[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 150 (2004), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 12746]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        TIME MAGAZINE'S MISTAKE

  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, in a review of the book ``Prelude to War,'' 
Time Magazine saw fit to detail, as the book does, the location of the 
secret bunker used by Vice President Cheney in the aftermath of 9/11. 
Both the book's author and Time Magazine were wrong to reveal the 
location of this site. This is not tabloid material, a photographer 
catching a celebrity on vacation.
  Vice President Cheney did not go to this site to relax, he went there 
in case our President was attacked and killed by terrorists. He went 
there to be ready to take control when our Nation was under attack.
  Identifying this site is unacceptable and wrong. By detailing the 
complex and its location, the book and the magazine have combined to 
compromise a part of our national security. They compromised the 
ability to protect the man who is first in line for the Presidency. 
That was wrong.

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