Who Will Tell The President?

by digby

Writing about the latest revelations of Cheney’s criminality and the reaction in the congress, McJoan says:

Hopefully there’s enough outrage with this latest revelation, this one that made Congress look even more like Cheney’s chumps, that maybe we’ll see some real investigations. Yes, they’re busy, yes, there are important initiatives that also have to be advanced, from the Sotomayor nomination to health care reform. But in the long run, the restored health of our Constitution, of our democracy, depends on Congress taking back its power. These investigations should have happened beginning in 2007, but better late than never.

And besides that, what other shoe is out there to drop? How many more Cheney administration secrets are hiding in executive branch closets? Better Congress be proactive in finding that out.

I’d say the executive himself had better be proactive in finding that out. After finding out that Panetta wasn’t told about the secret assassination squad until June, it’s clear the executive branch itself doesn’t know( what’s hiding in the executive branch closet. (Obviously, the president didn’t know about this program either or he would have told his CIA chief about it.)

It seems to me that people should be plenty worried at this point that there are other continuing Dick Cheney programs that the president doesn’t know about. After all, Cheney has been out there for the last few months acting as if he’s running a shadow government. Maybe he is.

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