Liz Cheney: Warpig
From sham committees to threats, Cheney is all deep state
It is shame enough the name “Cheney” is not permanently banned from the halls of American power after the disastrous Iraq War and War in Afghanistan demanded by Vice President Dick Cheney. As CEO of oil giant Halliburton from 1995 until 2000, Cheney positioned the company to take advantage of federal contracts during the invasion of Iraq, which resulted in millions of deaths. In 2003, Halliburton’s subsidiary KBR was awarded a multimillion-dollar contract to “Restore Iraqi Oil”. In 2017, during the 2013-2017 War in Iraq, Halliburton was awarded a drilling services contract for Majnoon Oil Field in Southern Iraq. American forces were stationed and died along various Iraqi oil fields, including Ajeel Oil Field, starting in 2003.
While the Cheney family got rich from American blood for oil in Iraq (Dick Cheney and his wife were worth $8.8 million back in 2006), Liz Cheney never once signed up to defend her father’s company’s assets herself. She benefited from nepotism and held several positions in the U.S. State Department during the George W. Bush administration, when her father was vice president. She pushed for war in Iran while chairing the Iran Syria Policy and Operations Group with Elliot Abrams. In 2009, Cheney and neocon Bill Kristol founded Keep America Safe, a neocon mouthpiece nonprofit that supported the Bush–Cheney administration's positions and then disappeared in 2013. It wasn’t so long ago that the sons and daughters of politicians (see Chuck Robb, LBJ’s son-in-law) were expected to fight in the wars personally benefitting them.
Instead of learning from the 2022 loss of her senate seat in Wyoming and quietly fading into the background with her family’s millions, Liz Cheney decided to become Nancy Pelosi’s “attack dog”. This past Sunday, Cheney released a statement after Trump addressed her sham committee on Meet the Press. Cheney stated:
There is no conceivably appropriate factual or constitutional basis for what Donald Trump is suggesting – a Justice Department investigation of the work of a congressional committee – and any lawyer who attempts to pursue that course would quickly find themselves engaged in sanctionable conduct
Lmao is that a threat, Ms. Cheney? Are you the Chekha? Are you going to “sanction” every American lawyer who dares asks questions about your stupid January 6th Select committee? Law can be hard when your father isn’t spoon-feeding you positions in the State Department. Let’s look at Watkins v. United States (1957), 354 U.S. at 187:
There is no general authority to expose the private affairs of individuals without justification in terms of the functions of the Congress ... nor is the Congress a law enforcement or trial agency. These are functions of the executive and judicial departments of government. No inquiry is an end in itself; it must be related to, and in furtherance of, a legitimate task of the Congress.
The House January 6th Select committee chaired by Cheney and Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) envisioned itself “a law enforcement or trial agency” in violation of Watkins. It concluded its 18-month investigation last year and sent referrals to the Justice Department recommending Trump, an individual, be criminally prosecuted for his involvement in the lead-up to supporters trespassing at the Capitol. Th House January 6th Select committee was neither law enforcement nor trial agency nor executive nor judicial department of government. Cheney, Thompson and the rest of the Pelosi appointees fundamentally misunderstood their entire purpose, likely in violation of Watkins.
The Supreme Court has been very clear. Per a Congressional Research Service 2012 publication on the matter:
Congress’s power to investigate is at its peak when focusing on alleged waste, fraud, abuse, or maladministration within a government department. Specifically, the Court explained that the investigative power “comprehends probes into departments of the federal government to expose corruption, inefficiency, or waste.”
Cheney had every opportunity to investigate the DOJ’s waste and abuse of resources in tracking down grandmothers across the nation for praying in the Capitol on January 6th. Instead, she fixated on Trump in a case of TDS via congressional committee.
Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson communicated with Cheney, both directly and through an intermediary—White House official Alyssa Farah Griffin—while Hutchinson was represented by her attorney, Stefan Passantino. Cheney knew attorneys had to be involved when she was talking to their clients about a legal proceeding. Attorney Harmeet Dhillon identified the issue:
This is a very serious ethical violation and lawyers can be disciplined by the bar for contacting a represented party concerning the subject matter of the representation, without the permission and knowledge of that party's lawyer.
Farah Griffin’s April 2022 text to Hutchinson stating Cheney’s “one concern was so long as you have counsel, she can’t really ethically talk to you without him” reveals the same unease. As the Committee on House Administration found in October 2024:
For nearly a month, Farah Griffin acted as an intermediary between Cheney and the Select Committee. As an intermediary for Cheney, Farah Griffin helped coordinate Hutchinson’s third transcribed interview—without Hutchinson’s lawyer, Stefan Passantino’s knowledge. During the same time, Farah Griffin and Hutchinson discussed the optics of Hutchinson leaking her “new information” to the press instead of providing it directly to the Select Committee.
Optics but not legality. Funny how that works when you’re a deep state apparatchik.