Dick Cheney

On ABC News Monday, Vice President Dick Cheney acknowledged knowing about and approving of the torture technique known as waterboarding.
“I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared, as the agency in effect came in and wanted to know what they could and couldn’t do,” Cheney said. “And they [...]

CBS has released another clip of Sarah Palin’s interview with Katie Couric. The question, posed to both Palin and Joe Biden: What’s the best and worst thing Dick Cheney has done as vice president. “He has done more harm than any other single high elected official, at least in my memory, in terms of shredding [...]

The Washington Post has a couple of extraordinary excerpts from Barton Gellman’s new book about Dick Cheney, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency. It’s a captivating read, detailing how the Vice President and his small cadre of allies drove the administration to the brink of a Constitutional crisis — with President Bush almost entirely in the [...]

On the same night that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton tilted at windbags in Pennsylvania and the President supped with the Pope, Dick Cheney emerged from wherever it is Dick Cheney hides to regale attendees of the annual Radio & TV Correspondents’ Dinner with his unique brand of Catskills comedy.

Highlights — and yes, it does [...]

This past week has not been kind to the legacy of Dick Cheney.  First, we were treated to Cheney’s bizarre assertion that because the vice president has some executive branch duties and some legislative branch duties, that he is therefore responsible to neither.  That Cheney has previously and repeatedly asserted executive privilege was icing on [...]

A new Zogby telephone poll focusing on national security issues was done over the weekend was done and I was startled by this result: