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Private Attorney General requests Informal AG Opinion re:  registrat

Posted by: "Supreme Law Firm" paulandrewmitchell2004@yahoo.com   paulandrewmitchell2004

Tue May 19, 2009 7:44 pm (PDT)

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From: Paul Andrew Mitchell <supremelawfirm@ gmail.com>
Subject: Private Attorney General requests Informal AG Opinion re: registration of Federal Reserve Bank of S.F. as "foreign corporation" with Wash. Secretary of State
Date: Tuesday, May 19, 2009, 11:58 AM

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REQUEST FOR INFORMAL
ATTORNEY GENERAL OPINION

 

 

TO:       Office of the Attorney General

          Attention:  Opinions Editor

          P.O. Box 40100

          Olympia 98504-0100

          WASHINGTON STATE, USA

 

FROM:     Paul Andrew
Mitchell, B.A., M.S.

          Private
Attorney General, 18
U.S.C. 1964, Rotella
v. Wood

 

DATE:     May 19, 2009 A.D.

 

SUBJECT:  registration of Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

          as a foreign corporation with branch
offices in Seattle

 

 

Greetings
Washington State Attorney General:

 

Our office has been retained by a husband and wife who
previously petitioned for relief from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Spokane,
Washington State.

 

That litigation recently resulted in the filing and service of a
DECLARATION OF
INSOLVENCY by the United States appearing ex rel. as Interpleader.  A
hard copy is attached, and a fully hyperlinked version is also here on the
Internet, for your convenience:

 

http://www.supremel aw.org/cc/ fox2/insolvency. htm

 

To satisfy due diligence, my office attempted to obtain
information identifying the Registered Agent for service of process on the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, with
branch offices in Seattle.

 

However, the Washington State Secretary of State informed us via
email that the Federal Reserve Banks are not registered with them as foreign
corporations, even though the Ninth Circuit has held that Federal Reserve Banks
are “privately owned and locally controlled corporations.�  See Lewis v. United States, 680
F.2d 1239 (1982).

 

Briefly, Mr. Lewis was hit by a Federal Reserve vehicle in Los
Angeles, and he sued the United States (Federal
Government) to recover the resulting damages under the Federal Tort Claims Act.  The Ninth Circuit held that Lewis sued the
wrong party, however, because the Federal Reserve Banks are not Federal
agencies for purposes of that Act.  The
Ninth Circuit then went into some detail itemizing all of the reasons why those
Banks are not Federal agencies.

 

Because Lewis supra
is now binding case law within the entire Ninth Circuit, we argue that the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco should
register as a foreign corporation with the Office of the Washington
State Secretary of State, due to its substantial business presence here.

We also argue that, as a foreign corporation, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco should
display a proper identifying suffix such as “Inc.� or “Corp.� in all written
occurrences of that proper entity name. 
Even though a Federal corporation was originally created by Act of
Congress, it is not thereby exempted from obeying all applicable Washington
State constitutional provisions, statutes and regulations.

 

On this point, please see also Daly v. The National Life
Insurance Company of the United States of America, in which the Indiana
Supreme Court held in the year 1878 A.D.
as follows:

 

"Foreign
Corporation" Defined. -- The statutes of this State define a foreign
corporation to be "a corporation created by or under the laws of any other
state, government, or country," or one "not incorporated or organized
in this State".

 

Same. -- Insurance
Company Created by Act of Congress. -- An insurance company created by an
act of Congress is a foreign corporation subject to the requirements of the statute
of this State approved June 17th, 1852, "respecting foreign corporations
and their agents in this State."  1
R.S. 1876, p. 373.

 

Same. -- Congress
as a Local Legislature. -- Constitutional Law. -- An act of Congress
creating a private corporation is the act of Congress as the local Legislature
of the District of Columbia;  as Congress can not, under the federal
constitution, as the Congress of the United States, create a private
corporation.

