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Biden: Secret Bunker? What Secret Bunker?

VP denies he divulged 'undisclosed location' beneath residence

By Harry Kimball, Newser Staff

Posted May 18, 2009 2:49 PM CDT

(Newser) – Joe Biden did not—repeat, not—disclose the existence of a bunker at the Naval Observatory used by former VP Dick Cheney, Politico reports. “What the vice president described in his comments was not—as some press reports have suggested—an underground facility,” a Biden aide said today. Rather, it is an “upstairs workspace” Biden “understood was frequently used by Vice President Cheney.” It is now a guest room.

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That workspace was converted into an upstairs guest room when the Bidens moved into the residence. There was no disclosure of classified information. - Biden spokeswoman Elizabeth Alexander

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Snowleopard

May 20, 2009 9:26 AM CDT

Fondue: Awesome response. thanks!

Snowleopard

May 19, 2009 12:53 PM CDT

verses the republican/libertarian "stand there and do nothing while capitalism runs off a cliff."

Snowleopard

May 19, 2009 12:50 PM CDT

I've heard that although the Nazis are often referred to as fascists, the only real "fascism" that world has seen was Mussolini's Italy during WWII, where the corporations essentially ran the government. I would like to hear some people's definition of fascism though, because it seems to mean a lot of different things to people.

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Biden: Secret Bunker? What Secret Bunker?