Y’all come back with a guilty verdict, ya hear?
Great new lyrics, Bilge. That’s a keeper!

http://www.democraticundergrou…..215;220174

.. JEEZUS

Cheney threatened to end “all cooperation with the joint inquiry by the Senate and House Intelligence committees on the government’s failure to predict and prevent the September 11 attacks”?

Why the hell did Graham go along with this? Why didn’t he or SOMEONE say, “Wait a minute, Mr VP, there are serious national security questions raised by the handling of that intercept that TRUMP the WH’s desire to cover it up!!”

The Repugs, the Dems…they wimped out when the WH started threatening them. They betrayed this country to the very bastards who knew what was going to happen and did nothing to stop it.

That is UNFORGIVABLE….

Well, it might not be fair to say that he went along with anything.

But isn’t it interesting that we once again find Cheney very concerned about hiding what the NSA was up to BEFORE 9/11.

Particularly when, years later, he would claim that had the (illegal) NSA “terra surveillance program” been in place before 9/11, the attacks may have been prevented.

It seems that the attacks easily could have been prevented, Mr. Cheney…

Two points make this article credible to me.

First Waas has been an excellent journalist throughout these dark ages of the Bush regime.

Second, the subject of much of his interview, former Senator Bob Graham, is one of the most honest and reliable people ever to hold public office.

I tend to believe this account.

hizzhoner

I’m joining this party late, so hizzhoner may never see this, but I do believe that you’re confusing the two Senators Graham. Sen. Bob Graham (D-FL, retired) is indeed the kind of person you say he is. However, the article was in reference to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-GA?). While Sen. Lindsey is honest and reliable, as Republicans go, he is still very thoroughly Republican, and subject to all the limitations thereof.

Bob in HI

That is wonderful! I’ll be singin’ all day. Thank you!

I’m adding it to my song book

…the ballad of Shooter and Scooter, which, now that I think about it, needs to be penned, perhaps to the tune of the Beverly Hillbillies theme?

Ask and ye shall receive.

The Ballad of Irving Libby

Come and listen to a story ’bout a man named Irve
Workin’ with Dick on a war plan with nerve
Gonna start a war with lil’ ol’ Iraq
And get themselves a heapin’ helpin’ of Black

Oil, that is. Sweet sweet crude.

Well the sold their war with W. M. D.
But once the dust had settled, it was plain to see
That Iraq had no nukes hidden in the countryside
And a former diplomat started sayin’ “Bush Lied”

Sixteen words, that is. SOTU.

So to paint this Wilson guy as a man of ill repute
Ol’ Cheney said “Go out and call reporters, Scoot!”
So Scoot outed Valerie to reporters that he called
And wound up in court in the sights of Fitz-ger-ald

Patrick, that is. For Perjury and Obstruction.

Y’all come back with a guilty verdict, ya hear?

Original lyrics

Nervosa @
4

You ponder Cheney’s motivations thus: “I wonder if Libby has bothered to notice at all that he’s still dangling out there alone on the hook, another casualty in Dick Cheney’s war against balanced government and the Constitution? And for Dick Cheney, is the unilateral executive so important to him that he was more than willing to sacrifice his right hand man for the cause?”

But that’s what Cheney would call the high road. Isn’t it interesting that while he’s developing strategies and theories that distort our history and our future, he and his “friends” (don’t shoot!) are making mountains of money out of raping us and the rest of the planet?

He’s interested in the “unilateral executive” only as long as that executive works for him.

Halliburton: It’s the answer to everything.

Scooter is not just a loyal aide who is being thrown under the bus. He is not a subordinate who is being abandonned to twist in the wind. He’s a principal as much as Cheney. Scooter not only signed the PNAC, helped write it. He (w/Wolfowitz and Zalmay Khalilzad) wrote the 1992 Draft Defense Planning Guide. Now Murray Waas is not saying he was busy ‘neutralizing the Hill’ wrt classified info. This is not a poor little lamb who lost his way. And he’s not being loyal to Cheney, he’s sticking with the plan, just as ony other member of this team would. “As always, should any member of your team be caught or killed, the Secretary will disavow all knowledge of your actions.”

There is no victory here. Scooter takes a time-out and the plan proceeds without interuption.

BTW, I have omitted links as there is a ton of googleable stuff on all these, you can pick the one(s) that seems most reliable to you.

Agreed. Libby will come out of this, after his pardon, with a fellowship at the American Enterprise Institute. The only thing he stands to lose presuming he is found guilty will be his being disbarred. This will only be a “flesh wound”.

According to Think Progress:

“Tim Griffin, the former Karl Rove aide whose appointment as U.S. Attorney in Arkansas helped spark an outcry over the politicization of federal prosecutors, has announced he will not accept the position.”

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“Looks to me like Cheney is getting penned in like a quail.” Bustednuckles @ 9

and publicly humiliated and exposed. I don’t see a bright future in his cards.

Explosive milk thru the nose comment! BTW, Ig-pay Atten-lay is a great way to speak in code in front of non-native English speakers. However, Arabic speakers have their own version, and that might be all they have to do to foul up any attempt by non-native Arabic speakers (US gov’ment) to get around any fancy-schmancy de-coding process.

“If Cheney has to sacrifice his right arm to be successful, he will because he’s a fighting man,”

Five deferments Dickhead Cheney a “fighting man.” The irony, the humor, the disgust!

He could have one fight if he would be brave enough to join me alone in a locked room. When I come out I’ll bring his mechanical heart with me so that it can be recycled to someone with use for a heart.

Oh yeah, back off of Alannis peoples, she rocks!