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Cheney says he was proponent for military action against Iran

August 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. Cheney described himself [...]

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Cheney uncloaks his frustration with Bush

August 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 on legal [...]

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Cheney’s plans for a military coup

July 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. The discussions [...]

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Cheney’s bogus pragmatism on torture

April 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 following legal [...]

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FEATURE: Why Bush should reflect on Pinochet

April 2, 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 “rendition” of [...]

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

February 8, 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 morphed from [...]

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

December 6, 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 insurgents have relocated [...]

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

December 3, 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.
The conclusions of [...]

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

November 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 to deal [...]

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OPINION: The terroriste-in-chief

October 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, future historians [...]

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OPINION: The invention of a global threat

October 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 the barbs [...]

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NEWS & OPINION: Cheney’s effort to emulate Stalin

October 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 nations in [...]

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PREVIEW: The Cheney coup

October 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, the department [...]

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