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- CloakandSwagger, on 07/10/2009, -8/+66If we're talking about the same guy who:
1. Was an architect of Project for a New American Century
2. Assisted in revealing the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame, jeapordizing the agents life, and removing her from an operation, which just happend to be monitoring Iran's nuclear proliferation.
3. Directly authorized the use of illegal torture methods to be used on suspected terrorists.
4. Shot a man in the face, went into hiding, and made the victim apologize.
5. Authorized stand-down orders to NORAD on 9/11.
6. Knowingly used false intelligence to justify war in Iraq.
7. In the name of national security, classified almost every document pertaining to his activities as vice president.
8. etc. etc. etc.
...then yeah, I'd say it's very likely he would use the CIA to assist in covering up his personal hit list. - inactive, on 07/09/2009, -8/+59The entire matter has to be inquired into thoroughly and action taken according to the law of the land irrespective of the rank and status of the guilt’s. It is enough of protecting the criminal’s responsible for such heinous crimes like assassination.
This is inexcusable act of a VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNTRY. He must be prosecuted without any mercy shown. all others connected in the gang must also face the legal action. The Vice President of the country , engaged in criminal activities is Just unthinkable. He not only disgraced himself but also the country. Republicans defending the culprits should also be prosecuted as abettors in the case. - novenator, on 07/10/2009, -9/+41The Republicans got away with so many other things, I suppose this just got lost in the shuffle too.
*lying to the American public and the UN about evidence (itself manufactured) in order to invade a sovereign country under false pretenses
*scrapping international treaties such as the ABM and Chemical Weapons accords
*setting up secret CIA prisons overseas and the Guantanamo Bay torture facility
Many more example, but the point is this: a clear pattern has been established. Prosecute the bastards. - VCubed, on 07/10/2009, -5/+22Even Republicans were stunned?! Well, this should be public knowledge, 'cause if it stuns the "torture them like-24" crowd, it was way, way out of line.
- kemp34, on 07/10/2009, -2/+17If you are in a high position of power/responsibility you should be held to a HIGHER standard of behavior, not a significantly lower.
Penalties for ill behavior should be STEEPER as you move up the power/responsibility scale.
This is basic. - ponyponipone, on 07/10/2009, -3/+16Don't forget:
Held a "Energy Strategy Meeting" of Oil and Energy Executives and other still undiscovered foreign attendees in the months leading up to Iraq and 9/11, the list of attendees and minutes of which he had protected through his Boss's Executive Privilege (unprecedented in American history). He held a planning session for our oil wars, and hid the list of attendees. it has been brought to federal court twice, and each time he has maneuvered the case to a district where the judge summarily protected his right. The Roberts Supreme court won't take it up. Dick Cheney's transgressions are being protected and hidden by many many dirty hands. If we ever become silent about this, it will never come to light. But it has to. There are so many important secrets being kept from we the citizens. The ones who have the ULTIMATE power in the country, the power to be informed and vote according to the knowledge we have. When someone like Dick Cheney comes along and bully's us into ignorance, it is our right in this nation to find and share that knowledge through the First Amendment. I don't know who will unravel the tangled web of half-truths and destroyed evidence, but I hope it comes soon... - 8FoldPath, on 07/10/2009, -3/+14They wanted a strong Executive and they took it, at the expense of countless lives and international reputation. People should pay more attention to who they are voting for.
- Feenix566, on 07/10/2009, -3/+14The secret program was actually Cheney's death ray, which is stored on his secret moon base. He travels back and forth using a teleporter made with technology derived from the captured Roswell craft, which is obviously being stored in area 51. Cheney used his Lunar Death Ray (tm) to cause 9/11. He also recently hired Michael Jackson to work at the facility, which is why they faked his death.
- Winston84, on 07/10/2009, -0/+9"What program, exactly, was being kept secret?"
I don't know, but they have been lying about it since 2001 .. GO FIGURE !! - censormagnet, on 07/10/2009, -2/+9dont forget the time he was subpoenad to release documents about wiretapping,.. went to his office to burn them all in his office wastebasket, then blamed the fire/smoke on a terrorist attack..
- funk49, on 07/10/2009, -2/+9This wouldn't be called Project Blackwater, would it?
- SillyRabbits, on 07/10/2009, -5/+12Wow, I love how people are so quick to say "This is inexcusable act of a VICE PRESIDENT OF THE COUNTRY" when nobody actually knows -- except for the CIA and a few members of congress -- what the program even is. You might want to save your false outrage until you actually have a single fact or two.
- gomrot, on 07/10/2009, -0/+7Of course! It all makes sense now! They needed Jackson's moonwalking abilities!
