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Ancient New Yorker reporter Seymour Hersh is so insanely well-sourced in the realms of defense, state, and intelligence that it’s hard to tell how accurate his terrifying tales about Dick Cheney are, because no other journalist is capable of seconding him. But they sure make for great blog posts! Just find the key paragraph, blockquote it, add Star Wars photo and BLAM, everyone’s scared shitless of Dick Cheney all over again. He’s like the Final Boss on 24 — the one who shows up in the 18th hour or so and is revealed to be the true corporate puppetmaster behind previous fake Final Bosses, who were in fact just diversions, and expendable. Huh? Oh yes, Seymour Hersh says Dick Cheney is spying on Obama.
Hersh went on NPR to drop his latest Cheney bomb, so as to scare the hippies as efficiently as possible:
“Are you saying that you think Vice President Cheney is still having a chilling effect on people who might otherwise be coming forward,” asked Gross. “I’ll make it worse,” answered Hersh, adding that he believes Cheney “put people back” in government to “stay behind” in order to “tell him what’s going on” and perhaps even “do sabotage”:
HERSH: I’ll make it worse. I think he’s put people left. He’s put people back. They call it a stay behind. It’s sort of an intelligence term of art. When you leave a country and, you know, you’ve driven out the, you know, you’ve lost the war. You leave people behind. It’s a stay behind that you can continue to contacts with, to do sabotage, whatever you want to do. Cheney’s left a stay behind. He’s got people in a lot of agencies that still tell him what’s going on. Particularly in defense, obviously. Also in the NSA, there’s still people that talk to him. He still knows what’s going on. Can he still control policy up to a point? Probably up to a point, a minor point. But he’s still there. He’s still a presence.
Next week Hersh will reveal that Dick Cheney also got plastic surgery and is using the alias “Steven Chu” to spy on Cabinet meetings.
Hersh: Cheney ‘Left A Stay Behind’ In Obama’s Government, Can ‘Still Control Policy Up To A Point’ [Think Progress]
Damn I misread it as “shirtless Dick Cheney” and I was scared shitless.
So when do the Fedayeen Cheney start blowing up our infrastructure? Oh, wait.
Jesus Christ, that old bastard just needs to die! Just die, you twisted old fossil! You lost!
“Steven Chu?” No, his current alias is “Barack Obama.”
We know sternly worded memos have to effect. Can’t someone put a stake through this fucker’s heart?
Cheney didn’t just leave behind a stay-behind “agent in place.” He also saw to it that ALL computers around the world will die tomorrow, thanks to Conficker/Downup/Kido. I bumped into him talkin’ to Elvis at the 7-11 about how he was about to kill the internet, and heard him say “Let’s see that Negroid chump raise money NOW!”
So, since tomorrow my Commodore 64 will kack alongside all yer sleek machines, let me just say it’s been nice to know y’all. Cheney excepted.
Did Hersh ghostwrite “W”?
Hmmmm. Opens up whole new angles of paranoia. Not only who are the brain police, but who are the left behinds?
johnnypantalones: You are falsely assuming that Cheney can die. If he could die, he would be dead already. He cheats death by drinking the blood of hippies, children and kittens. Shit, y’all know all of this, why am I posting it again?
Cheney spys in the White House? You say treason, I say bipartisanship.
Cheney spies in the White House? You say treason, I say bipartisanship.
Is a stay-behind sort of like a leave-behind? Like Cheney skulking back into the oval office and being like, “Oh! Hey. I, uh, think I just left my watch over here…” Or is it more like Krazy Kirk Kamron’s Left Behind?
dick cheney will never die because the grim reaper is afraid of him. god save the queens!
Y’know, anybody else I’d say “Nah, can’t be.” But Cheney? Where is that stake?
“Don’t be too proud of this journalistic terror you’ve constructed. The ability to inform a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force.”
StephanieInCA: i watched that movie because kirk was in it and i thought he was cute but the whole jesus is coming back thing ruined it all. being a jew, my room mate hardly thinks it’s a miracle when i come back again from work everyday. speaking of which…it’s almost time for me to go!!
Hey, can we start asking the media questions then? I’m going to find that twat Chip Reid and ask him about this. Then I’m going to punch him in the balls.
cheney’s an impotent hack who can get over that he’s an impotent hack. he knows how to scare people and he knows it his only remaining source of power. he’s about as relevant as todd palin, ’sept chances are much lower that todd palin spends his dying years locked up after an international war crimes tribunal kicks him square in the bulge. nah, todd will probably go to jail for a much more petty reason.
Dick Cheney and your leave-behinds! What part of “NSA fun” did you not understand?!?!?
Mr. Hersh forgot to point out that there’s also been a shortage of white persian cats in the area where Cheney lives.
A good reason to start lie detector tests then. God, will we ever be rid of these bastards?
Formerly Preferred: Ooooh! I just got chills!
The Obama/Rahm Smackdown is coming and when it comes it’s gonna be damn good.
