WHY Does Dick Cheney Have a TRANSITION Office in McClean VA?

[Stephanie]

WTF? Who is paying for this "Transition Office"? Why is it in McClean, home of the CIA? Why doesn't he just slither off to Wyoming and leave us alone?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090204/pl_politico/18390_1

Cheney said “the ultimate threat to the country” is “a 9/11-type event where the terrorists are armed with something much more dangerous than an airline ticket and a box cutter - a nuclear weapon or a biological agent of some kind” that is deployed in the middle of an American city.

“That’s the one that would involve the deaths of perhaps hundreds of thousands of people, and the one you have to spend a hell of a lot of time guarding against,” he said.

“I think there’s a high probability of such an attempt. Whether or not they can pull it off depends whether or not we keep in place policies that have allowed us to defeat all further attempts, since 9/11, to launch mass-casualty attacks against the United States.”

If Cheney’s language was dramatic, the setting for the comments was almost bizarrely pedestrian. His office is in a non-descript suburban office building in McLean, Va., in a suite that could just as easily house a dental clinic. The office is across the hall from a quick-copy store. The door is marked by nothing except a paper sign, held up by tape, saying the unit is occupied by the General Services Administration.

EDIT: It was actually a serious question. Is Cheney in McClean interfering with the CIA?

[leftstreet]

1. It's where they keep all his spare parts

It'll take some time to move them

[Kittycat]

2. I"m more concerned that he's running his mouth about State Secrets

And giving out information on terrorist threats.

[Stephanie]

18. Well, yeah!

But why? Is there a profit motive? What is he after, and why is he staying in DC, and what is the purpose of this OFFICE?

[beac]

31. Because he's setting the stage for the attack he and his buddies have arranged and paid for in order

to:

1) discredit Obama
2) keep those Haliburton/Carlisle Group profits rolling in
and
3) return FEAR to the #1 position in voter's minds going into the 2010 elections.

:shrug:

I truly would put NOTHING past Cheney.

[EFerrari]

3. Who is left to tell him to go home?

:shrug:

[Horse with no Name]

4. If we had demanded impeachment and insisted these criminals be prosecuted

they would be busy consulting with attorneys trying to keep their feet from swinging in the breeze for treason rather than trying to figure out how to finish destroying the country. Apparently they didn't finish their cleanup.

By the way, did ANYONE ever figure out what Dick was carrying out of the White House in boxes (when he hurt his back)?

Funny it was never mentioned again--but I bet WHATEVER it was is sitting on his desk in his office in McLean.

[JuniperLea]

10. It was his life-support pod/suit

In lizard green.

[Cleita]

5. No problem. We'll know where to find him when the subpoenas are ready. n/t

[tanyev]

6. Oh, that must be where the man-sized safes went.

[Botany]

7. Mr. Badger?

[Catherine Vincent]

8. If you look up "rat bastard" in the dictionary, that pic would be there. nt

[TahitiNut]

9. Convenient storage space for the coffin and Transylvanian dirt.

He's a despicably evil and corrupt piece of human waste. :puke:

[AntiFascist]

11. It's about time for Cheney to transition...

you know, to the hereafter or something.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

12. Re-Bunkering's a mofo.

All those tunnels to duplicate, the channels to organs and puppy's blood, it can require a small army. ;)

[TheCowsCameHome]

13. If it's his last stop before Hell, I'm all for it.

[Swede Atlanta]

14. It's the place they keep the robot until they have a new hiding place for him...

I'm from Wyoming and ashamed as this sorry excuse for a compilation of tin cans. He will rot in hell for eternity for his sins.

[nc4bo]

15. Vweey vweey interesting. nt

[Frustratedlady]

16. Lynn wouldn't let him use the shredder in their new home?

I was hoping he would fade into the sunset. Hopefully, he can't MIHOP anymore.

[hvn_nbr_2]

17. He needs a place to edit snuff films from Gitmo. nt

[yurbud]

19. translation: if Obama prosecutes us, we'll call our friends in Pakistan's ISI and tell them to give

a nuke to our Saudi friends in al Qaeda, and they'll give Obama and America a bad day.

[dixiegrrrrl]

20. You guys DID hear the threat he just made, didn't you?

actually it was more like a promise.

he has been saying this as the election results became obvious, and repeating it more often since the Inauguaration.

"come after me for crimes, and there will be a mass distraction".

[havocmom]

22. Yep. Time to bring him in for questioning

and his troll army too

[Generator]

29. Exact same thought

Sometimes you think, no he can't be that evil, this didn't really happen but then again-what if it did?

[glitch]

42. His threats seem very obvious to me.

He and his fascist followers will fulfill his threats, he isn't warning about anybody else.

[havocmom]

21. Dunno. Let's water board the SOB and get some answers!

Hey, he said it was OK!

[KamaAina]

23. CIA is actually in Langley, VA

up the road from McLean a piece.

