Lawyer: Cheney visitor logs not recorded

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

By PETE YOST
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — A lawyer for Vice President Dick Cheney told
the Secret Service in September to eliminate data on who visited
Cheney at his official residence, a newly disclosed letter states.

The Sept. 13, 2006, letter from Cheney’s lawyer says logs for
Cheney’s residence on the grounds of the Naval Observatory are
subject to the Presidential Records Act.

Such a designation prevents the public from learning who visited
the vice president.

Read more: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1151AP_Cheney_Secrecy.html

[Uben]

1. He has friends?

Who woulda thunk it?

[Double T]

5. NO friends........

Only accomplices.

[brentspeak]

9. ...

:thumbsup:

[arewenotdemo]

12. such as Michael Ledeen

I wonder where they forged the Niger docs?

[Supersedeas]

35. using the State's Secrets laws for avoid personal culpability -- Repigs

[ryanmuegge]

37. His friends are the only people that really matter, anyway.

They're the ones that actually create policy.

They do it in secret and apparently we don't need to know about anything.

[jimshoes]

2. Son of a bitch,

thinks the USA is his to do with as he pleases. Who pays this pigs salary anyway?

[bullimiami]

3. they believe we serve their ruling class.

[Barrett808]

6. Who pays his salary? Well, Halliburton, actually. n/t

[sutz12]

10. Bullshit....I probably pay more taxes than Halliburton. nt

[Barrett808]

34. I meant Halliburton pays Cheney directly -- "deferred compensation" they call it

I forget how much, but I think it's in the neighborhood of a million bucks per year.

[tandot]

13. I don't think he would need the salary WE pay him. He makes enough through Halliburton

[DemGa]

4. What's he hiding???

Cheney is fortunate we have no media to inquire.

[Morgana LaFey]

17. What's he hiding? Why, everything, absolutely everything. nt

[BootinUp]

7. Outrageous.

Lord help us to prevent such crooks and criminals in the WH ever again.

[superconnected]

8. Isn't it sad that there are people in the world that...

actually deserve heartattacks.

I hope he dies.

[Kikosexy2]

14. May he choke...

while eating his grandchild..that evil Satanic Mofo...

[Trillo]

11. Can We, as in Citizens, get out of all the big brother databases

that seem to be compiling all sorts of information on each of us?

If not, then "Effin Hypocrits!" Cheney has to go: Impeach the dude.

[xxqqqzme]

15. '...ain't no hearses w/ luggage racks...'

[Trillo]

23. I cannot imagine the usefulness of luggage racks

in the situation you describe under the context I laid out.

Care to explain?

[laylah]

16. I wish the pain and suffering

he has caused on wo/man here and abroad, visited on him and his, to include his children and grandchildren, a million fold~! What an evil POS!

[libodem]

18. Why should he?

He is busy doing Halliburton Business, who has time to mind the shop operations. Plus can you even imagine the list of unsavory characters whom must darken his doorway. Creepy. Yeah, he's runnin' his own business and we can just mind ours. If he were ever to be fully given oversight, I'll wager he never does any actual Washington duties. He's busing using the second highest office in the land to secure mighty no-bid contracts for GOP loyalist Companies. Betcha! A million dollars. George is just his Ass puppet. And is that hand ever up there high.

[NickB79]

19. Quick, where's Jeff Gannon?

Didn't he make a lot of visits to the White House to conduct "interviews"?

[Toots]

20. What a joke, Presidential Papers Act doesn't lock papers up it demands the release of them

It states all Presidential records must be released after twelve years after that President leaves office but may be released eight years after leaving office but Bush* re-wrote Congressional Law by Decree so he wouldn't have to release any of Reagan's or his father's papers. It does not say papers can not be released. Especially if subpoenaed.

[Thor_MN]

26. Wrong, that was one of *'s first executive orders, to kill the release of St. Ronnie's papers

If St. Ronnie's and Poppie's papers were released, think of all the damage to the GOP. * had to reverse all the Post Nixon legislation as quickly as he could.

I would like to see a Constitutional Amendment mandating the conservation of and release in 8 years of all Presidential documents. Preferably with language to prevent executive ordering loopholes around the clear intent of the legislation.

The American President should govern with the knowledge that all secrets will be revealed, probably within their lifespan.

[KoKo]

21. Thanks for the post...we know they are ABOVE THE LAW...

though. THEY WRITE REALITY...and the rest of us will FOLLOW! (according to Ron Susskind's book out a few years ago.) :-(

[spanone]

22. He should be impeached cause he's such an arrogant ASSHOLE.

History will not be kind to the people who allowed this shit to happen.

[The Backlash Cometh]

24. Didn't Clinton's lawyer serve time for doing something similar?

Why isn't Cheney's lawyer feeling the heat from his Bar Assoc.?

[badgervan]

25. Remember That Truck?

Wasn't it around the time of this letter that a large transport truck was seen backed up to cheney's house for a couple of days? It got very little coverage, but I remember thinking that this can't be good - or legal. I doubt it was stuff for Goodwill being removed from the premises.

[vanboggie]

27. Yes! The shredder truck. n/t

[Ian David]

28. Jeff Gannon or Jack Abramoff? n/t

[catgirl]

32. How about an "employee" of the DC Madam?

I'm sure he could have used a "massage".

[CJCRANE]

29. The man behind the curtain n/t

[truthisfreedom]

30. The closed-doors zero-transparency "we can do whatever we want neener-neener" administration strikes

again.

[Bandit]

31. If it is subject to Presidential Papers Act it would be a crime to eliminate data.

This article makes no sense at all.

[donkeyotay]

33. Arrrgh! L O A T H S O M E war profiteering spawn of Satan

:argh:

[mitchum]

36. Trying to imagine how long the wait will be to piss on his grave

probably will have to get reservations months in advance

[Honeycombe8]

38. And the Secret Service did it? Just like that? Without getting...

approval from some governmental authority? Oh, wait...they would ask approval from......the U.S. Attorney!

Rove widened the records to be incl. in the Pres. Records to include wider than the records historically included. How he got away with it boggles my mind. Aren't the kinds of records to be included listed in some law somewhere? If not, why not?

And if the visitor records are part of the Pres. Records, why would they be deleted or "unrecorded"? They should be especially recorded, right? Just not available to the public.

I would say I'd like Congress to correct some of this records manipulation, but it doesn't look like the Dems have enough votes to do it.

[Nihil]

39. Cheney takes the Andersen defence ...

... if anyone investigates, shred the evidence and shrug your shoulders.

It would be funny if only their actions weren't killing people all around
the globe.

> I would say I'd like Congress to correct some of this records
> manipulation, but it doesn't look like the Dems have enough
> votes to do it.

They haven't got enough spine to do it either.

[Honeycombe8]

42. Yes, you're right about the Congressional Dems.

I was just trying to be nice. :shrug:

[mahatmakanejeeves]

40. I wonder if the sperm donor for his latest grandson is among them.

.

[classysassy]

41. Wake up America

and hold the dems accountable for letting those mad men in this mis admin get away with criminal acts.