Vice President Dick Cheney said yesterday [in an exclusive interview with Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes] that suggestions the former Iraqi regime did not have a relationship with al Qaeda are “not accurate,” and said he would like to see the U.S. government declassify some of the intelligence that supports Bush administration claims about an Iraq-al Qaeda connection.
“I think we should declassify as much as we can,” Cheney said in a wide-ranging, 45 minute interview in the vice president’s residence at the Naval Observatory in Washington. Cheney said the desire to make public some of the intelligence about Iraq and al Qaeda must be balanced against the need to protect sources and methods. “There is always the temptation to respond to the pressures of the moment by putting as much stuff out there as possible. But you don’t want to do so in a way that is damaging to our capacity to collect information in the future.”
Asked to comment on the Vice President’s interview, Senator Ted Kennedy muttered something about Abu Ghraib, then got his rather bulbous head caught in the doorway to a Senate bathroom stall, where it was later found eating a rack of barbecued ribs and polishing off a pitcher of Bud Lite.
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update: Cheney’s other thoughts (via Ace)
Jeff, stop it. Everyone around me at work knows when I’m goofing off and reading blogs because they hear me cackle whenever I read your site.
I’m trying to think of the perfect conflict (or is it confluence) of interest analogy, and I think it has something to do with David Corn writing a book on the Israeli connection to faulty pre-war intelligence, and then interviewing Fritz Hollings in his other official capacity as the editor of The Nation (although I would imagine that interviewing that crank would produce a few “unintelligbles”).
It’s got a few flaws, I’ll grant you that.
Did you read the article? Doesn’t say much—and I think Hayes is eminently fair as a reporter.
Corn, on the other hand…well, he likes being a FOXNews contributing contrarian too much for me to take anything he says without a grain of salt (Atkins permitting).
Holy Crap!!!!!!!
Kennedys head is on the loose?????
RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!!!!! STAY AWAY FROM BRIDGES AT ALL COSTS!!!!
Y’know, something about that last paragraph makes me think that Jeff might have made that part up.
“Bud Lite” (emphasis added).
That’s the giveaway. I mean, c’mon; Ted Kennedy & Bud Lite? That’s just goofy.
Is there a height restriction to ride “The Bloody Infidel”?
Maybe there oughta be, it sounds kinda dangerous.
Ted never struck me as a Lite beer drinker, but I’ll bet he’s snapping up those low-carb ones, now that that’s so trendy.
Do they have an arcade at al Qaedaland, ‘cause I’ve got the shooting gallery video. I’ll email it to Jeff.
allintern, if you are too tall for a ride they are happy to cut your head off.
Agreed. It seems more plausible that interns were dispatched at regular intervals to refresh his tumbler of scotch.
I don’t know… seems like Jeff is saying Teddy is on the Atkins diet. Looks more like the Gordons diet to me…
Guess I’ll ride the “Tunnel of Infidel Blood, Allah be Praised” first and see how it goes. Thanks Sarah.
Few are more deserving of a well-placed F-U than Patrick Leahy.
I’d like to make the following “Talking back to 80s Music” dedication to Dick Cheney:
I love you more today than yesterday
But not as much as tomorrow
XXOO
Dawn
Wasn’t that by Spiral Staircase? In the 60s? Who remade it?
I’d like to make the following “Talking back to 60s Music” dedication to Dick Cheney:
I love you more today than yesterday
But not as much as tomorrow
XXOO
Dawn
I like Dick Cheney’s other thoughts. I’ve expressed them myself a time or two, and amazingly enough towards Pat Leahy too.
Let’s not get off message here, people – re the ‘Bud Lite’ thing. Jeff, nobody wants to say it, so naturally they’ve left it to me, again. Thing is, buddy, you’re gettin’ a little sloppy. Normally, that wouldn’t be much of a problem (’cause we all know how tough it can be to get that mushroom/LSD/alcohol monkey off your back), but lately it’s been, well … one pragmatic thing after another.
I do like the theme park idea, though. Have your people call my people, and we’ll do lunch.
*sigh* No, Jeff, that wasn’t an offer to have sex. But, see ? That’s exactly the kind of thing I was talking about.