The sign in front of it is a much-photographed tourist attraction:



It's named for Bush 41, of course, but still... :rofl:

[Stephanie]

24. Actually, it's both

https://www.cia.gov/about-cia/faqs/index.html#publictours

11. Where is the Central Intelligence Agency's headquarters? Is it in Langley or McLean, Virginia?

Technically, you could say CIA headquarters is in both. "Langley" is the name of the McLean neighborhood in which the CIA resides.
The town of McLean was founded in 1910, but before then, the area where CIA Headquarters is located was known as Langley.

In 1719, Thomas Lee purchased a tract of land from the sixth Lord Fairfax (for whom Fairfax County, the county in which McLean is located, was named), and he named it "Langley" after his ancestral home in England. Though Lee never lived on the land, the Langley area soon became home to many European settlers. A few were wealthy people whom England had granted land, and they established large plantations in the area.

During the War of 1812, President James Madison and his wife Dolley fled the British siege of Washington to the safety of family and friends in Langley. Langley was a Union stronghold in Virginia, a southern state, during the Civil War and had two forts, Camp Griffin and Camp Pierpont, which housed soldiers who helped protect Washington.

With the building of the Great Falls & Old Dominion Railroad, 1903 was a defining year for Langley. John McLean, president of Washington Gas Light Company and, later, editor of the Washington Post, and Senator Stephen B. Elkins of West Virginia collaborated on construction of a railroad which would bring vacationing Washingtonians to nearby Great Falls and provide people who worked in Washington the choice of living outside of the city. In 1906, the railroad began operating, and the population of Langley and nearby Lewinsville quickly grew. In 1910, the post offices of these towns closed and, named for the man who helped the area grow, a new post office named "McLean" was opened. In 1959, the Federal government broke ground for the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters. Construction was completed in 1961, adding another chapter to McLean's long history.

Despite the name change in 1910, the name "Langley" still lingers to describe the McLean neighborhood where the CIA is located.

Source: 
Ellis, Rafaela "A Community Called McLean"




WHY Does Dick Cheney Have a TRANSITION Office in McClean VA?

[KoKo]

25. He thinks he's only in "Exile" waiting to return when opportunity strikes?

:shrug: Who knows why he's there. It seems very strange and I hope it will be investigated. Is he meeting with Military? CIA? Private clandestine meetings? Plotting?

[Horse with no Name]

35. I think he is planning a coup. n/t

[KoKo]

26. Where is Cheney living these days? He has a home in Maryland and Wyoming...

where does he go at night when he leaves his Langley, Va. Office...in his wheelchair?

[arcadian]

45. Here is his home in McLean

[spanone]

27. he is evil and dangerous

[kohodog]

28. Could it mean Hospice??

One could wish.

[Marie26]

30. He's so bizarre

Since the Office of the Vice President is branch of government all to itself, maybe he just moved the location? Or is that where his paper shredders are located? Or maybe that's where he meets w/his neocon moles that are still in government? Or his underworld contacts? I want that bastard out of DC, permanently.

[Historic NY]

32. Its his secret tomb.

[SergeyDovlatov]

33. transition to where? transition from being a VP to being an old fart?

[leftofthedial]

34. he thinks he's some kind of royalty.

[HEyHEY]

36. Hey, those documents won't shred themselves!

[Octafish]

37. Business.

Sneer is making money off terror, war and who knows what else.

CIA, NSA and other members of the intelligence community are merely ways to get info to make money.
They're not going to let all that illegally gathered take go to waste.
Their excuse, as revealed by their own words, are to be prepared for the worst.
And that's his opportunity, for Cheney and his ilk, the biggest moneymaker is war.

[salguine]

38. Oh Jesus fucking CHRIST WON'T HE JUST FUCKING DIE!?!?

[struggle4progress]

39. Presidential Transition Act of 1963, as amended, gives him something like 6 months of GSA support

Look up 3USC102

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/uscode/

[sfpcjock]

40. He wants to be ready to testify in his torture trial

:evilgrin: ...at a moment's notice :grr:

[orleans]

41. they're going to try and make him human again

but that--realistically--won't be happening any time soon (aka never)

[ThomWV]

43. If Cheney wanted to or has the ability to influence the CIA he could do it from anywhere on earth.

[Sheets of Easter]

44. Go (back) to Hell, Cheney. You're no longer relevant.

[bdamomma]

46. what a POS this man is, shadow government perhaps?

spinning his vengeful web again by causing more havoc on all of us, this man needs to be arrested!!!! I hope he chokes on his arrogance.

sick comment here: why would he make this comment unless he is behind all the planning?? This man is pure evil.

“I think there’s a high probability of such an attempt. Whether or not they can pull it off depends whether or not we keep in place policies that have allowed us to defeat all further attempts, since 9/11, to launch mass-casualty attacks against the United States.”


I guess he didn't kill enough people in the 9/11 incident! sick ass man.