TVNL Editor's Comments: Dick Cheney – The Teflon Don

How is it possible that Dick Cheney has not been cuffed and carried off by now? How is it possible for Cheney to still be a free man? I have lost count of the crimes committed by Dick Cheney yet he still seems to be the man who is running our government.

Cheney has applied God like exemptions to himself during his tenure as the high exalted OZ of the Bush administration. Since the election coup of 2000 granted him such power Cheney has pushed the limits of executive privilege like no other office holder before him. And then when that coincidental new Pearl Harbor came along on 9/11 the limits of his power were stretched to historical proportions, and he surely made use of that privilege!

The latests “revaluations” related to Cheney are that he ordered the Secret Service to destroy the logs that track visitors to the official home of the vice president and it is now becoming more obvious, according to Patrick Fitzgerald, that Cheney was deeply involved in the outting of a now confirmed covert CIA official. And is Cheney arrested, impeached or brought up on charges? No...he just keeps popping up on TV spouting lies and ludicrous assertions.

I often imagine Cheney when I see the movie Casino, with Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci. By the end of the movie some angry dudes had all they could take from the character played by Joe Pesci. Pesci. Like Dick Cheney, Pesci's character took it upon himself to pretty much do whatever he wanted throughout the movie. He broke any law that he wanted, he was overly violent, he pissed off the cops and even the local crime bosses. Finally, after quite a bit of outrage, his fellow gangsters set him and his brother up. They were so angry with him that killing him did not satisfy their desire to pay him back for the trouble he had caused. Instead they beat his brother to a bloody pulp as he was forced to watch. Then he was beaten to a bloody pulp. And then...they burried both Pesci and his brother...alive. All the while you can feel the anger in the men doing the beating as they yelled “no more!” As if to tell him they had enough of his vile cruel and arrogant behavior. Sorry, but I can not help but to view that scene as a metaphor where Pesci is Cheney and the men doing the beating are the American people, who finally wised up, realized what he has been doing and had enough!

For those of you new subscribers reading this newsletter for the first time...please excuse the less than journalistic content of today's message. Consider it a rare therapeutic cleansing of my journalistic palate. An editorial sorbet if you will. It would be better if we could have a governmental sorbet but for now I have to settle for this. Think about it! Jesse Richard – Editor, TvNewsLIES.org

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WAR : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#war

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POLITICS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news#politics

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Plame was ‘covert’ agent at time of name leak - An unclassified summary of outed CIA officer Valerie Plame's employment history at the spy agency, disclosed for the first time today in a court filing by Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, indicates that Plame was "covert" when her name became public in July 2003.

ECONOMY : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#economy

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9/11 News : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#911

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911 The explosive reality - TVNL Comment: VIDEO

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CONGRESS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#congress

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DOMESTIC : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#domestic

Advisers Fault Harsh Methods in Interrogation - As the Bush administration completes secret new rules governing interrogations, a group of experts advising the intelligence agencies are arguing that the harsh techniques used since the 2001 terrorist attacks are outmoded, amateurish and unreliable.

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TVNL Comment: America, the greatest nation in the world. Keep repeating that to yourself.

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ENVIRONMENT : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#environment

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INTERNATIONAL : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#international

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Pakistan Is Going Down the Road of the Shah’s Iran - Unfortunately, Pakistan probably has already been “lost,” and U.S. policy has played an important role in its demise.

MILITARY & VETERANS : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#military

UPDATE PENDING

EDITORIAL : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#editorial

THE KAKISTOCRACY EXPOSES ITS HAND - The publication of National Security Presidential Directive 51 (Homeland Security Presidential Directive 20) on 9 May 2007, now available on the White House’s web site, represents another major stage in the devolution of the United States from a constitutional republic to a Caesaristic police state. Inadvertently, though, it exposes the primary danger to the continuation of its own power that the Establishment now fears.

JOURNALISM & MEDIA : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#media

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TVNL Comment: VIDEO

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HEALTH & SCIENCE : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#health

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HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#rights

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OF INTEREST : http://www.tvnewslies.org/news/#interest

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