Cheney as Spanish Inquisition - article in Executive Intelligence Review

I am reading a book on Martin Luther and all the political intrigue surrounding him in the 1500s. It certainly brings to mind Cheney and all of his secretive political dealings. There is an interesting article in Executive Intelligence Review that talks about Cheney's fight to stay as VP, and how he may have "used" Bush to take the brunt of the furor about the illegal spying. The article labels Cheney as a modern day "Tomas Torquemada" of the Spanish Inquisition,
which seems quite true, with his penchant for torture.

"""Cheney and His Patsy, Bush, Face Impeachment Furor

by Jeffrey Steinberg
from Executive Intelligence Review

Cheney's Ultramontane Dogma
Bush's bizarre public confession, that he approved a patently unconstitutional program of illegal surveillance of American citizens, has confounded both media pundits and the general public.

No one, however, was particularly shocked when, in a similar series of public interviews last week, Vice President Cheney, the "Tomás Torquemada" of the Bush Administration, asserted his doctrine of ultramontanist Presidential power, and snarled at reporters who dared challenge him.

By sending a duped George W. Bush out first, to take personal responsibility for the illegal wiretaps, attention would be diverted from Cheney to Bush, and the waters would be muddied for those seeking Cheney's ouster. "It seemed like a win-win plan, from the standpoint of the Cheney crowd," one senior intelligence source told EIR. "Either Congressional critics of the White House backed down to the Cheney bullying and bluffing, or, at minimum, it became harder to dump Cheney without also going after Bush."


http://www.larouchepub.com/other/2005/3250patsy_bush.html

[HereSince1628]

1. !! The inquistion and the french revolution spun together in 3 paragraphs!

Such a mixing of monsters in western civilization! Obviously, whoever wrote this has employed their erudition way beyond the general level of a republican legislator...

Oh, it's a LaRouchite, that splains ever-thing.

2. I don't know anything about LaRouche - but

I liked the article. And this was the first time I had seen someone pointing out how it was Cheney's idea for Bush to talk to media about the spying.

[HereSince1628]

3. I won't bother to try to inform you about LaRouche, you should

google him and his organization and form your own opinion.

I will say that you shouldn't accept uncritically the notion that the enemy of my enemy is a credible friend.

[applegrove]

4. I think you could have made it legal - at the time judges would have

signed on the dotted line. Everyone assumed that is what was going on - that potential threats were being monitored and everyone was for it.

So what is with the not going to judges? More precedent setting policy like pre-emptive war?

7. From reading a few other posts on Cheney

it would seem he has it in his mind to make the executive much more powerful than the other two branches, and maybe he is pushing this in an illegal way.

[applegrove]

8. They forced the Iraq war on issues other than humanitarian intervention

- to set a precedent for pre-emptive war. No doubt Cheney was intent on setting precedents here.

[ddeclue]

5. Why choose? Impeach BOTH!

There's plenty of blame to go around so why must we choose?

6. Ya, impeach both

However maybe in politics, people tend to go after the most obvious person. Anyway I think Fitzgerald has his eyes on Cheney, and not Bush.