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T.D. Allman / Rolling Stone / in an article entitled The Curse of Dick Chene y summed up Cheney's slide to the dark side ~ " As vice president, Cheney was the decisive force pushing America into war. In the inner councils of the administration, it was he who emasculated Colin Powell, cut the State Department out of effective policymaking, foisted fake reports on the intelligence agencies and supplanted the National Security Council. It was also Cheney who placed appointees personally loyal to him, including Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz, in charge of the Pentagon and speckled the warmaking bureaucracy with desk officers culled from neoconservative Washington think tanks ~ ideologues with no military experience ~ Those who have known him over the years remain astounded by what they describe as his almost autistic indifference to the thoughts and feelings of others " http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story?id=6450422
But legendary investigative reporter Seymour Hersh, on March 10th dropped another bombshell regarding Cheney at a “Great Conversations” event at the University of Minnesota. In response to a question if executive abuse of power still happens today, Hersh replied ~
“Yuh. After 9/11, I haven’t written about this yet, but the Central Intelligence Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people they thought to be enemies of the state. Without any legal authority for it. They haven’t been called on it yet. That does happen.
"Right now, today, there was a story in the New York Times that if you read it carefully mentioned something known as the Joint Special Operations Command -- JSOC it’s called. It is a special wing of our special operations community that is set up independently. They do not report to anybody, except in the Bush-Cheney days, they reported directly to the Cheney office. They did not report to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff or to Mr. [Robert] Gates, the secretary of defense. They reported directly to him. ...
"Congress has no oversight of it. It’s an executive assassination ring essentially, and it’s been going on and on and on. Just today in the Times there was a story that its leaders, a three star admiral named [William H.] McRaven, ordered a stop to it because there were so many collateral deaths.
Under President Bush’s authority, they’ve been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding people on a list and executing them and leaving. That’s been going on, in the name of all of us." Bush 'executive assassination ring' reported directly to Cheney office: Seymour Hersh
Starting with the infamous Office of Special Projects which fed tainted Iraq intelligence directly to Cheney's office, to the outing of Valerie Plame which led to the indictment of Cheney's top Aide Scooter Libby ~ we then had the emergence of David Addington who answered only to Cheney and has been at the center of nearly every controversy shaking the White House.
Once again ~ This was a Dick Cheney Administration and Bush was its cheerleader . All marching orders came from Cheney ~ and then, in 2003, Ron Hutcheson, Philadelphia Inquirer, added more validity to this naked truth by stating that the Torture memos, spying, Guantanamo can all be traced to Cheney's top aide, David Addington. See BUSH RESELLING CHENEY'S WAR ~
http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2006/03/23.html
It stands to reason that if Cheney felt he had the power to eliminate anyone on the planet, he could certainly have easily outed Valerie Plame without conscience and he most certainly could have played a key role in the 9/11 cover up or conspiracy as a justification for attacking Iraq and seizing its oil reserves
