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Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker
The vice president, well-known for his verbal gaffes, confirms at a dinner the existence and location of a secret hidden bunker that Cheney is believed to have used after the 9/11 attacks.
Let us all pray President Obama lives a long and healthy life. This is beyond bogglesome. Please, President Obama, keep your Number Two busy with ribbon cuttings far from Washington, where the gentleman can do no harm, nor inadvertently pick up any interesting bits of information.
Vice President Joe Biden, well-known for his verbal gaffes, may have finally outdone himself, divulging potentially classified information meant to save the life of a sitting vice president.

According to a report, while recently attending the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, an annual event where powerful politicians and media elite get a chance to cozy up to one another, Biden told his dinnermates about the existence of a secret bunker under the old U.S. Naval Observatory, which is now the home of the vice president. The bunker is believed to be the secure, undisclosed location former Vice President Dick Cheney remained under protection in secret after the 9/11 attacks.

Eleanor Clift, Newsweek magazine's Washington contributing editor, said Biden revealed the location while filling in for President Obama at the dinner, who, along with Grover Cleveland, is the only president to skip the gathering. According to the report, Biden "said a young naval officer giving him a tour of the residence showed him the hideaway, which is behind a massive steel door secured by an elaborate lock with a narrow connecting hallway lined with shelves filled with communications equipment." Clift continued: "The officer explained that when Cheney was in lock down, this was where his most trusted aides were stationed, an image that Biden conveyed in a way that suggested we shouldn't be surprised that the policies that emerged were off the wall."
Posted by: Joting Jatch3421 || 05/17/2009 11:04 || Comments || Link || [0 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Wadda maroon....
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 05/17/2009 12:19 Comments || Top||

#2  Now you and I will spend millions to build and man a new bunker. What a moron!
Posted by: 49 Pan || 05/17/2009 12:20 Comments || Top||

#3  Send him the bill.
Posted by: ed || 05/17/2009 13:26 Comments || Top||

#4  Can we charge him with the failure to secure classified information and lock him in the SuperMax please?

I swear, our leaders are bigger threats to OPSEC than the damn spies are.
Posted by: DarthVader || 05/17/2009 14:38 Comments || Top||

#5  I'm with you TW, I have never prayed so hard for the safety of I guy I could really care less about. The chain of command below him is a who's who of three stooges characters.
Posted by: 49 Pan || 05/17/2009 14:52 Comments || Top||

#6  "the policies that emerged were off the wall"

Biden knows a LOT about being off the wall....
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut || 05/17/2009 14:58 Comments || Top||

#7  Morons. I've got morons on my team.

/Strother Martin Barack Oblahblah
Posted by: Frank G || 05/17/2009 15:58 Comments || Top||

#8  Starting to see Zero's wisdom in picking Biden as VP. Ideal life insurance policy against assassination. Better than the best protection the Secret Service can offer.
Posted by: Glenmore || 05/17/2009 18:29 Comments || Top||

#9  Anyone have a pool going on when Biden says something really incriminating about Bammo? I mean, unless they are making him eat at the kiddie table it's just a matter of time.
Posted by: Iblis || 05/17/2009 18:31 Comments || Top||

#10  I'm sorry to say Biden got the whole story wrong -- I think the Secret Service has protected the "secret bunker' by giving Biden a set of "Special Glasses" and toke him on a tour of Foggy Bottom-GWU is a Washington Metro station in Washington, D.C. on the Blue and Orange Lines. It is also scheduled to be on the Silver Line route, which is scheduled to start operations in 2011. It is the last station inside the District of Columbia on these lines before they dive under the Potomac River to Virginia.
Posted by: Thesing Squank5504 || 05/17/2009 19:07 Comments || Top||

#11  Ever think it's not a slip at all, that they want a new bunker, and now have an excuse?
Posted by: Redneck Jim || 05/17/2009 19:49 Comments || Top||

