Like a rabid bear being smoked from its lair, America's most dangerous unindicted criminal Dick ' Iraq resistance in its last throes ' Cheney has been forced out of his self imposed bunker by the " Scooter " Libby trial revelations that Cheney himself ( as predicted here three years ago ) was personally involved in an effort to try to discredit a critic of the Iraq War ~ U.S. Envoy Joseph Wilson.

The Pandora's box of Cheney/Bush abuses of power is starting to open ~ and virtually all of its deceptions and scandals begin with Cheney

Here's another perfect example ~ courtesy of the American Progress Report.

Allen L Roland
http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2007/01/27.html


IRAQ ~ ROCKEFELLER SAID CHENEY EXERTED 'CONSTANT' PRESSURE ON PAT ROBERTS: Senate Intelligence Committee chairman John Rockefeller (D-WV) said in an interview that Vice President Dick Cheney exerted "constant" pressure on the former chairman, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), to stall an investigation into the Bush administration's use of flawed intelligence on Iraq.

The so-called Phase II report on the administration's use of pre-war intelligence was delayed for over two years. Two of its five portions were finally released in Sept. 2006.

Rockefeller said that he knew that the Vice President attended regular policy meetings in which he conveyed White House directions to conservative Capitol Hill staffers. They "just had to go along with the administration," he said.

During the course of the Phase II investigation, Roberts made numerous contradictory statements, stating early on, "It is a priority. I made my commitment and it will get done." Later, he said it would be "a monumental waste of time to replow this ground any further."

In Nov. 2005, Roberts said the report would soon be released. But the former chairman delayed the release for nine more months before it was public.