Comments on: Shhh — Pass It On

By: persiflage

persiflage — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:46:22 +0000

rbj has it right: based on historical performance, Cheney was virtually assured that if the program was “revealed” to Congress, it would be blabbed almost instantly – and any possibility of effectiveness mooted.

By: rosignol

rosignol — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 09:43:27 +0000

And six months after Obama is sworn in, Cheney is STILL making them keep it secret?

Yup.

Even Chuck Norris is afraid to cross Dick Cheney.

By: tim maguire

tim maguire — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:20:50 +0000

And six months after Obama is sworn in, Cheney is STILL making them keep it secret?

Mr. Cheney was behind the decision to conceal the still-unidentified program from Congress

Funny thing about this story. On the one hand, the Obama team is dying to make a big deal out of Bush’s secrecy and misleading congress; on the other hand, congress is so untrustworthy that even as they complain about the secrecy, they are continuing the secrecy.

A big shout out to the media being too busy suckng up to Obama to notice the real story.

By: arhooley

arhooley — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:50:20 +0000

rbj, my thoughts exactly. I hope there are a couple other secret programs out there that were implemented (this one wasn’t) and successful.

By: Casey

Casey — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:41:39 +0000

Does this mean it was evil for Great Britain to keep the “XX project” Top Secret for thirty years after the end of WW2?

By: rbj

rbj — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:39:03 +0000

Given that Democrats have been leaking CIA secrets ever since theGWOT began, Cheney was right to keep it sooper secret.

By: Garrett

Garrett — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:29:37 +0000

I sure hope Frank is right. I can’t believe I long for the good old days of Bill Clinton, even if Hillary came with the package.

By: frank martin

frank martin — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 18:29:15 +0000

He’s using Holder to distract from the fact that on every political front hes run into significant trouble. People are starting to notice that 1) That far from being a victim of circumstances, Obama is “large and in charge” and 2) what he has done is not only not working but is demonstrably making things worse.

Theres a sort of “Political inverse reality field” in play here; The more the Obama administration is winning on the issues the day, the less this sort of stuff comes to the forefront and conversely the more often you see the Obama administration reach into its bag of “Bush was a war criminal” tricks, the more likely it is that Obama is stuck in a, (well let me be the first to use the word) quagmire.

My “short hand” metric for determining how deep is the mud that he is stuck in is by listening for the words “let me be clear” in any of his sound bites. The more often you hear him say it, the deeper the mud.

I predict that this will backfire in spectacular fashion and further his reputation of being an amateur. High ranking Democrats will pay a huge price for their actions of the last 8 years and not members of the Bush administration.

By: Casey

Casey — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:43:00 +0000

I know you were snarking, McGehee, but it’s the habit of leaking secrets which will be the downfall of the Company…

By: McGehee

McGehee — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:49:55 +0000

This habit of keeping secrets will be the CIA’s downfall, I just know it. :-/

By: Steve Ducharme

Steve Ducharme — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 14:34:04 +0000

Good grief. It’s like the old Spy vs Spy cartoon form Mad Magazine except both the black and white characters work for us.