Dick Cheney, Rogue Meister
By Matthew Rothschild, July 14, 2009
We’re not supposed to live under a junta or a dictatorship. We’re supposed to be a democracy, with a refined system of checks and balances. But Cheney despises democracy.
The more we find out about the Bush Administration, the more it becomes obvious that there wasn’t a rogue operation here and there, once in a while.
The whole thing was a rogue operation, 24/7.
And the rogue-meister was Dick Cheney.
It’s hardly shocking that Cheney told the CIA not to inform Congress about a secret assassination program it was working on.
Cheney has nothing but disdain for Congress and for the rule of law.
So what if the National Security Law of 1947 requires Congressional notification?
So what if the 1981 Intelligence Authorization Act requires it?
If you’re Dick Cheney, you don’t care.
Not about laws. Not about the Constitution. Not about treaties.
If the president wants to spy on Americans without a warrant, no problem. (And it looks like there was much more illegal spying going on than we’ve been led to believe, with Cheney’s office pushing for it all the way.)
If U.S. interrogators want to waterboard their prisoners, go to it. (Attorney General Eric Holder says there was more going on than even that, and what he found out “turned my stomach.”)
If U.S. interrogators tortured some prisoners to death, well, that’s war, for you. (A couple of dozen prisoners died while under U.S. interrogation, a hideous fact that has not received nearly the attention it deserves.)
And if our allies in Afghanistan suffocated or shot hundreds of prisoners to death, there’s no need to investigate.
As far as not telling Congress about the CIA’s assassination program, Cheney’s daughter, Liz, says her father was just trying to protect the national security of the country.
But that’s the excuse that every fascist gives.
We are not a monarchy. We’re not supposed to live under a junta or a dictatorship. We’re supposed to be a democracy, with a refined system of checks and balances.
But Cheney despises democracy.
And it’s not just Cheney who flagrantly violated the law. Bush and Donald Rumsfeld did, too. Even back in 2005, Amnesty International http://www.progressive.org/?q=mag_impunity
said there was “prima facie” evidence that Bush and Rumsfeld had committed “war crimes,” and that foreign countries had an obligation to apprehend them if the U.S. judicial system did not do its job.
We need a special prosecutor now with wide-ranging powers to get to the bottom of the war crimes and other felonies that the most senior members of the Bush Administration committed.
Let there be accountability.
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As is so typical of Conservative/Republican dogma, you conveniently don't refute many of Rothschild's assertions - waterboarding, torture, and murder. I have to give you credit here, though, because unlike most Pukes, you aren't stupid or arrogant enough to try to refute facts. And, you seem to know what facts are, since you mentioned imperical data. However, the word is spelled empirical, Sparky, and since the e key is not even close to the i key, thus eliminating a typo as a possibility, I have to reasonably conclude you don't know jack about empirical data.
You also mentioned a CIA operate(whatever the hell that is) taking a crap. So tell us, Ace, why is it that every time Limba, Oreally, Drudge, and others crap in a bowl, hand it to you and your ilk, and tell you it is fine chocolate ice cream, you gobble down every last bit and never even think to ask why it tastes like shit?
Oh, and as to which side I'm on, it's the side of truth and justice. If we don't have the same rule of law applied equally to everyone, then we end up with some retarded handjob like you deciding who is guilty and who is not.