 

[bold emphasis added]

 

The Tenth
Amendment clarifies these holdings quite neatly:  to create a Federal corporation that is national in scope would thereby invade
States’ Rights to charter their own domestic corporations.  Thus, Congress can only create a Federal
corporation, like the Federal Reserve Banks and the Union Pacific Railroad
Company, when it enacts municipal law in its capacity as the Legislature
for the federal zone:

 

http://www.supremel aw.org/fedzone11 /index.htm

 

Accordingly, my office and our bankruptcy
clients hereby request an Informal Attorney General
Opinion on the following two (2) questions:

 

(1)          
Is
the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco,
with branch offices in Seattle, required to register with the Washington State
Secretary of State as a foreign corporation, in order fully to comply
with applicable Washington State statutes regulating foreign corporations with
a substantial business presence inside Washington State?

 

(2)          
Are
the People of Washington State ex rel.
Private Attorney General eligible as such to request a Formal Attorney
General Opinion?

 

 

Thank you very much for your professional consideration.

 

 

Sincerely yours,

/s/ Paul Andrew Mitchell, B.A., M.S.

Private
Attorney General, 18
U.S.C. 1964(a)

http://www.supremel aw.org/decs/ agency/private. attorney. general.htm

Criminal Investigator and Federal Witness: 18 U.S.C. 1510, 1512-13

 

All Rights Reserved
without Prejudice

 

 

Copy:  Mr. and Mrs. Roland
R. Fox

   c/o Forwarding Agent

       7115 N. Division
St. #B-354

       Spokane 99208

       WASHINGTON STATE,
USA

 

Attachments:

 

       Lewis v. United States, 680
F.2d 1239 (1982);

       DECLARATION OF
INSOLVENCY AS TO OBLIGATIONS

       PAYABLE TO THE FEDERAL
RESERVE BANKS (March 31, 2009 A.D.)

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US Arms Falling Into Taliban Hands For Use Against American Troops 1

Posted by: "CLG News" clgnews@gmail.com   clg_news

Tue May 19, 2009 8:14 pm (PDT)



*Breaking News and Commentary from Citizens For Legitimate Government*
19 May 2009
*http://www.legitgov .org/* <http://www.legitgov .org/>
All links are here:
*http://www.legitgov .org/#breaking_ news*<http://www.legitgov .org/#breaking_ news>

*Breaking: Israeli jets strike
Gaza<http://www.telegrap h.co.uk/news/ worldnews/ middleeast/ israel/5352695/ Israeli-jets- strike-Gaza. html>
* 20 May 2009 Gaza Strip struck after militants fired a rocket into a house
in the southern city of Sderot. Israeli planes bombed the area six times,
targeting underground tunnels used to smuggle goods into the besieged
territory. In other raids they targeted armed men belonging to Hamas,
according to the Islamist group.

*US Arms Falling Into Taliban Hands For Use Against American
Troops<http://www.nytimes. com/2009/ 05/20/world/ asia/20ammo. html>
* 20 May 2009 Of 30 rifle magazines recently taken from insurgents' corpses
in Afghanistan, at least 17 contained cartridges, or rounds, identical to
ammunition the United States had provided to Afghan government forces,
according to an examination of ammunition markings by The New York Times and
interviews with American officers and arms dealers. The presence of this
ammunition among the dead in the Korangal Valley, an area of often fierce
fighting near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan, strongly suggests that
munitions procured by the Pentagon have leaked from Afghan forces for use
against American troops.

*Mullen: 2 years to turn tide in
Afghanistan<http://www.google. com/hostednews/ ap/article/ ALeqM5iqyaFh_ efr-brDq0rMLF1hk op0tgD988TSV00>
* [*Could be a whole lot longer, since the US is arming both
sides<http://www.nytimes. com/2009/ 05/20/world/ asia/20ammo. html>
.*]* *18 May 2009 The nation's top military officer warned Monday that the
deaths of Afghan civilians caught up in U.S. combat operations could cripple
President Barack Obama's revamped strategy for the seven-year-old [illegal]
war. "I believe that each time we do that, we put our strategy in jeopardy,"
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said. "We cannot
succeed ... in Afghanistan by killing Afghan civilians." Mullen said
additional forces and new tactics can help the United States turn a
discouraging tide in Vietnam Afghanistan.

