Cheney to keep vice presidential records, will not allow them to go to Bush library ‘for now.’
Cheney to keep vice presidential records, will not allow them to go to Bush library ‘for now.’
The Dallas Morning News reports that “for now,” former Vice President Dick Cheney’s records will not be going to the George W. Bush presidential library at Southern Methodist University. Cheney’s team said the former VP needs them to write his memoirs. “It made more sense and was more convenient to keep them in D.C.,” said a Cheney spokesperson. The secrecy even appears to extend to Cheney’s artifacts and gifts:
During talks last year, the National Archives suggested that Cheney’s artifacts — like a set of gold Murano glass candlesticks and bowls from Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi — be sent to the Bush library. That way they could be displayed with Bush’s items, including the 9 mm pistol that Saddam Hussein held when captured by American soldiers in Iraq.
“The VP preferred to have the VP artifacts remain with the records,” said Sharon Fawcett, assistant archivist for presidential libraries.
As Vice President, Cheney ordered the Secret Service to destroy records of his visitor logs.
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Will anyone please kindly explain to Cheney that their not his… They’re ours!
April 6th, 2009 at 10:19 amMore »
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April 6th, 2009 at 10:22 am“Cheney’s team said the former VP needs them to write his memoirs.”
But do WE ‘need’ him to write his memoirs? I think not–it;s all going to be complete bullsh!t–just like Bush’s Lie-berry.
April 6th, 2009 at 10:26 amWhen war criminals are allowed make the rules, like here in the United States, they control access to the information that could implicate them.
April 6th, 2009 at 10:26 amHo humm, just another day in paradise.
Well, now, let’s be fair… he has to make CERTAIN that all that stuff is thouroughly ’scrubbed’ of any incriminating evidence…
April 6th, 2009 at 10:28 amHow about we cut out the middleman and send the records directly to DOJ.
http://www.pufferfishblog.com/
April 6th, 2009 at 10:29 amexplain to me again how someone paid by public money and in public service can steal away records that belong the American taxpayer
April 6th, 2009 at 10:32 amWho wants Cheney’s records? I’m trying as hard as I can to forget the guy.
Xe
April 6th, 2009 at 10:33 amBut do WE ‘need’ him to write his memoirs? I think not–it;s all going to be complete bullsh!t–just like Bush’s Lie-berry.
Darth should be allowed to write his book. After all, there might be a toilet paper shortage in the future and it will come in handy.
April 6th, 2009 at 10:39 amFranken should increase his lead tomorrow after 400 ballots are opened and counted beginning at 9:30 AM CT:
http://voteforamerica.net/editorials/Comments.aspx?ArticleId=258&ArticleName=Clarifying+the+400+Requested+Ballots
April 6th, 2009 at 10:42 amIn attempting to block a San Fransisco court from reviewing documents relating to the NSA program, the Obama Administration is also protecting other individuals named as defendants in the suit: Vice President Dick Cheney, former Cheney chief of staff David Addington and former Bush Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
April 6th, 2009 at 10:44 amCheney wants to write his memoirs. With all the blood on his hands already, now the bastard wants to kill a few trees to write his lies. When will it ever end? Its sad that the old saying is true,”The Good Die Young and Pricks Live Forever”.
April 6th, 2009 at 10:46 amSimply put this as his record:
April 6th, 2009 at 10:48 amhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darth_vader
Why would he need any records to write his book? He’s just going to lie anyway. Perhaps, he wants to write the SAME lies? Oh, OK, I get it now.
April 6th, 2009 at 10:52 amWho died and crowned this man EMPEROR? Is he exempt from every law under the sun??? This is disgusting!!!
April 6th, 2009 at 10:54 am08Dariana Says:
Wait…. I find it very difficult to believe that Cheney will perform an act of self-sacrafice in his last hours and redeem himself witht he grandnesss of said act.
More likely he’ll go out cussing and spitting at anyone near him, like a rabid dog.
April 6th, 2009 at 10:55 am“Needs them to write his memoirs” is merely shorthand for “need to shred, edit, and sanitize”. And this may take awhile.
We probably won’t get Cheney’s records anytime soon, and whenever we do get something, it will be meaningless.
April 6th, 2009 at 10:55 amkrystalviews Says:
Who died and crowned this man EMPEROR?
He crowned himself.
Is he exempt from every law under the sun???