Sy! Don’t accept that invitation to go hunting with Cheney and Scalia. It’s a trap!
up_yer_snufflegus: ha!
His eyes glow like red-hot coals as lightening zaps from his fingertips!
Cheney’s goal is to capture President Obama, take him to his secret lab for surgery and have his brain transferred to a jar with electrodes transferring data to his Master Control Super Computer. Then he can make Barry his Manchurian Candidate, just like he did with W!
Run Barry, Run!!!
StephanieInCA: Seems to me more like a reach-around, no?
The greatest trick the devil ever pulled . . .
facehead: funny how everything points to Keyser Soze
Don’t you suppose he’s had hearts, etc., transplanted from the victims of the torture Gulag? Inside, he has the organs of sturdy 20 something Afghans. Only the brain is old and fucked up.
Zhu Bajie
I’m thinking that Cheney’s like the creature from “the Thing” where Cheney takes the form of somebody who works at the DoD or NSA and the only way to find out who is to take blood tests of everyone there
Dick Cheney has to be the strangest national elected official we’ve had since Dick Nixon. Hey, wait a minute…..they’re both “Dicks”. Yeah, that’s right, Zuzu! They’re both dicks! Atta boy, Clarence!
What can he do, really? Does he think he’s running a cabal that’s going to stage a coup? Oh, he does think that?
Okie dokie. Now he makes perfect sense.
comradepaulson: Ever read Blood Meridian, friend?
“Stay behind” = “National Security Upper-Decker”
See, it’s like you could hope that the Mole People would invade his dreams, but he’s still the scariest guy in the dark… The Stay Behind Lizard People like Stacy Keach in “Up in Smoke”, but having to say you’re sorry when he shoots you in the face…good thing I’m drunk…really drunk…
Cheney’s left behind is a shriveled, scabby horror, pretty much the same as his right behind. He’s been wearing Depends full-time since the last heart attack. They probably catheterized him too long and the sphincter never came back. Amazing to me, the last few years, every time some press photog would get a shot of his Depends Camel Toe, the Washington Press Corps would get all atwitter about how it was the package, not the padding. Yeah, Unka Dick has a huge penis. Sure. Film at ten.
So why, given this history, is it a big surprise that Sy Hersh is the only genuine reporter operating in the District? You know, Dana Milbank (whatever) could write all the same stuff but he’s too busy trying to spin the federal takeover of GM as some kind of sex joke. It’s like Wonkette and the Daily Show have taken over the MSM. I’d try to say something funny about this but, to he honest, I’m kinda tired of funny right now.
I actually wouldn’t mind reading a book about Dick Cheney; a book by someone in-the-know. If such things are true, just imagine what detail a book could go into and what it could bring into the light. He’s out of office now, so none of it much matters, but it is certainly all very interesting.
-billorders84
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“Dick” Nixon, “Dick” Cheney. Coincidence? You decide!
The truth of it is that Cheney is Nixon’s evil clone. Cheney makes that that treacherous drunken war criminal look like Little Miss Sunshine. Also.
artbot2000: The press would do some investigating and shit if only Obama would call on them during press conferences.
Cheney is the spawn of Satan.
You know, I don’t trust Cheney, but has anyone on the left fact-checked Hersh? Didn’t he say several years ago that the Bush administration had essentially begun a war with Iran that is not happening now?
I’d really like to find all the dirt possible on the Bush and Cheney crime syndacate, but I want it to be REAL dirt and I am starting to wonder is Hersh is writing NON-fiction.
“…there’s still people that talk to him.” Who would have thought? Hopefully when Sarah wins the Presidential primary she will get Dick to lead the selection committee for her vice president.
This reminds me of George Costanza’s strategy for getting a second date. Obama should check under the White House pillows for a big Russian hat, and also see if there’s any missing clocks. “Diiiiick Cheney.”
I’m sure Dick Cheney had nothing whatsoever to do with Glenn Beck being profiled in the Ex-Judith Miller TImes. Oh no.
And here I thought this was going to be a feel-good story about possible Cheney melanoma. Damn you, Sy!
stopmebeforeitypeagain: Cheney got his political start during Nixon’s White House years, and went to work in the Ford White House, so there’s that connection. If you look at old Hersh articles in The New Yorker, such as the one on bin Laden during the Clinton Presidency, he comes off as someone who can really get people to talk OTR, can amass piles of factoids, but doesn’t really connect the dots better than the average bear.
Its Dick Cheney’s World, we just get abducted in the night and water boarded in it.
Si. Sy. Sue.
He’s been snorting the printer toner, again.
In that interview Hersch says that Cheney used the phrase “perfidious Albion” to express his rage at England for going behind his back and somehow undermining his whole world domination through fuckups scheme. He probably meant it to sound ominous, but it makes me think of Dick Van Dyke dancing on chimneys to Darth Vader’s theme song. Anyway, how many cred points does one lose by quoting Shakespeare in the Bush Whitehouse?