*KBR, Halliburton Accused in Investor Suit of 'Reign of
Terror'<http://www.bloomber g.com/apps/ news?pid= 20601103& sid=aiF0LzEZ2wEw>
* 15 Mar 2009 KBR Inc. and Halliburton Co., two of the largest contractors
to the U.S. military, were accused by a pension-fund shareholder of paying
bribes, making false claims and operating as criminal enterprises.
Executives of both companies engaged in a "reign of terror" that involved
paying bribes in Nigeria, overcharging the U.S. government for services,
accepting kickbacks, *engaging in human trafficking* and concealing a rape
of an employee, according to the complaint filed yesterday by a pension
fund. [*Let us not forget what US troops had to endure from Cheney's KBR
terrorists: Poisonings, electrocutions, spoiled food and pathogen-laden
water.*]

*Senate Committee to Review Bonuses Paid to KBR for Deadly Electrical
Work<http://ecmweb. com/news/ kbr-bonuses- 0519/>
*19 May 2009 The U.S. Senate Democratic Policy
Committee<http://dpc.senate. gov/>(DPC) will hold an oversight hearing
at 9:30 a.m. on Wednesday, May 20, to
examine millions of dollars in bonuses paid to KBR, Houston, for electrical
wiring work on U.S. Army bases in Iraq that has been linked to the
electrocution deaths of at least two, and perhaps as many as five, U.S.
soldiers and contractors in Iraq.

*GQ report blames Rumsfeld for military delay after
Katrina<http://www.nola. com/news/ index.ssf/ 2009/05/gq_ report_blames_ rumsfeld_ for.html>
* 18 May 2009 A report on the GQ magazine Web
site<http://men.style. com/gq/features/ full?id=content_ 9217>is quoting
unnamed former Bush administration official as blaming former
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for many failures, including a delay in
military assistance in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. The report says
"in speaking with the former Bush officials, it becomes evident that *Rumsfeld
impaired administration performance on a host of matters extending well
beyond Iraq to impact America's relations with other nations, the safety of
our troops, and the response to Hurricane Katrina*."

*I did not say Cheney killed Benazir:
Hersh<http://www.dailytim es.com.pk/ default.asp? page=2009% 5C05%5C19% 5Cstory_19- 5-2009_pg7_ 4>
* 19 May 2009 US journalist Seymour Hersh on Monday contradicted news
reports published<http://www.thaindia n.com/newsportal /south-asia/ us-journo- claims-bhutto- was-killed- on-cheneys- orders_100194038 .html>in
South Asia that quote him as saying a "special death squad" made by
former US vice president [sic] Dick Cheney had killed Benazir Bhutto. The
award-winning journalist described as "complete madness" the reports that
the squad headed by General Stanley McChrystal had also killed former
Lebanese prime minister Rafique Al Hariri and a Lebanese army chief. "Vice
president Cheney does not have a death squad.

*'He was tortured into making false statements that were relied upon to
start the Iraq war, and when that became too embarrassing he was
disappeared' to a rights-abusing country. 'Mystery surrounds prison death of
terrorist whose testimony was key to Iraq
invasion<http://www.sundayhe rald.com/ international/ shinternational/ display.var. 2508623.0. 0.php>
* --*Human rights organisations and Islamic groups have questioned whether
al-Libi's death was suicide*. 19 May 2009 The Islamist terrorist who was the
key source of the false intelligence used to trigger the US and UK 2003
military invasion of Iraq has been found dead in a Libyan prison cell. Ibn
al-Sheikh al-Libi allegedly committed suicide by hanging in the prison where
he was being held in the Libyan capital, Tripoli. Yasser al-Sirri, an
Egyptian who runs the Islamic Observation Centre in London, said al-Libi was
a "true Muslim, and Islam prohibits committing suicide". Clive Stafford
Smith of Justice, a group of British human rights lawyers, said: "We are
told that al-Libi committed suicide in his Libyan prison. If this is true it
would be because of his torture and abuse. If false, it may reflect a desire
to silence one of the greatest embarrassments to the Bush administration. "

*Democrats plan to nix $80 million to shut
Guantanamo<http://www.washingt onpost.com/ wp-dyn/content/ article/2009/ 05/19/AR20090519 02227.html>
* 19 May 2009 President Barack Obama was dealt a setback on Tuesday by
fellow DemocRATs in the Senate who said they would strip $80 million from a
war funding bill for closing the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay. The move
follows criticism from Republicans and even some Democrats that Obama should
have first submitted a plan on what he planned to do with the approximately
240 terrorism suspects being [illegally] held at the prison at a U.S. naval
base in Cuba.

