Here’s an odd thought I’ve been mulling over: Dick Cheney’s name hasn’t come up at all throughout the entire prosecutor purge scandal. No one has suggested he orchestrated the firings; there haven’t been any obvious references to the Office of the Vice President in any of the emails or related documents; and there doesn’t seem to be any evidence that Cheney was even consulted on who would get fired.<\/p>\n
Isn’t that odd?<\/p>\n
By that I mean, have we seen a single White House scandal since 2001 that didn’t<\/i> directly involve Dick Cheney? Iraq, Plame leak, NSA warrantless searches, pre-9\/11 intelligence, the energy task force, Halliburton’s no-bid contracts, Abu Ghraib … Dick Cheney has been at the center of practically every White House catastrophe to date.<\/p>\n
And yet, the Justice Department and the White House counsel’s office seem to have purged federal prosecutors for political reasons without any direction from the Vice President at all.<\/p>\n
I’m not sure how to interpret this. Is Cheney losing his grip over White House decisions? Was Cheney directly involved in the firings, but we just haven’t heard about it yet?<\/p>\n
It just doesn’t seem right that the Vice President isn’t connected in some<\/em> way….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here’s an odd thought I’ve been mulling over: Dick Cheney’s name hasn’t come up at all throughout the entire prosecutor purge scandal. No one has suggested he orchestrated the firings; there haven’t been any obvious references to the Office of the Vice President in any of the emails or related documents; and there doesn’t seem […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}