Oh, heavens no… no, no, no…. just every American law.
This is disgusting!!!
Lawdy, if THAT’S not an understatement!!!!!
April 6th, 2009 at 10:57 amCheney’s records will look like my FBI file which I got threw the freedom of information act. Everything blacked out except words like, the, them, I, you ect, ect.
April 6th, 2009 at 10:58 amPrison memoirs are always popular, but I doubt the ICC will allow Dick to take “his” records with him to his cell.
Too bad our President and AG Holder don’t have the stones to investigate and put this criminal behind bars where he belongs.
PEACE
April 6th, 2009 at 11:00 amWell, after what he’s done, who can blame him for wanting to put off the shame and embarrassment? I mean OUR shame and embarrassment, since he’s incapable of those feelings.
April 6th, 2009 at 11:02 am“Smell my finger.”
April 6th, 2009 at 11:06 amTo look at this from a slightly different angle…
soooo… Cheney now has a public REASON to be seen lurking about D.C., and, presumably, the Senate, Congress, the halls of the White House….
How convenient…. a cover for ubiquitous presence, and it has been made clear that there are D.C. politicians (espescially republicans — and particualarly aides and the like) who actually fear Cheney.
perhaps THAT is more to the point (because if they didn’t scrub all the incriminating data before leaving office, that would have been monumentally stupid — I don’t find it conceivable that they didn’t take care of all that while they still had complete control, and plenty of loyal staff to do so).
This is Cheney’s cover story for being all over D.C..
April 6th, 2009 at 11:06 amKeith H.
Maybe now is not a good time to have the NSA operations exposed in detail…( se early in his term, so many other issues to deal with etc)
BUT
“now is not the time” too often becomes “it’s too late now”.
I think we all have to keep informing the WHite House that a lot of us aren’t going to forget this–it’s incredibly important.
Letting this kind of thing slide is not acceptable (its that attitude that led to our rights being destroyed in the first place, and that gave Bush and his cronies more power to do more damage).
April 6th, 2009 at 11:09 amCheney has the opportunity now to be a “lobbyist” (though not technically so), and I think it would be naiive to imagine that Cheney would be hanging arouond D.C. And NOT trying to influence politics for his own profit.
When the press or someone asks about his presence… he has a ready made excuse, and one that has been presented to the public.
This is not a matter of covering his fat @ss — he’s already taken care of that (paperwork wise, at least). This is an excuse to have access to sitting politicians.
April 6th, 2009 at 11:11 amCagey #25..that’s a pretty smart take!
April 6th, 2009 at 11:11 amif this guy doesn’t face the music obama is a complicit criminal.
that’s just a fact.
April 6th, 2009 at 11:11 am5th Estate Says:
“now is not the time” too often becomes “it’s too late now”.
And when refering to criminal activity, isn’t that a very important distinction? “Now is not the time” dragged on too long becomes “Too late” because of those things called “statutes of limitation” I do believe. And certainly criminals want to see things ignored until said crimes can no longer be punished because too long went by.
And is it not a foundation of American justice that it is swift?
April 6th, 2009 at 11:14 am5th Estate Says:
Cagey #25..that’s a pretty smart take!
Thank you, sir or madamme. From yourself I take that as quite a compliment.
I really think that that IS the purpose of this charade. Otherwise there may be too many questions about Cheney being too visible in D.C., and with this excuse it is likely that any media not strictly controlled by Murdoch will ignore him as well, since he is “just working on his memoirs.”
April 6th, 2009 at 11:18 amWork product anywhere, in any sector, belongs to the organization. He has no authority to hold them from public purview nor did he have the right to have the SS destroy those logs. His actions, along with most of his recent statements, are a gauntlet thrown daring prosecution. I actually think his intent is to have his case set in stone the unitary supreme power he gathered as ghost-emperor. He may feel the the SCOTUS is as favorable as one could ever get for the revolution he led while his pet monkey danced in the limelight.
April 6th, 2009 at 11:18 amI have another question… WHERE is all of this material? Does Cheney still have an office somewhere that they are allowing him to keep?
In other words, are we taxpayers funding a government office for the personal use of Dick Cheney, former VP, now private citizen?
And, “WHY?”
April 6th, 2009 at 11:21 amDick’s a sly operator, all right.
And, a vain, shortsighted fool.
Once he’s passed on, and one can’t imagine that will be too terribly far into the future, all will come to light.