*IDF bombs south Gaza after Qassam hits
Sderot<http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/1086642. html>
* 20 May 2009 Israel Defense Forces warplanes on Tuesday attacked the
southern Gaza Strip near its border with Egypt, several hours after a rocket
fired from the coastal territory exploded in the yard of a western Negev
home. An IDF spokesman said Israel targeted four border tunnels and two
sites in Gaza where weapons were produced, in response to rocket and mortar
fire aimed at Israel from the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

*'Israel will have to take on Iran alone once Obama's efforts
fail'<http://www.haaretz. com/hasen/ spages/1086628. html>
* 19 May 2009 Israel will be forced to take on Iran's contentious nuclear
program alone once U.S. President Barack Obama's overture for dialogue with
Tehran fails, an Israeli official said on Tuesday. The official was quoted
by Channel 10 as saying that Obama's insistence on engagement with Iran
would force Israel to make a "difficult decision" on the matter by the end
of 2009.

*Netanyahu ignores US calls to halt illegal
building<http://www.presstv. ir/detail. aspx?id=95298& sectionid= 351020202>
* 19 May 2009 After going down a collision path with the US president over
Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian lands, the Israeli prime
minister gets a dressing-down on the issue by senior US lawmakers. Senate
Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Kerry said Tuesday that he frankly
brought forward the issue when visiting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
met with the committee's members.

*US denies supporting anti-Iranian
terrorists<http://www.presstv. ir/detail. aspx?id=95307& sectionid= 351020101>
* 19 May 2009 The US Defense Department has denied that the United States is
supporting Kurdish terrorists conducting operations against Iran. During a
visit to Iran's Kordestan Province on Tuesday, Leader of the Islamic
Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei said that the US is supporting
terrorists on Iran's western borders. "The United States is promoting
terrorism beyond [Iran's] western frontiers... They [the US government]
directly finance operations and organize terrorist movements to undermine
the Islamic Republic," Ayatollah Khamenei stated.

*Army captain pleads guilty in Iraq theft
ring<http://www.google. com/hostednews/ ap/article/ ALeqM5jTxed7HS1M sqpsz_Jzmso74R0l LQD988S8602>
* 18 May 2009 An Army captain pleaded guilty Monday to stealing hundreds of
thousands of dollars worth of military equipment from an Army base in Iraq
and selling it to a businessman there. Elbert W. George III, of Suffolk,
Va., faces up to five years in prison after pleading guilty in U.S. District
Court to a single count of conspiracy to steal government property.

*US to send $110 million in emergency aid to
Pakistan*<http://televisionwa shington. com/floater_ article1. aspx?lang= en&t=3&id= 10569>19
May 2009 US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced on Tuesday
that
the United States was sending 110 million dollars in emergency aid to
Pakistan to help displaced civilians there. Clinton, who detailed the aid
package at the White House, said that the money would ease the plight of
about two million Pakistanis who have fled fighting [and US drones] in the
country's northwest Swat Valley, reports the Associated Press.

*7/7 bomber tracked by intelligence officers since
2001<http://www.independ ent.co.uk/ news/uk/crime/ chances-to- prevent-77- attacks-were- missed-1687434. html>--Chances
to prevent 7/7 attacks were missed
* 19 May 2009 Police and the MI5 spy agency likely missed chances to
identify the key men behind the 2005 London bombings [an inside job six ways
to Sunday], but could have done little more to halt the attacks given their
limited resources, lawmakers said today. A detailed report into what was
known before the attacks, which killed 52 people on three subway cars and a
bus, reveals how one of the bombers was tracked by intelligence officers as
early as 2001.

