Dick Cheney 'put airline bomb plot case in jeopardy with arrest order of Rashid Rauf'

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

He truly is the Dick that keeps on giving.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6825778.ece




Dick Cheney, the former US Vice President, nearly destroyed Britain's efforts to bring the airline bomb plotters to justice, police and intelligence experts said today.

By ordering the early arrest of Rashid Rauf, the bombers' link man in Pakistan, Washington forced British police to detain the suspects in the UK before all the evidence had been gathered, it was claimed.

Yesterday three British Muslims - Abdulla Ahmed Ali, Tanvir Hussain and Assad Sarwar - were finally convicted of plotting to blow up seven transatlantic airliners in mid-air in a co-ordinated attack intended to surpass the horror of 9/11. But the plotters were arrested before they had bought the airline tickets that would have been the ultimate proof of their intentions. Police fear that several key figures of the plot have remained free.

Andy Hayman, who was the Metropolitan Police's Assistant Commissioner Specialist Operations at the time of the plot, said he believed that the White House had grown jittery as the British updated them of the mounting evidence of a plot targeted at American cities.

"Mr Bush didn't seem to commit anything to paper, but Vice President Cheney despatched a man called Jose Rodriguez to Pakistan in secret. The British didn't know he was there.

"And after Mr Rodriguez's arrival in Pakistan, Rashid Rauf was picked up. The British were hopping mad about that, because it meant that on August 10 they had no choice but to move in on this plot before all the evidence was as mature as possible.

"There is a general belief in British security circles that the despatch of Mr Rodriguez to the White House came straight from the White House."

[Rex]

1. Dick Cheney will stop at nothing to get what he wants, war, assassinations

coups, you name it the asshole will do it for his own best interests. Whatever the fuck those are.

[Hippo_Tron]

2. Where in the constitution is the Vice President endowed this sort of authority?

Of course, given how little regard the previous administration had for the constitution this doesn't surprise me.

[Uncle Joe]

4. Cheney didn't get his power

from the "We the People's" Constitution, he received his power from the De Facto "We the Corporations'" version.

Bush was a shallow front man with a known name coming from a large state, I believe Cheney was always the real power in that maladministration from the time he and his corporate masters chose Bush to run while Cheney pretended to search the nation over for the best... excuse me :rofl: :cry: :rofl: :cry: :rofl:, Vice Presidential Candidate in the land, naturally as we were only just shy of 300 million people, the search ended with the searcher being chosen.

I also believe the same dysfunctional, non-accountable power relationship existed between Cheney's attorney Addington and the office of Attorney General.

[BuyingThyme]

3. kcik