If Dick Cheney is to be believed, he wasn't very upset that former U.S.
Ambassador Joseph Wilson criticized the Bush administration for having
"twisted" intelligence to support its false pre-war claim that Iraq's
Saddam Hussein was seeking uranium from Africa.
A federal judge Thursday ordered the Justice Department to make public large portions of statements made by then-Vice President Richard B. Cheney to federal investigators about the Valerie Plame case.
Ruling in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by a public interest group, the judge dismissed government objections to withholding FBI reports and notes, which describe an interview of Cheney by a special prosecutor. The government had argued that it could withhold the records because their release might chill cooperation by White House officials in future investigations.
About a dozen retired generals and admirals, trying to add momentum to President
Barack Obama’s effort to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison, are accusing former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz of scaremongering about the dangers of closing it.
Dick Cheney, the former US Vice President, nearly destroyed Britain's efforts to bring the airline bomb plotters to justice, police and intelligence experts said today.
By ordering the early arrest of Rashid Rauf, the bombers' link man in Pakistan, Washington forced British police to detain the suspects in the UK before all the evidence had been gathered, it was claimed.
The former US vice-president Dick
Cheney is almost as busy now as he was when he was running the United
States and its wars. Most of his effort, repeated and of course
unchallenged on Fox News last Sunday,
is devoted to an open and unapologetic defence of torture, aka
"enhanced interrogation techniques", which he says have "prevented the
violent death of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of innocent
people".
The more Dick Cheney defends torture, the more we Americans must end
our tortured ambivalence. Either we are above using the same
interrogation practices that police states use, or we are are not.
This past weekend, the former vice president said he knew about
waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques used by CIA
personnel on terror suspects and even defended officers who went beyond
authorized methods. He said they were “absolutely essential in saving
thousands of American lives and preventing further attacks against the
United States.’’
First of all, Dick Cheney has all sorts of nerve purporting
to speak in defense of the CIA. His administration outed a senior CIA
operative, Valerie Plame, in retaliation for her husband, Ambassador
Joseph Wilson, exercising his freedom of speech (because he exercised
it to criticize the Bush administration's lie-filled, one-way
propaganda train to the Iraq war).
Did you feel
that? That sickly sort of rolling wave, that disquieting,
genital-shriveling temblor of seething grumpiness that swept through
the land and made dogs spasm, trees shudder and giant SUVs spit oil and
misfire?
In his first few months after leaving office, former vice president Richard B. Cheney threw himself into public combat against the "far left" agenda of the new commander in chief. More private reflections, as his memoir takes shape in slashing longhand on legal pads, have opened a second front against Cheney's White House partner of eight years, George W. Bush.
Cheney's disappointment with the former president surfaced recently in one of the informal conversations he is holding to discuss the book with authors, diplomats, policy experts and past colleagues.
This new report today from The New York Times'
Mark Mazzetti and David Johnston reveals an entirely unsurprising
though still important event: in 2002, Dick Cheney and David
Addington urged that U.S.