Were he not GUILTY, there’d be nothing to hide now.
Yep – You sure fooled everyone, Dick.
April 6th, 2009 at 11:29 amCagey # 20
LOL Thanks!
April 6th, 2009 at 11:32 amWhy is Cheney holding on to his Murano candlesticks?
Dick, what ARE you doing in your bunker?
April 6th, 2009 at 11:32 amCheney said that he will not return the President’s rubber stamp left in one of his desk drawers that he was using.
He thinks that he is entitled to keep the stamp since he sreved as an acting president.
April 6th, 2009 at 11:55 amCagey…FYI, not madame :D
April 6th, 2009 at 11:56 amDickhead should hold on to “his” candlesticks so that he may lead his way in the cave that he inhabits.
April 6th, 2009 at 12:02 pmCheney is holding on to all the dirt mined by the NSA of Democratic opposition.
April 6th, 2009 at 12:08 pmAnd, W, Hussein’s pistol is not YOUR trophy! It belongs to the brave youngster who actually went over there and got it.
April 6th, 2009 at 12:28 pmBy the time he’s done shredding, you won’t even be able to find the receipt for this!
April 6th, 2009 at 12:30 pmIf Obama does not get any cooperation from the Republicans, see torture memo story above as example, he has no incentive to protect scum like Cheney from prosecution. If the Republicans want to go ” nuclear” and not support the Obama agenda he has no reason,… well to reason with them. Lets get the Grand Juries and the Special Prosecutors started.
April 6th, 2009 at 12:31 pm5th Estate Says:
Cagey…FYI, not madame :D
LOL. Just covering the bases. I’ll try to remember that for the future. :)
April 6th, 2009 at 12:59 pmGee, I hate to disappoint ole bum head and possibly over rev his pacemaker (just kiddin’, I love it), but holding out “for now” won’t help. There is no statute of limitations on murder.
April 6th, 2009 at 1:41 pmTO claim that ‘now is not the time’ to reveal some potential violation of law or conduct is pretty much the same as saying that which it is not timely to now reveal probably shouldn’t have been done in the first place, fir which reason alone it is not timely now, nest paw?
April 6th, 2009 at 2:17 pmThe game is over. Cheney is not in the loop any more. He must be ashamed of what’s in that vault. He must realise it would shame america, and he would go to jail if he revieled the truth now.
April 6th, 2009 at 2:37 pmYou know in NYC when your fired from any job that requires ‘vetting’, you are escorted to your desk to retrieve your personal belongings (i.e. purse, attache, lunch, etc.) and you are further escorted OUT of the building . .
Where is the OVERSIGHT here? Why is this warmonger permitted to retain property of the United States government?
WHY?
April 6th, 2009 at 2:37 pmSubpoena.
April 6th, 2009 at 3:31 pmTwo words WORK PRODUCT. That it the product of work done FOR the client belongs TO the client that it the privilege of whether or not to disclose it belongs TO THE CLIENT. Since Darth Cheney worked for US that makes US the client and it should be OUR decision and not his as to whether it is disclosed
April 6th, 2009 at 4:33 pmChenney is a Fascist pig who should be hanging from a noose for his War Crimes!
April 6th, 2009 at 5:17 pmAll those ‘False Flag Operation’ records, Torture memos, Halliburton contracts…
April 6th, 2009 at 5:18 pmCanopy mercenary contracts. Ooops! That is Obama’s.
I meant ‘BlackWater’ (XE) contratcs…
April 6th, 2009 at 5:19 pmThe members of the Secret Service who destroyed the records need to be called to account.
April 6th, 2009 at 6:14 pmCheney is so full of shit
April 6th, 2009 at 8:53 pmThat’s okay, they’ll soon be subject to a subpoena if Obama or some people in Congress take their calcium tablets and get a spine.
April 6th, 2009 at 10:30 pmSo it was Dick that Michael Druckart was visiting at the White House? Hmmm?
April 7th, 2009 at 3:28 amThis evil, bloated death merchant should be stored in a concrete vault buried deep beneath the Earth.
A fatal heart attack isn’t so much to ask.
April 7th, 2009 at 5:51 amAs Vice President, Cheney ordered the Secret Service to destroy records of his visitor logs.
Isn’t destroying governmental records a crime?
Cheers,
April 7th, 2009 at 6:18 am