[FoRK] Operation See-No-Evil

[Contempt for Meatheads]

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]
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