Reportedly, president Cheney met with republican senators for a Nov. 1 luncheon, I’m guessing to continue his lobbying for a CIA exemption to the anti-torture measures Senators McCain and Graham are attempting to attach, as an amendment, to legislation. The McCain/Graham amendment has been supported by all but the nuttiest nine senators, all republicans.
During the luncheon Cheney informed the assemblage of CIA operated secret prisons in various Eastern European nations, in which suspected “terrorists” could be confined, and presumably tortured, with minimal prospect of publicity. The gulags are reportedly housed in former Soviet gulags. How’s that for irony?
The day after the luncheon Dana Priest of the Washington Post, one of a few remaining real reporters, reported on the presence of the secret CIA gulags.
Aghast that such “classified” information was publicized, chief senate republican hack, Bill Frist, and the chief house republican hackster , Dennis Hastert, announced they had sent letters to the chairs of the house and senate intelligence committees asking them to launch investigations into the matter of who leaked the information of the gulags to the Washington Post.
Almost immediately, senator Trent Lott, of Mississippi, (who you will remember was deposed as senate leader by Rove and replaced by Frist) informed CNN that the leak most probably came from a republican senator, as "Every word that was said in there went right to the newspaper," he said. "We can't keep our mouths shut." Lott also reportedly said "We can not remain silent. We have met the enemy, and it is us."
It is not surprising, given their turpitude, that Frist and Hastert are more concerned with the fact the presence of the illegal gulags was leaked to the press then they are about the fact that the U. S., in all of its superior moral rectitude, is operating gulags in former Soviet era compounds.
My question is, if it is a crime to reveal the “classified” presence of the gulags, then wasn’t it a crime for Cheney to reveal their presence to an assemblage of republican senators? Not all senators, as I understand, have the necessary clearance to receive classified information. Can someone elucidate this matter?
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