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To: combjelly who wrote (274859)2/16/2006 9:03:34 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1579728
 
re: It'd be an interesting defense. "We felt it necessary to declassify Valerie Wilson's status to publicly punish her husband"...

Yeah, and my guess is there is no paperwork involved... "if it passes my lips, it's automatically declassified".



To: combjelly who wrote (274859)2/16/2006 10:59:08 AM
From: Taro  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1579728
 
I hope you enjoy this spoof as much as I did. It's too bad Cheney didn't take Jack Abramoff quail hunting!

Taro

Breaking News
CHENEY SAYS SHOOTING OF FELLOW HUNTER WAS BASED ON FAULTY INTELLIGENCE
Believed Shooting Victim Was al-Zawahiri, Veep Says
Vice President Dick Cheney revealed today that he shot a fellow hunter
while on a quail hunting trip over the weekend because he believed the man
was the fugitive terror mastermind Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Mr. Cheney acknowledged that the man he sprayed with pellets on
Saturday was not al-Zawahiri but rather Harry Whittington, a 78-year-old millionaire
lawyer from Austin, blaming the mix-up on "faulty intelligence."
"I believed I had credible intelligence that al-Zawahiri had
infiltrated my hunting party in disguise with the intent of spraying me with pellets,"
Mr. Cheney told reporters. "Only after I shot Harry in the face and he
shouted 'Cheney, you bastard' did I realize that this intelligence was faulty."
Moments after Mr. Cheney's assault on Mr. Whittington, Mr. al-Zawahiri
appeared in a new videotape broadcast on al-Jazeera to announce that he
was uninjured in the vice president's attack because, in his words, "I was
in Pakistan."
An aide to the vice president said he believed that the American people
would believe Mr. Cheney's version of events, but added, "If he was
going to shoot any of his cronies right now it's a shame it wasn't Jack
Abramoff."
At the White House, President George W. Bush defended his vice
president's shooting of a fellow hunter, saying that the attack sent "a strong
message to terrorists everywhere."
"The message is, if Dick Cheney is willing to shoot an innocent
American citizen at point-blank range, imagine what he'll do to you," Mr. Bush
said.



To: combjelly who wrote (274859)2/16/2006 4:46:41 PM
From: tejek  Respond to of 1579728
 
"Vice President Dick Cheney says he has the power to declassify government secrets"

It'd be an interesting defense. "We felt it necessary to declassify Valerie Wilson's status to publicly punish her husband"...


Makes sense to me......after all, her husband was embarrassing the administration. Isn't tit for tat the rule of politics and leadership?