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Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker
Hugh Pickens writes "Fox News reports that 'Vice President Joe Biden, well-known for his verbal gaffes, may have finally outdone himself, divulging potentially classified information meant to save the life of a sitting vice president.' According to the report, while recently attending the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, an annual event where powerful politicians and media elite get a chance to cozy up to one another, Biden told his dinnermates about the existence of a secret bunker under the old US Naval Observatory, which is now the home of the vice president. Although earlier reports had placed the Vice-Presidential hide-out in a highly secure complex of buildings inside Raven Rock Mountain near Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, Fox News reports that the Naval Observatory bunker is believed to be the secure, undisclosed location former Vice President Dick Cheney remained under protection in secret after the 9/11 attacks. According to the report, Biden 'said a young naval officer giving him a tour of the residence showed him the hideaway, which is behind a massive steel door secured by an elaborate lock with a narrow connecting hallway lined with shelves filled with communications equipment.' According to Eleanor Clift, Newsweek magazine's Washington contributing editor 'the officer explained that when Cheney was in lock down, this was where his most trusted aides were stationed, an image that Biden conveyed in a way that suggested we shouldn't be surprised that the policies that emerged were off the wall.' In December 2002, neighbors complained of loud construction work being done at the Naval Observatory, which has been used as a residence by vice presidents since 1974. The upset neighbors were sent a letter by the observatory's superintendent, calling the work 'sensitive in nature' and 'classified' and that it was urgent it be completed on a highly accelerated schedule."
Judging from your statement, I'd assume the question "Do you bother reading ANYTHING" is better directed at you.
Do a search of the news circa 2006 re armitage and novak. See who the leaker really was and then look deep inside yourself and ask why you help perpetuation is false meme.
Still, it's another fine example of, "if you repeat a lie often enough, it becomes true."
Also known as "The Republican Campaign Platform, 1996-2024":
Reagan was a good president!
9/11 changed everything!
The following things are not torture: Beating someone (to death), waterboarding someone (to death), anally raping a boy in front of his parents, hanging someone upside down from the ceiling / walls via cords and hooks (until they lose limbs), putting someone in a 3' box/cage for weeks at a time, throwing poisonous insects and animals inside said cage, preventing someone from sleeping for weeks at a time...
It's still not torture, and it works, so that means it's vital that you let us keep doing this not-torture!
Ok, so it's torture, and it doesn't work, but it'd harm our CIA operatives if you investigate it!
We told Congress all about the Torture, so it's ok!
We actually got viable intel from torture, so it's ok!
It was all to prevent a smoking bomb, and totally NOT to try and get fake intel linking Iraq and Al Qaeda!
Iraq had something, anything to do with 9/11!
Saudi Arabia didn't have anything to do with 9/11!
It's not illegal if the president's lawyers say it isn't!
The Geneva Convention is not binding United States Law!
They're not prisoners of war, so the Geneva Convention doesn't apply!
You're either with [Bush] or against [The US]!
We're compassionate conservatives!
The United States is a Christian Nation!
We're the party of fiscal responsibility!
We're the party of family values!
We're the party of national security!
The estate tax isn't fair!
Obama's going to raise your taxes!
Teh GAYS are coming to steal yer marriages!!!!11
Did I miss anything? I'm not fully up to date on my Republican Talking Point lies lately, frankly ever since the election it's been just... too sad to bother giving them any attention.