{"id":919,"date":"2002-03-01T15:02:00","date_gmt":"2002-03-01T19:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles-wp\/?p=919"},"modified":"2002-03-01T15:02:00","modified_gmt":"2002-03-01T19:02:00","slug":"cheney-in-charge-bush-expendable-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meehawl.com\/Blogfiles\/2002\/03\/01\/15\/02\/cheney-in-charge-bush-expendable-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheney In Charge, Bush Expendable – Official!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Shadow Governm
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\nnt Activated for US
\nSo it is<\/i> true. Dick Cheney is run<\/a>ning the country<\/a> and Bush and most of Congress are on display as, well, basically the biggest decoy\/lure ever.<\/p>\n

The Bush administration has activated Cold War-era plans for a “shadow government” consisting of 75 or more senior officials who live and work secretly outside Washington in case the nation’s capital is crippled by terrorist
\na
\nttack … <\/a>The government-in-waiting is an extension of a policy that has kept Vice President Dick Cheney in secure undisclosed locations away from
\nWashington. Cheney has moved in and out of public view as threat levels have fluctuated. As next in line to power behind President Bush, he would need help running the government in a worst-case scenario.<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shadow Governm e nt Activated for US So it is true. Dick Cheney is running the country and Bush and most of Congress are on display as, well, basically the biggest decoy\/lure ever. The...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t