6-17-09: "Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker" (FOXNews.com)

[ImmaSlave4U]

The vice president, well-known for his verbal gaffes, confirms at a dinner the existence and location of a secret hidden bunker that Cheney is believed to have used after the 9/11 attacks.


Vice President Joe Biden, well-known for his verbal gaffes, may have finally outdone himself, divulging potentially classified information meant to save the life of a sitting vice president.

According to a report, while recently attending the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, an annual event where powerful politicians and media elite get a chance to cozy up to one another, Biden told his dinnermates about the existence of a secret bunker under the old U.S. Naval Observatory, which is now the home of the vice president.

The bunker is believed to be the secure, undisclosed location former Vice President Dick Cheney remained under protection in secret after the 9/11 attacks.

Eleanor Clift, Newsweek magazine's Washington contributing editor, said Biden revealed the location while filling in for President Obama at the dinner, who, along with Grover Cleveland, is the only president to skip the gathering.

According to the report, Biden "said a young naval officer giving him a tour of the residence showed him the hideaway, which is behind a massive steel door secured by an elaborate lock with a narrow connecting hallway lined with shelves filled with communications equipment."

Clift continued: "The officer explained that when Cheney was in lock down, this was where his most trusted aides were stationed, an image that Biden conveyed in a way that suggested we shouldn't be surprised that the policies that emerged were off the wall."

In December 2002, neighbors complained of loud construction work being done at the Naval Observatory, which has been used as a residence by vice presidents since 1974.

The upset neighbors were sent a letter by the observatory's superintendent, calling the work "sensitive in nature" and "classified" and that it was urgent it be completed "on a highly accelerated schedule."

Residents said they believed workers were digging deep into the ground, which would support Biden's report of a secret bunker, but officials never confirmed the purpose of the work performed.

The revelation is the latest from Biden, who has a long history of political blunders.

Most recently, he said in a televised interview that if a family member asked him about traveling he'd advise staying away from public transportation or confined spaces to avoid swine flu -- a remark described as "borderline fearmongering" by an airline spokesman.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/17/oops-biden-reveals-location-secret-vp-bunker/?test=latestnews

[Meg]

Oh Biden... you never cease to amaze us! :laughing:

[Horizon]

I like Joe, I really do, but sometimes he makes it hard not ask WTF???:rotfl::rotfl:

[Merrick98]

If classified is it not treason whats next lauch codes.

[mavfin]

I like Joe, I really do, but sometimes he makes it hard not ask WTF???:rotfl::rotfl:

Dan Quayle, the Democrat version. :rotfl::rotfl::surprise::surprise:

[Spang]

It's not his fault, it's the Botox talking.

[Horizon]

Dan Quayle, the Democrat version. :rotfl::rotfl::surprise::surprise:

Ok, thats it! I am officially scared that we are agreeing lately! :rotfl::rotfl:

And I like Joe, but damn, the dude needs a filter for his mouth!

[cindyb]

The guy is a total goof ball, give me a break. He is next in line for the presidency. Wonderful. Hope and Change, what a crock.

[VotingHillary]

Any one else notice how most of the Presidents since Reagan, Bill Clinton excluded, chose running mates that Americans no way in hell want as President?

[cindyb]

Any one else notice how most of the Presidents since Reagan, Bill Clinton excluded, chose running mates that Americans no way in hell want as President?


I can only imagine if Dick Cheney would have had to step up and take the office of presidency. Whoa

[Meg]

I can only imagine if Dick Cheney would have had to step up and take the office of presidency. Whoa

YIKES! :timeout::timeout::timeout: LOL

[Spang]

If Cheney was president, we'd all be shot in the face or waterboarded.

[Meg]

If Cheney was president, we'd all be shot in the face or waterboarded.

LOL Accidently. ;)

[Brooke]

Any one else notice how most of the Presidents since Reagan, Bill Clinton excluded, chose running mates that Americans no way in hell want as President?

Oh I wouldn't exclude Bill Clinton. Americans didn't want Al Gore President either.

[Brooke]

YIKES! :timeout::timeout::timeout: LOL

Why do you think nobody tried to off George W. Bush?:laughing:

[TheTaoOfBill]

Biden sure likes to make supporting him difficult...

He really is a smart guy...he just has no clue how to shut up. I cannot believe he was considered for SoS. I'm so glad Hillary got that job and not the other way around! Can you imagine? Giving SoS to a guy who can't hold his tongue for the life of him?

If there is one thing Biden is good at is he's good at making potential Obama Assassins think twice.

[TheTaoOfBill]

Oh I wouldn't exclude Bill Clinton. Americans didn't want Al Gore President either.

I disagree...I think we all know the people wanted Al Gore president. They voted for him.

[Horizon]

I disagree...I think we all know the people wanted Al Gore president. They voted for him.

Me to Tao, I voted for him and would do so again. One vote I have never regretted. I think he would have made as good a POTUS as Bill.

[Brooke]

I disagree...I think we all know the people wanted Al Gore president. They voted for him.

People voted for Kerry and McCain too, they both lost, just like Gore did.

