As Defense Secretary, Cheney opposed National Intelligence Director

[Cocoa]

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/nation/terror/20040805-1403-intelligence-cheney.html

Back in 1992, when both the Senate and House were considering bills to create a national intelligence director, Cheney told Congress that he would advise then-President George H.W. Bush to veto them as written.

Setting up a national intelligence director post would "seriously impair" the relationship between the heads of the Pentagon and the CIA, Cheney said in the letter obtained by the Federation of American Scientists.

It would assign "inappropriate authority to the proposed director of national intelligence who would become the director and manager of internal DOD activities that, in the interest of efficiency and effectiveness, must remain under the authority, direction and control of the secretary of defense," Cheney wrote on March 17, 1992 to Les Aspin, then chairman of the House Armed Services Committee.

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Kevin Kellems, spokesman for the vice president, said Cheney does not discuss his conversations with the president. Kellems said that "in general, I would caution against making the leap of equating one historical point in the past to a different point in the present or future."

[Papa]

1. Flip Flopper !

[Cocoa]

3. I would caution you...

"in general, I would caution against making the leap of equating one historical point in the past to a different point in the present or future."

:-)

[madinmaryland]

6. but remember . . .

said Cheney does not discuss his conversations with the president. Another flipflop

[madinmaryland]

2. flip-flop . . . . .

:wtf:

nuf said

[Cocoa]

4. careful!

don't go equating one historical blah blah blah...

[reprehensor]

5. PDF of Cheney's letter...

See Secretary Cheney's March 17, 1992 letter to House Armed Services
Committee chairman Les Aspin here:

http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_cr/cheney1992.pdf

[Paschall]

7. As Defense Secretary, Cheney opposed...

...storming Bagdhad and overthrowing Saddam.

[Moderator]

8. New link and kick

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A43808-2004Aug5.html