More on Cheney's Resume

In response to my post earlier this week on Dick Cheney's past exploits in the White House, a regular reader told me that I'd linked to the wrong article. I suggested he bring that up in the comments of that post (a function of this page that, although you may not have noticed, is being seriously neglected, folks--we can't have a conversation unless you TALK BACK!!!), but he preferred to have a brand new post devoted to his suggestion. Well, Talk Talk Talk Talk Talk is nothing if not accommodating.

A couple of years back, Laura Flanders took the 40th anniversary of LBJ's War on Poverty to examine the part Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld took in destroying it. Unfortunately, it's not a surprising story. Rumsfeld headed the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) under Richard Nixon, which was charged with coordinating poverty programs, and Cheney was his deputy. Flanders asserts that the two used surveillance tactics to undermine and attack community groups in what might have been a trial run of the Patriot Act. The article is worth a look and offers a glimpse at how some people never change. Feel free to talk about it below in comments, as well.