Dick Cheney is a psychotic crook:. So, when are we going to do something about it?

The “Cloud” over Dick Cheney Just Got Darker!
William Hughes


“It is an extraordinary subversion of the [U.S.] Constitution to send people to die...on the basis of a lie.” - Elizabeth Holtzman


1) There is a story told about a criminal defense lawyer, a colorful kind of character at the Maryland Bar, who has since gone on to his final reward. Supposedly, he comforted his guilty-as-hell client as the trial date approached by repeatedly telling him: “Don’t Worry! Everything will be all right!” Well, on the day of the trial, the trial judge assigned to the case wasn’t who the defense lawyer expected. In fact, he was a nightmare--”a Hanging Judge!” It was at this point, that the defense counsel leaned over to his client and whispered: “Start worrying!” Well, this is exactly where V. P. Dick Cheney is today. The reason: Impeachment proceedings in the House of Representatives are picking up momentum. The American people are demanding action as the quagmire of Iraq deepens. Millions of them believe that Cheney lied the country into the Iraqi War and should be impeached.

(2) Some gutsy members of the U.S. Congress are responding to that call. This is why H Res 333, “Cheney’s Nightmare,” was introduced by Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-OH), on April 24, 2007. On top of all that, there is the darkening cloud over Cheney's head--Lewis “Scooter” Libby!

On June 14, 2007, the trial judge in Libby’s federal criminal case, the Hon. Reggie B. Walton, ordered him to jail immediately to serve out his 2 1/2-year sentence. Libby, showing no remorse, was convicted on perjury, lying and obstruction of justice charges. His attorney filed a motion with the appellate court to stay the lower court’s ruling, pending his appeal of the case. “Scooter” was Cheney’s Chief of Staff: He ran his office. Libby got caught trying to smear former Ambassador Joe Wilson, a critic of the Iraqi War. Wilson had written, in the summer of 2003, that there was no evidence to suggest that Iraq’s Saddam Hussein had attempted to secure any uranium from Nigeria. Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, worked for the CIA as a covert agent.

Libby, a Neocon, leaked her name to the press and then lied about it to the FBI and to the Grand Jury. The schemers put out a story that Wilson’s trip to Africa was a “junket” arranged by his wife. Was Libby acting on Cheney’s behalf? The Special Prosecutor thinks he was and he has said so publicly.

On Feb. 20, 2007, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the Special Prosecutor, told the jury, in his closing argument, in Libby’s case: “There is a cloud over V.P. Cheney...Libby stole the truth...Don’t you think...the American people are entitled to straight answers...It was ‘they’ who decided to tell reporters [Joe] Wilson’s wife was working for the CIA...To them, she [Valerie Plame] wasn’t a person, she was argument. What is this case about? Is it about something bigger?”

Dan Froomkin, who covered the case for the Washington Post, put it this way after hearing Fitzgerald’s remarks: “It was pretty clear who ‘they’ was: Libby and his boss, Cheney.”

(3) The evidence in the case showed that Cheney was the initiator of the plot and Libby was his gofer. The jury felt that Libby was “a fall guy.” It was Cheney who wrote the “talking points” to get Wilson. He made notes on a newspaper article falsely suggesting that Wilson’s wife had sent him on a “junket” to Nigeria. The smear merchant of Wilson/Plame was Cheney! At law, Libby acting in concert with his string puller, Cheney, to lie under oath and to obstruct justice has a name. It is called: A CRIMINAL CONSPIRACY!

There are some people on Capitol Hill, who think Libby might flip. He was, indeed, protecting Cheney, not that he needed much encouragement, since he was at the center of the White House cabal that was “fixing” the intelligence to get us into the Iraqi War.

The NYT labeled him: “a principal architect of the war.”

In fact, it was Libby who helped to push Colin Powell into making that flop of a speech at the UN on Feb. 5, 2003. And, if no presidential pardon comes Libby’s way, will he rat Cheney out? Who knows?

