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rhett o rick

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Sat May 25, 2013, 11:16 AM May 2013

Tell me what happened in 2007. Cheney had prepared to be able to take over the government [View all]

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in the case of a national threat. He and others worked on it for a couple of decades. Tools were put in place without much push-back, during the Bush decade that gave the president major powers to spy, arrest, detain, and torture anyone they decided was a threat to the security. I believe they even had a document that could suspend Congress temporarily. There are lots of documentation of this and so so far this is not CT. Now comes the CT. Up until some time in 2007, George Bush was bold, outspoken, and egocentric. Cheney was also outspoken and obviously power mad. I was worried that they might come up with a reason to declare a national threat of some kind and authorize the Continuation of Government with a unitarian executive run government. I figured that they had the tools, George was egocentric enough and Cheney was power hungry enough to try to pull it off. But their behavior dramatically changed in 2007. What in the world could make these two sociopaths change their behavior so drastically?

They left town with their tails between their legs. Cheney was even in a wheelchair.

Any speculation? I assume that's acceptable here.

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why bother? elehhhhna May 2013 #1
Why bother what? Speculating? nm rhett o rick May 2013 #3
Is that really what you meant? GeorgeGist May 2013 #2
Impunity might not be the best of words. I will welcome suggested improvements. nm rhett o rick May 2013 #4
If you want to say 'they did bad things without accountabiliity' then you want to say they acted Bluenorthwest May 2013 #5
Thanks. I reworded the post. nm rhett o rick May 2013 #10
The JCS pushed back when they wanted to expand the war into Iran leveymg May 2013 #6
P.S. - Robert Gates replaced Donald Rumsfeld on Dec. 18, 2006. eom leveymg May 2013 #8
Yes. The Generals do not generally tolerate such reckless mismanagement. Ghost Dog May 2013 #14
Behind the curtain is the MIC/IC. Nobody f-cks with the Joint Chiefs. Nixon learned that the hard leveymg May 2013 #15
Yes. Sir. (Hi). Ghost Dog May 2013 #16
The US Attorney & domestic surveillance scandals were in full swing at the time. OnyxCollie May 2013 #7
But I cant see someone advising them to back off. Bush was too egotistical rhett o rick May 2013 #9
I was only analyzing on a domestic level. OnyxCollie May 2013 #11
I'd point to the US Attorney scandal and the fall of Karl Rove starroute May 2013 #12
Thank you for that. But I still question the sudden change in their behavior. rhett o rick May 2013 #13
I guess we should close our mouths, already. Ghost Dog May 2013 #17
I dont understand. Plez clarify. nm rhett o rick May 2013 #18
Intelligence Community. Ghost Dog May 2013 #19
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