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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCharles Pierce: Here's a Nice Little Dick Cheney Story to Ruin Your Day
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/35495-focus-heres-a-nice-little-dick-cheney-story-to-ruin-your-dayThere's no more valuable resource for an informed citizenry than the folks doing god's work at the National Security Archive at the George Washington University. Their most recent revelations concern the Rockefeller Commission, which was formed by the Ford Administration as a reaction to the New York Times stories in 1975 that broke the news of the CIA's misdeeds, up to and including covert assassinations. It seems that kindly old Gerry and his minions did all they could to ratfck the commission's report. And, lo and behold, you'll never guess who was leading the fcking of the rats.
The Gerald Ford White House significantly altered the final report of the supposedly independent 1975 Rockefeller Commission investigating CIA domestic activities, over the objections of senior Commission staff, according to internal White House and Commission documents posted today by the National Security Archive at The George Washington University (www.nsarchive.org). The changes included removal of an entire 86-page section on CIA assassination plots and numerous edits to the report by then-deputy White House Chief of Staff Richard Cheney. Today's posting includes the entire suppressed section on assassination attempts, Cheney's handwritten marginal notes, staff memos warning of the fallout of deleting the controversial section, and White House strategies for presenting the edited report to the public. The documents show that the leadership of the presidentially-appointed commission deliberately curtailed the investigation and ceded its independence to White House political operatives.
Richard Cheney cares less about American democracy than he cares who he shoots in the face. And this has been true since he first crawled out of the primordial authoritarian soup. He would have been the perfect Hauptfuhrer, the ideal Politburo conniver. He'd have risen high in the Stasi, and Pinochet would have had him over for Scotch and electrodes at least twice a week. And the great irony of this latest expose is that we can at least partly thank Oliver Stone for it.
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)LOL
malaise
(269,004 posts)Very important
beac
(9,992 posts)our tax dollars paid to give that asshole a new heart-- a heart he got by leaping over an assuredly more deserving candidate.
I wish I believed in Hell so I could think he will burn in it someday.
bemildred
(90,061 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Fast Walker 52
(7,723 posts)FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)mountain grammy
(26,621 posts)and did in depth reporting. Then a commission is established and all investigations are left for the "committee" only to be sanitized by "good" Republicans, because that's what Republicans do... and a few Democrats too, but Cheney is one of the masters. Right up there with the Dulles brothers..
and most Americans, being so dumbed down and brainwashed, are ok with it.
AxionExcel
(755 posts)republican skuzzbucketry is endlesss
2naSalit
(86,622 posts)repossess that taxpayer funded heart he stole from someone more deserving.
dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)We already know all about Cheney, worth noting but hardly the larger issue.
We've been waiting 40 years for this info, let's focus on it.
Here's the direct link to the PDF:
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2719480/Document-19.pdf
I hope people will download it, and see what our government has done in our name.
So many of us are willfully ignorant of this side of our country. It's a gift to have this released.