Pro-assassination analyst: Cheney would never break the law
Published: July 13, 2009
Updated 4 months ago
A former CIA operative who was part of a Pentagon program to plant TV pundits in order to sell the Iraq war says only two members of Congress should be briefed on sensitive CIA operations.
Wayne Simmons, a former CIA analyst and a “terrorism analyst” for Fox News since 2002, also told Fox News that former Vice-President Dick Cheney is “one of the most honorable men on the planet” and would never break the law.
A story in the New York Times this past weekend, corroborated by the Washington Times on Monday, said that Cheney was aware of a secret CIA program that had been kept hidden from Congress for more than six years, and was part of the decision process to keep it from Congress — something that, if true, would be a violation of federal law.
“Vice-President Dick Cheney is one of the most honorable men on the planet,” Simmons told Fox News. “For anyone to think that Vice-President Dick Cheney would do anything illegal is nothing more than political grandstanding.”
Currently, eight Congresspeople are briefed on the most secretive CIA activities. Under a proposed law currently being deliberated by the House of Representatives, that number would be expanded. But Simmons wants to see fewer elected officials kept in the loop.
“Many, many members of Congress have a very bad habit of running their mouths,” Simmons said. “They don’t understand the importance of top secret national security.”
Tellingly, Simmons added: “We can control eight people. We can kind of understand and control where that intelligence goes. The thought of adding more to that is just a nightmare.”
According to a bio, Simmons joined the “Pentagon Outreach Program for Military and Intelligence Analysts” in 2004. Last year, the New York Times exposed the program as a plan to sell the Iraq war to the American public.
Simmons signed his name to a letter to the New York Times last year rejecting the paper’s assertion that the Pentagon-backed analysts were spreading propaganda.
“Suggesting that we intentionally misled the American people for partisan political purposes or some quid pro quo personal gain is an unconscionable attack on our honor and long service to this nation,” the letter read in part.
In 2005 Simmons advocated on Fox News the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il.
When Fox News’ Alan Colmes pointed out that an executive order in place since the 1970s forbids the assassination of foreign leaders, Simmons said: “The president can order that … [Chavez' assassination] should have been ordered. This guy — this guy needs to go.”
Asked if the same should be done with Khamenei and Kim, Simmons responded, “Yes, absolutely.”
Speaking of Chavez, Simmons said: “If a stray bullet from a hunter in Kentucky should find its way between this guy’s eyes, no American should lose any sleep over it.”
On page 320 of this PDF, Simmons can be found speaking with fellow military analysts and Pentagon officials about his appearance on Fox a year later.
Simmons wrote that Chavez had “grown stronger” since then, and compared him to Hitler taking over Europe in the 1930s. “‘Like Yogi Berra said, ‘It’s deja vu all over again,’” Simmons notes after writing that he would assassinate Hitler in 1937 if he could go back in time.
This video is from Fox’s Fox & Friends, broadcast July 13, 2009.
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Yup, i bet the cia can control the group of 8 - that’s why the cia gets to do just about whatever it wants in the name of ‘protecting’ america. control is where the game is.
to loosen cia control over oversight, what’s needed is not less oversight, but more. amercia shouldn’t have to become a 3rd world dictatorship to ‘protect’ itself from such dictators and terrorists anymore than it should have to spend 4 - 5% of its gdp funding its military to protect itself.
Simmons is a liar and so is Cheney. If Simmons did not lie he would have been fired just like the 2 fox news reporters who tried to report on Boving Growth Hormone, re-wrote the stories 70 or so times, and got fired for not lying to the public. The case reached the supreme court and the court ruled that Fox had a right to tell the reporters to lie and if they refused it was O. K. to fire them.
http://heroux.blogspot.com/2005/06/fox-news-destroyed-reporters-of-bovine.html
Watch the video
This clip is taken from the brilliant doc film, The Corporation. It focuses on two FOX News whistle blowers.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trWcqxrQgcc&NR=1
Cheney would never break the law?? How about his two frickin’ DUI’s?? That’s breaking the law. How about blasting that Harry Whittington geezer with birdshot? That’s against the law.
No wonder the CIA is so crappy,. - they hire morons.
Simmons is a genuine certified WHORE to his masters in the US Government.
I bet he does the goose step in womens underwear!
Dick Cheney Assassination Squad has been reported for 6 years by the Foreign Press, now that the memos are out and dated before 9/11 Americans still don’t want to deal with the truth. UK Dr. Kelly was assassinated by the Cheney Squad and Tony Blair quickly stepped in to stop the investigation. For those who care Pat Tillman was also killed by the Cheney Squad. Many murders were done as Cheney looked to the plan the CIA did when they helped assassinate President Kennedy and even Dr. King. Cheney knew how easy it was to fool the American people with the help of the Media. Many from the Media/Press knew about some of the crimes but never reported it.
Really he wouldn’t break the law? R-I-G-H-T….! And Oscar Meyer would Never make a weiner!
It’s good to know the lowlifes are crawling out of their pits to expose themselves, while trying to protect their, zleader!
