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Liz Cheney: Another Inhabitant Of Planet Cheney
Liz Cheney, whose opinions on national security are the same as her father's, recently told Sam Donaldson of ABC's "This Week," "Waterboarding isn't torture, and we can go down that path. The lack of seriousness here is important."If Ms. Cheney reall...
Bush Administration Surveillance And Torture Practices Continue To Surface
Try as President Obama might to put aside calls for the investigation of Bush administration surveillance and torture, those issues are proving too controversial to suppress. The following reports have recently surfaced:• Dick Cheney has been lin...
Powell Responds To Criticisms From Cheney And Limbaugh
Colin Powell responded to Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh, who questioned his Republican credentials after he voted for Obama. Powell made the case for appealing beyond the party's right wing base, especially in view of the GOP's shrinking support–a...
Cheney's Speech Filled With "Omissions, Exaggerations And Misstatements"
Instead of treating the speeches on Thursday of President Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney as a rhetorical boxing match, Jonathan S. Landay and Warren P. Strobel actually did some research and analysis. The two uncovered Cheney's "omissio...
Cheney: GOP Doesn't Need To Moderate
After Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania switched to the Democrats, Senator Olympia Snowe (R) of Maine wrote that the gradual loss of Republican moderates was unhealthy for the party:...we cannot prevail in the future without moderates... There is...
Meghan McCain, Ed Schultz Slam Cheney's Criticisms Of Obama
Before just 100 days of the Obama administration have passed, Dick Cheney has been criticizing the president in a manner unprecedented for a member of a prior administration:Mr. Obama has repeatedly repudiated the Bush administration; in the intervie...
