Beware the Chenesaw

[Doc]

Wow, it's amazing, every news feed that picks up on the fact that Cheney is infact a raging alcoholic (tossed out of Yale, a couple of DUIs, and reportedly does a lot of drinking on the job) has the story scrubbed and cleaned up within hours of reporting it.

It's like some unknown force is trying to clean up some big mess and make everything and clean and tidy. I wonder who would do that, and why? Hmmm?

Add to the fact that the Secret Service themselves were the ones who prevented the local badges from questioning the VP "fearing for his safety".

This is where the hunting accident "incident" becomes a serious matter. The role played by the Secret Service in preventing questioning of Cheney on the evening of the shooting becomes takes on new significance. If Cheney was in any way impaired at the time of the shooting, it was certainly to the vice president's advantage put off the official investigation until the next morning.

Cheney may be able to say, unequivocally, that he was not in an impaired condition when he shot Whittington. But he does now need to start speaking to this precise issue and to all of the other questions that have been raised -- and, no, it is not enough for the vice president to take a few softballs on Fox News, the administration's house network, as the White House crisis management team arranged for him to do at 2 p.m. ET Wednesday.

When legitimate questions arise regarding the role that the Secret Service might have played in undermining the investigation of a shooting in order to protect the vice president from embarrassment, and possible legal charges, those issues have to be addressed fully and completely. And they must be addressed in a setting where reporters are able to press the notoriously cagey Cheney to actually answer all of the questions that are asked.

Up to now, the whole "hunting-accident" controversy has been little more than a diversion from more serious matters involving Cheney -- not least among these, the investigation into whether the vice president authorized the release of classified information as part of a scheme to discredit critics of the administration's rush to war. But if Cheney used his Secret Service unit to prevent a necessary and proper official inquiry at a time when it might have uncovered relevant information regarding his condition when he shot a man, then the vice president has abused his office in a most serious manner.

The prospect that such an abuse occurred requires Cheney and any White House aides who were involved in "managing" the story -- put Karl Rove at the top of this list -- to stop stonewalling and provide a detailed explanation of their actions in the hours that followed the shooting incident. This is certainly not the only issue on which the vice president needs to come clean, but it is no longer a joking matter -- or, more precisely, it is no longer merely a joking matter.

Taken from a news feed before it becomes scrubbed. We can already see some clear evidence that somebody is scared enough to abuse their power and have this whole thing sanitised. I wonder what sort of threat it takes to silence the media. Perhaps they are worried about looking weak in the terrorist's eyes... Or maybe the current administration firmly believes that the public needs to be protected from the truth... Just like it needs to be protected by having illegal wiretaps.

Anyhoo, what sort of heat are they packing to quiet the media so effectively I wonder? Maybe Rove is threating to have people killed again.