Cheney still pushes claim he's not part of executive branch

Yesterday, the Bush administration failed to meet the deadline for subpoenas from the Senate. That's really not a surprise. However, Dick Cheney sent separate responses and apparently still contends he's not part of the executive branch:

Vice President Dick Cheney’s office on Monday responded separately from the White House to a Senate subpoena for documents on warrantless wiretapping and resurrected the controversial contention that Cheney is not part of the executive branch.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) set Monday’s subpoena deadline after granting an extension request by the White House. Presidential counsel Fred Fielding, as expected, told Leahy in a letter that a second delay, until after Labor Day, would help Congress and the administration “expeditiously seek a means of accommodation that will negate the need for an assertion of executive privilege.”

So is Cheney refusing to answer a subpoena from his Senate colleagues? He really thinks he is a fourth branch of government.

Mr. Cheney's Job...

Perhaps the Vice President should live up to his words and
start his official "on-point" Constitutional duty #1, i.e.
as the President of the Senate; being there 99% of the time. This will focus him on what the U.S. Constitution specifically says he should be doing, and as such he would still be in the "gang of eight" which would keep him in the "loop". I find this to be the legal solution to his description of not being part of the Executive branch,
effective immediately! He is NOT the co-President of the United States until (G-d forbid)he may ever need to be sworn
in as such, but here too, according to the Constitution of the United States. Oh, he will be subject to Senate rules,
and cannot pull the "executive privilege card". He can't have
it both ways.

Possible explanation on request for delay & Rove comments

I can think of only one reason why a "delay until after Labor Day would help Congress and the Administration expeditiously seek a means of accommodation that will negate the need for an assertion of executive priviledge": indictments finally are to be brought against Dustin Foggo--former Executive Director of the CIA and Randall Cunningham's coconspirator # 1, Brent Wilkes by US DOJ's D.C. Grand Jury! A year ago it was leaked US DOJ in D.C. anticipated it would bring indictments against this duo by the end of last September. The info to come out on Wilkes' intelligence contracts and access to intelligence info from Foggo he could use to benefit President Putin is going to make every American want to puke! This is why even though there aren't bribery charges attached to the persuading a private security installer to work with Wilkes and Foggo, the San Diego indictments of this duo gave mention three times to that situation!

Everyday Wilkes-Foggo damage is in my face! My mother needed a clock radio for a guest room and I offered one that works but isn't worth taking with me when I move soon. I went to my guest room less than an hour ago for it and all I found left of it was on a floor a piece of its clear plastic. It too, must have had a 10 mm or 3.5 mm camera in it! I am missing 2 phone handsets. One...it came from my grandmother's house and was given to me shortly before she died last fall. There must have been contraband in that handset because I sometimes used my grandparents' telephones 10 miles away from my home office!

Who am I...someone who didn't see the same dollar signs Wilkes did when President Putin made lucrative financial (financing and buyout) offers to take control of the company I for the most part, co-own with its CEO. The only thing the CEO and I saw was a mob boss sending an operative to take-up residence on the CEO's couch in Germany for more than 1 1/2 years while he worked on a market invasion of new technology, who Putin later had murdered because his operative failed to persuade the CEO to compromise on his ethics! The CEO and I lost every shred of privacy, right down to what we look like unclothed during Wilkes' plight to snatch control of our company for Putin! In the 76 pp FBI document Sign on San Diego posted to the internet many weeks ago, Cunningham's coconspirator # 2, Mitchell Wade told how Cunningham told him coconspirator # 3, Kontogiannis was connected to the mob and has many Russian businesses. With the indictments of Wilkes and Foggo, congressional earmarks will be viewed in a more unfavorable light than in all of history! If it is the Wilkes-Foggo indictments Fielding wants Congress to wait for, it will be proven the blame regarding the surveillance programs is shared between Congress and the White House staff. Both controlled NSA since Congress controlled its budget!

As for Rove, I should be leaving a comment belated to when bloggers posted comments at CREW's website last week. Everyone missed another resignation that likely is linked and happened only 3 days before Rove's resignation...

