Dicktards at Amtrak

Again, this one is self evident. However, would like to point out that these people may be a notch up in the dicktard rankings from Cheney. While our vice president is the sort of man who most likely spends the majority of his time dreaming about using his own mouth as a colostomy bag, it takes a special kind of asshole to leave a diabetic senior citizen in the middle of a national forest at night. Fuckers.

PHOENIX — A 65-year-old St. Louis man is missing after Amtrak personnel, mistaking his diabetic shock for drunk and disorderly behavior, kicked him off a train in the middle of a national forest, according to police in Williams, Ariz.

 

Police said Roosevelt Sims was headed to Los Angeles but was asked to leave the train shortly before 10 p.m. Sunday at a railroad crossing five miles outside Williams.

 

“He was let off in the middle of a national forest, which is about 800,000 acres of beautiful pine trees,” Lt. Mike Graham said.

 

Police said there is no train station or running water at the crossing, which is about two miles from the nearest road, at an elevation of about 8,000 feet.

 

Amtrak personnel told police dispatchers that Sims was drunk and unruly.

 

The Sims family said Sims is diabetic and was going into shock.

 

Sims’ brother, Brian Mason, said his family tried to call Sims on his cell phone that night, but Sims was incoherent.

 

When officers arrived at the crossing, police said, Sims ran into the woods, leaving his luggage and medication behind.

 

Cell phone records show that Sims’ phone was last used in Litchfield Park, Ariz., 180 miles from Williams.

 

Williams police told CBS 5 that Amtrak has used the abandoned crossing as a drop-off site in the past. Graham said that whether drunk or not, no one should be dropped off there.

 

“You don’t put anyone off in an area like that,” Graham said.

 

Amtrak said the company is looking into the matter.

 

“I just want to find him,” Mason said. “I’m not mad at anybody.”

 

“I want to find a way to make sure he’s OK,” Mason added.

 

“Our thoughts and prayers are that there’s no way he’s out there in those woods,” Graham said.

Just another reason why Dick Cheney sucks

Very little explaining with this one here. It’s nice that the dickheads in DC think that the laws they swore to uphold in their oaths only apply to other people:

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Vice President Dick Cheney’s office refused to cooperate with an agency that oversees classified documents, then tried to abolish the office when it challenged the actions, House oversight committee Chairman Henry Waxman said.

 

The National Archives’ Information Security Oversight Office is charged by presidential order with ensuring that classified information and documents are properly handled by executive branch agencies.

 

According to a letter from William Leonard, director of the oversight office, Cheney’s office argued it did not meet the definition of an executive branch agency and therefore was exempt.

 

Leonard also wrote that Cheney’s office suggested his agency be abolished under a revision of the presidential order now under consideration. (Watch how Cheney’s office defines its role Video)

 

“I question both the legality and wisdom of your actions,” Waxman, D-California, wrote in a letter Thursday to Cheney.

 

“Your decision to exempt your office from the president’s order is problematic because it could place national security at risk,” wrote Waxman, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

 

Cheney’s office would neither confirm nor deny it tried to abolish the Information Security Oversight Office.

 

“We are confident that we are conducting the office properly under the law,” said Megan McGinn, deputy press secretary for Cheney, when asked about the Waxman letter.

 

The executive order — intended to maintain the integrity of classified documents — was established by President Clinton and revised by President Bush in 2003.

 

The 2003 version directed the Information Security Oversight Office to oversee a program of education and supervision of classified document protection and maintenance. According to Waxman, the office has worked with different White House groups, including the National Security Council.

 

But when the National Archives’ office attempted to visit Cheney’s team in 2004, it was prevented from doing so by Cheney’s staff, Waxman wrote in the letter. The office had complied with the order in 2001 and 2002 but started refusing to do so in 2003.

 

In 2006, Leonard wrote to Cheney’s chief of staff, David Addington, to contest the office’s refusal to comply and was told that the vice president’s office “does not believe it is included in the definition of ‘agency’ as set forth in the order,” nor is it an “entity within the executive branch that comes into the possession of classified information,” according to letters released Thursday by Waxman’s committee.

 

In a letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales requesting intervention on the matter, Leonard questioned the rationale presented by the vice president’s office.

 

“If the [office of the vice president] is not considered an entity within the executive branch, I am concerned that it could impede access to classified information by the OVP staff, in that such access would be considered a disclosure outside the executive branch,” Leonard wrote in January.

 

Justice Department spokesman Erik Ablin said the department had received the letter and that matter is under review.

 

The vice president’s office has been criticized for being secretive before.

 

Last month, it was revealed that the administration was withholding visitor logs to Cheney’s residence. The administration says the secrecy is needed so Cheney can get candid advice from visitors.

 

In 2001, the office refused to divulge the names of energy executives who had consulted with Cheney on U.S. energy policy.

 

The decision was challenged and upheld by the courts. The U.S. Supreme Court referred the case back to a lower court.