- endisnighe, on 07/10/2009, -2/+8And everything that the Repubs did and will legitimize what the Dems did and will legitimize what the Repubs did and will legitimize what the Dems did and will legitimize what the Repubs did-Infinitum Throw them all in prison and start over. Dems-Repubs The 2 Headed Snake and our 1 Party System
- treehugger87, on 07/10/2009, -1/+5@aesur. Why do you hate America? No, seriously? Why do you hate your country so much that you would want it to be reduced to some 2nd rate power with secret hit squads and traitors to the Constitution in charge and allowed to do whatever they want. You, sir, are a traitor to the principals this country is founded on.
- gomrot, on 07/10/2009, -1/+5The biggest problem with an assassination squad like that is that it grants an unconstitutional power to any government official. Who is to say it couldn't be used domestically? The squad circumvents our judicial system in every way by acting as the judge, jury, and executioner. Overall, it's a really uncool and primitive idea that harks back to the good old days of dictatorship.
- indio007, on 07/10/2009, -3/+7Cheney is a murderer is news? LOL!!!
to who?
Maybe all the sheeple that think 9/11 wasn't a staged event will wake up
and take a 9th grade science class.
see Newton , Issac - miffelplix, on 07/10/2009, -0/+4What was being kept secret?
TREADSTONE. - settlesdown, on 07/10/2009, -0/+3The cake is a lie!
- JohnnySoftware, on 07/10/2009, -3/+6I missed a key paragraph when I read this article. Went back and read it again and I get the picture now.
I still think this article could have been much better written. - govtdoesnotwork, on 07/10/2009, -1/+4From the hints I've seen on my idiot box, it sounded more like an information-gathering program with a very wide net, where maybe they'd gathered 100% of all email traffic on the internet, but hadn't done anything with the data. Cheney's killing ring (unless it didn't kill anybody) doesn't really fit the description in the vague hints. This wide net gathering would sound more like an NSA-ish thing to do, but the CIA could possibly do it too, via infiltrating certain small, foreign telecommunications companies.
- inactive, on 07/11/2009, -0/+3watch my user, yarayara.
I will send you 100 Euros is Cheney ever spends a week in jail. - Exasperated, on 07/10/2009, -1/+4Cheney met with Paul Wellstone in October 2002 during the runup to the Iraq War, and attempted to strong-arm him into being silent about his very strong objections to military action. Wellstone refused, and a few days later died in a very bizarre plane crash.
- Feenix566, on 07/10/2009, -4/+7Are you serious? You don't mind?
I don't suppose you'd mind if North Korea had an assassination squad, and they were assassinating Americans? That wouldn't bother you a bit, would it? As long as the North Korean Assassination Squad reported directly to Kim Jong Il, everything would be honky dorey, wouldn't it? - digg4peace, on 07/10/2009, -4/+7What are you trying to say? That two airplanes could not knock down three buildings at free fall speed into their own foot prints? Seriously? How can you let something as elitist as physics get in the way of your patriotic duty to believe what ever you are told?
The next thing you know you will be trying to tell me that it was all done as a precept to start a couple of wars for oil and great big military contracts...and so that billions of dollars could be seemingly "disappeared" to heaven knows where...
Wow you must be a real tin foil hat wearing loonie!
/s - spongya77, on 07/10/2009, -1/+4aesur,
You use the word "terrorist" as if you were a brainless little dolt. As if it made everything OK.
The fact of the matter is that if you go around the globe unchecked, killing people that you think are terrorists, whatever this phrase means (after all, Bin Laden was a "freedom fighter" not long ago in the US media), you are essentially a murderer who belongs to the gallows. Because it's no better than what the Gestapo or any other like-minded organization did. - LilRabbitFooFoo, on 07/10/2009, -1/+4Are we surprised that as soon as this surfaced, Cheney returned underground?!
- Goph09, on 07/10/2009, -0/+3yeah, too bad Pelosi knew about the water boarding all along and SHE lied about it..
- ftx437, on 07/10/2009, -4/+7How about we actully figure out whos lying before we get into the consperacy theory's.
- JohnnySoftware, on 07/10/2009, -6/+8I have read two articles on this "executive assassination ring" and I still do not know what it means. Also, it is not reported in either article that anyone was assassinated, killed, or even called bad names. Both articles seemed kind of incoherent.
- LBTS, on 07/11/2009, -0/+2Your comment does not compute. This article refers to a secret CIA program that was not disclosed to any member of Congress, yet you imply that they were aware of it.
On a side note, rumors of a Cheney assassination squad have been out in the public domain for a long time before this recent spate of articles. Even if true, though, it might not be illegal; it may just be a violation of an old Executive Order. There may be nothing there to legally prosecute Cheney, much less an incompetent Congressman. - phrawgh, on 07/10/2009, -4/+6The secret program was kept secret, silly goose!
- ponyponipone, on 07/10/2009, -2/+4The implication is: Dick Cheney created a Private Assassination Team out of the Vice-President's Office. He got George to say "YES" to his plan to send a group of trained assassins around the world to kill people Dick Cheney hand-selected.
