The Day Cheney Was Rocked To The Core

[Oilwellian]

Just consider what happened to Cheney Thursday: the early morning edition of the Wall Street Journal ran an article - first reported by Newsweek - on how Justice Department investigators had asked Halliburton Company for documents relating to US$180 million in allegedly illegal payments by a consortium of companies, including Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root, in connection with the construction of a big natural-gas plant in Nigeria in the late 1990s, while Cheney was Halliburton's chief executive officer.

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When the Los Angeles Times hit the news stands a couple of hours later, Cheney was right there on the front page with the headline: "Scalia was Cheney Hunt Trip Guest; Ethics Concern Grows." Antonin Scalia is a Supreme Court Justice who was Cheney's guest on a recent and rather costly (to the taxpayer) bird-hunting trip to Louisiana, and who also will soon hear a major case on government secrecy in which the vice president is the defendant.

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Finished with the morning papers, Cheney may have tuned in to watch Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director George Tenet deliver a passionate defense at Georgetown University of the official intelligence community's performance in the runup to the Iraq war, only to find himself a target, if only inferentially.

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But if Cheney felt displeased by Tenet's performance, things only got worse - much worse - later in the afternoon when United Press International (UPI) reported what has been rumored ever since Attorney General John Ashcroft recused himself from the investigation into the "outing" as a CIA officer by "two senior administration officials" of Valerie Plame, shortly after her husband, retired ambassador Joseph Wilson, had published an article in the New York Times charging that the administration knew that its reports of Saddam's alleged attempts to buy uranium yellowcake in Africa were bogus.

Quoting "federal law-enforcement officials," UPI's intelligence correspondent Richard Sale reported on Thursday that the two main suspects were none other than Libby and Hannah. One official reportedly told Sale that Hannah was being advised "that he faces a real possibility of doing jail time" in order to pressure him to implicate higher-ups - presumably Libby, if not, perhaps, Cheney himself.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FB07Aa03.html

[burythehatchet]

1. Flush that sack of

shit down the sewer

[seemslikeadream]

2. Now that you've put it that way

:toast:

[maxsolomon]

3. cornered animals are very dangerous.

and this one's rich & very very vicious. don't bury him yet.

sunday morning is just part one of the counter offensive.

[loudsue]

4. Drip, drip, drip....couldn't happen to a more deserving guy.

Cheney should spend jail time for all of his illegal, murderous, traitorous actions.

It's hard to decide which of his actions should face trial first.

I hope beyond hope this limp investigation gains momentum with the right wing press.

:kick:

[Old and In the Way]

6. The man is without a conscience.

The man's been in "public service" since the 80's....but I I have no idea who this guy is or what makes him tick. I'm willing to bet, however, his life's focus is making money and accummulating power. That's it. Look at his history in dealing with Iraq. He's SecDef for Bush1....war with Iraq. His defense connections get him the CEO of Halliburton during the Clinton years and he does $100s of millions in sales with Iraq, again with Halliburton, all the while dealing around a US embargo. Then he becomes VP and now he executes a 2nd war on Iraq....again Halliburton profits enormously from this action.

There is a breadth and depth of corruption to this man that is unique in our country's history. The quintessential white collar criminal/traitor.

[KG]

7. a-men, brother

if only this country understood what a deeply, deeply corrupt and evil troll cheney is.

[Skittles]

10. you know it

how much money does he f***ing need? But it's what drives his evil heart - money and power. He is one sick bastard.

[mistertrickster]

5. I remember when Spiro T. Agnew had to fall on his sword--it was

a good day for America, a good day for democracy.

[peacetalksforall]

8. Is there still a snear on his face? Is he still laughing at our stupidity?

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. I can't tell if he's snearing

or having a heart attack? Either way, the hate in his heart is written all over his face.

[Eroshan]

11. I hope he is suffering

he is a bastard. I met his wife under some unusual circumstances and she is an uncaring total bitch. Just think of Leona Helmsly without any moral fiber.

[mike1963]

12. Cheney is part of the "Excess of Evil"

...

[Faygo Kid]

13. The pheasant kill really summed up his character. Chilling.

Nothing against hunting, but that wasn't it. Hundreds of farm-raised pheasants dropped into a clearing so Cheney and his rich pals could blast away at them. No sport at all - just killing. Sheer blood lust. The man is sick to do something like that (he supposedly killed 90 himself!) He could have shot skeet, but skeet don't bleed and die. Skeet also are tougher to hit. That wasn't the point. To kill was the point.

[Generic Other]

14. 90 birds worth would be just enough

to tar and feather someone with!

Must be all pent up energy from hiding out watching soldiers get shot in Iraq.

A damn plague of locusts has descended upon us.