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Cheney: Congressional Leaders Said 'Absolutely' Don't Get Congressional Approval For Wiretapping (video)
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Cheney: We Asked If We Needed Approval For Wiretapping, Congress Told Us ‘Aboslutely Not’
thinkprogress.org - 12/22/2008
Cheney: We Asked If We Needed Approval For Wiretapping, Congress Told Us ‘Aboslutely Not’
— thinkprogress.org — In an interview with Fox News’s Chris Wallace yesterday morning, Vice President Cheney defended the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program, and claimed that the congressional leaders briefed on the program wholeheartedly ... (more) Cheney: We Asked If We Needed Approval For Wiretapping, ...

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Cheney: We Asked If We Needed Approval For Wiretapping, Congress Told Us ‘Aboslutely Not’
Think Progress — In an interview with Fox News’s Chris Wallace yesterday morning, Vice President Cheney defended the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program, and claimed that the congressional leaders briefed on the program wholeheartedly approved. In fact, Cheney claimed, when the White House asked if it needed congressional approval for the program, they unanimously agreed it did not: CHENEY: We briefed them on the program and what we’d achieved and how it worked and asked them should we continue the program. They were unanimous, Republican and Democrat alike. All agreed: Absolutely essential to continue the program. I then said, Do we need ...

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. CHENEY: Well, let me tell you a story about the terror surveillance program. We did brief the Congress. And we brought in... ...

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