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Cheney should follow Bush's lead...and simply disappear
Sadly, Vice President Cheney has not followed Bush's decent example. Every time a big national security story breaks, the media trot out a remorseless, petulant Cheney to once again spew poison into our national discourse. This Sunday we were subjected to his rant about NSA spy program whistleblower Ed Snowden. Cheney called him a traitor, a likely spy, and in the corker, offered this bit of hilarious irony:
"I think he has committed crimes in effect by violating agreements given the position he had," he continued. "I think it's one of the worst occasions in my memory of somebody with access to classified information doing enormous damage to the national security interests of the United States."
In Psychological terms, Cheney is engaging in "transference", the projecting of one's own failings and flaws onto another. No one in my 60 years of following the American Story has violated agreements of his position more than Dick Cheney. His is truly one of the worst occasions of somebody with access to classified information doing enormous damage to US national security interests. In Cheney's case, he took classified information about Iraq and then twisted it into grotesque lies in order to conquer it in a murderous war of choice. He is not only a traitor, he is arguably a war criminal.
Since, the current President has ruled out his prosecution, in the interests of "looking forward, rather than backward", in violation of the Nuremburg war crime trial edicts, the least our media should do is deny him the opportunity spread his venom on the national stage.
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