Cheney Spies On White House Staffers- Page 2

Posted: 6/25/07 at 8:54am

the story continues...

On June 8, 2004, national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of State Colin L. Powell learned of the two-year-old torture memo for the first time from an article in The Washington Post. According to a former White House official with firsthand knowledge, they confronted Gonzales together in his office.

Rice “very angrily said there would be no more secret opinions on international and national security law,” the official said, adding that she threatened to take the matter to the president if Gonzales kept them out of the loop again. Powell remarked admiringly, as they emerged, that Rice dressed down the president’s lawyer “in full Nurse Ratched mode,” a reference to the ward chief of a mental hospital in the 1975 film “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”

Neither of them took their objections to Cheney, the official said, a much more dangerous course.

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In another instance, the article recounts a meeting over the administration’s denial of due process to detainees. At the meeting, “Gonzales listened quietly as the Justice Department and his own staff lined up against [Cheney lawyer David] Addington. Then he decided in favor of Cheney’s lawyer.”

cheney spies on white house staffers - PT 2

[HDThoreau2]

Posted: 6/25/07 at 9:02am

Oh dear, you are letting the Washington Post tell you what to think again.
It's Scandal! Unlike Al Gore, Cheney is Working Vice-President

[PalJoey]

Posted: 6/25/07 at 9:09am

"Oh dear"? Who says "oh dear"?

Anyway, Granny. It's not the crime that gets 'em every time.

It's the COVER-UP!

[HDThoreau2]

Posted: 6/25/07 at 9:11am

I see that personal attacks are still your only specialty. Why hasn't the Hillary campaign "snatched" you up already?

[JustAGuy]

Posted: 6/25/07 at 9:39am

"Oh dear, you are letting the Washington Post tell you what to think again. "

And you seem to be letting your "friend" tell you what to think.

[HDThoreau2]

Posted: 6/25/07 at 9:41am

No, he doesn't ever tell us what to think. Everyone here at the bed and breakfast debates all sides of the point.

Care to join us sometime this summer?

[JustAGuy]

Posted: 6/25/07 at 9:44am

"No, he doesn't ever tell us what to think. Everyone here at the bed and breakfast debates all sides of the point.

Care to join us sometime this summer?"

No thanks, I spent a month in OHIO one weekend...that was enough for me.

Posted: 6/25/07 at 10:13am

Chantipoo: No, he doesn't ever tell us what to think.

thats life in the Moonies!!!!

Posted: 6/25/07 at 10:57am

HS as Rush Limbaugh says "words mean things!" Cheney's contention that his office is not part of the exceutive branch is wrong and flat out untrue. You can say he is part of two branches if you'd like, but he is most certainly, constitutionally, part of the executive branch. It seems like a colossal waste of time and money to have to go before the Supreme court to decide that, but no doubt it will delay the act long enough to allow him to leave office before it is decided.

[HDThoreau2]

Posted: 6/25/07 at 11:18am

Yes, I agree: Cheney, Gore, Mondale, or Nixon, whoever the Vice-President is serves both branches.

Who knew that you would need a constitutional lesson to participate in this discussion?