{"id":165,"date":"2006-06-08T02:13:19","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T09:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=165"},"modified":"2006-07-25T13:41:19","modified_gmt":"2006-07-25T20:41:19","slug":"cheneys-obsession-with-secrecy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=165","title":{"rendered":"Cheney’s Obsession With Secrecy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Vice-president Dick Cheney has a well-known penchant for secrecy. Whether it’s the energy task force<\/a> he headed or his attempts to hide the facts about his shooting a friend on a hunting trip.<\/p>\n

Now he is trying to suppress a congressional investigation into the administration’s wiretapping affair. The Republican chairman of the senate Judiciary committee, Arlen Spector is accusing the VP<\/a> of interferring with the oversight responsibilities of congress. In a letter to Cheney, Spector said…<\/p>\n

“I was surprised, to say the least, that you sought to influence, really determine, the action of the committee without calling me first, or at least calling me at some point.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Spector said Cheney had lobbied Republicans to oppose the holding of any hearing, even a closed one. He argued that the telecommunications companies were “not to provide any information to the committee as they were prohibited from disclosing classified information.”<\/em><\/p>\n

These admonitions were given in advance of the hearings and represent a kind of executive prior restraint since there was no evidence that the companies intended to disclose anything of a classified nature. The administration has been working hard to keep the facts surrounding their unlawful eavesdropping from seeing the light of day. They have even cut off Justice Department<\/a> investigations by refusing to grant JD attorneys the necessary security clearances to conduct their investigation.<\/p>\n

Is this the behavior of a White House that has nothing to hide?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Vice-president Dick Cheney has a well-known penchant for secrecy. Whether it’s the energy task force he headed or his attempts to hide the facts about his shooting a friend on a hunting trip. Now he is trying to suppress a congressional investigation into the administration’s wiretapping affair. The Republican chairman of the senate Judiciary committee, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-2F","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":105,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=105","url_meta":{"origin":165,"position":0},"title":"The Memory Hole Gets Deeper","author":"Mark NC","date":"2\/21\/2006","format":false,"excerpt":"The legacy of the Bush administration may turn out to be that its greatest contribution to American productivity is its unparalleled production of secrets. 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