Location of Secret VP Bunker

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Location of Secret VP Bunker
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Sun, 05-17-2009 - 9:07am

Well it was a secret bunker to save our VP in the event of an attack. Now I guess it'll be a tourist attraction. Anyway, the link and story follow.

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

Biden Reveals Location of Secret VP Bunker

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.

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Registered: 04-11-2009
Sun, 05-17-2009 - 10:22am

LOL!

 

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Registered: 03-18-2000
Sun, 05-17-2009 - 10:40am
Nice digs!
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Registered: 02-19-2008
Sun, 05-17-2009 - 2:47pm
I don't read in the article you posted that anything other than construction work and rumors were made. I do read in the article I posted that the current VP discusses the bunker in some detail.
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Registered: 04-11-2009
Sun, 05-17-2009 - 2:52pm

Here's how I read it -

It was NO SECRET!

Even in 2002 - it was no secret. Also, Cheney had Google Sat. Maps blur out his Eastern Shore estate. Problem was, that everybody knew where his estate was anyway. A real secret is something that very few know about.

 

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Registered: 02-19-2008
Sun, 05-17-2009 - 4:53pm
We read it differently.
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Registered: 01-22-2009
Mon, 05-18-2009 - 2:16pm
I would have been quite surprised if the observatory *didn't have a bunker.
iVillage Member
Registered: 01-22-2009
Mon, 05-18-2009 - 2:19pm

I remember that :)


They were just, ah, building a new kitchen

iVillage Member
Registered: 01-22-2009
Mon, 05-18-2009 - 2:21pm

~read it differently~


Of cooourse.

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Registered: 04-20-2009
Mon, 05-18-2009 - 3:48pm
You know it is pretty scary times when America elects a total buffoon as VP of the United States of America. OMG! What a moron. Just think, this idiot is a heartbeat away from the Presidency. I can't wait to see if Obama picks a DIFFERENT VP for the 2012 election. Can he do that? I hope so!
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Registered: 01-22-2009
Mon, 05-18-2009 - 8:41pm

Cheney talked about it in 2001, five days after 9/11, during an interview with Tim Russert.


Some of it is recounted here:


http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9368


Is Cheney a "total moron", a "buffoon"?

fairly damsely


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