Cheney has been trying to hide from this case for a while now:
The office of Vice President Dick Cheney is seeking to block the release of videotaped depositions given by two aides who witnessed a physical encounter between an Iraq war opponent and Cheney.
In a motion filed Saturday, Cheney’s office contended that the videotapes could be used to invade the privacy and embarrass two aides called to testify about the encounter in a civil lawsuit.
The motion for a protective order expressed particular concern that both aides’ faces could wind up on YouTube.com. The plaintiff, Steven Howards of Golden, is suing Secret Service agents who arrested him after he approached Cheney at a Beaver Creek mall in 2006 and told the vice president his policies in Iraq were “disgusting.”
Eagle County prosecutors dismissed a criminal charge of harassment filed against Howards.
This case was a travesty against our civil liberties and the First Amendment. Do you think the Secret Service would have reacted like this if Howards was a Cheney/Iraq war supporter? Molly Ivins dedicates a chapter to this case in her wonderful book called “Bill of Wrongs.” You can read more about the case here.
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Wil somebody impeach this zombie? What unanimates them? Is it salt or a silver cross? Whatever, lets get it done.
Thanks John!!! IMPEACH this traitor.
We can’t see the tapes because according to Dick it would “invade the privacy and embarass two aides?” Why didn’t Nixon try that excuse during Watergate?
“Well, I’d like to release the White House tapes, but I wouldn’t want to embarass Haldeman because man, that guy really gets raunchy sometimes.”
We’re supposed to have public trials in America.
The video “could wind up on YouTube.com.,” where any citizen could see them.
Yes, that would be in keeping with American values.
I just finished Molly’s last book today. Beautifully done and tough. Steven Howards and others like him who have been wronged must keep fighting. The book and the stories inspired me. Thanks for the diary.
BoyHowdy, would I love to see Cheney’s impeachment on YouTube!!
So the possibility of the aides being “embarrassed” on Youtube is more important than the 1st Amendment? Wow, I never knew that.
Methinks Cheney’s afraid he’d look like the chickens**t ass he truly is.
I hadn’t heard of this before. Someone charged for saying “reprehensible” to Dead-eye Dick? Seriously, who the hell do these pukes think they are? Wilting lilies with an attitude problem?
I like how their privacy matters, but not our privacy.
what is it with this jackass that no one ever challenges him…?
i remember once having respect for wolf blitzer when he covered desert storm in iraq and then having that respect vanish the moment cheney stared him down on a question he refused to answer about reconciling his political position with his personal life…
that frakhead should be tarred and feathered… impeachment is too soft a punishment for him… even if it were to land him with a lifetime stay behind bars as someone’s beeyatch…
It’s about time some of these peoples’ faces start showing up on WANTED posters.
Ironic that our government refuses to let its citizens know what it is doing, but demands to know what its citizens are doing. Bass Ackwards.
Otay @ 13:
It makes sense to Cheney…
Dick Chaney held responsible for something? Did Hell freeze over?
John Amato @ 14:
Yes, Cheney is only playing the game to max advantage.
I wish it had been Rove. He is an extreme homophobic. A reporter gave him an ‘arm pat’ at a mixed social event and he came unglued and yelled, “Don’t touch me!”. He was on with Stewart, Colbert, or someone similar and they also touched him. He did not scream, but definitely made an immediate point to not do that again. I would love to see him under a dog-pile of sticky-fingered 5 year-olds. He would probably seizure.
Tequila @ 10:
It’s been that way with Republicans since the days of J. Edgar Hoover and Nixon.
Otay @ 13:
In a country that wasn’t “free” like ours that would be called a fascist, big brother dictatorship.
Wow, unicorn blood exist.
That would be…unicorn blood does exist. Poo
Strawberrybitch @ 21:
It do?
The likely problem is that the aides quaked in court and spilled every creepy thing Darth Cheney did…..
MacDaKnife @ 17:
It was Cheryl Crow who touched him. He’s not used to someone pretty touching him.
For some reason, when you brought this up, I imagined Rove being tasered. And imagined the smell of burning pork.
lafin gas @ 22:
It’s the only explaination, I mean, if Cheney was a vampire, he couldn’t go out during the day and bathing in the blood of virgins is damned near impossible in this age of Bratz.
Otay @ 24:
Right, goes more for the robust Jeff Gannon types.
