tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com - 11/22/2008
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Let me begin my final post by thanking TPMCafe and Bart for inviting me into this discussion, and the other members of the discussion group for their thoughtful and respectful posts.
Second, I'd like to revise a statement I made at the outset, namely that I would recommend Angler only to ...
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 11/21/2008
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com —
Marc reports the Republican, former chief-of-staff for George
Tenet (who authorized war crimes as CIA head), admirer
of Dick Cheney, CEO of the company one of whose contract employees improperly accessed Obama's and McCain's passports, and ...
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No Way. No How. No Brennan.
washingtonmonthly.com - 11/19/2008
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washingtonmonthly.com —
ABOUT THAT CHENEY INDICTMENT.... At first blush, the
headline looked pretty extraordinary: "Texas Grand Jury Indicts Cheney,
Gonzales on Charges Related to Prisons." Wait, Dick Cheney's been indicted? It sounded too good to be true, in large part ...
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About that Cheney indictment...
politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com - 11/19/2008
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politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com —
Vice President Dick Cheney (CNN) — A grand
jury in south Texas indicted Vice President Dick Cheney
and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on separate charges related to alleged prisoner abuse in federal detention centers, Willacy County ...
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Texas grand Jury indicts Cheney, Gonzales
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Across the great divide, a recap
Power Line —
... In my final post, I summarized my view of the Cheney vice president. I figured someone should mention the absence of attacks on the homeland after 9/11. It wasn't brought up during this week's discussion and (though I may be wrong), I don't think Bart mentioned it in his book. It's now a given, and I think that's the single most important fact about the Cheney vice presidency. ...
Across the Great Divide: A salute
Power Line —
... (one of two on November 21), and here (two of two on November 21). One of the highlights of Paul's comments occurs in the first of his two November 21 posts: ...
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Searching For Context
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/22/2008 —
Yesterday, I tried to defend my view that Angler presents not a "mixed" view of the Cheney vice presidency but a rather thoroughly negative one. Now I want to defend my view that Angler is slanted to some extent against Cheney.
To make my ...
A Rorschach Test
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/19/2008 —
I replied to Paul's first post before reading the most recent . So a few more words on the "Potemkin Washington" that Paul sees in my book.
Paul says that in Angler -world "the only pairs of sharp elbows appear to belong to the vice president ...
Toward A Grand Unified Theory Of Cheneyism
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/19/2008 —
Bart's book is one of the best to be written about the Bush administration, at least until the National Archives allows the scholars of the future full access to the classified record. Actually, chances are Liz Cheney's children will still be ...
Cheney: Water-boarding was appropriate
swamppolitics.com 12/16/2008 — by Mark Silva
Vice President Dick Cheney says he supported interrogation tactics that were used against the terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed -- including that which has been described as "water-boarding.''
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A Different Way of Viewing Cheney's Historical Context
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/21/2008 —
Let me try and break the apparent logjam between Jake , Paul and Bart . Leave aside for a moment the question of whether Cheney is a singular figure or whether other people in the administration resisted his whims. Maybe a better way of ...
An Anti-Cheney "Brief"
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/17/2008 —
Let me begin by thanking TPMCafe for inviting me to discuss Angler and by thanking Bart Gellman for reaching out to me following the publication of his book.
As Bart notes , the other participants in this discussion have reviewed Angler ; I ...
First Bush now Cheney
politico.com 11/2/2008 —
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Mr. Cheney's Planet
tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com 11/19/2008 — Newsflash: Word is that Bart Gellmann will soon be emerging from a hidden location to respond to these posts. But before he does, I'm going to offer a few thoughts on Dick Cheney's mental world. If you'll recall, in Saul Bellow's novel Mr. Sammler's ...
Bush v. Cheney
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com 2/4/2009 — Whatever you think of George W. Bush, I think you have to concede that, in some respects, he's been personally gracious towards Barack Obama and his family since election night. I say this with the obvious, massive caveat of the Blair House incident ...
Texas grand jury indicts Cheney, Gonzales —
CNN.com - Politics 11/19/2008
Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have been indicted on separate charges related to alleged prisoner abuse in federal detention centers, Willacy County, Texas, District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra told CNN ...
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