It is my belief Rove is kicking-up his feet come September (likely after Labor Day) to think about what he would like to do with the rest of his life, because he is to be confined to a jail cell. His regret to have not pushed-out corrupt Republican members of congress sooner is just a way to pass the buck on his crimes! He knew what he was doing and he betrayed the president and their 30 year friendship in addition to betraying the public's trust.

In November of 2004 when Tom Ridge's resignation first was announced, General Hayden told Fox News as a first explanation it was because Ridge had failed to fund the next generation of technologies. While we always had a German launch, we had done all we could to remain US-based. The CEO always flew on round-trip tickets. Days before Ridge's resignation we blew the dust off of a 15 mos. old German financing package, the CEO flew to Germany for the first time in our history on a one-way ticket and we were becoming an ex-pat company in breach of the Buy American laws Congress established for the US DHS.

I want to emphasize...Bush fired Ridge in retaliation for his actions that made us quit the US and what I am building up to is how Rove undermined that!

2 1/2 to 3 weeks after the announcement of Ridge's resignation Fox News again interviwed General Hayden and this time he said Ridge couldn't be given another chance because he had failed to dedicate staff to medium and long-term planning. When asked why, General Hayden would say no more of the subject matter. In good time...expect Ridge's indictment apart of a conspiracy that included Wilkes, Foggo and Lockheed Martin.

Our German offer was sabaotaged by phony State Dept officials (Wilkes-Foggo related--they bribed the officials using...your taxpayer money!) and it was an opportunity for Chertoff to get done what Ridge hadn't. Instead, the second stage review was begun even after we had opened our doors instead in France and soon accepted an interest free loan from its government. Chertoff always had the opportunity to bring our RnD operations home and didn't!

In the second stage review it came out that the DHS needed an Office of Strategic Plans. This was something that of course, General Hayden and the NSA knew by 12/04!

Someone finally was hired to run the Office of Strategic Plans just over a year ago. Last September I could tell he wasn't integrating my company's platform into medium and long-term plans, explained why in email to the CEO and next thing I knew...the Assistant Secretary resigned the following week.

July 9, 2007 the DHS finally updated its website to tell who was the Acting replacement. I discovered this 7/16/07 and immediately called and had to leave a message. No one returned my phone call. On 7/23/07 I called early in the morning and was told by the office manager that Chertoff had excluded medium and long-term planning for newer identification credentials to be incorporated into the US DHS' programs. Keep in mind, the Office of Strategic Plans came to be first and foremost as a result of Ridge's being fired, to incorporate our platform into DHS programs!

The following week when it was announced the Office of Policy General Counsel had been named Deputy Assistant Secretary, I called him. In passing, he told me that he isn't supposed to speak with the inventors. This could mean one thing: he's only permitted to speak with the wannabe intellectual property infringers. The CEO and I are very aware Lockheed has stolen obsolete source code and digital wallets from when it took-over a Wilkes secret CIA contract. I made certain that the new Deputy Assistant Secretary for Planning was made aware there is a pattern that only companies majority owned by Russian Mafia were awarded DHS contracts AND that there was information released to suggest that the Mob were the true financiers, along with its FSS member allies as trainers of, 911 hijackers and homegrown terror cells in western democracies. The Russian Mafia-FSS seemed to be skimming dividend revenue to siphon some of it back into homegrown terror cells so that we would keep renewing contracts in the Mafia-owned investment companies.

Also, keep in mind that by 1/06 journalists were writing that the Bush Administration only was awarding DHS contracts to its largest campaign contributors. Later, there were accusations from journalists that Rove had politicized federal contracting. Finally, keep in mind that Congress has been trying to learn where besides the GSA Rove held strategy meetings with contracting officers required to remain party-neutral, to help Republican candidates in 2006 mid-term elections as a violation of the Hatch Act.

Republican candidates were campaigning for the 2006 mid-term elections in 2005!