Mindset of someone who would kill the wife and kids before blowing his head off.
This cat has his nose soo far up cheney’s ass he knows what the devil had for breakfast his last day in office. This guy needs assassinating.
Duh. Sure thing Cheney wouldn’t break the law. Was it against the law to out Valerie Plame? An active CIA operative? Guess the apologist Simmons
forgot about the injustice done to his co-worker
“Chavez’ assassination] should have been ordered”
This is exactly why the rest of the world hates us, and justifiably so. This is why the American empire deserves to fall as it is doing.
People like this idiot is why Iran is looking for nukes.. and it’s why the ruling elite in this country have a stranglehold on all the rest of us. And why we need to get rid of money and the corruption it causes.
In the mean time, smart people are going to get out of this country before there’s a total meltdown. Once the shooting starts, there wont’ be any safe places to hide..
I gave up thinking about running away. I’d rather stay and fight it out. Hell, I ain’t gonna live forever and I’d just as soon take out some Plutes and their minions on the way down. You never know, the People might win when the bullets start to fly.
Wouldn’t break the law except when he wants to break the law and then it would be legal because it wouldn’t be breaking the law but deciding to break the law. Yep. Sounds familiar, all right. “Order stands!”
Well, Mr Simmons, I will tell you exactly what that most honorable man who ass you are kissing told the Senate minority leader on the floor of the senate a few years ago: FUCK YOU.
So the torture wasn’t his doing, then? That was illegal. So the illegal wiretapping wasn’t anything he had to do with? In fact, I think it’s easier to name the laws he DIDN’T break.
This guy is clearly either delusional or has Alzheimer’s. He should be retired asap. It’s pretty clear that he has s really good view of Cheney’s colon as it is. Anyone with his head that far up someone else’s ass really has no business making ANY serious decisions.
Sorry, “honorable” men don’t lie . . . repeatedly and unabashedly. What a tool.
A company man to the very end.
Secrecy is the greatest threat to the United States.
Fox News is the greatest threat to democracy.
“Cheney would never break the law”
And bears would never shit in the woods …
boogieman666 has it right.
“Was it against the law to out Valerie Plame? An active CIA operative? Guess the apologist Simmons forgot about the injustice done to his co-worker”
People like Simmons will sacrifice all their co-workers for their ideology.
Scary!
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I don’t have the vocabulary to really express this. But, Dick Cheney is a sick person, one that believes what he feels is right. I think he is sincere in his beliefs, I think he is so sick he sees no wrong in what he did and believes.
Compare him to the serial killers of the past, the dictators of the past or even people of not a public image that you know. See if there is any parallell to this person.
To sum it up, this man is one sick puppy and should be put away for his crimes so the world will know that WE THE PEOPLE
oops, hit wrong button.
So that the world will know tht WE THE PEOPLE do not condon the chrimes of this piece of shit, Cheney.
This guy’s bravado for assassination makes me sick.
I would take Chavez over Cheney any day of the week.
America needs to cleanse itself of this type of “tough guy” mentality.
This is what makes the world hate us.
The CIA only exists to serve the corporations and banksters. They don’t protect citizens’ freedom. They protect the corporate freedom to take assets from other countries and to protect the advantages of the American corporate giants. They are the enforcers for the robber class.
FAUX NEWS: where “manchurian candidates” stop by for milk and cookies.
Just ponder the “deaths” from the last 8 years: Paul Wellstone,the Italian Reporter, Pat Tillman, UK WMD whistleblower, Hunter Thompson, etc. etc.
“Many, many members of Congress have a very bad habit of running their mouths,” Simmons said. “They don’t understand the importance of top secret national security.”
Yeah Republicans, like that puffed-up Pelosi flap.
Republicans are the only ones who can’t be trusted with ‘intel’.
Oh, and this Simmons POS is nothing more or less than a terrorist.
“Speaking of Chavez, Simmons said: “If a stray bullet from a hunter in Kentucky should find its way between this guy’s eyes, no American should lose any sleep over it.”
And then he went on to say: “Chavez is just a fringe lunatic with paranoid tendencies.”
cheney would never break the law ?
That is pure comedy.
Whoever promotes this kind of talk on their tee-vee is seriously grasping at straws. By this time, everyone knows about dick and his ‘pearl harbor event’ wet dream. Not to worry true Americans, he will get what’s coming to him. And I’d venture to say that he’ll see it before his heart gives up the ghost.
Propaganda Media
It’s clear… This guy is high!!! How is it possible that these people live in a fake world?
You gotta wonder how many people this guy has murdered. Our govt has become invested with sociopaths and this guy is a prime example of how nasty that infestation has become–I mean he is actually talking publicly and proudly about killing people as though it’s no big deal!
We need to hunt these sick fucks down and get rid of them before they destroy us all.
If Simmons is such a top gun and he thinks Hugo Chavez should be offed, why is Hugo Chavez still alive? Simmons doesn’t have a chance in hell of hitting Chavez because…well, Simmons is kind of stupid. He’s perfect for the morons who watch Fux News.