latimes.com - 12/20/2008
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We probably shouldn't have been surprised at Vice President Dick Cheney's blustering, obstinate insistence on ABC News on Monday that he's been right all along about virtually everything. But that doesn't mean we have to agree. In the interview, Cheney not only acknowledged that he was involved ...
abcnews.go.com - 12/16/2008
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abcnews.go.com —
In an exclusive interview with ABC News, a
reflective Vice President Dick Cheney praised President-elect Barack Obama's...
national security team and admitted he's changed during his time in office. In his first exit interview and first television ...
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Exclusive: Cheney Says He's Changed
latimes.com - 12/16/2008
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latimes.com —
His comments come on the heels of disclosures
by a Senate committee showing that high-level officials in...
the Bush administration were intimately involved in reviewing and approving interrogation methods that have since been explicitly outlawed and ...
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Cheney was key in clearing CIA interrogation tactics - ...
slate.com - 12/23/2008
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slate.com —
Dick Cheney. Click image to expand. Dick Cheney
In an ever-escalating game of chicken between the executive...
branch and the rest of the world, Vice President Dick Cheney wants you to understand that he has done nothing wrong over the past eight years. ...
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Dick Cheney's unique gift for making hard questions easy ...
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Daily Kos —
... poll in any state for a sitting U.S. Senator - except for New Jersey's Robert Torricelli, just before he resigned in 2002. Among those who say they voted for Sen. Lieberman in 2006, 30 percent now say they would vote for someone else if they could. Warren Brown: The UAW downsizes. Bob Herbert: So as we get to the holidays, can we just acknowledge that the war against Christmas working people is past its "sell by" date? LA Times editorial: What do Dick Cheney and Darth Vader have in common? Hint: it ain't the Force. ...
Echoes down the corridor
The Reaction —
... It was not a precedent. It was a ruling, yes, but it was not law. But now, as the petitioner leaves the national stage, Bush v. Gore is turning out to have lasting value after all. “You’re starting to see courts invoke it,” said Samuel Issacharoff, a law professor at New York University, “and you’re starting to see briefs cite it.” Indeed, rumblings of the damage the Bush ...
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