Libby also had strong ties to another prime architect of the Iraqi War--Paul Wolfowitz, who was just dumped as CEO of the World Bank. Donald Rumsfeld, another Neocon, just got his walking papers at Defense. It’s hasn’t been a good summer for the Neocons. Libby was also one of the attorneys for fugitive billionaire financier, Marc Rich, a reported Mossad asset. (4) Libby helped to manipulate a presidential pardon for him from “Bubba Bill” Clinton, who made $10 million last year giving speeches! What a surprise! Meanwhile, who is going to help Libby get his pardon? Cheney? Rich? Hillary?

Back to the Congressional front. Rep. Kucinich, at a press conference, on Capitol Hill, on June 13, 2007, renewed his call, via H Res 333, for the House of Representatives to impeach Cheney for committing “high crimes and misdemeanors.”

He was joined by Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), an indefatigable fighter for justice. At that press conference, when the question of the relevance of the Libby case to the impeachment proceeding came up, and, in particular, Mr. Fitzgerald’s comment about a “cloud” over V.P. Cheney, Rep. Kucinich responded this way: “I think that all Americans are ‘concerned’ about the Libby case, in as much as the relationship between his [felonious] actions and what it says about the Vice-President. But, even without the evidence in the Libby case, we have enough on record to go forward with impeachment...The other concern I would express is...whether this administration is ‘lining things up to pardon Libby.’”

(5) When Rep. Kucinich introduced his Articles of Impeachment in the House, he made this cogent charge: “Cheney has purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and the Congress of the U.S. by fabricating a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to justify the use of the U.S. forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security.”

(2) In his three Articles of Impeachment, Rep. Kucinich detailed the dates, the times and the places, where Cheney chose to “deceive the citizens” about the alleged threats of Iraqi WMD. He added: “In the last three years, the V.P. has repeatedly threatened Iran.” This is the same Iran which Sen. Joe Lieberman (IND-CT), also a Neocon, recently urged the U.S. to launch a pre-emptive attack against.

Rep. Kucinich also underscored in H Res 333, the lethal consequences of Cheney’s warmongering: namely, U.S. service members killed in Iraq (now at 3,521); the death toll of Iraqis (estimated by the “Lancet Study” at 655,000, as of July, 2006); 4.2 million Iraqis forced from their homes; and the cost of the war to U.S. taxpayers, (now $435.4 billion). There are currently six cosponsors of H Res 333, in the House of Representatives. In addition to Reps. Kucinich and Waters, they are: Lynn Woolsey (D-CA); Barbara Lee (D-CA); Yyette Clark (D-NY); Jan Schakowsky (D-IL); William Lacy Clay (D-M0) and Al Wynn (D-MD).

The charges in the Articles of Impeachment, raised by Rep. Kucinich, if proven, are clearly impeachable offenses under the U.S. Constitution. Keep in mind, that under Article 1, Section 2

(5), of our National Charter, the role of the House in any impeachment inquiry is to “only” act as a Grand Jury. If it finds that there is probable cause, that is reasonable grounds, to believe the truth of the charges against Cheney, in H. Res 333, then it would have a duty under the law to impeach him. The U.S. Senate, then, would sit in judgment on the V.P. and decide his guilt or innocence. See, Art. 1, Sec. 3 (6).

The House Judiciary Committee, headed by Rep. John Conyers (D-MI), should let those subpoenas fly.

Mr. Fitzgerald, the Special Prosecutor, should be called as a witness. Others connected to Cheney, like Karl Rove in the White House, and officials in U.S. State Department and at the Pentagon, whose names surfaced in the Libby case, also should be summoned before the Committee. It looks like Mr. Fitzgerald isn’t going to open a criminal inquiry into Cheney’s role in the Wilson/Plame matter. Congress then has a solemn duty, a Constitutional responsibility, to get to the bottom of Cheney’s egregious wrongdoing.

Finally, America was lied into the Iraqi War by a Cheney-dominated clique. One of the liars, Libby, made the mistake of lying under oath. Now, he is going to prison. It is time now for Libby’s Svengali, V.P. Dick Cheney, to be brought to the Bar of Justice. Congress do your duty! Uphold the Republic! Remember our dead heroes in Iraq, who died for a lie! Investigate and impeach Cheney!

