Cheney's Immunity

Congress is once again facing off with BushCo with the usual results. This time it’s John Conyers’, on whom I think we can generally count to take a morally and legally sound stance, Chair of the House Committee on the Judiciary who is seeking testimony from Whitehouse officials.

He has asked David Addington, dick Cheney’s chief of staff, to testify before his committee about the level of involvement of the vice-president’s office in decisions about interrogation methods at Guantanamo Bay.

For the full story, see: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/29/dickcheney.usa. In the process, please note that we had to go to a paper from the United Kingdom in order to read about this. Sort of adds weight to yesterday’s blog doesn’t it!?

Of course, dick’s response is the same old chestnut that his entire office is immune to Congressional investigation on the grounds that being a hybrid between the executive branch and the legislative due to his responsibilities to the president and in the Senate, he has a privilege akin to the “executive privilege” enjoyed by the presidency.

It’s all so typical of slippery regimes and so reminiscent of the Nixon Administration that it makes the bile boil for any American capable of objective analysis. This Whitehouse has been the most secretive since Nixon, too, and to me secrecy in government is about as welcome as a dagger in the back, which is what the people get every time.

Where are all the Republicans who spent millions of our tax dollars trying to pin the tail on Bill Clinton’s donkey before he finally blew it – so to speak – with Monica Lewinsky while their “leaders” are putting it – not to an intern – but to the all of us? This administration is the most openly vile and criminally active bunch ever to infest the Whitehouse, and the country is so divided along partisan lines that the little dick can pull this kind of shenanigan without fear of being burned in effigy on the Capital steps.

It’s disgusting and gets more so every day this bunch continues to hold unquestioned sway over this country. If 70% of Americans are fed up with this administration, why do they look on so silently while BushCo continues to spit on the constitution?


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