#12  ION ISRAELI MIL FORUM > WASHINGTON DC [POTUS Bammer]THREATENS TO EVACUATE THREE US MILBASES OVER QATAR'S PRO-IRANIAN POLICIES [QA dissing SYRIA, ISRAEL, + GAZA PA in favor of Iran]; + HAMAS, HIZBOLLAH, + MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD. The Hizzies Hezzies Huzzies, etc. had been giving all kinds of aid to HAMAS = GAZA MILTERRS for the longest time even before EGYPT revealed/spilled the beans. US TENDS TO IGNORE THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIANCY = ORGANZ LINKS BTWN HAMAS, HIZBS, + EGYPT'S MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD TO ITS PERIL OR DETRIMENT???
Posted by: JosephMendiola || 05/17/2009 20:13 Comments || Top||

#13  "...and it's got this crazy looking lock, and the combination is ...."
Posted by: eLarson || 05/17/2009 20:28 Comments || Top||

#14  Biden's combination is 1234

Reminds of Spaceballs (Mel Broosk movie)

Dark Helmet: So the combination is... one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!

Just wait till we see the staff Biden has hired:

Posted by: OldSpook || 05/17/2009 21:03 Comments || Top||

#15  Oh Great OldSpook! Now everybody's going to know what the nuclear codes are under a President Biden!
Posted by: CrazyFool || 05/17/2009 21:12 Comments || Top||

#16  Its a Trifecta.

Obama is a secret.

Second in command cannot keep a secret.

Third-in-line cannot remember a secret.

What do I win?
Posted by: Skunky Glins 5*** || 05/17/2009 21:45 Comments || Top||

#17  hair plugz. You get to guess which they're from. Hint: Wash your hands
Posted by: Frank G || 05/17/2009 21:56 Comments || Top||


India-Pakistan
Voters do what courts could not
Patna, May 17: The men with the guns did not go very far in Bihar this election, even with a kind word and, often, a softer face.

Several dons bit the dust whichever party they came from, and whether they contested themselves or, barred by the courts, fielded their wives or mothers.

The Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Mohammed Shahabuddin, serving a life term for murder, saw his devout and soft-spoken wife, Heena Sahab, lose to an Independent from Siwan, which he had lorded over with an iron fist since the 1996 polls.

“Siwan was only half liberated when the court convicted Shahabuddin. We have completed the liberation by defeating Heena Sahab,” said Nagendra Singh, a resident of Karchhui bazaar in Siwan district.

The courts could not stop Janata Dal (United) dons Prabhunath Singh and Munna Shukla, but the voters of Maharajganj and Vaishali did.

Former RJD MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav, jailed for life for the murder of CPM legislator Ajit Sarkar, had taken no chances. He had fielded both his mother Shanti Priya and wife Ranjita Ranjan with Congress help from Purnea and Supaul. Both have lost.

Still, it may be premature to see in the defeats of the dons a new dawn for Bihar, notorious for sending criminal-turned-politicians in hordes to the Lok Sabha since the 1980s.

Eleven of the state’s 40 winners face one or more criminal cases — out of 150 such MPs in the House — although this figure is far lower than Uttar Pradesh’s 31 and Maharashtra’s 23.

Umakant Singh, a senior Congress leader, sees hope. He said: “It’s a welcome change in Bihar. The voters have become wiser, electing performers and men of clean image. It’s a good sign for democracy in general and Bihar politics in particular.”

Some may be tempted to credit the voters’ show of courage to the improvement of law and order under Nitish Kumar, although they cannot miss the irony: at least three of the defeated dons were from the chief minister’s party.

Many had feared that JD(U) muscleman Munna Shukla would intimidate voters and defeat RJD minister Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, the “hero” of the UPA’s rural job guarantee scheme. But the voters of Vaishali gave the Union rural development minister, known as a “sadhu” for his honesty and efficiency, a 21,000-vote win over a man facing more than 10 cases of murder, abduction and highway heists.

Arra rejected the Lok Janshakti Party’s Rama Singh, accused in over a dozen murders and kidnappings, while “clean” RJD candidate Umashankar Singh trounced JD(U) gangster Prabhunath, who allegedly killed MLA Ashok Singh in Patna in 1999.

Among jailed dons who watched family members lose were former Ballia MP Surajbhan of the LJP and Sunil Pandey of the JD(U), the Piro MLA.
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