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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."
She wasn't an active duty cia agent, which is why nobody was even charged, let alone convicted, of outing her.
Simple. According to Novak, there was noone who really LEAKED the information to him. No leak, no crime.
But that wont stop people from perpetuating this meme...
Who defends Libby? What he did was wrong. However, it's not unreasonable to point out that there was nothing to suggest he knew who really leaked Plame's name and was trying to protect them. He was convicted, justly so, for other crimes.
This was essentially put to rest in 2006 with Armitage came forward and Novak confirmed he was the source.
I bet Quayle knows to capitalize a proper name, even if it's a fake one, there Sparky.
You have overused commas her.
Kinda sux when someone grammar Nazi's you, doesn't it?
"Sux" is not a word. I have capitalized it here anyway to prove that I am paying attention. The "proper" way to say "Nazi's" in this context is Nazis; while in fact it is not a proper form of the word Nazi, in "geek" English it is said that all verbs can be nouned, and all nouns can be verbed. In any case, the apostrophe would denote ownership and is not appropriate here. Finally, I meant "spanky" not as a proper name at all, but in the sense of referring to him as a chronic self-abuser. You could argue all day over whether such a use should be capitalized; I have more interesting things to argue about.
I know I shouldn't feed the trolls, but this one was fun. If you're going to come at me with that grammatical bullshit, perhaps you should be a bit better prepared.
Amateurs...
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"