Vice Presidential gaffe machine Joe Biden has stepped in it again, this time endangering his own life in the process. 

According to Newsweek’s Washington contributing editor, Elenor Clift, Biden revealed the existence and location of a super-secret vice-presidential bunker at a recent soiree.   The event was the Gridiron Club Dinner, an annual party where high-level politicians can hob-knob with high-level media types and, no doubt, tell them what they should be reporting.

Biden apparently told the assembly that the bunker is located beneath the Vice President’s home, formerly the U.S. Naval observatory.   It’s likely the same place Dick Cheney was secured immediately following the 9/11 attacks.  If Biden had stopped there, it would probably be forgivable, since everyone with half a brain already assumes that such a facility would exist.  Unfortunately, the vice president decided to get more specific.

According to the Newsweek blog, Biden claimed “a young naval officer giving him a tour of the residence showed him the hideaway, which is behind a massive steel door secured by an elaborate lock with a narrow connecting hallway lined with shelves filled with communications equipment.” 

Not satisfied to just give away secrets, Biden used the moment to take a dig at the previous VP.  “The officer explained that when Cheney was in lock down, this was where his most trusted aides were stationed, an image that Biden conveyed in a way that suggested we shouldn’t be surprised that the policies that emerged were off the wall.”

While debate rages about whether or not Barack Obama is making the country less safe from terrorist attack, we can be 100% sure that Joe Biden has.  Thanks to Joe, terrorists have a new target, a classified location meant to preserve the integrity of the line of succession during our nations darkest moments.

Good going, Mr. Biden.  Today America is less safe.  At least for you.

-Robert Laurie