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NEWS ABOUT: Dick Cheney

Dick Cheney stories: 240 news summaries

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Judge Tosses Ex-Spy's Suit Against Cheney

Court rules Plame's civil action vs. VP, Rove, Libby won't go forward

Jul 19, 07 3:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - A judge today dismissed outed CIA operative Valerie Plame's civil suit against Dick Cheney, Karl Rove, and Scooter Libby, saying that the revelation of her identity "was incidental to the kind of conduct that defendants were employed to perform." Furthermore, the judge ruled, Plame and her husband, ex-ambassador... More »

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Bush administration • Dick Cheney • Valerie Plame • Joseph Wilson • Karl Rove • CIA leak investigation • Lewis Scooter Libby

Cheney Pushing Bush Toward Military Option On Iran

Winning debate against Rice & Gates

Jul 16, 07 6:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dick Cheney is winning a West Wing power struggle, pushing the president toward the threat of military action against Iran, the Guardian reports. After an internal review over the last month, Condoleezza Rice and Robert Gates favor continued diplomacy, but are said to be losing the argument. "Bush... More »

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Iran • Dick Cheney • Condoleezza Rice • nuclear program • International Atomic Energy Agency • Natanz

Bush, Cheney Should Quit Over Scooter

Resignation, impeachment the only options, argues Olbermann

Jul 4, 07 6:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - MSNBC's Keith Olbermann came out swinging last night, demanding the resignation of both the president and VP—"two men who are now perilous to our democracy." Drawing on both John Wayne and James Madison, the anchor donned his commentator hat to contend that commuting Scooter Libby's sentence was... More »

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Dick Cheney • politics • democracy • presidential pardon • presidential politics • Bush impeachment • president • commutation • partisanship • government • resignation • Lewis Scooter Libby • vice president • George W. Bush

Why Bush Let Scooter Skate

President, 'liberated'
by his unpopularity, acted unilaterally

Jul 3, 07 5:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush's dwindling popularity played a major role in his decision to commute the prison sentence for Scooter Libby, according to the Times. The ostracized president had little left to lose by saving Libby from prison and, in the words of one Republican observer, knew he was "going to... More »

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Dick Cheney • CIA • Valerie Plame • prison • Lewis Scooter Libby • George W. Bush

Domestic Spying Probe Reaches West Wing

Frustrated Senate committee doles out subpoenas

Jun 27, 07 3:05 PM CDT
(Newser) - Patrick Leahy came out swinging against the Bush administration's "sweeping assertions of secrecy and privilege" today, issuing subpoenas to the White House, Dick Cheney's office, the Justice Department, and the NSC. The documents demanded by the Senate Judiciary Committee relate to the warrantless wiretapping of terrorism suspects and the... More »

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Bush administration • Dick Cheney • Department of Justice • Senate • White House • Patrick Leahy • executive privilege • Judiciary Committee • subpoena • secrecy • NSC • warrantless wiretapping

GOP Weighs Hollywood Ending for Cheney

Sally Quinn: Thompson offers perfect solution

Jun 26, 07 9:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - GOP decision-makers are so fed up with Dick Cheney that they've been searching for a replacement, without much success—until recently. In an op-ed in today's Washington Post, inveterate insider Sally Quinn lays out an ingenious plan: Use heart surgery scheduled for this summer as an excuse to oust the... More »

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Dick Cheney • Fred Thompson • Sally Quinn • John Warner • Barry Goldwater • Richard Nixon • Election 2008 • George W. Bush

Dems Threaten to Pull VP Funds

Pols pressure Cheney to comply with rules requiring justification of classified documents

Jun 26, 07 5:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Angry Democrats are threatening to ax Dick Cheney's budget if the vice president continues to defy regulations on classified documents, the Hill reports. Executive branch agencies are required to provide reports justifying secret documents to an oversight office; Cheney has refused, claiming that his office is neither solely executive nor... More »

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Dick Cheney • Democrats • Charles Schumer • oversight • Rahm Emanuel • vice president

Cheney: A Law Unto Himself?

Veep refuses to comply with executive order signed by President Bush

Jun 24, 07 8:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Vice President Cheney is refusing to comply with an executive order to compile classified documents used by his office. Cheney's theory is that because he has a limited role in the Senate – President he can break ties – he has immunity from executive orders. More »

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Bush administration • Dick Cheney • Senate • privacy • executive order • executive power

Secretive Veep Won't Give Up Documents

Cheney defies executive order to provide sensitive info

Jun 22, 07 2:53 PM CDT
(Newser) - For the past 4 years, Dick Cheney's office has declined to file reports on classified information in its possession, flouting an executive order. When pressed, the VP's staff recently proposed abolishing the oversight office, reports the Washington Post. Says the chair of the House committee that released a chronology... More »

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Bush administration • Dick Cheney • Congressional oversight • Henry Waxman • privacy • vice president

White House Splits Over
Closing Gitmo

Legal puzzles stump Bush aides as shutdown gains momentum

Jun 22, 07 5:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush is under mounting pressure to shut the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, but top aides remain deeply divided over the fate of 375 detainees there. Bush has said he wants to the close the prison, but WaPo reports senior officials including Dick Cheney are opposed to shipping detainees... More »

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Dick Cheney • prison • Steny Hoyer • Guantanamo Bay • detainee • repatriation • al-Qaeda • George W. Bush

