Time to impeach Cheney

With Chimpeachment to follow. Former chief of staff to Colin Powell Lawrence Wilkerson, has gone off again. He told NPR:

... he had traced a trail of memos and directives authorizing questionable detention practices up through Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's office directly to Cheney's staff.

"The secretary of defense under cover of the vice president's office," Wilkerson said, "regardless of the president having put out this memo" - "they began to authorize procedures within the armed forces that led to what we've seen."

He said the directives contradicted a 2002 order by President George W. Bush for the U.S. military to abide by the Geneva conventions against torture.

"There was a visible audit trail from the vice president's office through the secretary of defense, down to the commanders in the field," authorizing practices that led to the abuse of detainees, Wilkerson said.
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Wilkerson also told National Public Radio that Cheney's office ran an "alternate national security staff" that spied on and undermined the president's formal National Security Council.


He said National Security Council staff stopped sending e-mails when they found out Cheney's staff members were reading their messages.


He said he believed that Cheney's staff prevented Bush from seeing a National Security Council memo arguing strongly that the United States needed many more troops for the March 2003 invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Cheney's favorable rating is now 19%, although probably three times that amongst our supposed representatives. He really needs to be tossed out on his pacemaker.