Notes:
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwiSyIbeYjI2. http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/http://impeachpac.org/node/9763. “The Cloud over Cheney,” Dan Froomkin, 02/21/17.4. http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j030501.html5. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oB6B0J98Kw0

William Hughes is an author and commentator. His videos can be found at: http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=liamh2.

Email Contact: liamhughes@comcast.net.


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Wilkerson, Former Aide To Powell, Calls For Imeachment

This is huge!


On Thursday, May 10, 2007, Lawrence Wilkerson, speaking on National Public Radio, proposed impeaching President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Here's the audio.

Wilkerson is a Retired Army Colonel, the former Chief of Staff at the State Department from 2002 to 2005 under then Secretary of State Colin Powell, a Vietnam War veteran, the former Acting Director of the Marine Corps War College at Quantico, and currently a teacher of national security at William and Mary College.

The program, On Point, was hosted by Tom Ashbrook, who focused the discussion on a need for greater public accountability for the Iraq War, but who maintained that the public was not outraged or interested. (Ashbrook should read some polls and invite on organizers of the impeachment movement.)

Also on the program was Ken Adelman, who promoted the war and said it would be "a cakewalk". Adelman argued a case for not holding public officials accountable.

Wilkerson said in early comments on the show: "This administration doesn't know how to effect accountability in my opinion." But he did not raise the possibility of impeachment until after a member of the audience had phoned in.

The first caller who was put on the air demanded an investigation of the lies that launched the war, and asked for accountability "all the way up." In response to Adelman's claims that history would hold people accountable, the caller said "I would love to have a job where, worst case scenario, my historical record is flawed."

Ashbrook framed the question in terms of alleged limitations of the U.S. political system, and Wilkerson replied: "Well I do think that that's a reality of our system. However, let me back up just a minute and say that I really do think that our founding fathers, Hamilton, Washington, Monroe, Madison, would all be astounded that over the course of our short history as a country, 200 plus years, we haven't used that little two to three lines in Article II of the Constitution more frequently, the impeachment clause. I do believe that they would have thought had they been asked by you or whomever at the time of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia 'Do you think this will be exercised?' they would have said 'Of course it will, every generation they'll have to throw some bastard out'. That's a form of accountability too. It's ultimate accountability."

After an interruption, Wilkerson continued: "The language in that article, the language in those two or three lines about impeachment is nice and precise – it's high crimes and misdemeanors.

You compare Bill Clinton's peccadilloes for which he was impeached to George Bush's high crimes and misdemeanors or Dick Cheney's high crimes and misdemeanors, and I think they pale in significance."

Ashbrook asked for some examples of such high crimes and misdemeanors, and Wilkerson replied: "I think that the caller was right. I think we went into this war for specious reasons. I think we went into this war not too much unlike the way we went into the Spanish American War with the Hearst press essentially goading the American people and the leadership into war.

That was a different time in a different culture, in a different America. We're in a very different place today and I think we essentially got goaded into the war through some of the same means."

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Cheney is either pathologically delusional or a pathological liar!

Or he believes we are all idiots.

Are we?Wed

I think we may be seeing why John is not running for president. He is busy declaring open warfare, for Democracy and Freedom, sanity and the general wellfare!

Go, John Go!nesday, April 25, 2007


Kerry: Dick Cheney "The 'American Idol' of Outlandish Claims"


It can't be easy for George W. Bush and Dick Cheney to be holed up in a White House they have turned into their own private Fantasyland. Bound by stubbornness and a warped agenda no longer supported by most Americans, they're now forced to stick to the same old distortions and lies about Iraq despite knowing that the public no longer believes in them or their war.

And, with the help of other leading Democrats, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) is sticking to his guns and staying on message about what the American people resoundingly said in November -- which is that they’ve had it with Team Bush's failed Iraq policy and they want the grown-ups in the Democratic party to take over.Reid must have known that the right-wing smear machine would come after him when he truthfully announced on the Senate floor that

"We are less secure from the many threats to our national security than we were when the war began. As long as we follow the President's path in Iraq, the war is lost."