Dick: George, I'm going to organize an international assassination squad and keep it a secret from the rest of the government including the CIA, any diplomats in countries where we're killing these people, and most of the time - you...?
George: Sure, Dick. You're doing such a good job that I'm going on vacation again, I'll see you in a month or two! WEEEEE!!!
Those guys had a lot of criminal intelligence and used it regularly... - digg4peace, on 07/10/2009, -3/+5No, it is not "truther" bull *****, it is a historical fact.
- settlesdown, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2CIA does not have the resources. It would have to be the NSA or the DIA
- govtdoesnotwork, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2Yeah, that we know of, I think you're right. But...
The CIA is occasionally used as a vessel for blame for actions of the other 16(!!!!) US intelligence agencies, so it may well BE the NSA, but the CIA's blame is the cover story because the CIA's taking flack anyway. To me, because of the cover description, it seems like an information program rather than a "Cheney's private Murder, Inc." type of thing that was going on, but I wish I knew more. What else but an info program could be "done" enough that Panetta needed to stop it, but not-done enough that Republicans can say it was never quite "done"? I wish I could think of something in traditional intelligence gathering & spying, but I can't. - woodrow8292, on 07/10/2009, -0/+2"Another theory being bandied about concerns an "executive assassination ring" that was allegedly set up and answered to former Vice President Dick Cheney"
Another THEORY as the article points out itself. So now all of a sudden people are jumping on the bandwagon and accepting a theory from this article as the truth. Pure speculation being published and now all the war crimes/911 insiders/are screaming to prosecute! Funny. - Junkyarddawg, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1Oh there's plenty of ***** that should never see the light of day. Google "the salvador option iraq". Then check what "the salvador option" means, how it was used in El Salvador.
- faskippy, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1This article is so clear and concise! LOL! Friggin' Huffers crack me up.
- inactive, on 07/10/2009, -4/+5I loled.
What's less funny is that some ass-hats believe ***** like that...see jsmithers above. - endisnighe, on 07/10/2009, -3/+4And the current admin is not just stepping up the illegal activities but starting to institute it here in the US. I actually believe in the Constitution- that ALL(this word is the most important) MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL because once you say its ok to do any of this ***** to anybody it is that much easier to do it to the next group you want to destroy. Look how Hitler simply started with the Gypsies than the Christians than the Jews ETC.
And if you don't think Obama is going to expand this *****, listen to his speech. From Rachel Maddow show http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_msTII61hWY&fea ... - Phaedryn, on 07/10/2009, -0/+1What's a war crime??
- spongya77, on 07/10/2009, -1/+2Isn't that against all domestic and international law? I mean it's a war crime, and all.
OK, OK, I know. - 1x253, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1I assume most do have them, but that doesn't make it any more constitutional.
- LilRabbitFooFoo, on 07/12/2009, -0/+1The "conspiracy" aspect of it is TRUTHER *****.
- DamnLogins, on 07/11/2009, -0/+1<sigh>
Does no-one study history anymore? There's nothing new here. The Phoenix Program in Vietnam had this down pat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_program
Big quote from the Wikipedia article :
"The problem was, how do you find the people on the blacklist? It's not like you had their address and telephone number. The normal procedure would be to go into a village and just grab someone and say, 'Where's Nguyen so-and-so?' Half the time the people were so afraid they would say anything. Then a Phoenix team would take the informant, put a sandbag over his head, poke out two holes so he could see, put commo wire around his neck like a long leash, and walk him through the village and say, 'When we go by Nguyen's house scratch your head.' Then that night Phoenix would come back, knock on the door, and say, 'April Fool, *****.' Whoever answered the door would get wasted. As far as they were concerned whoever answered was a Communist, including family members. Sometimes they'd come back to camp with ears to prove that they killed people." - ChiliMac, on 07/10/2009, -1/+2The fact that anything was kept secret is important and something that needs to be reported. The bit about Cheney's "Executive Assassination Ring" is purely conjecture. I hate it when news organizations report on something without a decent layer of facts to go with it.
- LilRabbitFooFoo, on 07/12/2009, -0/+1Just Google the damn information. It's not that hard to read up on what really happened and how everything collapsed and why...FFS. It's not even ROCKET SCIENCE level science here.
- ponyponipone, on 07/10/2009, -1/+2I agree. I can't wait until this thing blows up and we get something by Matt Taibbi on this
- treehugger87, on 07/10/2009, -3/+4Sorry, but the simple possibility that this could be true is so audacious, so fundamentally illegal and so completely dangerous to a free society that any merest suggestion that it could be true should cause complete and utter outrage. It is inexcusable that the Vice President of the country even allow himself to be put in a position where this could be considered anything but the wildest speculation from the most extreme of conspiracy theorists.
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