Judge orders release of Cheney visitor logs.
By on Oct 19th, 2006 at 2:50 pm
Judge orders release of Cheney visitor logs.
“A federal judge has ordered the Bush administration to release information about who visited Vice President Dick Cheney’s office and personal residence, an order that could spark a late election season debate over lobbyists’ White House access.”
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I gonna say door number two: Jeff Gannon!
October 19th, 2006 at 2:53 pmI bet that list is a who’s who of Nobel Peace Prize winners and great thinkers.
October 19th, 2006 at 2:56 pmDon’t forget Fat Bastard and the rest of the Oil Industry Big Wigs.
October 19th, 2006 at 2:56 pmThis is the stuff of a wannabe
Old Rumsfeld has the good list of liasons…
Lets see –
Iraq – Saddam himself –
North Korea? Did he exchange Christmas Cards?
.. any other
, I mean dictators that we should know about?
October 19th, 2006 at 2:57 pmIt will be amazing if anything is successfully pried out of the VP’s office.
October 19th, 2006 at 2:59 pmI know who four of his visitors were unbeknownst until now – - Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
October 19th, 2006 at 2:59 pmCheney will fight this order, because every disgusting fat Oil Cartel CEO has visited Dicky baby > lol.
October 19th, 2006 at 3:00 pmNO CHANCE IN HELL CHENEY COMPLIES WITH THIS…..
after all, it’s just a judge. just try and enforce it, robes….
October 19th, 2006 at 3:00 pmSome guy named R.E. Dacted seems to have a LOT of visits.
October 19th, 2006 at 3:01 pmWoo Hoo !@!!
October 19th, 2006 at 3:02 pmThe fun begins!
Wait till they see Emperor Palpatine’s name on the list!
October 19th, 2006 at 3:02 pmCheney will fight like hell over this. The issue will become the fight for the records rather than the records themselves.
October 19th, 2006 at 3:07 pmThen, when the information is eventually revealed, there won’t be much there anyway.
It’s an old magician’s trick. Keep the audience looking at your right hand, while you make the quarter disappear into your pocket with your left hand.
It’s the Secret Service who are fighting the logs’ release. This another area that must be investigated when democrats return to leadership: the politicization of the Secret Service.
October 19th, 2006 at 3:12 pmSince when does this administration follow orders from activist judges; I’ll be in the corner holding my breath waiting on this.
October 19th, 2006 at 3:17 pmAmerica’s Least Wanted
Cheney can instruct secret service to release the names and they will. Come on big guy, don’t hide behind the secret service you five deferement wuss.
October 19th, 2006 at 3:18 pmAnd the list:
Jack Abramoff
October 19th, 2006 at 3:23 pmJeff Gannon
Lucifer
Stories have been written again and again that the Secret Service does not have the visitor records — after a month they put the records on a CD and give them to the White House and the National Archives (beginning after 2004). Then the Secret Service destroys their own records.
It is the White House that has the records – - which is why we STILL don’t know how many times Abramoff or Jeff Gannon/Guckert or anyone else in the rogues’ gallery visited.
Just read here – http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/000674.php
October 19th, 2006 at 3:23 pmLet’s see who the Veep is visiting with…Yes! We’ll see the dail chats with Pat Robertason, the nightly visits by shadowy male strippers and those late-night orgy’s with Abramoff. Yes!
At least the Dems are out-raising the crooked GOP http://polibuzz.blogspot.com/2006/10/dccc-raises-some-serious-cash.html
October 19th, 2006 at 3:24 pmheading into the election. Even the rich fat-cats who worshipped W and the GOP have deserted them Yes!
Anyone investing Dick Cheney will be declared an enemy combatent by George Bush and will immediately be sent out of the country to be tortured and jailed until death or eternity whichever comes first.
October 19th, 2006 at 3:38 pmI would like to know how this newspaper’s request to see the visitor log could legally make the Veep do so. Is there a law that states that government official’s visitor logs have to made public? Has this always been the case for past administrations? Just want to know the where this issue sprang from and why it is being handled the way it is.
October 19th, 2006 at 3:38 pmHow do we know if those records even exist any longer? They may have been ordered to be distroyed. That wouldn’t surprize me with old darth.
October 19th, 2006 at 3:44 pmDiet:
There is strong precedent for releasing visitor logs. Bill Clinton’s administration was repeatedly forced to release the access (WAVES) logs during the litany of investigations during his administration (FBI-Filegate, Fostergate, Lewinskygate, Travel Officegate, Coffeegate, Johnny Ching Asiagate).
Bush and Cheney and their staffs are trying to re-claim the Nixonian high ground of “executive privilege” where the workings of the President and the VP (as well as their senior staffs) can be secret and their meetings can be considered privileged.
Only it doesn’t work that way. They are elected public officials and US law, particularly the Freedom of Information Act, compels public release of government records. They have no right to privacy on that accord.
October 19th, 2006 at 3:58 pmBwahahahaha…..those damn liberal judges and their “activism”. Schiavo would still be “alive” if the judges hadnt killed her.
Cheney will do nothing…..has anyone seen Scooter Libby?
October 19th, 2006 at 4:03 pmAnd the list:
Jack Abramoff
Jeff Gannon
Lucifer
Comment by Hardy+Haberman
You mean Cheney visited himself? Interesting…
October 19th, 2006 at 4:04 pmThe offices (physically and as positions) belong to us, the American people. We have a right to know who visits them and what business is conducted in them. If the politicians want privacy, they can meet people in their homes. Cough it up, Cheney.
October 19th, 2006 at 4:05 pmgo for cheney’s visitor logs AND energy docs. time to round up this sleaze-wad and the rest of the neo-criminals.
October 19th, 2006 at 4:06 pmPity The Fool,
October 19th, 2006 at 4:08 pmThanks. I thought it might be as simple as the Freedom of Information Act but I wasn’t sure if there was some specific reason.
#22 Dlet
Doesn’t matter that they we able to get Clinton’s log. You must be in a pre-9/11 mindset. They *will* claim executive priviledge (or some other “security” reason). TERRORISTS, TERROR, FEAR!!!
Transparency in gov’t? What a concept?
October 19th, 2006 at 4:18 pm#24 – Lucifer and Cheney have never been photographed together have they?
Hmmm.
October 19th, 2006 at 4:23 pmYes, executive privilege. Or consulting, or deliberation, or cavorting, or visits by lobbyists, or corporate counsel or …?
October 19th, 2006 at 4:48 pm#24 – Lucifer and Cheney have never been photographed together have they?
Hmmm.
Comment by Jess Wundrun
Yes they have, except Lucifer never shows up in the picture.
October 19th, 2006 at 5:10 pmWho is that “activist” judge? How dare anyone challenge Cheney?
October 19th, 2006 at 5:50 pmDon’t tell him about law – he is the law; just ask him. He’ll get his lawyers to stall, stonewall and generally drag this out for the next two years if necessary.
The White House HAS the records on disc on file. THEY are the ones stonewalling this. But the SS will be a temporary distraction.
Badmoodman got there before me with “R.E. Dacted” having a lot of visits. Damn…
All in the interest of “national security,” of course.
There will be many visits from the puppy farm, where “Dick” gets his daily dose of fresh puppy blood.
October 19th, 2006 at 9:20 pmPity the Fool #5
..Bring L’il Dick over t’ my pad…
…hand me that copy of the damn MCA…
…and then draw me some “bath” water :) …
heheheheheheheh!
October 20th, 2006 at 1:29 pm