On 8/10...so just over a week after my phone call to the DHS Office of Policy, Eric Leckey's resignation was announced. He was Associate Director of the White House Liaison office to the US DHS. Leckey only graduated from college in 2002 and that same year was appointed to the Homeland Security Advisory Council!!! He had held his WH liaison post since February of 2003! He's a youngster who may never have undergone ethics training!

Three days later, Rove's resignation was announced and I can take a guess Leckey did something like Will Heaton did with regard to wearing a wire. My company is not one of the administration's largest campaign contributors. They only way we could have been is had we accepted the Kremlin's financing offer and laundered their money into campaign contributions to serve as bribes as other homeland defense suppliers did!

Bush fired Goss (5/5/06) for having hired Foggo at a time when it was discovered by federal law enforcement Foggo and Wilkes had planted a coup within our French office.

Now Rove is gone and any tears the press stated Bush shed is probably because of Rove's betrayal of Bush and Bush's utter frustration with Rove; Rove undermined why Ridge and Goss were fired when he violated the Hatch Act with the US DHS once it was under Chertoff's control!

Rove has said he hopes to get into teaching at some point. There isn't a faculty in this country that wouldn't want Rove now, so why the doubt in his words? Perhaps it is because if my guess is correct, that he's to be indicted and fears academia no longer will find him desireable? Rove says Bush ordered him to write a book. Will Rove's confessional appease Bush and become his get-out-of-jail card (pardon)?

Rove's words since his resignation first was announced aren't that of a remorseful man! By violating the Hatch Act, Rove created an embarrassing situation where the US DHS was awarding contracts to companies with Putin's crime gang members as major shareholders and it seems were behind our being attacked from the start. There always will be those who hate the US and Democracy. Of that group, the only ones we need to be concerned with are the ones who have the financial means to harm us, as well as the financial incentive.

By violating the Hatch Act and having contracts awarded to companies (overpaid in their Russian subsidiaries) and lobbyists' clients who were the administration's largest contributors (laundering the mob's contributions), Karl Rove became a Putin operative! Rove was supposed to be Bush's right hand and instead was Putin's! Our President has passed himself off as a good Christian. While to be a good Christian (and Jew) is to show the power to forgive, if Rove's book isn't a confessional of where he went wrong, I don't think this president will let Rove go free at the end of his (Bush's) presidency. Nowhere in the Bible (or Torah) does it say you should allow yourself to be made a fool and Rove's words since his resignation hint he expects to one more time take advantage of the president's goodwill.

On a final note...President Bush made a campaign promise for the 2000 election to reduce the size of government and end public corruption. Karl Rove undermined the former with his violations of the Hatch Act and how better could a president keep a campaign promise to end corruption than to step aside when one of his closest advisors is guilty of public corruption? So many write-ups have called Bush a lame-duck. I beg to differ! It is human nature to protect one's friends. I think the president might be coming to realize Rove's concern was for the Republican Party and keeping a Republican dominated Congress, and not at all for the president's policies. Bush seems only to have learned Rove was working for Putin while betraying his (Bush) and the public's trust.

It takes a strong man to be willing to let this all come-out. Putin's solution every time the Duma (Russian parliament) calls an investigation is to order the murder of the investigators, one-by-one. Putin is a weak man! He can't handle criticism. Bush knows US DOJ's investigations (remember that searches on [Republican] congresspersons homes would require US AG Gonzales' approval) will picture the Republicans and his administration in an unfavorable light. Yet, he's taking his summer holiday before he must return to the White House and show after Labor Day how strong he is to not have engaged in a cover-up. Only a strong man is willing to admit his and his administration/team's faults so that it goes down in the history books as a lesson to be learned for all future generations and that bad history never is to be repeated!

more garbage

It is Bush's personal defects which brought this nation to this point. He was in charge and his weak stupidity caused this.

It is Bush's naive actions.....

And foolishness, in not giving a care in the world that allowed them to do all of this to begin with.

It was so obvious from the start, that if Cheney had never been selected or become "President".....none of this may have ever happened.

They'll have to write history books about how corrupt this whole box is, including Shillary Clinton above all.

Naive?..foolish?

Guilty the jury will say.

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