Skulduggery is hiding in plain sight-As WH Tries To Refute Suskind "Bombshell"

[kpete]

The Vice Presidency is a unique office that is neither a part of the executive branch nor a part
of the legislative branch, but is attached by the Constitution to the latter. The Vice Presidency performs functions in both the legislative branch (see article I, section 3 of the Constitution) and in the executive branch (see article II, and amendments XII and XXV, of the Constitution, and section 106 of title 3 of the United States Code).
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/plumbook/2004/p226_appendix5.pdf

OVP is not in their chain of command. The President really isn’t either.

AP now out with a new story - Richer and Maguire deny everything:

“I never received direction from George Tenet or anyone else in my chain of command to fabricate a document … as outlined in Mr. Suskind’s book,” said Robert Richer, the CIA’s former deputy director of clandestine operations.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080805/ap_on_go_pr_wh/white_house_iraq;_ylt=AkxNLUQXRrVboVfGE8BZmvp34T0D

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All along, I’ve believed (and many times over been reassured) that all of this skulduggery is hiding in plain sight.
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/plumbook/2004/p226_appendix5.pdf

The annual legislative branch appropriations act (see, for example, Public Law 108–83) and the annual transportation-treasury appropriations act (see, for example, Public Law 108–199) provide funds for the Vice President to hire employees to assist him in carrying out his legislative and executive functions. Executive branch employees also may be assigned or detailed to the Vice President (see 3 U.S.C. 112) and the Vice President may employ consultants (see 3 U.S.C. 106(a)). The Office of the Vice President (OVP) consists of the aggregation of Vice Presidential employees whose salary is disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate from the Vice President’s legislative appropriation, Vice Presidential employees employed with the Vice President’s executive appropriation, employees assigned or detailed to the Vice President, and consultants engaged by the Vice President

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/plumbook/2004/p226_appendix5.pdf

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Guess we’ll find out if Suskind’s got tape!


http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2008/08/05/tenet-and-the-creamy-white-house-stationery/

[Hubert Flottz]

1. I hope he does have tape!

This should be fun to watch unfold...Oh NANCY!

[LSparkle]

2. That's what he told K.O. tonight ... he was smiling like the Cheshire cat

He knows he has them ON TAPE, and they aren't going
to slither away ...

Looks like Nanky's got some 'splainin' to do ... and
some summer reading to get to (and I'm not talking the
Suskind book alone -- Dennis' Articles of Impeachment).

[malaise]

15. Here's the video

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#26045433
Suskind

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#26045505
John Dean

[wildbilln864]

3. TTGPWY! nt

:headbang:

[Jackpine Radical]

6. TTGPWY?

WTF?

[wildbilln864]

8. TO the greatest page with you...

5th rec. :hi:

[Jackpine Radical]

16. TYFTI

(Thank you for the information)

HCNSEAM?
(How come nobody speaka English anymore?)

[Canuckistanian]

4. Plum Book?

What's the Plum book?

[eppur_se_muova]

10. United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions

The Plum Book (United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions): About
Published by the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs and the House Committee on Government Reform alternately after each Presidential election, the Plum Book lists over 7,000 Federal civil service leadership and support positions in the legislative and executive branches of the Federal Government that may be subject to noncompetitive appointment, nationwide. Data covers positions such as agency heads and their immediate subordinates, policy executives and advisors, and aides who report to these officials. The duties of many such positions may involve advocacy of Administration policies and programs and the incumbents usually have a close and confidential working relationship with the agency or other key officials.

The major categories of positions listed in United States Government Policy and Supporting Positions include:

Executive Schedule and salary-equivalent positions paid at the rates established for levels I through V of the Executive Schedule;

Senior Executive Service "General" positions and Senior Foreign Service positions;

Schedule C positions excepted from the competitive service by the President, or by the Director, Office of Personnel Management, and other positions at the GS-14 and above level excepted from the competitive civil service by law, because of the confidential or policy-determining nature of the position duties.
The Plum Book is used to identify presidentially appointed positions within the Federal Government. The list originate in 1952 during the Eisenhower administration. For twenty-two years prior, the Democratic controlled the Federal Government. When President Eisenhower took office, the Republican Party requested a list of government positions that President Eisenhower could fill. The next edition of the Plum Book appeared in 1960 and has since been published every four years, just after the Presidential election.

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/plumbook/about.html

The cover, of course is a nice purple color ... hence the name.

[Jackpine Radical]

5. Ain't nuthen

gonna fucken happen.

The Suskind book is destined for the same deep, deep rathole as the Bugliosi book, which the McCainstream Media doesn't even acknowledge as existing.

[madeline_con]

11. Ditto.

[TexasObserver]

7. "or anyone else in my chain of command" = weasel words

[Gabi Hayes]

12. that's exactly what made Suskind smile like the Cheshire cat mentioned above.

he basically said the guy was parsing to avoid the responsibility he freely admitted in hours of taping with Suskind

Suskind said he felt sorry for those two guys (contractors, apparently), who's entire financial well-being apparently rests on their toeing the Bush line now

he and KO discussed the possibility of all this coming to fruition in hearings on the hill, where they'll be forced to testify under oath. he sounded VERY sure of himself, and confident in getting his facts straight

someone else said that this book will be ignored by the rest of the M$M, and I'm afraid that's what's going to happen, but the WH called him a practicioner of 'gutter journalism,' so I'm hoping that'll attract a bit more attention than it would've gotten had they just shut up about it

[cliffordu]

9. Is there anything in the Bill of RIghts about burning assholes at the stake??

[Disturbed]

13. Susskind not only has tapes but E-mails.

He is a pro. He would not have revealed what he found out without substantial back up.

We are going to find out even more about this Rotten Regime if Sen. Obama becomes Pres. Then more secrets will emerge. Maybe there will be trials for the many criminals of the Regime, possibly even Bush & Cheney.

[DCKit]

14. Congress needs to stop funding the office of VP immediately...

until the the role, chain of command and accountability have been defined in a legally binding manner, and according to what's left of the Constitution.

[dave123williams]

17. And here come the non-denial denials

You watch, read and listen carefully. The GOP will call Suskin's charges 'ridiculous' and 'out there'.

What they won't do is call them 'Untrue' or a 'Lie', because if they do that and it turns out to be true, well, then we get to see some interesting people going to jail.