WTF Is It Now?!?

I saw the headline "Largest Meat Recall in US History" and had this picture of Chimp, Cheney, Rummy, and the rest of the misadministration being led off in handcuffs.

Grrrrrrrr...
The vice president blocks an independent commission to investigate 9-11.

I know this is yesterday's news, but I just read it again in Newsweek and it pissed me off all over again. Dick 'Chicanery' Cheney killed an agreement to create an independent commission to investigate the 9-11 attacks. Last month the White House endorsed the formation of the panel. But on Thursday, hours after congressional negotiators hailed a final deal over it's scope and powers, Cheney called House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Porter Goss - after which Goss told the committee he couldn’t accept the deal, citing instructions from “above my pay grade.”

Cheney, trying to make us believe the misadministration really doesn't have anything to hide - really - says it's just that he's strongly opposed to the idea of any independent body’s poking into the White House’s conduct. His stand is based on “principle,” dammit, not fear of embarrassments. And evidently he's not embarrassed at all by the fact that he's being perceived as trying to cover up his misadministration's involvement - or lack of - in the events of and leading up to the 9/11 attacks.

He has repeatedly objected to efforts by a separate joint-intelligence-committee inquiry to obtain documents and interview key witnesses, including an FBI informant who lived with two of the 9-11 hijackers. Gee, if Saddam or Al-Qaida could attack us at any minute, wouldn't information like this be important?