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Congressional Dem Leaders Must Provide Answers To Cheney's Charge of Complicity In BushCo Illegality
TalkLeft —
Glenn Greenwald writes in more detail on the statements by Vice President Dick Cheney that directly implicate the top Congressional leaders on intelligence matters. Glenn identifies the Dem players: Cheney's claims encompasses the following key Democrats: * Nancy Pelosi (Ranking Member, House Intelligence Committee, House Minority Leader) * Jane Harman (Ranking Member, House Intelligence Committee) * Jay Rockefeller (Ranking Member, Senate Intelligence Committee) * Harry Reid (Senate Minority Leader). ...
Cheney: We Asked If We Needed Approval For Wiretapping, Congress Told Us ‘Aboslutely Not’
Think Progress —
... Cheney’s startling claims run directly counter to accounts by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV). Rather than asking for congressional input, Pelosi and Rockefeller said in 2005 that Cheney simply informed them of what was going on — and ignored their objections: ...
Monday Blogaround
Shakesville —
... Monday Blogaround | posted by Melissa McEwan | Monday, December 22, 2008 lol your fat blogaround Recommended Reading: Andy: Four Sought in Gang Rape of Lesbian in San Francisco's East Bay Echidne: Meanwhile, in Iraq... Greenwald: Cheney Says Top Congressional Democrats Complicit in Spying Kimberly: Black and White Shayera: Proposition 8 Supporters Are Liars and Hypocrites bfp: Speak! Leave your links in comments... View Comments |
Blind Eye
N/A —
... Cheney claims Congress had a blind eye toward surveillance. So if nobody sees anything and nobody says anything is wrong, nothing is wrong, right? Wrong. Conspiracy is a silent crime. But the feeling seems to be if everybody is in on denying the Constitution exists, no crime exists either. ...
The Penny Drops
JustOneMinute —
... go almost to the day. However, Glenn Greenwald is amusing on the likelihood of a criminal impeachment of Dick Cheney for this program: Unsurprisingly, Pelosi, Harman and Rockefeller all voted last July to legalize warrantless eavesdropping and to immunize telecoms from liability, thereby ensuring an end to the ongoing investigations into these programs. And though he ultimately cast a meaningless vote against final passage, it was ...
Happy Chanukah
The Sideshow —
... "Echoing remarks by Bush in recent weeks, Cheney said the lack of terrorist attacks on U.S. soil since Sept. 11, 2001, 'is a remarkable achievement.'" What's so remarkable about it? Osama bin Laden accomplished everything he needed on 9/11 and got everything he wanted. He pretty much destroyed the US and got US troops out of Saudi Arabia, thanks to Bush and Cheney and their marvellous ideas. Cheney is a nasty, nasty thing, and the worst part is that he had so much help from Democrats, who are ...
Cheney is Correct (Almost)
The Moderate Voice —
In between meaningful football games yesterday, I saw clips of Vice President Cheney with Chris Wallace and read some comments on the interview. Frequent readers of my blog understands that I am far from a Bush / Cheney apologist. In fact, I am pretty close to a non-entity in conservative Republican circles because of my early public support for Obama last January. However, in this case, I have to agree with the Vice President (almost) in his opinion that the Congress is equally culpable in both the breach of civil liberties but also the Constitutional idea of checks and balances.
Here is the excerpt from the Cheney / Wallace ...
Congressional Democrats complicit in illegal surveillance?
Newshoggers.com —
by Jay McDonough It did seem yesterday
that Vice President Cheney was not just unapologetic about the Bush
Administrations frequent disregard for that triviality the rest of us
refer to as the Constitution, he seemed almost boastful and not at all
concerned there would be any ramifications for his actions. After
all, the ...
Cheney on Wiretapping: "Congress said we could"
Daily Kos —
... As Glenn points out in a couple of updates to this post, while initially it looked like Cheney was implying a greater knowledge and complicity by Democrats in Congress than he's stated previously, it's long been known that they knew about at least some aspects of the program. How much they knew is in dispute, and they have said that they objected to the program, but Cheney ignored their objections. Via ...
Is Cheney Relying on Gonzales’ Retroactive Notes?
Firedoglake —
... Glenn picked up on Cheney's recent reiteration of a claim that Alberto Gonzales has made (and may be in trouble for lying to Congress for): that he briefed Congressional leaders on the illegal warrantless wiretap program and they all agreed it should go forward without Congressional approval. Glenn calls on those Congressional leaders who were at the briefing to respond to Cheney's claims. But I'm more interested in the way Cheney's willingness to repeat Gonzales' story puts the notes Gonzales made to (presumably) back his side of the story back in play. ...
What will the new Congress do?
The Reaction —
... in the past eight years, as chronicled by Tom Head at About.com/civil liberties. And they will investigate themselves as the peoples' guardians of constitutional protections in the process, as the latest Glenn Greenwald post at Salon.com suggests. Jeff Schweitzer at the Huffington Post reveals just how bizarre are Dick Cheney's ...
