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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."

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  1. Re:Nice to see them carrying another torch... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Do you have any instructions for the people that got the irony but still think your comment sucked?

  2. Re:Yeah, real big secret by hedwards · · Score: 0, Troll

    That's pretty much complete bullshit right there. It's the job of the military to censor that sort of information. It's not his fault if the military flunky that was supposed to be handling that screwed it up.

    But then again, why question it when somebody accuses the "liberal" media of doing something that the Republican party doesn't like, I mean hey, it's not like it's the responsibility of the military to censor such things.

  3. Re:Consider the source... by Lord+Kano · · Score: 1, Troll

    You don't really speak French, do you?

    Faux is not pronounced like "Fox", it's pronounced "Foe". It's not a witty play on words, it's a public demonstration of your ignorance about the words you use.

    --
    "Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
  4. Says GOP hack avoiding Bush economic catastrophe by leftie · · Score: 0, Troll

    Keep displaying faux outrage about every minor thing that comes up in relation to Democratic Party in desperate attempt to change subject from the economic catastrophe Bush/Cheney caused.