Cheney: It ‘Always Aggravated Me’ That The NYT Won A Pulitzer For Exposing Warrantless Wiretapping

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Cheney: It ‘Always Aggravated Me’ That The NYT Won A Pulitzer For Exposing Warrantless Wiretapping

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/13/cheney-nyt-pulitzer/



On Dec. 16, 2005, the New York Times published an article by James Risen and Eric Lichtblau, revealing that President Bush had secretly authorized the NSA to “eavesdrop on Americans and others inside the United States…without the court-approved warrants ordinarily required for domestic spying.” The blockbuster article, which exposed one of the Bush administration’s biggest secrets, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2006.

Discussing the wiretapping program on Bill Bennett’s radio show today, Vice President Cheney called the program “important,” adding that it “always aggravated” him that the Times was rewarded for its reporting:

CHENEY: What happened then was they had the information we had, they knew how we were doing it, they knew what we were producing through that process. But then when — Nancy Pelosi, for example, was part of that group. But then it became public. The New York Times broke the story I think in December of ‘05, won the Pulitzer for it, which always aggravated me.

Listen here: http://thinkprogress.org/2009/01/13/cheney-nyt-pulitzer/

[BOSSHOG]

1. And it pissed me the fuck of every time some namby pamby libreal

started talking about that damned constitution. The fucking founding fathers all had conservative values and were good christian zealots and wanted nothing to do with the democratic party. Pisses me off so bad I want to shoot some motherfucker in the face.

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Criminals are always "aggravated" when they get caught

:rofl:

[sharp_stick]

3. Anything that aggravates this old prick

is all good in my book, now if only it aggravated him so much that that cyborg part of him just couldn't take it anymore. That will be a day for me to buy a really good bottle of bourbon and toast that aggravating influence.

Dick Cheney is a POS through and through. I wonder if Biden is going to have to burn the Naval Observatory to the ground just to purify it before he's able to live on that site, I know I'd seriously consider at least a really good exterminator.

[Liberal_Dog]

4. What Aggravates Me Is

that we will be paying for the Secret Service to protect this miserable son of a bitch for the rest of his rotten life.

[StreetKnowledge]

6. Only Presidents get lifetime protection.

Cheney will only have USSS protection for six months.

[spanone]

5. hey dick, i'm sure your soulmate nixon felt the same about WaPo

[Sherman A1]

7. One word

Tough.

[TheCowsCameHome]

8. Not enough to have him kick the bucket, though.

[mfeher1971]

9. It always aggravated me that you authorized the torture of innocents.

Tit for tat, Darth. Now go keel over in an undisclosed gutter somewhere.