WASHINGTON -- Vice President Dick Cheney's daughter Liz said Tuesday she doesn't believe her father did anything wrong in connection with a secret CIA operation that officials have said was designed to capture and kill al-Qaida figures.

Asked directly on MSNBC whether her father directed the CIA not to keep Congress fully informed about the secret program, Cheney said, "This is a classified program and he doesn't talk about classified programs."

Liz Cheney, a former principal deputy secretary of state for Mideast affairs during George W. Bush's presidency, is helping her father write his memoirs. She aggressively defended him in Tuesday's nationally broadcast interview while declining to say point-blank whether he had violated any law or rule.Huffpo

Everbody's safe for eight years, blah blah blah. That is 7.3 years actually BUT WHO IS COUNTING? What struck me about the HUFFPO article is that dickyc got his little girl a real job on the taxpayers dime, NOT THAT CHENEY EVER RECEIVED MONEY THAT WAS NOT ON THE TAXPAYERS DIME...well except for receiving checks from other governments like when he accepted checks from 'terrorists' people like Saddam in his capacity as CEO of the most evil corporation in the history of this country.

Come you Masters of War,

You who build all the guns......... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2kk-v7NLr4

"I was not in every meeting that my father had. I was not in most meetings that my father had," she said, when asked repeatedly to say whether he had been involved in concealing information from Congress.

"He doesn't comment on classified programs," Cheney said, "and obviously I am not going to comment on classified programs in his behalf  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/14/liz-cheney-refuses-to-dis_n_231250.html

But I am most interested in dickyc's adamant vow that secret information is kept secret so that we can protect our country. And that he would never comment on 'classified programs"

First there are enough felonies pinned to this war criminal, to this domestic criminal, that his 'security status' should be lowered to the same level as Madoff's security status.

If they aint putting his traitorous ass in prison, the least we can do is to cut off ANY AND ALL contact he might have to our government. You see, as I pointed out a month or so ago, once his security status is dropped to 0, it will be a felony for ANYONE TO SPEAK TO HIM ABOUT ANYTHING. Ha!!!

So anyway, while I am working on other things, I thought I might take a walk through yesterdays manure piles and see exactly how worried dickyc was about secrecy and how good he actually was at refusing to testify about 'classified materials'.

I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the idea of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon, is very real and that we have to use extraordinary measures to deal with it.
Dick Cheney
The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.
Dick Cheney
The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.
Dick Cheney
We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.
Dick Cheney
You got to have people at the top who respond to and are selected by presidents.
Dick Cheney

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/dick_cheney_2.html

Oh and as long as I'm here, this top ten list I found is precious:

10) "Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better." -June 4, 2003

9) "I had other priorities in the sixties than military service." -on his five draft deferments, April 5, 1989

8) "There are a lot of lessons we want to learn out of this process in terms of what works. I think we are in fact on our way to getting on top of the whole Katrina exercise." --Sept. 10, 2005

7) "Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy." -April 30, 2001

6) "My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators." --March 16, 2003

5) "We know he's been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons." --March 16, 2003

4) "In Iraq, a ruthless dictator cultivated weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. He gave support to terrorists, had an established relationship with al Qaeda, and his regime is no more." -Nov. 7, 2003

3) "I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." -- on the Iraq insurgency, June 20, 2005

2) "Oh, yeah. He is. Big time.'' --agreeing with then-candidate George W. Bush, who was overheard at a campaign rally saying, "There's Adam Clymer, major league a**hole from The New York Times," Sept. 4, 2000

1) "Go f*ck yourself." --to Sen. Patrick Leahy, during an angry exchange on the Senate floor about profiteering by Halliburton, June 25, 2004 http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/stupidquotes/a/cheneyquotes.htm

Now I admit that I just threw the top ten in for fun and cause I hate the bastard.

But look at this recent statement of our past vp

Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a "high probability" that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration's policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed. 

And he asserted that President Obama will either backtrack on his stated intentions to end those policies or put the country at risk in ways more severe than most Americans -- and, he charged, many members of Obama's own team -- understand. 

