Say What You Will, The Man Knows How To Keep A Secret

-By Jake T. Snake

I truly wonder how many years it is going to take to excavate the mass graves of the Bush Presidency. There are so many other shoes falling now that they are out of office and unable to keep the lid on that it is raining shoes(hums "It's Raining Men" quietly to himself). Dick Cheney lied...I did not see that coming. Now poor Leon Pannetta has to glance sheepishly into the camera and say "Remember that secret program we told you we didn't have? Well, it turns out maybe we did have just the one." This reminds me of rule I learned to use when doing drug use assessments. If someone told you they drank a six pack every night you just doubled it and surmised that you were probably still a bit short of the mark. I will bide my time quietly here until someone asks the question on my mind, which is this; How many other secret programs are you running that Congress and the President have no clue about?

Some folks are suggesting that the program may have been about "assassinating intelligence targets abroad." It isn't as though that would be a new tactic or beyond the CIAs talents.

Or maybe it was a perfectly harmless intelligence gathering program. The Washington Post as usual makes things as clear as mud. I especially enjoy the repeated assurances that the program was no big deal and if we could tell you about it you would see that as this gentleman points out. Or perhaps if there were nothing to hide you wouldn't be hiding it. People keep secrets when they know the shit they are doing is shameful, immoral or violates basic decency.

Daily Kos suggests that we may be inching closer to actual charges being filed against the thugs. 

Even stranger to contemplate is that Nancy Pelosi may not be crazy...well, not on this particular point anyway.

I feel dirty. I am going to take a shower now.

Comments

[Monica_A: An Average Bear]

[throws down fork]

Thanks for ruining lunch, Jake!

[Fleas correct the era]

There's project-management folklore (kidding, but kidding on the square) that when each person estimates how long their piece of the puzzle will take, the project plan should use an estimate that doubles their numbers and increments the unit of time measurement.

"It'll take about 4 hours, I guess." Estimate: eight days.

"Oh, say a week." Two months.

I've seldom been surprised by later news when adapting this rule to the Bush scandals. It's always worse than what we've been told. Considerably worse than twice as bad.

For what it's worth...

[flory]

Great photoshop. Yours?

My faith in politicians will be greatly restored if Holder does actually appoint a special prosecutor.

[bcf]

Tossing Cheney's 1% petard right back at him, it is easy for me to conclude the following:

People died, but eventually the plot to sneak WMD into Iraq was thwarted by some factions of the CIA;

Dich Cheney has had a supporting role in at least one terrorist attack against the United States and will continue to try to exert such influence in the future.

[CathiefromCanada]

The Bush administration thought that Democrats and journalists were traitors -- and they announced this many times -- so I'm sure the "program" involved illegal spying and ratfucking.
After all, they were protectin' the country and anything is legal if the President says it is.

[Larry]

it was a Phoenix program of assassination, torture and concentration camps like the U.S. did in Vietnam, except instead it was to be done in, you know, Phoenix!

[Mike Nilsen]

Actually, that's my movie poster photoshop from way back in the Dark Ages of the Cheney administration.

[Jake T. Snake]

And a thing of beauty it tis' Mike...