CIA head says Cheney almost wishing US be attacked
AP | YahooNews.com WASHINGTON – CIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney’s criticism of the Obama administration’s approach to terrorism almost suggests “he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point.” Panetta told The New Yorker for an article in its June 22 issue that Cheney [...]
Cheney: No link between Saddam Hussein, 9/11
CNN.com Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that he does not believe Saddam Hussein was involved in the planning or execution of the September 11, 2001, attacks. Former Vice President Dick Cheney says Saddam Hussein “provided sanctuary … and resources to terrorists.” He strongly defended the Bush administration’s decision to invade Iraq, however, arguing [...]
Cheney Corroborates His Early Arrival in the Bunker on 9/11
Peter Dale Scott | 911Truth.org Here is an excerpt from the text of what Cheney said at the American Enterprise Institute on May 21, 2009: “For me, one of the defining experiences was the morning of 9/11 itself. As you might recall, I was in my office in that first hour, when radar caught sight of an [...]
Cheney’s Chief Assassin Is Now Obama’s Commander in Afghanistan
James Petras | AlterNet.org “The Deltas are psychos…You have to be a certified psychopath to join the Delta Force…”, a US Army colonel from Fort Bragg once told me back in the 1980s. Now President Obama has elevated the most notorious of the psychopaths, General Stanley McChrystal, to head the US and NATO military command [...]
Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh describes ‘executive assassination ring’
Eric Black | MinnPost.com At a “Great Conversations” event at the University of Minnesota last night, legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh may have made a little more news than he intended by talking about new alleged instances of domestic spying by the CIA, and about an ongoing covert military operation that he called an “executive assassination [...]
Former Accused Iraqi Agent Reveals Facts about 9/11 Warning
The feds dropped all charges against Susan Lindauer, and now she’s talking freely. Michael Collins‘s interview with Lindauer covers the warnings provided to the Bush-Cheney administration prior to 9/11. It presents entirely new information from an angel that will add substantially to knowledge that terrible attack. Michael Collins | AmericanPoliticsJournal.com I first wrote about Susan [...]
Obama: Reopen the 9/11 Investigation — Part 2 – The Huffington Post
Melissa Rossi | HuffingtonPost.com So many dastardly acts were committed during the Bush administration (many of them by the Bush administration) that it’s hard to nail down the worst. Senator Patrick Leahy recently suggested formation of a “Truth Commission” to investigate the interrogation, torture, and shredding of civil liberties that occurred as part of the Bush [...]
Cheney warns of new attacks
John F Harris, Mike Allen, Jim Vandehei | Politico.com Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration’s policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed. In an interview Tuesday [...]
Binding US Law Requires Prosecutions for Those Who Authorize Torture
by Glenn Greenwald It seems fairly easy — even for those overtly hostile to the basic rules of logic and law — to see what conclusions are compelled by these clear premises: Associated Press, April 11, 2008: Bush administration officials from Vice President Dick Cheney on [...]
Cheney: Bush’s actions legal if not impeached
The Raw Story Andrew McLemore Published: Sunday January 4, 2009 If you don’t get punished, you didn’t go anything wrong, right? That’s the message Vice President Dick Cheney gave in an interview with CBS’ Bob Schieffer on Sunday, suggesting that a president’s actions are legal if those actions didn’t result in his impeachment.
Obama & Biden To Protect Bush Administration Criminals
Paul Joseph Watson | Infowars.com It’s par for the course for Obama and Biden, the men who promised “change” but in every step of their preparations for assuming office have pursued nothing but continuity, to acknowledge that they will protect criminals in the Bush administration from prosecution for authorizing torture, a complete violation of both [...]
Grand jury indicts Cheney, former AG
Dallas Business Journal Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been named in a South Texas grand jury indictment on charges related to the alleged abuse of prisoners being detained in Willacy County federal detention centers, The Associated Press said. Willacy County is located in South Texas and includes the cities [...]
Flashback: Cheney Bet On Economic Collapse
Mike Whitney Information Clearing House September 20, 2008 Editor’s note: Mike Whitney wrote this article on the 4th of July, 2006. Cheney’s portfolio is simply more evidence that the current economic crisis was manufactured in advance. Darth Cheney is either clairvoyant or somebody tipped him off. Wouldn’t you like to know where Dick Cheney puts [...]
Conflict Over Spying Led White House to Brink
By Barton Gellman Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, September 14, 2008; A01 14/09/08 “Washington Post” — – This is the first of two stories adapted from “Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency,” to be published Tuesday by Penguin Press. Original source notes are denoted in [brackets] throughout. A burst of ferocity stunned the room into silence. [...]
Documents Reveal PR Push for Iraq War Preceded Intel Findings
Nick Juliano | RawStory.com New documents from within the Bush administration and US intelligence community during the run-up to the invasion of Iraq reveal that the White House began assembling a case for war before it had compiled the intel that ostensibly formed the basis of that case. A new report on the documents from [...]
To Provoke War, Cheney Considered Proposal To Dress Up Navy Seals As Iranians And Shoot At Them
Speaking at the Campus Progress journalism conference earlier this month, Seymour Hersh — a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist for The New Yorker — revealed that Bush administration officials held a meeting recently in the Vice President’s office to discuss ways to provoke a war with Iran. In Hersh’s most recent article, he reports that this meeting occurred in the wake of [...]
1991 CNN Report: Secret Succession Plans Would Grant Cheney Special Authorities During Disaster
American Monitor “In the United States of America there is a hidden government about which you know nothing.” So begins a revealing television exposé aired by CNN in 1991. The hour-long Special Assignment presented the findings of a yearlong CNN investigation into the ultra-secretive Continuity of Government (COG) program, commonly referred to as the “doomsday [...]
Cheney and the Oil Bigs Planned U.S. War Policy Before 9/11
George Washington’s Blog You may have heard that the Energy Task Force chaired by Dick Cheney prior to 9/11 collected maps of Iraqi oil, Saudi and United Arab Emerates fields and potential suitors for that oil. And you might have heard that the oil bigs attended the Task Force meetings.But you probably haven’t heard that a [...]
