Charles Pierce: Here's a Nice Little Dick Cheney Story to Ruin Your Day

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/35495-focus-heres-a-nice-little-dick-cheney-story-to-ruin-your-day

There's no more valuable resource for an informed citizenry than the folks doing god's work at the National Security Archive at the George Washington University. Their most recent revelations concern the Rockefeller Commission, which was formed by the Ford Administration as a reaction to the New York Times stories in 1975 that broke the news of the CIA's misdeeds, up to and including covert assassinations. It seems that kindly old Gerry and his minions did all they could to ratfck the commission's report. And, lo and behold, you'll never guess who was leading the fcking of the rats.

The Gerald Ford White House significantly altered the final report of the supposedly independent 1975 Rockefeller Commission investigating CIA domestic activities, over the objections of senior Commission staff, according to internal White House and Commission documents posted today by the National Security Archive at The George Washington University (www.nsarchive.org). The changes included removal of an entire 86-page section on CIA assassination plots and numerous edits to the report by then-deputy White House Chief of Staff Richard Cheney. Today's posting includes the entire suppressed section on assassination attempts, Cheney's handwritten marginal notes, staff memos warning of the fallout of deleting the controversial section, and White House strategies for presenting the edited report to the public. The documents show that the leadership of the presidentially-appointed commission deliberately curtailed the investigation and ceded its independence to White House political operatives.

Richard Cheney cares less about American democracy than he cares who he shoots in the face. And this has been true since he first crawled out of the primordial authoritarian soup. He would have been the perfect Hauptfuhrer, the ideal Politburo conniver. He'd have risen high in the Stasi, and Pinochet would have had him over for Scotch and electrodes at least twice a week. And the great irony of this latest expose is that we can at least partly thank Oliver Stone for it.

[FreakinDJ]

1. Cheney cares less about American democracy than he cares who he shoots in the face

LOL

[malaise]

2. Get thee to the greatest page

Very important

[beac]

3. It pisses me off more than I can say that

our tax dollars paid to give that asshole a new heart-- a heart he got by leaping over an assuredly more deserving candidate.

I wish I believed in Hell so I could think he will burn in it someday.

[bemildred]

4. Yep it was the same group of crooks both times. nt

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. sadly, we have come to learn that Gov't reports are pretty much not to be trusted. n/t

[Fast Walker 52]

6. not surprising... Cheney is about as evil a psychopath as had ever held office in this country

[FailureToCommunicate]

7. "Pinochet would have had Cheney over for Scotch and electrodes at least twice a week"

[mountain grammy]

8. Yes, remember when the NYT actually "broke stories"

and did in depth reporting. Then a commission is established and all investigations are left for the "committee" only to be sanitized by "good" Republicans, because that's what Republicans do... and a few Democrats too, but Cheney is one of the masters. Right up there with the Dulles brothers..
and most Americans, being so dumbed down and brainwashed, are ok with it.

[AxionExcel]

9. k and r

republican skuzzbucketry is endlesss

[2naSalit]

10. Time to

repossess that taxpayer funded heart he stole from someone more deserving.

[dreamnightwind]

11. Let's focus on the CIA activities!

We already know all about Cheney, worth noting but hardly the larger issue.

We've been waiting 40 years for this info, let's focus on it.

Here's the direct link to the PDF:

https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2719480/Document-19.pdf

I hope people will download it, and see what our government has done in our name.

So many of us are willfully ignorant of this side of our country. It's a gift to have this released.

[spanone]

12. if there's a hell.....