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Cheney Blames Richard Clarke For 9/11: ‘He Missed It’
thinkprogress.org - 6/3/2009
Cheney Blames Richard Clarke For 9/11: ‘He Missed It’
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Writing in Sunday’s Washington Post, Richard Clarke, the former counterrorism chief under Presidents Clinton and Bush, slammed Dick Cheney and Condoleezza Rice for invoking what he called “the White House 9/11 trauma defense” — namely, the shock of 9/11 was so great as ...
washingtonmonthly.com - 6/2/2009
Cheney backs marriage equality?
— washingtonmonthly.com — CHENEY BACKS MARRIAGE EQUALITY?.... It was pretty meaningless to hear Meghan McCain urge her Republican Party to come around on gay marriage. It seemed a bit more important when Steve Schmidt, John McCain's campaign manager, gave the GOP the same... (more) Cheney backs marriage equality?

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washingtonpost.com - 5/31/2009
Richard A. Clarke -- Cheney and Rice Remember 9/11. I Do, Too.
— washingtonpost.com — Comments that include profanity or personal attacks or other inappropriate comments or material will be removed from the site. Additionally, entries that are unsigned or contain "signatures" by someone other than the actual author will be removed. ... (more) Richard A. Clarke -- Cheney and Rice Remember 9/11. I ...

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Dick Cheney comes out again for gay marriage: "I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish."
americablog.com - 6/2/2009
Dick Cheney comes out again for gay marriage: "I think people ought to be free to enter into any ...
— americablog.com — Last week, Ted Olson . Today, Dick Cheney : Dick Cheney rarely takes a position that places him at a more progressive tilt than President Obama. But on Monday, the former vice president did just that, saying that he supports gay marriage as long as it ... (more) Dick Cheney comes out again for gay marriage: "I think ...

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Politics on HuffingtonPost.com:  Arianna Huffington: When Will Dick Cheney's Tower of Lies Finally Come Tumbling Down on Him?

Drudge Retort:  Huffington: Cheney's Lies Will Catch Up to Him

The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:  Dick Uncut: "Daily Show" Calls Out Cheney For Blaming 9/11 On Richard Clarke (VIDEO)

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Arianna Huffington: When Will Dick Cheney's Tower of Lies Finally Come Tumbling Down on Him?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... on bin Laden and 9/11 when there is email after email after email from the spring and summer of 2001 showing that it was actually Cheney and Bush who ignored the warning signs on bin Laden. ...

Huffington: Cheney's Lies Will Catch Up to Him
Drudge Retort — "For instance, it's not a very smart idea to go around saying that Richard Clarke missed the warning signs on bin Laden and 9/11 when there is email after email after email from the spring and summer of 2001 showing that it was actually Cheney and Bush who ignored the warning signs on bin Laden." To wit, from "Cheney Blames Richard Clarke for 9/11: 'He Missed It'" at thinkprogress.org When the moderator reminded Cheney that Clarke had repeatedly warned the administration about al Qaeda's determination to attack the U.S., Cheney snarkily replied, "That's not my recollection, ...

Dick Uncut: "Daily Show" Calls Out Cheney For Blaming 9/11 On Richard Clarke (VIDEO)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... At a recent appearance at the National Press Club, Dick Cheney blamed Richard Clarke for leaving the nation vulnerable to attack ahead of 9/11 saying, "He obviously missed it." Cheney was referring to the threat from al Qaeda which Clarke had emphatically warned the administration about several times before the fall of 2001. ...

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Calling Out Dick — Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines
On Wednesday’s ‘Daily Show’, Jon Stewart recaps former Vice President Cheney’s recent speeches up until the one where he accuses Richard Clarke - the guy who warned of imminent terrorist attacks on the US - for 9/11. The verdict is out folks: Dick Cheney has a major case of ...
Cheney Blames 9/11 On Richard Clarke: "He Obviously Missed It" — The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Dick Cheney's recent and ongoing media blitz has been defined not just by the fervor with which he has defended his approach to national security affairs but also the extent to which he is willing to pin blame on others. On Monday, the former vice president took to the National Press Club to ...
Dick Cheney Blames Richard Clarke For 9/11 (Video) — The Latest on Air America
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Cheney and Rice Remember 9/11. I Do, Too. — Commondreams.org Views
by Richard A. Clarke Top officials from the Bush administration have hit upon a revealing new theme as they retrospectively justify their national security policies. Call it the White House 9/11 trauma defense. read more
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Richard Clarke Reminds Cheney and Condi of Their Incompetence — Firedoglake
When I saw Condi saying, "unless you were there, in a position of responsibility, you cannot possibly imagine the dilemmas we faced in trying to protect Americans," to Stanford students, my instinct was to remind everyone that she was forced to admit, "I believe the title was ...
Richard Clarke smacks down Cheney, et. al. — Brilliant at Breakfast
Richard Clarke has had quite enough of Dick Cheney, Condoleeza Rice, and the rest of the Bush Administration's war criminals' claim that "they kept us safe after 9/11", thank you very much. He reminds us that when the warnings were there, these murderous criminals ignored them. I believe it was ...
trauma of 9/11 no excuse — skippy the bush kangaroo
the must read opinion piece of the day, richard clarke weighs in again against the cheney administration. ...listening to cheney and rice, it seems that they want to be excused for the measures they authorized after the attacks on the grounds that 9/11 was traumatic. "If you were there in a ...
Rejecting temporary insanity as an excuse — Political Animal
REJECTING TEMPORARY INSANITY AS AN EXCUSE.... Richard Clarke has been listening to Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice, and other leading Bush administration officials, offer excuses for their national security policies, pointing to the terrorism crisis. Today, Clarke has a Washington Post...
Richard Clarke: '9/11 Trauma' is No Excuse — Drudge Retort
"Top officials from the Bush administration have hit upon a revealing new theme as they retrospectively justify their national security policies. Call it the White House 9/11 trauma defense," writes Richard Clarke, national coordinator for security and counterterrorism under Presidents Bill ...
Richard Clarke Answers Cheney — The Reality-Based Community
In today's WaPo, former NSC counter-terrorism director Richard Clarke makes the obvious rejoinders to the Cheney argument that the trauma of 9/11 justified any and all actions so long as they were intended to protect America: The main reason Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, and Bush were shocked by ...
Richard Clarke Slams Cheney, Rice: “The Trauma Of 9/11 Is No Excuse” — The Hollywood Liberal
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Richard Clarke Slams Cheney, Rice: "The Trauma Of 9/11 Is No Excuse" — The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
Top officials from the Bush administration have hit upon a revealing new theme as they retrospectively justify their national security policies. Call it the White House 9/11 trauma defense. More on Iraq