Kristol Defends Cheney, Williams Says He’s Creating A ‘Secured Undisclosed Bunker Of His Mind’

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/24/williams-kristol-cheney/

Kristol Defends Cheney, Williams Says He’s Creating A ‘Secured Undisclosed Bunker Of His Mind’

This morning on Fox News Sunday, Weekly Standard editor William Kristol defended Vice President Cheney’s decision to exempt himself from an executive order designed to safeguard classified national security information.

Kristol said the exemptions for the president and vice president were “reasonable enough.” He called it “a pain in the neck” to have “some bureaucrat” from the National Archives “come and inspect your safe to see whether you’re locking it up properly each night.”

NPR’s Juan Williams snapped back, noting that there is no text in the executive order that actually exempts Bush or Cheney. “This is all a dodge, this is a game,” Williams said, in order to “keep Dick Cheney in some kind of secured undisclosed bunker of his mind so he can’t let the American people know what’s going on with their government.” Williams charged, “He won’t tell people who’s visiting his house, who’s visiting his office. Scooter Libby is letting people know who works for the CIA as an agent. This is ridiculous.”

Watch it/transcript at link~

Kristol was the only member of the Fox News Sunday panel to defend Cheney. Fox News Washington managing editor Brit Hume called the White House explanation a “dumb excuse,” and NPR’s Mara Liasson said it “doesn’t make any sense.”

[spanone]

1. Yea Kristol, for the people to know what their leaders are up to is absurd.

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[Captain Hilts]

2. Williams is dumb as a post and he supported Clarence Thomas...

because he had his own sexual harrassment accusations at the time.

He's no match for Kristol in a debate. Fox knows that.

[11 Bravo]

5. Did you watch the clip?

Williams kicked Kristol's ass.

[Captain Hilts]

7. Yes, but it doesn't happen often. Williams needs the law stacked in his favor. nt

[opihimoimoi]

3. Convincing Proof Billy Kristol is NUTz....If this was Nazi Germany 1930's, he would fit in.

[Solly Mack]

4. If Congress yields to the actions of would-be tyrants

Who will protect them when those tyrants decide Congress is no longer needed?
...not even for the sake of appearances...

[Ilsa]

6. Sen. Feinstein also used the term "dodge". I like it. nt

[TwilightGardener]

8. That Kristol is the most vocal defender tells us the nature of what the Dick

is trying to hide--clearly something related to neocon war plans or intelligence.

[Ilsa]

9. CHRIS WALLACE: Al Gore complied with this...

So did Dick Cheney for the first two years. Why on earth would they make a fight over this?

Uh, maybe because they realize now that they have plenty to hide and the people are beginning to see through their deceptions and self-serving decisions.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

10. Sean? Rush? Here are your Babbling Points for tomorrow

"a pain in the neck”

“some bureaucrat”

“come and inspect your safe to see whether you’re locking it up properly each night.”



Now, run with them, you shameless hyenas, RUN!!

[riderinthestorm]

14. Horrified laughter at your spot-on post. Bank on those talking points tomorrow. nt

[springhill]

11. The reason he is defending the administration............

is because he is a part of it. How anyone can call him an objective journalist is beyond me. PNAC anyone?

[MissWaverly]

12. Cheney locks up his daily correspondence

it is considered top secret, that should tell you something and he needs a "man-size" safe for his
secret materials. Why, he is a public official, that should tell you something.

[Morgana LaFey]

13. Undisclosed bunker of his mind? Sounds like insanity to me.

Or poet's or novelist's description of same.

[jtrockville]

15. Why does anyone still listen to Kristol?

He's been wrong about everything.

[Nikki Stone1]

17. He's still the neocon standard bearer.

Sort of the male Anne Coulter, without the cocktail dress and with bigger boobs.

[Morgana LaFey]

16. Oh, look what I found

just for kicks and grin:

Bill Kristol: The Anti-Nostradamus
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3039018&mesg_id=3039018