wrote a Huffpost thing about that, which he later corrected.

the correction was WRT Welch. he states that Welch was NOT in Agee's book.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gary-hart/here-is-the-crime-in-outi_b_9489.html

[rateyes]

4. Wonder how Rumsfeld voted? nt

[UrbScotty]

6. I think he had left Congress by then

After being Ford's Defense Secretary, he went into the private sector.

[Mr_Spock]

5. Good ol' DICK Cheney - FUCKED by his own vote!

:rofl:

[bettyellen]

7. OOOOPs,, I guess he criminilized what he would call "politics".

that is too rich.

[Deja Q]

8. Hoisted by his own petard?

Only time will tell.

[linazelle]

9. That proves he knew exactly what he was doing if he is involved

That is priceless. Sick 'im Fitz.

[PatriotGames]

10. Karma is a sweet thing. n/t

[A Simple Game]

11. Whoop-de-do, big deal, it doesn't matter.

Silly people, laws, even then, were for Democrats, not Republicans.