*US pharma-terrorists poised to make a killing even grander than Bush's 9/11
cronies: Companies could vaccinate 4.9 bln against H1N1
-WHO<http://www.reuters. com/article/ BIOTRX/idUSN1942 192820090519>--'Partnerships
with the private sector are absolutely vital.'* 19 May 2009 Companies could
potentially turn out 4.9 billion doses of vaccine against the new H1N1 [Fort
Detrick] influenza strain within a year under the best-case scenario, World
Health Organization officials said on Tuesday. WHO Director-General Dr.
Margaret Chan told reporters after a meeting with 30 pharmaceutical
companies that WHO was working to secure supplies of vaccine for poor
countries in case of a pandemic. [See:* Baxter working on vaccine to stop
swine flu, though admitted sending live pandemic flu viruses to
subcontractor <http://www.legitgov .org/baxter_ flu_vaccine_ 260409.html>* 26
Apr 2009.]

*Prison Outbreak? 4 More Have Swine Flu At
Rikers<http://wcbstv. com/local/ rikers.island. jail.2.1013198. html>--Bloomberg
Confirms Latest Cases, Says 4 Others Are Probable For Virus
* 19 May 2009 Four inmates at Rikers Island have been confirmed to have the
swine flu and four more are considered probable for the virus, Mayor Michael
Bloomberg confirmed Tuesday morning. "Correction and health officials are
monitoring the situation and preparing to implement additional health
screening and where needed, *isolation of ill inmates*," Bloomberg said.

*Number of H1N1 cases nears
10,000*<http://www.cnn. com/2009/ HEALTH/05/ 19/swine. flu.cases/ index.html>
* *19 May 2009 The number of confirmed H1N1 flu cases worldwide is nearing
10,000, the World Health Organization said Tuesday morning. The swine flu
outbreak has sickened 9,830 people and caused at least 79 deaths -- mostly
in Mexico, the organization said. The actual number of people affected may
be higher, as it takes time for national governments to confirm cases and
report them to the global body. In the United States, at least 5,469 cases
of swine flu have been reported, according to the latest figures from the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

*Court: White House doesn't have to turn over e-mail
records<http://www.cnn. com/2009/ POLITICS/ 05/19/us. whouse.email/ index.html>--The
decision was a victory for the Bush regime, which sought to shield its
internal communications* . 19 May 2009 A unit of the White House that was
accused of misplacing [destroying] perhaps millions of office e-mails does
not have to make its records public, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday.
In Tuesday's decision, the appeals judges -- David Sentelle, Thomas Griffith
and Raymond Randolph -- were all named by Republican presidents.

*RNC Chairman Urges Stronger Attacks on
Obama*<http://www.washingt onpost.com/ wp-dyn/content/ article/2009/ 05/19/AR20090519 03187.html>20
May 2009 Seeking to reassert himself as a party leader, Republican
National Committee Chairman Michael Steele yesterday implored GOP members to
stop "navel-gazing" and sharply attack President Obama. His early tenure
marred by a series of gaffes, Steele continued a recent re-emergence into
the public fray, declaring Obama's first several months "a reign of error"
in a speech to RNC members, and adding that the Republican "renaissance has
begun."

*Obama takes aim at climate-warming car
emissions<http://www.reuters. com/article/ marketsNews/ idUSN19374415200 90520>
* 19 May 2009 President Barack Obama took aim at climate-warming greenhouse
gases on Tuesday and ordered the struggling auto industry to make more
fuel-efficient cars under tough new national standards to cut emissions and
increase gas mileage. Obama said the standards, announced at a White House
ceremony attended by auto industry and union leaders, would reduce U.S.
dependence on foreign oil and give five years of cost certainty to the auto
industry.

*GM bankruptcy plan eyes quick sale to
gov't*<http://www.reuters. com/article/ wtUSInvestingNew s/idUSN194336312 0090519>19
May 2009 General Motors Corp's plan for a bankruptcy filing involves a
quick sale of the company's healthy assets to a new company initially owned
by the U.S. government, a source familiar with the situation said on
Tuesday. The source, who would not be named because he was not cleared to
speak with the media, did not specify a purchase price.