Strawberrybitch @ 25:
I don’t know about that. Show me a handful of college Repubs, and I’ll show you a handful of virgins. They may not be the gender of virgin he expected, but hey…
To Bill Clinton’s credit, he deals with hecklers all the time and doesn’t have them arrested. Cheney, being a typical thin skinned Republican can dish it out but he’s to craven a coward to take it. The thinned skinned nature of the authoritarian personality may be the Democrats magic bullet for taking down McCain in the general election. All we need is the right criticism to make him lose his cool in public. That could shatter his PR constructed image as a “straight-talking, moderate maverick.” It will probably happen, but will the Corporate Media allow through their filter? We never would have heard anything about George Allen’s maccaca moment had it not been for the internet. Thank goodness for youtube.
Otay @ 27:
Depends on whether getting it on with your own kind and denying it counts as virgin.
Otay @ 24:
My bad. Baking Pillsbury dough would be a more likely smell.
fuck dicKKK!
Billy Bob @ 29:
I’d deny it if I were a Repub and getting it on with a Repub. ;)
Yeah, I know what you meant…
Obstruction of Justice.
Gitmo for the VP.
I believe the motion that Cheney is making with his hand in the photo speaks volumes about what he’d like to do to anyone who gets in his fat, greedy, fascist way .
will someone take this bastard cheney fox hunting?
of course, we will make cheney the fox….hope he stays
out of the bougainvillea flowers. lol lol
I think he’s showing off his trigger finger.
His arrogance will be his inevitable downfall.
Otay @ 13:
Not the government (because that changes hands), but the GOP. All information is the property of the party. That’s one of those laws it’s illegal to know about.
Animals have a sense for evil people. I wonder how animals react around this twisted, psychopathic, treasonous S.O.B.
I just wish that countries outside the USA would draw up “Wanted: For Crimes Against Humanity” papers for cheeeeeeeeny.
I Hope whoever becomes the democratic president encourages the DOJ to start investigations on this corrupt administrations. That is the question the candidates should be asked.
What makes a steaming pile like this guy tick? He’s approaching 70, he has more money than god, yet he spends all of his time trying to screw working people out of what little they have left.
If it wasn’t for greed, this evil bastard would shrivel up into a piece of dust, and blow away in the wind.
NoGWBpolicyleftinplace @ 40:
I honestly think he is trying to keep himself from going to prison and losing it all.
Wait…. the administration is worried about “invasion of privacy?”
Isn’t it just this sort of pre-911 thinking that can let the ter’rists win? If he has nothing to hide, well then he is innocent.
In days of you’re, you could tell a Witch by whether or not they floated. To test, they would throw the suspect in water. If they floated, it was proof that they were a Witch. Of course, non-witches ended up drowning. So if you survived the drowning, you would be burned at the stake for being a Witch. As long as we are turning back the clock to simpler, more moral times, I think we should consider these notions when denying Cheney his rights, as they are old and quaint. Such old timey justice would give everyone a good result, regardless of the evidence.
MacDaKnife @ 17:
How about under a pile of naked Iraqi’s?
ltfcrazy @ 43:
How about him being naked under a bunch of angry Iraqis.
ltfcrazy @ 43:
If you could get that on the blogosphere, you could probably bring the entire Internet to a short halt. Maybe we could make a trade for OBL?
Arresting someone for criticizing the Vice President?
Wow.
The Secret Service are traitors.
Ron @ 39:
Ya Know,
I wouldn’t wanna wish that job on anybody, with them jerk-offs, but if we pay them well I’m sure their are folks out there who would relish the thought of bring these cretins a little bit of justice. Perhaps the law folks who lost their jobs from Gonzo-gate.
We could call it the First American Inqiusition, sounds good to me. In fact what ever it is called it needs to happen, in one way or another. If it means world court, so be it.
Ron @ 39:
They won’t. Whoever the Democratic president was would claim the country is concerned with the future and wants to move on and don’t want to focus on the past ,although most everyone I know wants the Bush regime investigated and tried for their crimes. But you better believe if the roles were reversed the Republicans would hound the Democratic adminstration to the ends of the earth if they did everything BushCo has done.
“So I turned to my right and I swear I saw a duck, or a quail or whatever in the hell we were suppose to be lookin’ for. So naturally, I let both barrels go! Damn lawyers, always stickin’ their noses where they don’t belong.”
“And yes, we are still friends, and I sleep very well, and I would do the same damn thing over again if given another opportunity. So “F” you. Any other questions?”
So let me get this right:
“Aides”, who stood by and did nothing but watch while these jack-booted federal agents illegally arrest and detain a law-abiding citizen and might be embarrassed when the world sees them admit as much need to have their identities protected by the Vice President…
Covert CIA operative (reads: secret agent) Valerie Plame - not so much…
dick cheney concerned about peoples privacy?
am i the only one who finds this hysterically funny?
Ruthless People @ 48: