Police Charge 2 Protesters with Trespassing at Dick Cheney's Home

PHOTO: Protestors outside home of Dick Cheney; posted by CODEPINK with the hashtags #stoptorture and #closegitmo on Twitter; protestors walking and outside CIA director’s home by CODEPINK; outside CIA photo by Nithi Vivatrat, @NithiViatrat via Twitter

Police charged two men with trespassing at the home of former Vice President Dick Cheney Saturday morning, at his home in McLean, according to Fairfax County Police.

“Two adult males were charged with trespassing,” said FCPD spokesman Officer Roger Henriquez. Reuters reported that the two were Tighe Barry, 57, and Eve Tetaz, 83, both of Washington DC.

Henriquez said a property manager called police when a group of protestors came to the Cheney address; police said the two were on the property at the Cheney home on Chain Bridge Road. About 10 to 20 officers responded, the spokesman said.

The two arrested were part of a larger group of protesters, some dressed in orange and wearing black masks, who eventually made their way to the main entrance of the CIA headquarters in Langley Saturday morning. The entrance is at Dolley Madison Boulevard near Georgetown Pike. Cheney’s home is nearby.

According to messages posted to social media by a group called CODEPINK, the group stopped first at the homes of both CIA director John Brennan and at Cheney’s home before making their way to the CIA entrance.

A photo snapped by a passerby and posted to Twitter shows about two dozen people, some of them holding signs that state: “Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading.” The Senate recently released a report on CIA torture. Brennan recently conducted a press conference to discuss the report released in December.

A blog called Witness Against Torture notes that Saturday is the eve of the anniversary of Guantanamo Bay Prison’s opening. The blog called this morning’s protest a “Torturers Tour” with details of the schedule for the protest. The prison opened Jan. 11, 2002.

The group reportedly gathered at one or more nearby churches, then walked to Cheney’s home and the CIA and were trying to block the main entrance. CODEPINK describes itself as a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement. Henriquez said there is a group that protests outside the CIA on a monthly basis.

CIA employees reporting to work were likely not being let in the main gates as they appeared to be closed due to the protestor activity; reportedly, some employees are being directed to alternate entrances.

Fairfax County Police have cleared the scene, but Henriquez said a few remained behind at the CIA director’s home and the Cheney home.

(Editor’s note: The original story was updated with information about the arrests.)