All Roads Lead to Dick Cheney
[Editor’s Note: With Articles of Impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney now in the hands of the House Judiciary Committee, this extremely well-sourced and referenced blog entry is suddenly very timely. Go to the source and follow up the links throughout. You will be appalled.]
George Washington’s Blog
Sunday, February 12, 2006
[…]even well-informed people probably don’t know that — in the 70’s — Cheney was instrumental in generating fake intelligence exaggerating the Soviet threat in order to undermine coexistence between the U.S. and Soviet Union, which conveniently justified huge amounts of cold war spending. See also this article. This scheme foreshadowed Mr. Cheney’s role in generating fake intelligence about Iraq by 30 years.
And did you know that Cheney has been perhaps the leading advocate for strengthening the powers of the White House to the point of monarchy for at least 20 years?
Or that newly-released documents show that Cheney was involved in debates concerning illegal wiretaps 30 years ago?
There’s new life in the accountability movement! The People v Bush: One Lawyer’s Campaign to Bring the President to Justice and the National Grassroots Movement She Encounters Along the Way (Chelsea Green) has just been published. Author Charlotte Dennett will be in Cambridge January 20 at the Harvard Bookstore at 7 pm to discuss it and the following day, January 21, at 7 p.m. in New York City at the 92nd St Y. Vincent Bulgiosi is flying all the way from the west coast and will join Naomi Wolf in helping her launch the book on the 21st.
There’s so many Dicks in DC it’s hard to keep track