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Cheney Has No Regrets on Leahy Remark
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire —
Vice President Dick Cheney interviewed by Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday:
WALLACE: Did you really tell Senator Leahy, bleep yourself?
CHENEY: I did.
WALLACE: Any qualms or second thoughts or embarrassment?
CHENEY: No, I thought he merited it at the time. And we've since, I think, patched over that wound and we're civil to one another now.
Cheney: I Told Leahy to "F--- Himself," "I Thought He Merited It." (Video)
Gateway Pundit —
... Chris Wallace on FOX News Sunday asked Dick Cheney about the time he told Senator Leahy to go "f*** himself" after Leahy publicly questioned his integrity, and then ...
Cheney On Leahy FU: He Deserved It!
Riehl World View —
... the vice president used his position in the White House to get contracts for his former firm, Halliburton.
"I thought he merited it at the time, and we've since, I think, patched over that wound and we're civil to one another now," Cheney said in the interview.
Hard to argue with that. It's a shame that for various reasons, Cheney never pursued the Presidency. Were he a younger, healthier guy - I would have paid to see him go up against Obama.
Here's the whole transcript. ...
Poor Dick’s Almanac
N/A —
Dick goes on tour on FOX and Cheney replays his greatest hits: war power, Pat Leahy, Biden. Understatement? “We didn’t set out to achieve the highest level of polls that we could during this administration,” Cheney said.
When the president does it...
Political Animal —
... the notion of the Huston Plan, which endorsed illegal surveillance and black bag jobs against Americans. After uttering the now famous phrase, Nixon added, "If the president, for example, approves something because of the national security, or in this case because of a threat to internal peace and order of significant magnitude, then the president's decision in that instance is one that enables those who carry it out, to carry it out without violating a law." Fox News' Chris Wallace asked Dick Cheney something similar for an interview aired this morning: "If the president ...
The Right To Dissolve The Constitution
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
One thing you have to concede to Dick Cheney. He says what he thinks. And so we get this: WALLACE: This is at the
core of the controversies that I want to get to with you in a moment.
If the president during war decides to do something to protect the
country, is it legal?
CHENEY:
General proposition, I'd say yes. You need to be more specific than
that. I mean — but clearly, when you take the oath of office on January
20th of 2001, as we did, you take the oath to support and defend and
protect the Constitution of the ...
Cheney Implicates Congressional Leadership On Civil Liberties Abuses
TalkLeft —
... On Fox News this morning, Vice President Cheney implicated the Congressional leadership, including the current Speaker of the House and Senate Majority Leader, in the Bush Administration abuses regarding civil liberties. In an interview with Chris Wallace, Cheney said: ...
It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
Taylor Marsh —
BY TAYLOR MARSH
Vice President Cheney makes the same argument Nixon made. If the prez does it it’s legal. Of course, it was said on Fox: ...
Cheney’s Highest Moment in the Last 8 Years? 9/11.
Comments from Left Field —
From the Washington Post:
Vice President Cheney offered an unabashed defense of the Bush administration’s claims of broad executive powers today, mocking criticism from Vice President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr. and saying the president “doesn’t have to check with anybody” before launching a nuclear attack.
Fox has the complete transcript.
On his rock-bottom approval ratings:
WALLACE: According to ...
Authoritarian Thinking
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts —
From today’s interview with Vice President Dick Cheney on FOX News Sunday:
WALLACE: This is at the core of the controversies that I want to get to with you in a moment. If the president during war decides to do something to protect the country, is it legal?
CHENEY: General proposition, I’d say yes. You need to be more specific than that. I mean — but clearly, when you take the oath of office on January 20th of 2001, as we did, you take the oath to support and defend and protect the Constitution of the United States ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — SEPARATED AT BIRTH Vice President Dick Cheney, interviewed today on Fox New Sunday by Chris Wallace: WALLACE: ...Biden has said that he believes you have dangerously expansive views of executive power. CHENEY: ... if he wants to diminish the office of vice president, that's obviously his call. ... WALLACE: If you could conceptualize it for me, sir, what do you think are the powers of the president relative to Congress and relative to the courts during war? CHENEY: ... I think you're fully justified in setting up a terror ...
Cheney: It's not illegal when his war president does it
The Reaction —
... 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 ...
