Posted on 08/29/2004 3:18:43 PM PDT by buzzyboop
Marilyn McCarney, a volunteer at the Waynesboro (PA)Historical Society, would rather discuss this Franklin County community's 22-piece kitchen band than the top-secret military command bunker carved into Raven Rock Mountain six miles away.
"What do you want to know about Site R for? It's just a hole in the ground ... but there's always been a lot of rumors surrounding it," said McCarney, a retired schoolteacher.
In fact, Site R is the nuke-proof communications center that serves as Vice President Dick Cheney's secret bunker.
Site R was built in Adams County about 50 years ago but didn't even garner a mention in the society's handsome photographic history. This summer, it emerged in the national spotlight after several news organizations revealed Cheney used Site R as his undisclosed location after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Time magazine last month described Site R as "a secret world of five buildings, each three stories tall, computer-filled caverns and a subterranean water reservoir. It is just seven miles from Camp David." Intelligence expert James Bamford also wrote about Site R in his book "A Pretext for War."
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
So much for responsible journalism. Bashing Bush is one thing, but this is too much. This writer should be jailed for disclosing highly classified material.
It is indeed sad to consider the size of "the enemy within", and how it continues to grow and prosper, as our security and our very nationhood dwindles. How stupid we have been. George Washington stands thoughtful --in an ancient life-size oil over the fireplace at The Greenbrier. In his hand is a scroll, unfurled. On the scroll it says: "Beware foreign influence".
As an ROTC student at Gettysburg College much of our admin and logistic support came from Ft. Ritchie, MD, just across the PA / MD state line in this area.
It was pretty well known by all the locals then, and that was about 15 years ago....
I wish our forefathers that created the constitution
could come back and bit* slap these demorats back in reality!
I bet they are rolling in their graves with the nyslimes thinking we should get rid of the electoral college.
The idiots who think disclosing the locations of secret military installations and government continuity plans don't realize that China is still out there, and that a conflict with China in the next 25 years is probably inevitable, if China doesn't change course.
But then those same idiots think Communists are friendly, tree hugging, fellow liberals who believe in the common good.
Under a Communist regime, the first people to lose their jobs are the members of the free press... And they'll be lucky if it is only their job that they lose.
Waynesboro Area Senior High graduate here. Trust me, this is no secret in the local area. Site R used to even be open for tours (of a minimal sort) during Thanksgivings.
Of course the locations of all of these sites (at least the ones we know about) have been known to our enemies for decades. I'm really just lamenting in generalities, you know. Mainly lamenting that we have been, for quite some time now, our own worst enemy.
so what
I don't doubt all of our major enemies have known of some or most of our secret installations, but I doubt that they knew of them all, or of their full extent, capabilities, and purposes/missions.
I suppose there is a greater danger that our backup facilities are now targets for our enemies who are less well informed, and I would have liked to keep them that way.
Time Magazine has another case of major Diarrea of the mouth again.
Isn't there any provisions in the law against blowing the locations and details about USA security measures???
I will never purchase Time Mag again. I used to do so quite often. NO MORE.
If we are all lucky, there is a psychopathic homosexual rapist out there that sees this "reporter" as a "target of opportunity" and proceeds to inject the aids virus into him --- violently.
But, the reporter may just enjoy it.
ahhhh, the good old days!
=)
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