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Joe Pitts: in a review of the book ``Prelude to War,'' Time Magazine saw fit to detail, as the book does, the location of the…

On the recordJune 17, 2004
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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Joe Pitts
Republican · Pennsylvania

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Condemning the disclosure of the location of Vice President Cheney's secret bunker after 9/11.

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