Archive for the ‘cheney’ Category

Why was Cheney’s guy in Georgia before the war?

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

What was a top national security aide to Vice President Dick Cheney doing in Georgia shortly before Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili's troops engaged in what became a disastrous fight with South Ossetian rebels -- and then Russian troops?Read the full story

Cheney’s Link to Sen. Ted Stevens Corruption Trial

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

Two days later, Cheney wrote a letter to the Alaska Legislature urging members to "promptly enact" a bill to build the pipeline. The letter was considered unusual because the White House rarely contacts state lawmakers about pending legislative matters. It also angered state Democrats, who accused Cheney of pushing oil-company ...

Bush claims executive privilege on CIA leak

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

Waxman held off an immediate contempt citation of Mukasey, but only as a courtesy to lawmakers not present Wednesday and to give all members a chance to read up on the matter. He made clear that he thinks Mukasey, who requested that Bush invoke executive privilege to shield the records, ...

Is that really a naked woman in Dick Cheney’s sunglasses?

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Since Wednesday, the blogosphere has been atwitter over a photograph on the White House Web site of Cheney with a caption that said he was fly-fishing on the Snake River in Idaho. Apparently, some people think Cheney's hand looks like a naked woman. Difficult for me to parse the psychology ...

Top Bush aides approved interrogation tactics: report

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

"Highly placed sources said a handful of top advisers signed off on how the CIA would interrogate top al Qaeda suspects -- whether they would be slapped, pushed, deprived of sleep or subjected to simulated drowning, called waterboarding," ABC reported. War crimes trials in the future? Read the full story

Bomb Kills 32 in Iraqi City of Karbala on The Huffington Post

Monday, March 17th, 2008

A female suicide bomber attacked a group of Shiite worshippers near a mosque in Karbala on Monday, killing at least 32 people and wounding 51, officials said.Read the full story

Cheney’s subpoenaed e-mails missing

Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Even though White House computer technicians hunted high and low, an entire week's worth of e-mail from Cheney's office was missing. The week was Sept. 30, 2003, to Oct. 6, 2003, the opening days of the Justice Department's probe into whether anyone at the White House leaked the identity of ...

Impeachment: If not now, when?

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

The issue is not about removing Bush and Cheney as much as it is about preserving the Constitution and redeeming the office of the executive. The Constitution is the contract of governance between the people and the government. What happens when major portions of the contract are violated?Read the full ...

Veep’s Wife Says Hubby and Obama Related on The Huffington Post

Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

A spokesman for Obama, who wants to be the first black U.S. president, offered a tongue-in-cheek response. "Every family has a black sheep," said spokesman Bill Burton.Read the full story

Old-line Republican warns ’something’s in the works’ to trigger a police state

Friday, July 20th, 2007

Roberts believes instead that Cheney and Rove intend to use a renewal of the War on Terror to rally the American people around the Republican Party. "Something's in the works," he said, adding that the Executive Orders need to create a police state are already in place.Read the full story