White House surrogates have been attacking Reid ever since, but they rolled out Dick Cheney on Tuesday to join in the smears and even made Bush himself quit watching Cartoon Network long enough to throw in some distortions."I thought his speech yesterday was unfortunate, that his comments were uninformed and misleading," said Cheney. "Senator Reid has taken many positions on Iraq. He has threatened that if the President vetoes the current pending supplemental legislation, that he will send up Senator Russ Feingold's bill to de-fund Iraq operations altogether."

"What's most troubling about Senator Reid's comments yesterday is his defeatism. Indeed, last week, he said the war is already lost."

And Bush jumped in yesterday as well, expressing his disappointment that Democrats won’t be the same, mindless rubber-stampers that his Republican lapdogs were when running the previous Congress."The bill they announced yesterday includes some of the worst parts of the measures they had earlier passed with narrow majorities in the House and the Senate," said Bush. "They know I'm going to veto a bill containing these provisions, and they know that my veto will be sustained."Of course, he had to also throw in the tired old line about Democrats making life easy on the bad guys."Precipitous withdrawal from Iraq is not a plan to bring peace to the region or to make our people safer at home," said King George. "Instead, it would embolden our enemies and confirm their belief that America is weak."

Senator John Kerry (D-MA) who, unlike Cheney, knows a little something about actually fighting in a war, quickly came to Reid's defense, blasting the vice president as "the 'American Idol' of outlandish claims."Here's Kerry:

Dick Cheney’s attacks on Harry Reid are as disturbing as they are
disingenuous. He is the American Idol of outlandish claims. No one has been more wrong about Iraq from day one than Vice President Cheney. The Cheney Doctrine has been a recipe for disaster in Iraq that has put American troops in unforgivable danger and made America less secure."The Vice President has only been consistent in his
miscalculations and misdirection. I could hardly believe my ears when the Vice President had the nerve to accuse Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of being uninformed. This is the same man who
claimed that we would be greeted as liberators in Iraq and that the Iraqi
insurgency was in its last throes, when in fact the civil war was growing.
It is time for the Vice President to return to his secure, undisclosed
location to rejoin his neocon friends rather than attack the MajorityLeader who is fighting to keep faith with American troops.” Reid's office was also in full rapid-response mode in knocking down the attacks from Cheney, who has set unofficial White House records for being wrong about almost every word he's said about foreign policy and the Iraq war."Vice President Cheney should be the last person to lecture anyone on how leaders should make decisions," said Reid Spokesman Jim Manley after Cheney's remarks. "Leaders should make decisions based on facts and reality, two words that seem to be foreign to the Vice President"

"This is the same guy who said Iraq has weapons of mass destruction and that we would be greeted as liberators," continued Reid's spokesman. "And it's the same guy who continues to assert that Saddam Hussein had links to al Qaeda long after our own intelligence agency conclusively refuted this notion. To suggest he lacks credibility would be an understatement."Reid himself shrugged off Cheney's remarks, saying simply "I'm not going to get into a name calling match with the administration's chief attack dog."

And the Majority Leader also had some words for a president who appears to have totally immersed himself in a fantasy world."The President apparently remains in a dangerous state of denial about the situation on the ground in Iraq and its impact on our security at home," said Reid. "Although the President rightly stated that the American people voted against failure in Iraq last November, they also clearly voted against a policy that is leading us to failure – and that's what the President's stay the course strategy does."

"Each day we stay the course in Iraq further weakens our fight against
terrorism and other threats throughout the world. The President repeatedly used the phrase
'precipitous withdrawal' in his remarks. There is nothing
precipitous about insisting that the President change course after more than four years of his failed policy. We hope the President will join us in
giving our troops the resources and strategy they need and deserve."The unified House-Senate supplemental bill containing the Iraq-withdrawal
language is expected to get a vote in the House today and in the Senate on Thursday, setting up the certain veto of troop funding next week by
President "Support-The-Troops" Bush.

After that, we'll see if a few more Republicans don't jump ship on the beleaguered Bush and override his veto when they realize they're making the vote that may determine their chances for reelection in 2008.

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