{"id":741,"date":"2009-07-12T14:23:49","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T12:23:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=741"},"modified":"2009-07-12T14:24:27","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T12:24:27","slug":"dick-cheney-orders-cia-to-not-inform-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=741","title":{"rendered":"Dick Cheney Orders CIA to not inform Congress?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The news media is reporting a story<\/a> that former Vice President Dick Cheny ordered the CIA to not inform Congress about a secret, and presumably controversial, program.\u00a0 While there are almost no details about what the program is, there are, nevertheless a few interesting items of note.<\/p>\n

First and foremost, constitutionally, outside his personal staff, the vice president of the United States has no authority to order anyone to do anything.\u00a0 That doesn’t stop the president from delegating power to him or anyone else, and if all we are reading about is true, it demonstrates the enormous amount of trust President Bush placed in Mr. Cheney, and the disdain Mr. Cheney had for the democratic process, and for Congress.\u00a0 Perhaps he would say that he was protecting America’s security by withholding such information, but in the end we have to ask what sort of a government we had that he could do this and get away with it.<\/p>\n

Supposedly, the program in question has to do with some form of surveillance.\u00a0 When the Director of CIA discovered the program, he reportedly terminated it immediately and reported its existence to Congress.\u00a0 Any such breathtaking speed within the halls of government indicates that someone didn’t want to be stained with illegal activity.\u00a0 And hence this calls for an immediate investigation of what the program was, who had the authority to authorize it, and if it was illegal, who had the responsibility to stop it.<\/p>\n

And if the program was illegal, someone must go to jail, preferably multiple someones, both from the civil and appointed\/elected ranks.\u00a0 This is important so that civil service employees can’t simply say that they were following orders, and so that current and future politicos know that they cannot get away with violating peoples’ civil rights, and that their day to face justice will come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The news media is reporting a story that former Vice President Dick Cheny ordered the CIA to not inform Congress about a secret, and presumably controversial, program.\u00a0 While there are almost no details about what the program is, there are, nevertheless a few interesting items of note. First and foremost, constitutionally, outside his personal staff, … Continue reading “Dick Cheney Orders CIA to not inform Congress?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,9],"tags":[257,256],"class_list":["post-741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-security","tag-cia","tag-dick-cheney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=741"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":745,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/741\/revisions\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}