Scooter Won't Need to Beg for Pardon

Slate's political wiz doesn't see Libby landing behind bars

Jun 15, 07 2:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush will step in and save Scooter Libby for two reasons, argues Slate's John Dickerson. First, to repay Dick Cheney for not throwing Karl Rove under the bus. And second, pardoning Libby could help Bush regain Republican support by appeasing conservatives who opposed the CIA leak investigation from the... More »

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Bush administration • Dick Cheney • Valerie Plame • Karl Rove • Republican • CIA leak investigation • presidential pardon • John Dickerson • Lewis Scooter Libby • pardon • George W. Bush

Cheney Should TiVo 'Heroes'

The War on Terror could take some pointers from NBC show, says Juan Cole

May 30, 07 3:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - With the ratings on Jack Bauer's "24" fading almost as fast as those of George Bush's White House, it's time for the principals in the war in Iraq to start studying "Heroes"—the most-watched show on television this year—writes Salon's Juan Cole. In fact, think of... More »

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War on Terror • television • Dick Cheney • terrorism • Heroes • 24 • NBC • Jack Bauer • Iraq war • George W. Bush

Prosecutor Keeps an Eye
on Cheney

Froomkin: Even after the fact, CIA leak case evidence leads to VP

May 30, 07 9:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - Scooter Libby is about to be sentenced, but the government prosecutor and lawyers for the VP's ex-chief of staff aren't letting up, the Washington Post's Dan Froomkin blogs today. The jousting continued in a court filing last week in which, Froomkin posits, "the special counsel evidently felt obliged to... More »

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Dick Cheney • CIA • Patrick Fitzgerald • investigation • White House • CIA leak investigation • Lewis Scooter Libby

Cheney Drops In On Baghdad

VP meets with brass, government, as attacks spread to Kurdistan

May 9, 07 6:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - Vice President Dick Cheney made a surprise visit to Baghdad this morning, hours after the White House alerted 35,000 more troops of impending deployment to the fractious capital. Cheney met with top general David Petraeus and top envoy Ryan Crocker, and is expected to consult with PM Maliki and... More »

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Iraq • Dick Cheney • Baghdad • Nouri al-Maliki • David Petraeus • Kurdistan • Ryan Crocker

Hoon Admits
Iraq Screwups

British defense minister regrets mistakes, underestimating
Dick Cheney

May 2, 07 5:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - In a confessional interview about his Iraq war regrets, the former British defense secretary tells the Guardian that the Brits' biggest miscalculation was underestimating Dick Cheney. Geoff Hoon said he and other senior ministers would air disagreements with Bush, Rumsfeld, and Powell, and they'd come away thinking they'd made their... More »

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Iraq • Dick Cheney • Geoff Hoon • Britain • Baath Party • Iraq war

Ex-CIA Chief Blasts Cheney

Tenet's new book says "there was never serious debate" about going to war in Iraq

Apr 27, 07 8:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - George Tenet offers a scathing attack on Dick Cheney and other architects of the war in Iraq in a new book to be released Monday, the New York Times reports.  The former CIA director alleges that "there was never serious debate" about whether Iraq was an imminent threat... More »

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Iraq • Bush administration • War on Terror • Dick Cheney • CIA • terrorism • George Tenet • war • At the Center of the Storm • Iraq war • George W. Bush

Bush Calls Withdrawal Plan 'An Invitation to Attack America'

Mud-slinging on Iraq gets even uglier

Apr 25, 07 9:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Bush yesterday accused the Democrats of “offering an invitation to our enemies to attack America.” With the House and Senate poised to vote this week on a war funding bill with a troop drawdown deadline, the Washington Post reports, the dispute between Congress and the White House... More »

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Iraq • Dick Cheney • politics • Iraq pullout • war • troop withdrawal • timetable • George W. Bush

Gates Pushed
to Close Guantanamo

New defense secretary butted heads with Cheney, Gonzales

Mar 23, 07 8:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - Newly appointed Defense Secretary Robert Gates pushed hard for shutting down the controversial detention center at Guantanamo Bay, but  was blocked by Cheney and Gonzales, until Bush pulled the plug on the argument.  Gates at least succeeded in halting a $100 million expansion of the prison he felt had... More »

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Bush administration • War on Terror • Dick Cheney • Alberto Gonzales • politics • prison • Robert Gates • Guantanamo Bay • abuse • defense secretary • George W. Bush

Libby's PR Flop

Scooter Libby: Guilty, Guilty, Guilty, Guilty

Mar 18, 07 8:43 PM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Wolff attends the trial of Scooter Libby, concluding that Cheney's factotum was hung, drawn, and quartered because he failed to do well what Republicans have always (until now) done well: PR.  More »

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media • Dick Cheney • press • trial • Lewis Scooter Libby • Tim Russert • George W. Bush

Is Dick Cheney's Heart the Culprit?

The VP's "darkening persona" may be linked to ticker troubles

Mar 12, 07 9:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dick Cheney watchers who've puzzled over the vice president's increasingly rigid, defiant, and tone-deaf behavior are beginning to consider whether could be his heart, literally, that's the culprit. With speculation about the Cheney's "darkening persona" an obsession in the capital, Michele Cottle explores the connection between long-term cardiovascular problems... More »

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Dick Cheney • cardiovascular disease • health • dementia • heart • stress • cognitive decline

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