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Dick Cheney stories: 240 news summaries

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Palin Called GOP Bigwigs Before Quitting

Phone records
reveal chats with Cheney, Giuliani

Jul 7, 09 4:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sarah Palin spoke to several top Republicans in the weeks before her resignation, ABC News reports. An open-records request finds that in May, Palin was on the phone to Dick Cheney, Rudy Giuliani, and Charlie Crist, among others. A spokeswoman said that Cheney had been talking about an upcoming vacation... More »

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Rudy Giuliani • Dick Cheney • Republican • resignation • Republican Party • Charlie Crist • governor • Sarah Palin

Evidence Tying Cheney to Plame Leak Grows

Obama DoJ renews Bush-era objections
to releasing details

Jul 3, 09 1:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama Justice Department is continuing its efforts to maintain the Bush administration's secrecy over Dick Cheney's role in the Valerie Plame CIA leak scandal, the Washington Post reports. A filing this week, intended to bolster the current administration’s case for keeping secret details of the then-VP’s... More »

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Bush administration • Dick Cheney • Department of Justice • Valerie Plame • Patrick Fitzgerald • Joseph Wilson • CIA leak investigation • vice president • Iraq war • Obama administration • legal filing

(AP) - Dick Cheney has signed a book deal with a conservative imprint of Simon & Schuster. The memoir is expected to be published in spring 2011, a few months after George Bush's book comes out. Financial terms were not disclosed, though a publishing official with knowledge of the negotiations figured it... More »

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Dick Cheney • vice president • memoir • Simon & Schuster • publishing industry

analysis

Daily Show Argument Exposes Obama as Bush Lite

Judge questions DoJ's claim about Cheney

Jun 19, 09 4:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Justice Department lawyer argued in court yesterday—with a straight face—that releasing statements Dick Cheney made during the Valerie Plame investigation could cause future administration officials to hold back out of fear their statements would “get on The Daily Show.” The judge overseeing the hearing seemed... More »

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Bush administration • Dick Cheney • CIA • Department of Justice • Valerie Plame • Patrick Fitzgerald • Joseph Wilson • Lewis Scooter Libby • Obama administration • U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan • Emmet Sullivan • Stephen Bradbury

(Newser) - As the CIA scrambled to do damage control today in the wake of director Leon Panetta's New Yorker interview, Dick Cheney fired back. The former VP's office released a statement that reads in full: "I hope my old friend Leon was misquoted. The important thing is whether the Obama... More »

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Bush administration • War on Terror • Dick Cheney • CIA • security • vice president • Leon Panetta • Obama administration • CIA director

McCain to CIA Chief Panetta: Retract Cheney Slam Now

Panetta said Cheney almost seemed to want attack on US

Jun 15, 09 1:16 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sen. John McCain called today on CIA director Leon Panetta to “retract immediately” his suggestion that Dick Cheney might want another attack on the US, the Hill reports. Panetta told the New Yorker that “it’s almost as if” Cheney is “wishing that this country would be... More »

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John McCain • Dick Cheney • CIA • New Yorker magazine • attack • Leon Panetta • CIA director

(AP) - CIA Director Leon Panetta says former Vice President Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration's approach to terrorism almost suggests "he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point." Panetta told The New Yorker that Cheney "smells some blood in the... More »

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War on Terror • Barack Obama • Dick Cheney • torture • Leon Panetta

Interview

Laura Bush: Sotomayor a 'Good Nominee'

Former first lady says hubby is too gracious
to attack Obama

Jun 8, 09 11:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - George and Laura Bush aren’t interested in criticizing the new administration, Laura Bush tells ABC News, and she actually supports Sonia Sotomayor. The former first lady called Sotomayor “a very interesting and good nominee,” adding, “As a woman, I’m proud that there might be another... More »

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Bush administration • Dick Cheney • torture • Michelle Obama • Laura Bush • first lady • Sonia Sotomayor

Cheney Championed Interrogations Before Congress

Veep intervened when legislators got twitchy

Jun 3, 09 4:18 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dick Cheney personally led at least four briefings with senior House and Senate members about harsh interrogation techniques, reports the Washington Post. The former vice president's interventions took place at critical moments when Congress was threatening to investigate or even outlaw techniques, such as waterboarding, that are widely considered torture.... More »

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Bush administration • Congress • John McCain • Dick Cheney • torture • Porter Goss • harsh interrogation • Lindsay Graham • enhanced interrogation techniques

OPINION

Hey, Meghan: What Cheney Thinks Is More Important

And it's not because he's an old white man

Jun 2, 09 3:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - After Meghan McCain took exception to the idea that her stance on gay marriage is “meaningless” compared to Dick Cheney’s, Washington Monthly blogger Steve Benen outlines in no uncertain terms why—and it’s not “that I only respect old white guys, I don’t respect young... More »

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John McCain • Dick Cheney • gay marriage • Meghan McCain • Steve Schmidt • Steve Benen

