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Hersh: Cheney ‘Left A Stay Behind’ In Obama’s Government, Can ‘Still Control Policy Up To A Point’
Think Progress —
In an interview on NPR’s Fresh Air yesterday, host Terry Gross asked investigative journalist Seymour Hersh if, as he continues to investigate the Bush administration, “more people” were “coming forward” to talk to him now that “the president and vice president are no longer in power.” Hersh replied that though “a lot of people that had told me in the last year of Bush, ‘call me next, next February,’ not many people had talked to him. He implied that they were still scared of Cheney.
“Are you saying that you think Vice President Cheney is still having a chilling effect on people who might otherwise ...
Seymour Hersh: 'Cheney Still Secretly Influencing Policy'
The New Editor —
The Paranoid Style on the Left is still alive and well where it concerns former VP Dick Cheney, it seems.
In an interview Monday with NPR's Terry Gross on her radio show Fresh Air, The New Yorker's Seymour Hersh told Gross that former VP Dick Cheney 'still controls foreign policy up to a point.'
Here's an audio excerpt of the interview (transcript follows):
Here's an excerpt from a transcript of the interview from ThinkProgress: (emphasis added)
GROSS: You investigated the Bush administration throughout the Bush administration. Always looking for ...