*Exploiting The Credit Card Law
Loophole<http://www.cbsnews. com/stories/ 2009/05/19/ eveningnews/ main5026108. shtml>--Card
Issuers May Hike Charges and Interest Rates Before New Regulations
Take Effect; Borrowers Who Pay In Full Targeted* 19 May 2009 The Senate
passed a major reform of gift to the credit card industry Tuesday that
clamps down on arbitrary fee and interest rate increases. But even after
President Barack Obama signs the bill, the law won't fully take effect for
nine months. That's a nine-month loophole, and as CBS News reports, consumer
groups are concerned the credit card companies will use the time to hike up
interest rates and fees while they can.

*US, states sue Wyeth over drug
prices<http://news. smh.com.au/ breaking- news-world/ us-states- sue-wyeth- over-drug- prices-20090519- bds9.html>
* 19 May 2009 The US Justice Department and 16 states have joined two
whistleblower lawsuits against Wyeth, alleging that the drugmaker has
defrauded the government of hundreds of millions of US dollars. According to
the lawsuits, filed in a federal district court in Massachusetts, Wyeth
avoided paying hundreds of millions of US dollars in rebates due to state
Medicaid programs -- which provide health insurance to low-income families
or people with disabilities -- for its Protonix Oral and Protonix IV stomach
acid drugs.

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Previous lead stories: *Donald Rumsfeld covered Iraq briefing papers with
Biblical texts<http://www.telegrap h.co.uk/news/ worldnews/ northamerica/ usa/5340059/ Donald-Rumsfeld- covered-Iraq- briefing- papers-with- Biblical- texts.html>
* 17 May 2009 Donald Rumsfeld, the former US defence secretary, provided
George W Bush with top secret intelligence briefings on the Iraq war that
featured cover pages adorned with Biblical quotes. According to a
report<http://men.style. com/gq/features/ landing?& id=content_ 9217>in
*GQ* magazine the religious texts were imposed over pictures of the US armed
forces engaged in the war.

*Barack Obama attempts to ward off disastrous military air strike on
'nuclear' Tehran<http://www.timesonl ine.co.uk/ tol/news/ world/us_ and_americas/ article6307431. ece>
* 18 May 2009 President Obama will seek today to persuade the hawkish
Israeli Prime Minister that the White House's recent overtures to Iran
should be given time to work and that an Israeli military strike against
Tehran could trigger disaster.

*Supreme Court Rules Former Detainee Abuse Lawsuit Cannot
Proceed<http://www.washingt onpost.com/ wp-dyn/content/ article/2009/ 05/18/AR20090518 00966.html>--Court
Sends Mueller, Ashcroft Lawsuit Back
*18 May 2009 The Supreme Court ruled today that former attorney general John
Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller may not be sued by Arab Muslims who
were seized in this country after the 2001 terrorist attacks and allege
harsh treatment because of their religion and ethnicity. The court ruled 5
to 4 that the top officials are not liable for the actions of their
subordinates absent evidence that they ordered the allegedly discriminatory
activity. Javaid Iqbal was held in solitary confinement in a section of a
Brooklyn prison known as Admax-Shu, for "administrative maximum special
housing unit," where he said he was subjected to numerous beatings and strip
searches.

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Re: Cartoon du Jour - By Khalil

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Wed May 20, 2009 12:22 am (PDT)



And more on 'The Language of Washington"

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Wicked cartoons by America's Most Wanted Political Cartoonist. Enjoy!

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Cheney Grabs a Third Term

Posted by: "Scott Peden" scotpeden@cruzio.com   scotpeden

Wed May 20, 2009 12:01 am (PDT)



Cheney Grabs a Third Term
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: May 19, 2009
WASHINGTON

Dick and Rummy are at Cafe Milano in Georgetown, holding court. The maître
dÂ' fawns. Waiters hover. Tourists snap pics on their digital cameras. Cable
chatterers stop by to ingratiate themselves.

It isnÂ't so much that Dick and Rummy are back. ItÂ's that they never left.

They had no intention of turning AmericaÂ's national security over to the Boy
Wonder. The two best infighters in Washington history werenÂ't yielding turf
to a bunch of peach-fuzz pinkos who side with terrorists.