"When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry," Cheney said. 

Citing intelligence reports, Cheney said at least 61 of the inmates who were released from Guantanamo during the Bush administration -- "that's about 11 or 12 percent" -- have "gone back into the business of being terrorists." 

The 200 or so inmates still there, he claimed, are "the hard core" whose "recidivism rate would be much higher." (Lawyers for Guantanamo detainees have strongly disputed the recidivism figures, asserting that the Pentagon data have inconsistencies and omissions.) Cheney called Guantanamo a "first-class program," and "a necessary facility" that is operated legally and with better food and treatment than the jails in inmates' native countries  http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0209/18390.html

This bastard is running around, citing intelligence reports, and there are laws against this kind of conduct. And he aint in power anymore.

At any rate, back to my point (Did I have a point? Do I ever have a point?)

Cheney liked to talk about security matters all the time. Cheney liked to let out 'State Secrets' all the fuckin time. Who in the fuck is he kidding?

Hell, he is mad at disclosures that he was lying about Radioactive Clouds hovering over American Cities because of Saddam, he OUTS VALERIE PLAME.

He gets one thousand memos telling him that Saddam has no weapons of mass destruction. SO HE PICKS THE ONE MEMO THAT SAYS IRAQ IS GOING TO POLLUTE THE WORLD WITH WMD'S. And he lets us all know about it.

He gets one thousand memos telling him that Saddam has absolutely nothing to do with the terrorists who attacked this country. SO HE PICKS ONE MEMO THAT SAYS IRAQ IS SLEEPING WITH AL QAIDA.

He gets one thousand memos telling him that Iraq is going to be a mess for a generation if we invade. SO HE PICKS THE ONE MEMO THAT SAYS IRAQIS WILL GREET US AS LIBERATORS.

He gets a thousand memos telling him that there is Civil War in Iraq. SO HE MAKES UP MEMOS TELLING US THAT IRAQ IS NOT INVOLVED IN CIVIL WAR.

Now he is caught. He told officials at the CIA TO LIE TO CONGRESS AND TO KEEP INFORMATION FROM CONGRESS.

Well he would certainly like to clear his name (WHAT THE FUCK NAME IS THAT?), but he cannot speak of such 'secret matters'.

The plans remained vague and were never carried out, the officials said, and Leon E. Panetta, the C.I.A. director, canceled the program last month.

Officials at the spy agency over the years ran into myriad logistical, legal and diplomatic obstacles. How could the role of the United States be masked? Should allies be informed and might they block the access of the C.I.A. teams to their targets? What if American officers or their foreign surrogates were caught in the midst of an operation? Would such activities violate international law or American restrictions on assassinations overseas?

But in practice, creating and training the teams proved difficult.

"It sounds great in the movies, but when you try to do it, it's not that easy," a former intelligence official said. "Where do you base them? What do they look like? Are they going to be sitting around at headquarters on 24-hour alert waiting to be called?"

There has been intense speculation about the nature of the program since members of the House Intelligence Committee disclosed last week that Mr. Panetta had put an end to it. The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that the secret program was intended to capture or kill senior Qaeda leaders. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/14/us/14intel.html?_r=1&hp

But as a former CIA counterterrorism chief told TPMmuckraker today:

"The CIA runs drones and targets al Qaeda safe houses all the time," said Cannistraro, explaining that there's no important difference between those kinds of attacks and "assassinations" with a gun or a knife.

So regardless of how you might feel about targeted assassinations, it's not at all clear why this particular program would be so radioactive -- compared to what the U.S. was, and still is, doing more or less openly -- that (1) Cheney would demand the CIA not brief Congress about it for eight years; (2) Panetta would cancel it immediately upon learning of it; and (3) Democrats would howl quite so loudly when finally informed.--David Kurtz (tpm)

 Cheney has no problem with letting out state secrets, JUST NOT THE SECRETS THAT MAKE HIM LOOK BAD.

And this bastard thought he had no duty to even tell Congress his secrets.