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2009-04-07 Home Front: Politix

[Iran Press TV Latest] A one-time insider in the Bush administration suggests that former vice president Dick Cheney has a strong say in the Obama White House policies.

"He still has people in the Obama administration, in the bowels of the bureaucracy and he is still impacting the American policy. . . This is a supreme operator," claimed former chief of staff to ex-US Secretary of State Colin Powell, Lawrence Wilkerson speaking to Russia Today on Sunday.

He described Cheney as the time's "very powerful vice president backed by a very naïve president who went along mostly with what the vice president said."

Wilkerson is the second official to recently torpedo the former second-in-command's reputation after investigative journalist Seymour Hersh suggested that Cheney was supervising an 'assassination ring'.

Wilkerson took Hersh's allegations a step further, suggesting that Cheney was a principal director of the brigade.

"This is nothing new that someone would pour covert operations into the White House and Cheney was the perfect person to do it. He had the mindset for it. He had the dark-side philosophy for it and so forth. I have no problem believing that. They wanted their own intelligence and so you get the transfer of CIA-blessed techniques over to the Pentagon."

Posted by Fred 2009-04-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [23 views ] Top

#1 former chief of staff to ex-US Secretary of State Colin Powell, Lawrence Wilkerson

Is it something in the water?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-04-07 05:05|| 2009-04-07 05:05|| Front Page Top

#2 ...Oh, he's goooooooood.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2009-04-07 06:11|| 2009-04-07 06:11|| Front Page Top

#3 "Wilkerson is the second official to recently torpedo the former second-in-command's reputation after investigative journalist Seymour Hersh suggested that Cheney was supervising an 'assassination ring'."

Gee, the mullah tools say that like it's a bad thing. See-more Hersh is not an "official," btw (unless he holds some secret rank in the Soros Legion).

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2009-04-07 07:19|| 2009-04-07 07:19|| Front Page Top

#4 this is too funny. The followers of The One must find this confusing. Where is the group hug from the non-white folk who suffer from America's hegemonic, imperialistic policies? All of the past was to come to an end once the beautiful words fell forth from Obama's mouth. How can those who believe in The One reconcile this deeply disturbing implication that Cheney is even more powerful than The One?

Posted by Gluting Fillmore6653 2009-04-07 09:06|| 2009-04-07 09:06|| Front Page Top

#5 All administrations leave... "stay behinds." Political appointmentees who have created or been groomed for an Executive Service (I can never be fired) position. It's a right of passage. Get over it ACORNIANS

Posted by Besoeker 2009-04-07 09:15|| 2009-04-07 09:15|| Front Page Top

#6 Press TV Iran, Sy Hersh, Russia Today. A hat trick of "unimpeachable sources".

Posted by tu3031 2009-04-07 10:29|| 2009-04-07 10:29|| Front Page Top

#7 Reads a little like Pravda.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-04-07 11:54|| 2009-04-07 11:54|| Front Page Top

#8 Why don't they just arrest Cheney, and get the show trials started.

Posted by Injun Jutle2612 2009-04-07 12:07|| 2009-04-07 12:07|| Front Page Top

#9 They're after Bush (But can;t find any illegality) Cheynet's in line.

Posted by Redneck Jim">Redneck Jim 2009-04-07 13:12|| 2009-04-07 13:12|| Front Page Top

#10 Never underestimate the power of the Dark Side.

Posted by Kofi Flomotch5556 2009-04-07 14:26|| 2009-04-07 14:26|| Front Page Top

#11 Next time I'm in Washington or Moscow in October, I'm going Trick or Treating in a Cheney mask. I'm hoping to cause cardiac arrest in Pelosi or Putin.

Posted by ed 2009-04-07 15:17|| 2009-04-07 15:17|| Front Page Top

#12 I always thought it was Rove that was working behind the scenes.

Posted by DarthVader 2009-04-07 15:49|| 2009-04-07 15:49|| Front Page Top

#13 Ah, come on! Maybe an oaken stake through the heart would take care of it. This is sooo last year.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-04-07 16:40|| 2009-04-07 16:40|| Front Page Top

#14 There can't be two "Supreme Operators."

Posted by JohnQC 2009-04-07 19:39|| 2009-04-07 19:39|| Front Page Top

#15 This is just a sham story put out by people who are trying to remove Bush era individuals in the federal government. Plain and simple dirty politics by the Obama adminsitration.

Posted by Alistaire Elmusomble7371 2009-04-07 20:36|| 2009-04-07 20:36|| Front Page Top

#16 Rove and Rummy?

Posted by Titus Whiter9537 2009-04-07 21:41|| 2009-04-07 21:41|| Front Page Top

#17 We're all wrong - It was Monica all along.

Posted by Titus Whiter9537 2009-04-07 21:42|| 2009-04-07 21:42|| Front Page Top

#18 General Powell.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-04-07 23:59|| 2009-04-07 23:59|| Front Page Top

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