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usonian

(26,582 posts)
Tue Nov 4, 2025, 11:47 AM Nov 2025

Former Vice President to be buried in man-sized safe.

He had three in his office.

Apparently,

Dick Cheney's lawyer David Addington and NOT GWB's lawyer wrote the order to allow greater powers to the NSA. Order is stored in Cheney's safe.
https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/25msyy/dick_cheneys_lawyer_david_addington_and_not_gwbs/

(yes, reddit warning) but there's more behind it.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/united-states-of-secrets/
United States of Secrets
May 13, 2014
FRONTLINE goes behind the headlines to reveal the dramatic inside story of the U.S. government’s massive and controversial secret surveillance program–and the lengths they went to trying to keep it hidden from the public. Part one goes inside Washington to piece together the secret political history of “The Program,” which began in the wake of Sept. 11 and continues today — even after the revelations of its existence by Edward Snowden. Part two explores the secret relationship between Silicon Valley and the National Security Agency: How have the government and tech companies worked together to gather and warehouse your data?

Part 1 of 2.
Transcripts easily available with one click.

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ALTERNATE VIEW (satire)
https://weeklyworldnews.com/politics/5553/secrets-of-cheneys-safe-revealed/

WASHINGTON, DC – Handymen accidentally cracked open the man-sized safe of exiting Vice President Dick Cheney while transferring his effects.

Statements taken from several of the workers before they were processed and detained by homeland security officials indicate the safe was loaded with more than 100 video cassettes of “chick flicks” and romantic comedies, such as “Steel Magnolias,” “Sleepless In Seattle,” “The Notebook,” “Legally Blonde,” “While You Were Sleeping,” and “Stanley and Iris”.

Additionally, workers came across dozens of audio mix tapes featuring tracks by Air Supply, Josh Groban, and Norah Jones. “I expected to find lots of papers and secret documents about torture, Iraq, Halliburton… stuff like that,” said Ignacio Cordoba of D.C. based moving company Smooth Movers. “Instead, it was just a bunch of Sandra Bullock and Dermot Mulrooney crap fests and mix tapes.”

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Why the title? I had to trash another GOP name today.

Thieves, all of them.
They just take and never give back.


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