War Criminals For Harris

The news that former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, former Representative Liz Cheney, are both working to elect Kamala Harris is yet another demonstration that the Washington Uniparty exists and is in terror of what a second Trump administration would do to dismantle Uniparty power.

To show just how upside down our politics have become, let’s take a little stroll down memory lane back to January of 2022 and the Democrats’ made for TV commemoration of the January 6, 2021, protest at the U.S. Capitol.

The Cheneys were the only Republicans to attend the politically charged ceremony in the then-Democrat-controlled House Chambers, and according to reports they received an enthusiastic welcome. However, not all on the Left were pleased with the Democratic Party’s newfound love for the Cheneys.

The Far Left web magazine Jacobin.com had this to say about Democrats making nice with the Cheneys:

…compared to Dick Cheney’s crimes against democracy, Trump is an amateur. Cheney reduced nations to rubble, shredded the Bill of Rights, and enacted programs of surveillance, abduction, detention, and torture more in line with the state terrorism of military dictatorships than the norms of liberal democracy.

Indeed, author Chip Gibbons charged that, “Dick Cheney is an enemy of democracy in America and a war criminal. His warm reception on the floor of Congress by Democrats yesterday at the January 6 Capitol riot commemoration was shameful and disgusting.”

And on the same day, the ever-watchful websleuths at Twitchy posted a reminder that, “Six years ago the DNC slammed Republicans for “still embracing Dick Cheney.”

However, criticism of Cheney from the Left wasn’t limited to his role in the Iraq wars.

As Conor Friedersdorf explained in an article for The Atlantic, Remembering Why Americans Loathe Dick Cheney:

The United States had concluded that Iraq, Libya, and Iran supported terrorism and had imposed strict sanctions on them. Yet during Cheney’s tenure at Halliburton the company did business in all three countries. In the case of Iraq, Halliburton legally evaded U.S. sanctions by conducting its oil-service business through foreign subsidiaries that had once been owned by Dresser. With Iran and Libya, Halliburton used its own subsidiaries. The use of foreign subsidiaries may have helped the company to avoid paying U.S. taxes.

But, in the litany of damning charges Mr. Friedersdorf raised against Dick Cheney, we think the most powerful is that Cheney’s role in creating the surveillance state set the stage for Russiagate and all the intelligence agency abuses that have been carried out against Donald Trump and other innocent Americans.

According to Barton Gellman, who wrote one of the definitive books on Cheney:

[The former Vice President] had devised, and Bush approved, an NSA operation to monitor the phone calls and emails of U.S. citizens without a warrant, part of which later became known as the Terrorist Surveillance Program. After more than two years of going along with “the vice president’s special program,” the Justice Department concluded that parts of it were illegal. Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey later told Congress, and authoritative sources confirmed privately last week, that Ashcroft decided on March 4, 2004 to stop certifying the surveillance as lawful unless the White House scaled it back.

Cheney admits he was behind the spying in his memoir... in any case, it is beyond dispute that at Dick Cheney’s urging, the federal government spied on millions of non-terrorist Americans without a warrant, and that Cheney wanted the program to continue even after it was declared illegal, noted Mr. Gellman.

The one constant in all the criticism of Dick Cheney has been his quest for personal power. In the getting and using of power Cheney has become the quintessential Washington insider whose only principles are power and how to benefit from it.

The idea that Democrats and Kamala Harris would embrace Dick Cheney, the “war criminal” who conceived the surveillance program that has brought trust in the federal government to the point where only about 11% of Republicans trust the government “just about always or most of the time,” should tell you everything you need to know about who are the real threats to democracy in this election.

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