MESSAGE FROM RANDI

However, what has been all but completely ignored in his canned love-in with Fox News' Brit Hume is as follows:

Question: Let me ask you another question. Is it your view that a vice president has the authority to declassify information?

Cheney: There is an executive order to that effect.

Question: There is.

Cheney: Yes.

Question: Have you done it?

Cheney: Well, I've certainly advocated declassification and participated in declassification decisions. The executive order-

Question: You ever done it unilaterally?

Cheney: I don't want to get into that. There is an executive order that specifies who has classification authority, and obviously focuses first and foremost on the president, but also includes the vice president.

Translation: So what if I outed a covert CIA operative who specialized in WMD and may have been a crucial intel asset in Iran. I'm not only above the law, I am the law.

Wait, there's more...

Cheney: One of the problems we have as a government is our inability to keep secrets. And it costs us, in terms of our relationship with other governments, in terms of the willingness of other intelligence services to work with us, in terms of revealing sources and methods. And all of those elements enter into some of these leaks.

There are plenty of reasons to pick apart Dick Cheney's flimsy shooting story

The leaker in chief has the arrogance to wag his gnarled finger at leakers. One can only presume that he's talking about our National Security Agents, Analysts and Operatives who rejected the hideous NSA spying programs that take away our liberties each time we phone home, surf the web or write an email.

Meanwhile, HIS leaking caused an entire CIA operation, a brass plate company known as Brewster Jennings to become inoperable, useless and maybe even caused agents like Valerie Plame and others to lose their valuable assets and perhaps even their lives to protect the politically powerful from the bright light of harsh justice.

The nerve of these people is endless. SICK!

QUOTABLE GOP

Karl Rove's “I take responsibility" PR stunts in action...

Of course, the "responsibility" comes with zero consequences and only after they've blamed everyone else.

"And to the extent that the federal government didn't fully do its job right, I take responsibility."- George W. Bush - Sept 13, 2005

"I'm accountable and accept responsibility for the performance of the entire department."- Michael Chertoff - Feb 15, 2006

Hume: Who -- what caused this? What was the responsibility here? Cheney: Well, ultimately, I'm the guy who pulled the trigger that fired the round that hit Harry.- Fox News - Feb 15, 2006

Great, so now that we know who was responsible for Katrina's victims we can throw open the courtroom doors and hear the negligent homicide cases and wrongful death awards going to the good people of New Orleans right?

Yeah...That will happen right about the time Dick Cheney gets strapped to a polygraph and asked, "How freaking drunk were you when you mistook your acquaintance for a bird, Mr. Cheney?"

Shameless.

Thanks for listening!