re: Apples and Oranges
Armitage leaked the name. Try to keep that in mind.
Cheney has to be beside Bush, holding his hand during every testimony, which is off the books, off the record...
There is no "every." This happened during the 9/11 Commission hearings.
Lindy, Clinton had Sandy Berger on one side and Bruce Lindsey on the other when he testified for the 9/11 Commission. That's the same Berger who was playing fast and loose with the documents, incidentally.
While the Bush-Cheney combo was trumpeted to the skies by the liberal media and others, I could only find the fact that Clinton had "handlers" in a single Time Magazine article:
...But like George W. Bush, who will meet with the commission (together with Dick Cheney) at an undisclosed time, Clinton was allowed to appear in private—in a secret, bugproof room called, in a typical Washington solecism, a SKIF—a secure-conference intelligence facility.
It's a disservice to history that Clinton's four hours of testimony on April 8 went unrecorded—and that the commission has offered the same cloak of secrecy to Bush—but sources close to the panel briefed TIME on the session. One commissioner described the atmosphere in the SKIF as "clearly not hostile." Clinton brought along Sandy Berger, his affable National Security Adviser, and Bruce Lindsey, his longtime friend and White House consigliere. The former President offered to stay "as long as any of you want," according to commission chairman Thomas Kean, a Republican, who wouldn't reveal anything else Clinton said.
So you probably didn't know that, and now that you do, you're going to forget it instantly so you can come back weeks from now and tell me again that Cheney was holding Bush's hand.
Education is a thankless task around here.