Cheney

Cheney reveals he was right about everything

by News Sources 08.25.2011

The New York Times reports: Former Vice President Dick Cheney says in a new memoir that he urged President George W. Bush to bomb a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor site in June 2007. But, he wrote, Mr. Bush opted for a diplomatic approach after other advisers — still stinging over “the bad intelligence we had [...]

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The American Surveillance State

by News Sources 12.21.2010

Glenn Greenwald writes: One of the hallmarks of an authoritarian government is its fixation on hiding everything it does behind a wall of secrecy while simultaneously monitoring, invading and collecting files on everything its citizenry does. Based on the Francis Bacon aphorism that “knowledge is power,” this is the extreme imbalance that renders the ruling [...]

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Nigeria to charge Dick Cheney in pipeline bribery case

by Paul Woodward 12.03.2010

Bloomberg reports: Nigeria will file charges against former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and officials from five foreign companies including Halliburton Co. over a $180 million bribery scandal, a prosecutor at the anti-graft agency said. Indictments will be lodged in a Nigerian court “in the next three days,” Godwin Obla, prosecuting counsel at the Economic [...]

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Cheney says he was proponent for military action against Iran

by Paul Woodward 08.31.2009

Cheney says he was proponent for military action against Iran By Michael M Philips, Wall Street Journal, August 31, 2009 Former Vice President Dick Cheney hinted that, in the waning days of the Bush administration, he had pushed for a military strike to destroy Iran’s nuclear-weapons program. In an interview on Fox News Sunday, Mr. [...]

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Cheney uncloaks his frustration with Bush

by Paul Woodward 08.13.2009

Cheney uncloaks his frustration with Bush By Barton Gellman, Washington Post, August 13, 2009 In his first few months after leaving office, former vice president Richard B. Cheney threw himself into public combat against the “far left” agenda of the new commander in chief. More private reflections, as his memoir takes shape in slashing longhand [...]

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Cheney’s plans for a military coup

by Paul Woodward 07.28.2009

Cheney’s plans for a military coup By Scott Horton, Harper’s, July 27, 2009 On Saturday, Mark Mazetti and David Johnston of the New York Times, quoting sources close to former President Bush, revealed that former Vice President Dick Cheney had advocated deploying the military for domestic policing purposes. Bush apparently declined to take Cheney’s advice. [...]

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Cheney’s bogus pragmatism on torture

by Paul Woodward 04.21.2009

Pressure grows to investigate interrogations By Peter Baker and Scott Shane, New York Times, April 21, 2009 Pressure mounted on President Obama on Monday for more thorough investigation into harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects under the Bush administration, even as he tried to reassure the Central Intelligence Agency that it would not be blamed for [...]

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FEATURE: Why Bush should reflect on Pinochet

by Paul Woodward 04.02.2008

The green light By Philippe Sands, Vanity Fair, May, 2008 The abuse, rising to the level of torture, of those captured and detained in the war on terror is a defining feature of the presidency of George W. Bush. Its military beginnings, however, lie not in Abu Ghraib, as is commonly thought, or in the [...]

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NEWS, OPINION & EDITOR’S COMMENT: The atrophy of conscience

by Paul Woodward 02.08.2008

Anybody’s guess By Dahlia Lithwick, Slate, February 8, 2008 It’s been a banner week for water-boarding. This centuries-old practice of simulated drowning to extract false confessions and false testimony has really benefited of late from a good old legal reassessment and a smoking-hot PR campaign. In the course of a few short years, water-boarding has [...]

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NEWS: Mosul “center of gravity for the insurgency”; Gates cautiously optimistic; Cheney irrationally exuberant

by Paul Woodward 12.06.2007

Pushed out of Baghdad, insurgents move north By Michael R. Gordon, New York Times, December 6, 2007 Sunni insurgents pushed out of Baghdad and Anbar Provinces have migrated to this northern Iraqi city and have been trying to turn it into a major hub for their operations, according to American commanders. A growing number of [...]

