yglesias.thinkprogress.org - 12/21/2008
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Matt Corley observes Dick Cheney outlining his view of presidential power:
On Fox News Sunday today, host Chris Wallace asked Vice President Cheney, “if the President, during war, decides to do something to protect the country, is it legal?” “I think as a general proposition, I’d say yes,” ...
foxnews.com - 12/21/2008
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foxnews.com —
Vice President Cheney mocked Vice President-elect Joe Biden's
grasp of the Constitution, defended former Defense Secretary Donald...
Rumsfeld and said President Bush "doesn't have to check with anybody" before launching a nuclear attack. In a blunt, ...
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Cheney Mocks Biden, Defends Rumsfeld in 'FOX News ...
salon.com - 12/22/2008
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salon.com —
(updated below) Dick Cheney's interview yesterday with Fox's
Chris Wallace was filled with significant claims, but certainly...
among the most significant was his detailed narration of how the administration, and Cheney personally, told numerous ...
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Cheney says top congressional Democrats complicit in ...
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When the president does it...
Political Animal —
... > rule of law" formulation. On the other hand, the rest of his answer seemed to indicate that those limits are not immediately apparent to Cheney. Indeed, given the question, and Cheney's response in the context of his constitutional oath, he seems to think that a president protecting the country can do anything -- literally -- so long as the chief executive is responding to a national threat, or at least what the president perceives as a national threat. Matt Yglesias had a good item noting that while protecting the country is a good idea, Cheney's principles are ...
Cheney’s Highest Moment in the Last 8 Years? 9/11.
Comments from Left Field —
... He has that authority because of the nature of the world we live in.
Where in Article II does Cheney find that provision, giving the president unlimited, unchecked power to launch a “devastating attack … because of the nature of the world we live in”? I always thought the president’s powers were defined by the enumerated powers in the Constitution, not by “the nature of the world we live in.”
Matthew Yglesias:
Underlying all of this is an odd conservative ...
Cheney: It's not illegal when his war president does it
The Reaction —
By Creature When war is fabricated and decreed perpetual then by Dick Cheney's logic a president can continually break the law without consequence. It would be one thing if this view was Cheney's alone, but it's not. The administration's law breaking has been enabled by everyone in Washington. D, R and then some. History will not be kind. See Yglesias and Benen for more. (Cross-posted at State of the Day.)
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