Let W. work out at the S.M.U. gym in Dallas, waiting for history to redeem
him; Dick and Rummy are leaning forward into history, as they always do.
Cheney is tawny with TV makeup; thereÂ's no point taking it off. The gigs are
nonstop, and he has a big Obama-bashing speech Thursday at the American
Enterprise Institute.

Â"That was funny when you were on Fox and Neil Cavuto called you ObamaÂ's
Â'ball and Cheney,Â' Â" Rummy grins, taking a gulp of his brunello.

Dick grunts, raising a fork of his Risotto Gucci with roasted free-range
quail.

Â"The punks thought they could roll over us,Â" Vice mutters. Â"Nobody puts Baby
in a corner.Â"

Eyeing the quail, Rummy shakes his head. Â"Can you believe the nerve of that
dadburn whippersnapper at the press dinner, saying your memoir would be
called Â'How to Shoot Friends and Interrogate People?Â' Whatever happened to
the great White House tradition of giving respect to your predecessors?Â"

Dick is looking over at himself on the TV behind the bar, where Fox is doing
a segment about how Republicans on the Sunday talk shows praised him for his
shock-and-awe campaign against Obama.

Â"I canÂ't believe how easy it was to bring Obama into line,Â" Rummy says,
gnawing on Gorgonzola. Â"We wouldnÂ't have needed waterboarding if everybody
cracked like a peanut. It was even easier than getting the bit into JuniorÂ's
mouth. Way simpler than if weÂ'd had to contend with McCain. In the end, the
right guy won.Â"

Dick is surprised, too, but who can tell?

Â"YouÂ're running national security now and everyone knows it,Â" Rummy says.
Â"You got Obama to do an about-face on the torture photos. HeÂ's using our old
line about how it would endanger the troops. HeÂ's keeping our military
tribunals. His Justice Department invoked our state secrets privilege to try
to get that lawsuit on torture and rendition dismissed. HeÂ's trying to stop
any sort of truth commission, thank goodness. HeÂ's got his own surge going
in Afghanistan. HeÂ's withdrawing from Iraq more slowly. HeÂ's extended our
secret incursions over the Afghan border into Pakistan.Â"

Dick smiles on one side of his face.

Â"Transparency bites,Â" he snarls.

Â"By golly, yes,Â" Rummy says. Â"We controlled Junior by playing on his fear of
looking like a wimp just as his dad did. And now weÂ're controlling Boy
Wonder by playing on his eagerness to show that the Democrats are tough on
national security. HeÂ's a sucker for four-star generals, canÂ't resist anyone
in uniform. Petraeus and Odierno speak and he jumps. If we want to roll him,
we just send in the military brass flashing their medals.Â"

Rummy knocks back some more brunello, and shoos away some Japanese tourists
after confiscating their cameras.

Â"I hear Poppy Bush is furious at you,Â" he says. Â"HeÂ's telling folks he put
Junior in your care and you stole his presidency and destroyed the Bush name
and derailed JebÂ's chances to ever be president, and P.S., you wrecked the
country and the Atlantic alliance to boot. He has it in for Lynne, too.
Thinks she spun you up, like she did in high school with her flaming batons.
He thinks you got loopy from all the heart procedures. And ColinÂ's mad at
you.Â"

Â"He can go to yoga with Pelosi for all I care,Â" Dick growls.

The two old connivers clink glasses. Â"So,Â" Rummy muses, Â"what do we make our
new White House boy toy do next?Â"

Â"Well,Â" Dick says. Â"HeÂ's got to keep Gitmo open. ItÂ's rich that his own
party wonÂ't give him the money to close it. The NIMBY factor works every
time — no terrorists in my backyard. HeÂ's got to stop this pansy diplomacy
with Muslim nations. HeÂ's got to let Bibi take out those Iranian
centrifuges. HeÂ's got to stop his Kodak moments and Commie book club with
Hugo Chávez. HeÂ's got to release those C.I.A. memos proving that we were
right to rip up the Constitution. And, of course, heÂ's got to pardon
Scooter.Â"

Â"Can we get him to do all that, Dick?Â"

Dick twinkles. Â"Yes, we can.Â"

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