Gore has nobody to blame for his loss but himself. It should have been a slam dunk, after being VP in an administration that had the greatest economic success in recent times. And he still couldn't get elected President. Part of that was because he pushed his President away.

I voted for Gore. Held my nose and did it. I think he would have made an awful President, especially after 9-11. Not worse than Bush though, I'm sure.

I have no respect for someone who treats his friends like he did and takes money from big tobacco after his sister dies of lung cancer. And I will never forgive him for walking into the oval office and yelling and screaming at MY political hero. Ever.

And what did Bill do? He made arrangements to get Gore home on 9-11 because he was out of the country. He was still nice to him after Gore treated him like s***t.

[Ikasu]

I disagree...I think we all know the people wanted Al Gore president. They voted for him.

Agreed.

Gore: 50,999,897, 48.4%
Bush: 50,456,002, 47.9%

The people wanted him. Let's not rewrite history.

[hobbitt]

Biden told his dinnermates about the existence of a secret bunker under the old U.S. Naval Observatory,

Send Joe to Area 51. He can put the pix of the aliens on his Facebook page.

But please, no one give him access to CIA covert ops documents.

[cindyb]

Agreed.

Gore: 50,999,897, 48.4%
Bush: 50,456,002, 47.9%

The people wanted him. Let's not rewrite history.

Thank goodness for the Electoral College. :):D**==

[Brooke]

Agreed.

Gore: 50,999,897, 48.4%
Bush: 50,456,002, 47.9%

The people wanted him. Let's not rewrite history.

How am I rewriting history? He wasn't President. And the truth is, it never even should have been that close. Not after 8 years of peace and prosperity.

[Ikasu]

Thank goodness for the Electoral College. :):D**==

Yea, it gave us Bush. :-bd:atwitsend:

[Ikasu]

How am I rewriting history? He wasn't President. And the truth is, it never even should have been that close. Not after 8 years of peace and prosperity.

You said the people did not want him. More people voted for him than Bush, so Americans wanted him.

But you're right. It shouldn't have been close. Had he won his own state, he could have lost FL. Gore ran a bad campaign (mostly because of Donna Brazile).

[Brooke]

Well okay, I was talking in more terms of that he wasn't President. But yes, we all know he won the popular vote. And if he had won his own state, it wouldn't have mattered.

John Edwards couldn't carry NC for Kerry.

[Lealy]

Agreed.

Gore: 50,999,897, 48.4%-1
Bush: 50,456,002, 47.9%

The people wanted him. Let's not rewrite history.

I voted for him and that night hoped to God my vote did not count.

[Ikasu]

I voted for him and that night hoped to God my vote did not count.

You had regrets that same night?

[ImmaSlave4U]

Aide says Biden didn't leak classified information about Cheney's post-9/11 'hideaway' — he was describing a guest room in official vice presidential residence.


http://www.foxnews.com/images/root_images/051809_bidenbunker.jpg

Vice President Joe Biden did not leak classified information when he reportedly described to dinner guests the location of a "hideaway" his predecessor, Dick Cheney, used in the days following the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, an aide to Biden said Monday.

"There was no disclosure of classified information," spokeswoman Elizabeth Alexander said.

She said Biden was merely describing a guest room in the Naval Observatory, the official vice presidential residence in Washington.

But that's not what Newsweek's Eleanor Clift reported last week.

She wrote that Biden, while at the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington, described to fellow guests the "bunker-like room" that served as the "secure, undisclosed location" where Cheney holed up after the terror attacks.

"He said the young naval officer giving him a tour of the residence showed him the hideaway, which is behind a massive steel door secured by an elaborate lock with a narrow connecting hallway lined with shelves filled with communications equipment," she wrote.

"The officer explained that when Cheney was in lock down, this was where his most trusted aides were stationed, an image that Biden conveyed in a way that suggested we shouldn't be surprised that the policies that emerged were off the wall."

Alexander on Monday described the room as a rather accessible place that is far from secret.

She said the room was not an underground facility, "rather, an upstairs workspace in the residence, which he understood was frequently used by Vice President Cheney and his aides.

"That workspace was converted into an upstairs guest room when the Bidens moved into the residence."

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/18/biden-denies-leaking-classified-location-cheney-bunker/

[VotingHillary]

Joe Biden...the gift that just keeps on giving. Thank God that Hillary is SOS.

[Meg]

Aide says Biden didn't leak classified information about Cheney's post-9/11 'hideaway' — he was describing a guest room in official vice presidential residence.



http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/18/biden-denies-leaking-classified-location-cheney-bunker/

A guest bedroom described as this:

behind a massive steel door secured by an elaborate lock with a narrow connecting hallway lined with shelves filled with communications equipment

Yeah... :rolleyes:

[hobbitt]

She said Biden was merely describing a guest room

a secret bunker under the old U.S. Naval Observatory,

the hideaway, which is behind a massive steel door secured by an elaborate lock

Keeps the guests from raiding the refrigerator and using the Good Towels.

[VotingHillary]

Keeps the guests from raiding the refrigerator and using the Good Towels.

hobbitt, you are on a roll tonight! :laughing::rotfl::laughing: