Analyst: Liz Cheney creating ‘wall of smoke’ to protect her father
Published: July 15, 2009
Updated 4 months ago
Liz Cheney, the daughter of former Vice-President Dick Cheney, is attempting to create a “wall of smoke” around the CIA’s purported Al Qaeda assassination program in order to protect her father from further investigation, says a Washington Post columnist.
The vice-president’s daughter has claimed that CIA Director Leon Panetta’s admission to the Congressional intelligence committees that the CIA misled Congress by keeping secret an Al Qaeda assassination program does not prove her father did anything wrong — even though news reports credit the elder Cheney with giving the order to keep the program secret.
The younger Cheney’s accusation echoes the words of Republicans who have come to the former vice-president’s defense since the story broke, and MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann posits that this is strangely at odds with recent GOP outrage over House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s charge that the CIA sometimes lies to Congress.
The same people who say Pelosi falsely accused the CIA of lying are now saying the CIA lied when they told Congress of the hidden assassination program, Olbermann pointed out on MSNBC’s Countdown Tuesday night.
“This is like one of those logic puzzles,” Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson remarked to MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann Tuesday. “You know, ‘I am lying now but…’”
Robinson saw Liz Cheney’s accusation as just one part of a broader attempt to prevent scrutiny of her father’s possible law-breaking by creating a “wall of smoke … to prevent a further investigation of exactly what happened.”
“The thing that drives me a bit nuts about this whole thing,” Robinson told Olbermann, “is the way that Cheney and Rove are creating the impression that the minute you brief the intelligence committees — as required by law — everything that you tell them automatically leaks. … They’re creating this impression to justify what seems to have been an egregious violation of the statute in this case, which is to brief Congress on intelligence activities the way the law requires.”
Olbermann asked whether Liz Cheney might be trying to head off a potential Congressional investigation into her father’s alleged concealment of the secret program.
Robinson, who had appeared along with Liz Cheney earlier in the day on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, replied, “My impression was that the creation of this kind of wall of smoke was to prevent a further investigation of exactly what happened. Did her father, in fact, tell the CIA not to disclose this program to the committees? … Would that not have been a violation of law that would leave him open to some sort of sanction?”
“If you’re going to have a CIA, you do have to run it according to the law,” Robinson concluded. “And you have to brief the intelligence committees.”
This video is from MSNBC’s Countdown, broadcast July 14, 2009.
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Is it a slow news day today?
This is the second story posted that just SCREAMS, “OBVIOUSLY!”
Of COURSE Dickhead’s douche bag of a daughter is throwing up smoke screens … it’s a repuglicunt tactic … DISTRACT FROM THE REAL ISSUE!
And, Dickhead’s a bigger coward than I initially gave him credit for … sending his daughter out to fight his battles … pussy.
This cunt had better start throwing “tear gas” containers to cover up his shit and give some time to run. Hopefully, his heart will fail. Shit, he has no heart.
Some reality versus wishful-thinking:
War Criminals Cheney and Bush don’t need to run anywhere, because nothing of substance will be done about their war crimes because the Bush-accomplice Dems will see to that. Why? Because the Bush-accomplice Dems were/are complicit in the crimes including War Criminal Obama (see his Bush-accomplice voting record from the senate).
The D and R “team” shit aside, you really expect one group of war criminals to investigate their fellow war criminals?
Hmm. I wonder if Robinson’s job at Wapo might be at risk soon like Dan Froomkin’s. Wapo is quite the fan of Cheney’s.
DISTRACTION
The bigger picture is how many more were involved….
Half the administration of Obama is covering it up!
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My guess is that Dick and Liz have sex together, it’s called incest in many states, in Texas I think it’s called marriage.
He just says he lives in Wyoming btw, because it’s illegal for a President and Vice President to be from the same state, and the case had more merit than anything the Obama birth certicate retards could put up, that’s for sure.
She’s gay.. But Dick’s wife, her mom, writes homosexual porn.
So, perhaps you’re still very close to the mark..
Wrong Cheney daughter. Mary is the one who is gay.
Dick Cheney is FROM Wyoming, not Texas. He lived here part-time when he worked for Halliburton in Houston, but his legal residence is and has always been Wyoming, the state of his birth. GWB lived in Texas off and on for years, but he is NOT a Texan. Never was, never will be. He’s East Coast Elite, through and through. The dumbass accent was affected as was his “aw, shucks, ma’am,” mannerisms.
As for your comment about incest being “marriage” in Texas, that’s insulting and reflects your total lack of knowledge about the state. I don’t know what state you’re from, but I’m sure there are plenty of false stereotypes about it, also.