 Cheney Backs 
 Gay Marriage

Ex-VP switches Obama's name for Osama's

Jun 2, 09 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dick Cheney appeared to break rank with many in his party when he suggested he didn’t oppose gay marriage, the New York Post reports. “I think freedom means freedom for everyone,” he said at the National Press Club yesterday. “People ought to be free to enter... More »

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Dick Cheney • gay marriage • Osama bin Laden • President Obama

 Cheney: OK, OK, 
 Saddam Wasn't 
 Behind 9/11 

Former VP stands by decision to invade Iraq

Jun 2, 09 2:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - Former Vice President Dick Cheney has finally acknowledged, despite previous claims to the contrary, that Saddam Hussein did not collaborate with al-Qaeda to launch the 9/11 attacks. CIA information on such a collaboration "turned out not to be true," he conceded in remarks before the National Press Club,... More »

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Saddam Hussein • Dick Cheney • terrorism • September 11 • Iraq war

OPINION

 Save the Trauma Excuses: 
 You Failed on 9/11 

Cheney, Rice too often resorted to the extreme without doing their homework

May 31, 09 11:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - Ironically, Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice have defended their post-9/11 decisions by appealing for empathy, arguing that only those in charge on that bleak day could understand. “I have little sympathy for this argument,” Richard Clarke, who was there, retorts in a withering piece for the Washington Post,... More »

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Dick Cheney • Donald Rumsfeld • Condoleezza Rice • Richard Clarke • terror suspects • George W. Bush • wiretapping • 9/11 attacks

National Security Adviser: Obama Makes US Safer

Jones rejects Cheney, notion that new policies increase vulnerability

May 28, 09 7:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's policies have made America a safer place, his national security adviser said yesterday in his first speech since taking the job. James Jones cited strategies like the renewal of ties with allies and rejected suggestions the president had made the US more vulnerable, AFP reports. "No administration... More »

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national security • Dick Cheney • James Jones • Obama administration • President Obama • national security adviser

(Newser) - Fidel Castro thinks those creative forms of interrogation used by the US amount to torture, and he criticized Dick Cheney for defending them, the AP reports. In an online essay, Castro argued that torture should never be used to get information from terror suspects. In fact, he went one better... More »

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Dick Cheney • torture • Fidel Castro • Cuba • waterboarding • harsh interrogation • enhanced interrogation techniques

Congress Mulls Tighter Offshore Drilling Rules

Natural-gas firms currently exempt from clean-water laws

May 27, 09 10:27 AM CDT
(Newser) - A bill pushed by Dick Cheney 4 years ago freed natural-gas drillers from clean-water laws, but pollution concerns are driving congressional Democrats to rethink the matter, ProPublica reports. They’ve drafted legislation that would end the natural-gas exemption and require drillers to reveal the chemicals they use in their work,... More »

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Congress • Dick Cheney • Henry Waxman • legislation • congressional Democrats • natural gas • clean water • drilling • American Petroleum Institute

poll

Cheney, Limbaugh Can't Touch Powell in Popularity

Ex-veep far less popular than his target for criticism

May 26, 09 9:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - When Dick Cheney got in a fight with Colin Powell, it looks like he was punching above his weight class. Cheney dismissed Powell’s views on the Republican Party’s direction, saying, “I didn’t think he was still a Republican”—a comment echoed by Rush Limbaugh. But... More »

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Dick Cheney • Rush Limbaugh • poll • Republican Party • Colin Powell

TALK SHOW ROUNDUP

 Powell to Rush: 
 I'm Not Leaving GOP 

Rove blasts Obama; Joint Chiefs head backs gays in military

May 24, 09 11:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - Sorry, Rush Limbaugh: Colin Powell isn’t leaving the Republican Party. Striking back at critics, the general burnished his GOP credentials on Face the Nation today. “Rush will not get his wish, and Mr Cheney was misinformed” about Powell’s supposed exit from the party. Powell added that if... More »

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Iran • Dick Cheney • Rush Limbaugh • nuclear weapons • Colin Powell

 Cheney Hunts Book Deal 

Former veep selling story as a look at Republicanism from Nixon onwards

May 23, 09 6:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Dick Cheney is seeking as much as $2 million from publishers for a book on his life in politics, the New York Times reports. Insiders say the former vice president, who served in four Republican administrations, is selling the book as not just a look inside the Bush administration, but... More »

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Bush administration • Dick Cheney • publishing • vice president • book deal

ANALYSIS

You Can't See It, But Cheney's Pants Are on Fire

Ex-veep's speech full of torture distortions

May 22, 09 10:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - In his full-on assault on the president's conterterrorism policies yesterday, Dick Cheney deployed an arsenal of “omissions, exaggerations and misstatements,” charge Jonathan Landay and Warren Strobel of McClatchy. Among them:
  • Cheney claimed that harsh interrogations yielded vital, attack-preventing information and quoted Adm. Dennis Blair, director of national
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Dick Cheney • torture • Abu Ghraib • intelligence • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • torture memo • Dennis Blair

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