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• Thursday, December 18, 2008 08:38 AM

  The dare thing regarding Cheney

  I read somewhere about Cheney that he proved that stonewalling works as long as you don't mind a 13% approval rating.

  We are talking about the guy who:

  1. Successfully shut down any GAO scrutiny into his office.

  2. Established secrecy to the level that nobody knows how many people the VP Office employs.

  3. Invented a new Senatorial verb: go "Cheney" yourself.

  4. Beat Patrick Fitzgerald when all the basic facts of the case were known.

  5. Got all correspondence to the president to go through his office.

  6. His energy task force minutes have still never been released, again even though most of the details are common knowledge.

  7. Claimed and got executive privilege while simultaneously claiming himself to be a super-constitutional branch of government and above any oversight.

  That's just off the top of my head. I am sure there are many more.

  I have seen pictures trucks for shredder services at the VP residence. Does anyone think that those trucks have stopped coming? Does anyone think that this set of individuals would care in the slightest about any order to not destroy evidence? I don't.

  OK, then. Cheney seems to enjoy telling people to cheney-off just for the pleasure of it. Let's give him all the pleasure he can handle.

  —CTO Read CTO's other letters
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