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NEWS & EDITOR’S COMMENT: Intelligence community puts Cheney in restraints

by Paul Woodward 12.03.2007

U.S. says Iran ended atomic arms work By Mark Mazzetti, New York Times, December 3, 2007 A new assessment by American intelligence agencies concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains on hold, contradicting an assessment two years ago that Tehran was working inexorably toward building a bomb. [...]

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NEWS & EDITOR’S COMMENT: Cheney meets resistance on Iran

by Paul Woodward 11.10.2007

Washington tells EU firms: quit Iran now By David Gow and Ewen MacAskill, The Guardian, November 9, 2007 Multinational companies are coming under increasing pressure from the US to stop doing business with Iran because of its nuclear programme. European operators are facing threats from Washington that they could jeopardise their US interests by continuing [...]

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OPINION: The terroriste-in-chief

by Paul Woodward 10.28.2007

Bush’s dangerous liaisons By François Furstenberg, New York Times, October 28, 2007 Much as George W. Bush’s presidency was ineluctably shaped by Sept. 11, 2001, so the outbreak of the French Revolution was symbolized by the events of one fateful day, July 14, 1789. And though 18th-century France may seem impossibly distant to contemporary Americans, [...]

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OPINION: The invention of a global threat

by Paul Woodward 10.22.2007

Stalin, Mao and … Ahmadinejad? By Fareed Zakaria, Newsweek, October 20, 2007 At a meeting with reporters last week, President Bush said that “if you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing [Iran] from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.” These were not [...]

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NEWS & OPINION: Cheney’s effort to emulate Stalin

by Paul Woodward 10.22.2007

Cheney, like president, has a warning for Iran By Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, October 22, 2007 “The Iranian regime needs to know that if it stays on its present course, the international community is prepared to impose serious consequences,” Mr. Cheney said, without specifying what those might be. “The United States joins other [...]

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PREVIEW: The Cheney coup

by Paul Woodward 10.14.2007

Cheney’s law Frontline, PBS, October 16, 2007 For three decades Vice President Dick Cheney conducted a secretive, behind-closed-doors campaign to give the president virtually unlimited wartime power. Finally, in the aftermath of 9/11, the Justice Department and the White House made a number of controversial legal decisions. Orchestrated by Cheney and his lawyer David Addington, [...]

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NEWS & EDITOR’S COMMENT: State-sanctioned torture

by Paul Woodward 10.04.2007

Secret U.S. endorsement of severe interrogations By Scott Shane, David Johnston and James Risen, New York Times, October 4, 2007 The administration had always asserted that the C.I.A.’s pressure tactics did not amount to torture, which is banned by federal law and international treaty. But officials had privately decided the agency did not have to [...]

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FEATURE & EDITOR’S COMMENT: The Administration’s plan for Iran

by Paul Woodward 09.30.2007

Shifting targets By Seymour M. Hersh, The New Yorker, October 8, 2007 In a series of public statements in recent months, President Bush and members of his Administration have redefined the war in Iraq, to an increasing degree, as a strategic battle between the United States and Iran. “Shia extremists, backed by Iran, are training [...]

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OPINION: Who will start the war on Iran?

by Paul Woodward 09.19.2007

Why Bush won’t attack Iran By Steven Clemons, Salon, September 19, 2007 During a recent high-powered Washington dinner party attended by 18 people, Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft squared off across the table over whether President Bush will bomb Iran. Brzezinski, former national security advisor to President Carter, said he believed Bush’s team had laid [...]

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NEWS: The coming war with Iran

by Paul Woodward 09.16.2007

Bush setting America up for war with Iran By Philip Sherwell and Tim Shipman, The Sunday Telegraph, September 16, 2007 Senior American intelligence and defence officials believe that President George W Bush and his inner circle are taking steps to place America on the path to war with Iran, The Sunday Telegraph has learnt. Pentagon [...]

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