Jail this piece of crap and his asshole daughter NOW! His disservice to this country is multiplex and unAmerican. Send this cowardly sack of crap to Guantanamo and use the same techniques on him that he and his cronies approved in spite of the Geneva Conventions.
God, what a sad country we are that we allowed this fuckup to run our nation into the dirt!
Waaaaa, my daddy never did anything wrong. His ass needs to really be swinging by his neck along with a few others if our leaders had the balls to do what is required by the constitution. It is they and what they conceal that is the true threat to our national security.
I’ve told some lies in my life, but to lie all the time is ridiculous. It must be tuff.
Remember when Cheney was out last month going to every news program he can to say that torture is alright etc. etc.. Now you can’t even find him, his daughter is out trying to save her dad.
Hey liz,
America is not your family’s Plantation . . .
or TOILET !
~
BTW ~ liz
You exemplify the (gop) / “The Fuck The People Party ”
PERFECTLY !
It’s only smoke for the already-converted anti-American fascist asswipe. For normal, rational, thinking people it’s a fucking joke and a distraction.
Ya think????
She has a script . . . “my daddy kept our country safe, he did nothing wrong, he kept our country safe, terrorists, he kept our country safe.” If anyone tries to question her or interject anything to refute her script, she just continues to talk over them. She’s a good Republican . . . that’s what they do. They just keep talking or shouting over whomever they are “debating” with and then claim they won.
Dick enjoys unprecedented post-office VP Secret Service protection that has now been extended a second time … but his daughter Liz does not. Here’s hoping somebody hits Cheney where it really hurts and goes quail hunting with Liz and shoots her in the face.
The only other thing that would hurt Cheney more would be to take away all his ill-gotten gains and render him poor, which in this country equates to powerless.
And naturally, a trip to the Haig would add icing to the cake. But, of course, in fascist corporate MIC America none of these rectifying acts of justice will ever transpire.
“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.” — Balzac
There are only two ways to get to the illegal power brokers of the banking establishment and shadow government that have hijacked this country — take from them what is most dear: money and family.
The former is out of the question, since the legal system in this country is as broken as the institutions on WallStreet and Government and Fascist Corporate America that allow the ongoing injustice of institutionalized criminality and the unfair distribution of staggering wealth.
Regarding Bush, Cheney, CorporateExecs, BlackWaterCEOs, HalliburtonExecs, AIGscumbags, and all the other criminal robber barons who have laid waste to this country, this world, and its economies and environments — the only viable solution is to take back our inalienable rights by refusing them theirs … by terminating, with extreme prejudice, THEIR HEIRS. For it is those very pathological prep-school larvae, if allowed, who will forever perpetuate the injustice of their forbears and continue to breed.
The time for torches and pitchforks is truly approaching. As a poster herein said it best the other day: “The greedy few will have much to fear when the many poor have nothing left to lose.” It is time to strike back where it hurts the systemic criminals the most.
Rothchilds/CIA Mk Ultra Victim under Protection,,
I remember now,,
When the Rothchild and the CIA were planning and discussing 9/11,I kept saying,many times,,”It has to be the NSA”,,,
“It has to be the NSA”,,,,
The NSA played a pivot role in 9/11…
On behalf of the citizens of the United States of America I charge the NSA in acts of terrorism,war with charges of Murder,Treason,etc…
RE;
jhoffax
“She’s gay.. But Dick’s wife, her mom, writes homosexual porn.”
Typical fuckin ignorance……..she’s the straight daughter. Like all of your other comments…..they’re based on ignorance and lack of knowledge.
Are you speaking of jhoffax, in particular. If so, I don’t know about other comments, but in this case, he/she was msitaken.
If not, I think that it is you who bases your comments on ignorance and lack of knowledge.
Typical smoke and mirrors from the neocons. Diversionary tactics.
Unfortunately a lot of it also comes from the Right of the Left.
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Liz
Hayden
Addington
Tenet’s Medal of ‘Freedom’
Judge, jury, and executioner?
Mossad “advisors” just like at Abu Ghraib?
B52 ‘errant’ nukes, dead USMilSpec anthrax patsy, 7/7 London bombings, Madrid train bombings, Bali, Tillman’s tight 3 shot group in the forehead, Benazir Bhutto?
DNC & RNC have BOTH sold out the country in order to enrich themselves.
Independents agree on more than we disagree.
Beware the divide and conquer.
Gravel Kucinich Paul Nader
McKinney Ventura too
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Five veterans
The Fed
AIPAC
9/11
Why does anyone care what a Cheney daughter touts?