Darth Cheney Not Sorry He Told Leahy To F*** Himself [Nice Deb]
Ace of Spades HQ —
Darth Cheney Not Sorry He Told Leahy To F*** Himself [Nice Deb] Chris Wallace asked Dick Cheney about it on Fox News Sunday , this morning. ...
Defining 'Executive'
The Opinionator —
Anybody expecting a contrite performance from Dick Cheney on Fox News Sunday was sorely disappointed. O.K., lame joke — nobody expected that. Especially not ...
Kristol on Cheney's 'beautiful statement'
Michael Calderone's Blog —
... Bill Kristol must have really enjoyed Dick Cheney's defense of using four-letter words. Not only did he bring it up on on "Fox News Sunday," but led today's New York Times" column with it. ...
The Penny Drops
JustOneMinute —
Dick Cheney spoke with Chris Wallace and, among other things, was emphatic that Congressional leaders had been briefed on the warrantless eavesdropping program: CHENEY: Well, let me tell you a story about the terror surveillance program. We did brief the Congress. And we brought in... WALLACE: Well, you briefed a few members. CHENEY: We brought in the chairman and the ranking member, House and Senate, and briefed them a number of times up until — this was — be from late '01 up until '04 when there was additional controversy concerning the program. At that point, we brought ...
Cheney is Correct (Almost)
The Moderate Voice —
... In between meaningful football games yesterday, I saw clips of Vice President Cheney with Chris Wallace and read some comments on the interview. Frequent readers of my blog understands that I am far from a Bush / Cheney apologist. In fact, I am pretty close to a non-entity in conservative Republican circles because of my early public support for Obama last January. However, in this case, I have to agree with the Vice President (almost) in his opinion that the Congress is equally culpable in both the breach of civil liberties but also the Constitutional idea of checks and ...
Cheney on Wiretapping: "Congress said we could"
Daily Kos —
... Dick Cheney's taunts continue. He brazenly admits to authorizing torutre--committing war crimes, just daring someone, anyone, to do something about it. He upped the ante yesterday in an interview with Fox News’s Chris Wallace, in which he emphasized the complicity of a handful of members of Congress--chairs and ranking members of Intel, House and Senate majority and minority leaders--in the warrantless wiretapping program. ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — ... ) have noted Dick Cheney's bizarre response yesterday when asked by Fox's Chris Wallace to name his "[h]ighest moment the last eight years": ...
Is Cheney Relying on Gonzales’ Retroactive Notes?
Firedoglake —
... Finally, we know that Gonzales retrieved the notes in response to Jim Comey's testimony revealing some of Gonzales' actions on March 10. ...
A President's Lawful Authority to Respond to a Nuclear Attack:
The Volokh Conspiracy —
In a recent interview with Chris Wallace, Vice President Cheney made the following claim about a President's ability to launch a counterstrike if the U.S. came under nuclear attack: The president of the United States now for 50 years is followed at all times, 24 hours a day, by a military aide carrying a football that contains the nuclear codes that he would use and be authorized to use in the event of a nuclear attack on the United States. He could launch a kind of devastating attack the world's never seen. He doesn't have to check with anybody. He doesn't have to call the ...
Jeff Norman: How Blago and Spitzer are Connected
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... If Blagojevich names Obama's successor, the eminent legislators of Illinois will still conduct impeachment hearings, unless party bosses determine that impeachment must be "taken off the table," as they did in the face of the Bush administration's probable crimes. Dick Cheney claims the NSA's warrantless eavesdropping program was carried out with the enthusiastic support of congressional Democrats, none of whom have denied complicity. Maybe Madigan's shameless attempt to bypass the impeachment process was likewise motivated by a desire to keep the malfeasance of her state's ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — ... and he's to be commended, whether or not you agree with him, because there's nothing he hates more than talking to the press. That's a load of crap. Dick Cheney has done a hell of a lot of talking to the press -- or at least to certain elements of the press. Cheney's Fox News interviews? Let's see: 3/2/04, 2/7/05, 6/14/05, 1/11/06, 1/19/06, 2/15/06, 10/30/06, 1/14/07, 10/12/07, 7/13/08, 12/21/08 ... that's just from the first six pages of Google results. Cheney gave seven ...
Cheney: Iraq Insurgency Not in Last Throes After All
Crooks and Liars —
... Just one week later, Vice President Cheney lauded that same agreement as just one of many accomplishments of the Bush administration in its Iraq war: ...
