Cheney ramps up attacks on both sides of the aisle
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Far from a secure, undisclosed location, former Vice President Dick Cheney is out in the open and increasing his criticism on the Obama administration and even fellow Republicans.
There is not a grammatical mistake in this lead, but it is just a poor lead. The beginning is a play on the "secure, undisclosed" location that the Vice President goes to during an national emergency. But this has no bearing on the current situation, especially since he is no longer Vice President. Most readers won't know the reference, and so it just seems random. Even if people get the reference, it is just a poor play on words. If the writer could not come up with anything clever, a better lead would just have been a news lead, which outlines what happened.
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