Cheney: National security top priority (criticizes NYT)

[sabra]

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http://www.crgazette.com/2006/07/17/Home/cheney.htm

Cheney: National security top priority

DES MOINES, IA - Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that the war on terror should be a top priority in this year's midterm election, warning that Democrats can't be trusted to keep the nation safe.

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"The president and I welcome the discussion,'' Cheney said. "Every voter needs to know where every candidate for federal office stands.''

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Cheney also criticized news organizations, which have published secret information about the government's monitoring of terrorist activities. He said publication of the information makes it more difficult to protect America.

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"These kind of stories simply alert the terrorists as to what we're doing,'' Cheney said. "The leak to the New York Times and the publishing of those leaks are very damaging to the national interests.''

[rodeodance]

1. same ol, same ol..............

[AndyA]

2. Mr. Cheney, in your own words, "Fuck yourself."

It's the Republicans who can't be trusted to keep the nation safe.

Under Republican leadership, 9/11 was allowed to happen. We all know about the PDB warning that terrorists were determined to attack us using air craft, to which the REPUBLICANS DID NOTHING IN RESPONSE.

We've seen the mess the REPUBLICANS have created over in Iraq.

We've seen how willing REPUBLICANS have been to sell off our ports to a country we shouldn't trust. We know we shouldn't trust them because REPUBLICANS TOLD US SO.

So, go Fuck Yourself.

[msongs]

3. cheney's job 1 is making money for halliburton war profiteers

he is incredibly disengenuous to say that terrorists have no clue we are spying on them in every way possible until they read about it a bush administration approved article in the NYT or Wall Street Journal.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/6for2008.htm

[NanceGreggs]

4. What an idiot ...

"These kind of stories simply alert the terrorists as to what we're doing."

Yeah, Dick-wad, I'm sure no one WOULD EVER have guessed someone might tap their phones, or look into their banking transactions - things even small-time crooks have known since the dawn of banking and the invention of the telephone.

I think Dick spends too much time with Bush. As a result, he's come to believe that EVERYONE is THAT stupid.

[goforit]

9. By the way,What ever happenned to that spy who downloaded classified

information in Cheney's office?

It was in the paper then the story died.

[w4rma]

5. Mr. 18% popularity comes out of hiding to yell at everyone.

Noone likes or listens to this guy anymore except to find out what sinister scheme or con he's working on next.

[truthisfreedom]

6. *yawn* that's old news, shotgun.

[superconnected]

7. Gee, 911 happened under a repig for a president.

Sounds like the typical hypocrisy. It's amazing the devil hasn't come for his soul yet. Mr. Cheney, I'm sure you're needed in hell.

[kurth]

8. Go fuck yourself, murdering asshole

[Sherman A1]

10. Two words Mr Cheney

"Horse Hockey"

[bdamomma]

14. two more words for cheney

which he used on senator leahy, FUCK YOU.

[mainer]

11. "national security" = protecting Americans, right?

So why the hell don't you care about the 25,000 Americans trapped in Lebanon, Mr. Cheney?

[mod mom]

12. If national security was his top priority, why did he cherry pick intel to

start a war which caused a huge proliferation of terrorism and a massive debt? His actions are about profiteering.

[bdamomma]

13. I just hope Americans will not fall into the trap

of Cheney's cry for FEAR, FEAR AND MORE FEAR.

Hopefully, Americans know they have been through this before, we are more suspectible to terror now than before we are making many enemies no thanks to these thugs in office.

[Maeve]

15. What about the Wall Street Journal?

Only "leaks" printed in "leftie" papers are to be feared, right, Dick?

[cureautismnow]

16. Really? Outing a CIA Agent to exact revenge against her husband and ...

... leaking classified information to bolster your rush-to-war defense were in the best interests of "national security"? Your personal security is top priority and trumps American security, bunker-boy.

[Catrina]

17. Bush/Cheney leaked the ID of the Al Queda double agent for political

purposes before the 2004 election. He was the only human 'mole' intelligence agencies had and Bush et al blew his cover in 2004 infuriating British and Pakistani intelligence agencies.

Check out this excellent diary from Daily Kos ~ this leak may have led to the London bombing! Every news outlet in the country should be asking Cheney about this. I hope the NYT will publish a reminder of this, the worst national security leak in the past few years.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/7/17/92933/1106

From Juan Cole, linked in the above diary:

It turns out that both the United Kingdom and Pakistan are extremely angry with Bush for going public with the details gleaned from the computers of Khan and Ghailani.


In an article for the Observer, British Home Secretary David Blunkett lashed out at the Bush White House over last Sunday's announcement by Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge of an old al-Qaeda plot against financial institutions in New York and Washington. Blunkett writes, ...it is important to be able to distinguish if there is a meaningful contribution that helps to secure us from terrorism. And to understand if there isn't. And there are very good reasons why we shouldn't reveal certain information to the public...


Blunkett's measured tones barely disguise his fury at the Bush administration for having gone public with details that have endangered an ongoing British investigation and forced the premature arrest of twelve suspects, against whom it is not clear a case can be made at this point...

This should be spread far and wide, if Cheney wants to make an issue of 'leaks' that threaten National Security. He must surely want whoever did this prosecuted for treason???

[tabasco]

18. The Bush/Cheney team apparently wants us to get nuked.

WHY IN HELL did they compromise our top spy operation to detect movement of nuclear materials????

WHY, Mr. Cheney???

We have a traitorous mafia running our country and the shocking thing is they have over 30% support!!!

[area51]

19. "National Security is top priority"?

Really, Tricky Dick "go fuck yourself" Cheney? Then why are our borders unguarded, & why aren't you having shipping containers inspected, why are busses & trucks not being inspected, why do you want a superhighway that can take hazardous materials straight from Mexico to Canada?

The reason why is because republinazis want another 9/11 to happen.

The traitors in this country are all members of the republinazi party.

[bennywhale]

20. Security top priority????

No, thats why democratic countries have a system of checks and balances so security for example can be balanced against other concerns like oooh i dunno freedom, liberty, free speech, a free press. Wacky ideas.

What a fucking moron. If that the case why not just chip us all and chip everyone that enters the country, problem solved.

WHY??? cos that would be a totalitarian nightmare. security is only priority my ass

[The_Casual_Observer]

21. Childish behavior. He knows as well as everybody else that the

NYT info was well known for years & that if there were any terrorists they would have long ago used other means to shuffle money. I find his posturing on these things to be an insult to the collective intelligence of the citizens of this country.

[laylah]

22. A local LTTE hit

the nail on the head:

Is this the same Dick Cheney who is being sued by Valerie Plame for outing her as a CIA agent to get revenge on her husband for telling the truth about the “yellow cake uranium” in Africa?

Is this the same Dick Cheney whose former employer, Haliburton, through its subsidiary, Kellogg, Brown and Root, is having its no-bid contracts pulled because it charged the military $100 a bag for laundry and $45 a case for soda?

Is this the same Dick Cheney who is chomping at the bit to send our young men and women into battle, but when it was his turn managed to get at least five draft deferments?

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