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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."
Plus, do you really think Sarah Palin would've been a better Veep than Biden? She probably would've tried to convince us to move the VP secret hideout to Wasilla, Alaska, because, you know, she can see Russia from there.
Do you have any instructions for the people that got the irony but still think your comment sucked?
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.
Just remember: any self-respecting king has to have a court jester. Obama's got Biden, Bush 41 had Quayle, and Cheney had Bush 43.
Obama is a court jestor. You can watch his teleprompter ping pong, count the urrr's and ummm's, watch him completely lose the ability to talk when the teleprompters go out, etc.
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
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
Well, you just shot Semper Fi all to Hell, didn't you? "Always faithful" includes not spilling even when its been spilled. Even though your wife is unfaithful, you stay faithful. Even though your buddy is shot up and can't possibly be saved, you still make the effort. Even if the "facility" were declassified, you don't freely discuss it. The only people who do weren't really involved in anything, they just want to make it sound like they were.
There are things you don't even tell family years after. Even when its declassified the honorable ones take it to the grave. To do otherwise is just to puff yourself up, and no real Marine needs to puff himself up. The only they he has to say, whether 17 or 97 is "I am a Marine" and that is enough to earn respect. You've lost the respect.
If indeed you are telling the truth, then you are scum. If not, you are still scum. There are no ex-Marines, but I think you qualify, if you ever were one.
If I were unlucky to know you in person and see you in a bar, I'd pour my drink out and walk out.
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong fix.
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.
Fail. Why do you think the crime was "never established"? Possibly because Scooter Libby wouldn't give up what he knew about it, and got in trouble for it? Do you bother reading ANYTHING?
"Neither party has a monopoly on douchebaggery."
Monopoly, no, but Republicans currently have cornered the douchebaggery market.