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amazon.com - 11/12/2008
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency: Barton Gellman: Books
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Product Description Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barton Gellman s newsbreaking investigative journalism documents how Vice President Dick Cheney redefined the role of the American vice presidency, assuming unprecedented responsibilities and making it a post of historic power . Dick Cheney ...
chron.com - 11/18/2008
Vice president, former AG, state senator indicted | AP Texas News | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
— chron.com — McALLEN, Texas A South Texas grand jury has indicted Vice President Dick Cheney and former Attorney General... Alberto Gonzales on charges related to the alleged abuse of prisoners in Willacy County's federal detention centers. The indictment ... (more) Vice president, former AG, state senator indicted | AP ...

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harpers.org - 11/14/2008
SCOTT HORTON—A Ticket to The Hague for Dick Cheney?
— harpers.org — Gene Burns is one of the nation’s most popular talk radio hosts. For years he has dismissed... accounts of torture; America, he has said, does not torture. But last night, after watching Torturing Democracy and realizing that he had not understood how ... (more) SCOTT HORTON—A Ticket to The Hague for Dick Cheney?

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Equating Clinton's "scandals" with Bush's - Glenn Greenwald
salon.com - 11/6/2008
Equating Clinton's "scandals" with Bush's - Glenn Greenwald
— salon.com — (updated below) In today's New York Times , Maureen Dowd reveals (as always) standard Beltway thinking by... writing that Barack Obama "has the chance to make the White House pristine again" -- somethings, she says, we haven't had for 16 years: But the ... (more) Equating Clinton's "scandals" with Bush's - Glenn Greenwald

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The Washington Note:  What Barack Obama Should Learn From Dick Cheney

Politics on HuffingtonPost.com:  Steve Clemons: What Barack Obama Should Learn From Dick Cheney

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What Barack Obama Should Learn From Dick Cheney
The Washington Note — ... and as Barton Gellman chronicles in his important new book Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency, Cheney succeeded in not only getting people loyal and beholden to him appointed throughout the vast wings of the country's national security and intelligence bureaucracies, he and his close team of David Addington, Scooter Libby and John Hannah conveyed a template for approaching the world and agitating for an expansion of Executive Branch authority in comparison to other branches of government. ...

Steve Clemons: What Barack Obama Should Learn From Dick Cheney
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... and as Barton Gellman chronicles in his important new book Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency, Cheney succeeded in not only getting people loyal and beholden to him appointed throughout the vast wings of the country's national security and intelligence bureaucracies, he and his close team of David Addington, Scooter Libby and John Hannah conveyed a template for approaching the world and agitating for an expansion of Executive Branch authority in comparison to other branches of government. ...

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