Efforts to reach Mr. cheney through relatives and associates were unsuccessful.

[spanone]

i bet....


Cheney Is Linked to Concealment of C.I.A. Project

The Central Intelligence Agency withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress for eight years on direct orders from former Vice President Dick Cheney, the agency’s director, Leon E. Panetta, has told the Senate and House intelligence committees, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said Saturday.

The report that Mr. Cheney was behind the decision to conceal the still-unidentified program from Congress deepened the mystery surrounding it, suggesting that the Bush administration had put a high priority on the program and its secrecy.

Mr. Panetta, who ended the program when he first learned of its existence from subordinates on June 23, briefed the two intelligence committees about it in separate closed sessions the next day.

Efforts to reach Mr. Cheney through relatives and associates were unsuccessful.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/us/politics/12intel.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

[Jack Rabbit]

1. Investigate, Indict, Incarcerate

And make sure he gets the fair trail, even though he doesn't believe others should.

[spanone]

5. he's a mere criminal.....investigate, indict & incarcerate

i think we're seeing just how powerful mr cheney is. he has a new democratic administration that is scared to death to prosecute him. it's awe-inspiring.

did cheney spend eight years collecting dossiers on those who now are called on to prosecute him? is he blackmailing the government? so many questions.

[Xipe Totec]

2. Hardware does not have relatives or associates n/t

[spanone]

7. ha, but we've seen the evil spawn who occasions our vision sets...

[Frustratedlady]

3. Check out all planes headed to Argentina...

I understand there's a lonely woman down there who likes Repugs.

[obliviously]

20. That is Immediately where my mind went! N/T

[Solly Mack]

4. Fucker was all over the air waves not that long ago and now? LMAO

[Tangerine LaBamba]

9. Maybe Liz Cheney can answer

this one?

She had so much to say just a little while ago, so I'm sure she's an expert on this, too................

[Solly Mack]

14. No doubt...I'm betting they emerge from hiding together

[lib_wit_it]

33. If not from bed together.

[goclark]

29. Come out, come out where ever you are ~

Bet he is hunting with his "friends."

By the way, how did that one turn out?

[Tangerine LaBamba]

31. Consider this -

we now live in a world where the guy Cheney shot IN THE FACE apologized to Cheney.

And it went right on by, as if that's how things work.

Somehow, we've all down through the looking glass, and I, for one, don't like it on this side............................

[goclark]

32. Cheney the Mob Boss nt

[slingsam]

10. fucker...still has...

access to that undisclosed location???????

[Solly Mack]

15. Probably is in his hidey hole

[Parker CA]

17. That charade was the first step into his run toward hiding. It failed. He is now in full sprint

to the nearest deep cover he can find. Clocks a tickin', Dick!

[Tangerine LaBamba]

6. When did it become acceptable

for the Vice-President to order around the CIA?

He had to have told them that he was acting on direct orders from the President.

And, if that's true, well, isn't that interesting?

And, if that's not true, well, isn't that interesting?

[spanone]

12. i really think we're owed answers to these questions...the american people that is.

[grantcart]

13. Its never acceptable

And it shows that Bush isn't as stupid as people thought. He probably gave Cheney a vague verbal order and let Cheney go to town sending out damaging memos.

When it all comes out Cheney will be holding the bag and Bush will walk away.

[Missy Vixen]

25. It's rapidly approaching the point

at which, if President Obama turns a blind eye to this, the outcry will be deafening.

Then again, it already is, isn't it?

Time for patty-cake (aka bipartisanship) is over. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney pissed all over the Constitution. Maybe he doesn't care about that, but I sure as hell do.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

30. We all do, Oh, She Of The Trampy Name -

we do, and we're all in the right. There aren't many scenarios in this life that are black-and-white, right-and-wrong, and, as a lawyer trained by Jesuits, I have no choice but to see as many sides of a situation as humanly (and sometimes inhumanly) possible.

But, in this one, it's simple.

They did wrong.

On its face, the Fuckface presidency is littered with illegal activities, and they're rapidly becoming more and more provable (the evidentiary aspects of all this has always troubled me), and more egregious. Maybe I'm reaching my saturation point, or maybe what they did really is more hateful than I even suspected.

But, the path to prosecution is blocked by political realities, and that is troubling to the point where I have tears of frustration in my eyes as I write this.

The bald political truth, as articulated perfectly by Jon Turley on "Countdown" the other night, is that no current administration wants to take any prior administrations to task for what they did, simply out of the concern (fear) that someday they might be held to that very same standard for things they might do while in office.

Nixon and Watergate were anomalies, public illegal acts that led to the Oval Office through the most bizarre series of incidents and two dogged reporters who never let the story go. Today, we have no break-in, no convicted burglars looking to a judge to make a deal, no journalists who are willing (or able) to put in the hours, days, weeks, months of work and shoe leather involved in getting the story together. In the face of us now having the Internet(s) tubes, the most sophisticated forms of record-keeping and communication in human history, we fail, because we don't have people who will do the scut work involved in putting a story together.

Ah, ironies abound, and keep me from breaking down completely.

More will keep coming out, the outrage will be palpable, but it will dissipate, and life will go on. Nothing will be done, books will be written, books filled with lies and distortions and rationalizations, and no one will be able to disprove anything. Not that it would go anywhere, but it would have been nice.

They're going to get away with all of it.

All of it..............................

[grantcart]

8. Well he has been so talkative up to now

He knew that this was coming and wanted to try and make any criticism a partisan issue.

[47of74]

11. Why aren't these people serving 10,000 year prison sentences in Florence?

[PretzelWarrior]

16. He and John Yoo need to go to prison in chains.

If Madoff should then so should the puppet master of the United States downfall the past several years.

[CanonRay]

18. Last month you couldn't get him off the TeeVee

Now he's back at his undisclosed location.

[Brother Buzz]

26. I believe one of the shovel ready stimulus projects was to.....

weld the remaining man-hole covers shut in the greater DC area. He can't play Whack-A-Mole® with the media anymore.

[MineralMan]

19. Paraguay?

[havocmom]

21. The extension of Secret Service protection was probably unwelcome

Thinkin ol dick doesn't want any federal officers to be hanging around, knowing where he hides.

[spanone]

22. they could be ordered to arrest him at a moments notice...

[havocmom]

23. And if they have to 'protect' him, he can't ditch them and hide

It is genius! And looks oh so polite!

[kentuck]

24. Mr Panetta is head of the CIA and it took him until June to find out about this?

What does that tell you?

[Snarkoleptic]

27. So who at the CIA was taking orders from the civilian Dick until last month?

I know he built a new home within a mile of CIA HQ, what went on there?
Who are the sleepers he left behind at CIA?
We need answers and this prick needs to be locked up while this is sorted out.

[kayakjohnny]

28. Update: Think they found him.....

[Kablooie]

34. Is this a surprise? Seems to be business as usual for Cheney.