Did anybody catch the bit from the Daily Show last night w/ the Cheney interview --- "in his secret lair?" Dude, WTF? He looked like he was in some kind of darkened mad scientist's lab prepping for doomsday. Seriously, the room was full of all this unidentifiable and slightly ominous-looking (in half-second glimpses) equipment, and was lit like the set where Luke fights the Emperor. Bizarre stuff. I always thought the sets for the Pres and friends in 24 were kind of bizarre, but apparently our upper echelon's real digs are even weirder. (Aside: great bit from JS last night, where he cuts directly from claims Cheney made about not saying something to footage that directly contradicts this. Fucking liars. I'd have a lot more respect for them if they respected their public's intelligence more themselves.) Well, not content to merely be in the undisclosed location, apparently he's gunning to be removed from essential public documents as well. I didn't know whether to entitle this one "Operation See-No-Evil" or "Operation No Legacy." ;-) -- http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2004/06/22/cheney_cia/? source=RSS Cheney may disappear from intel report Will Dick Cheney's name get scrubbed from the Senate Intelligence Committee report that by all accounts is highly critical of prewar intelligence -- which he played a big role in? This Time magazine piece says the CIA is pressing to have even titles removed from the report to make the actors in the prewar intelligence drama, including Cheney, unrecognizable. "To suggestions that the redaction request could be interpreted as an effort to provide political cover for Cheney, a CIA official responds that 'the purpose of declassification review is to protect intelligence sources, methods and other classified matters which, if disclosed, could be helpful to adversaries, like weapons proliferators and terrorists. It is not to stifle criticism.' Leaders of the Senate panel don't see it the same way. 'The Committee is extremely disappointed by the CIA?s excessive redactions to the report,' Chairman Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican, and Vice Chairman Jay Rockefeller, and West Virginia Democrat, said in a statement last week, without mentioning any specific CIA-proposed edits." -- Geraldine Sealey [08:25 PDT, June 22, 2004] _______________________________________________ FoRK mailing list http://xent.com/mailman/listinfo/fork ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]