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The final installment of the Katie Couric / Sarah Palin interviews airs tonight on the "CBS Evening News." Boy, we'll miss them when they're gone. In tonight's segment, part of the network's "Vice Presidential Questions" series, Couric asked both Palin and Democratic vice presidential nominee, Sen. Joe Biden, to name the best thing and the worst thing Vice President Dick Cheney has done in Office. Palin's answer for Cheney's worst act as VP: “I guess that would have been the duck hunting accident." Palin, of course, was refering to Cheney’s accidental shooting of a fellow hunter while on a quail hunting trip in 2006. It didn't take place in the vice president's Office but on a Texas ranch. For more on the interview and Joe Biden's answers, check out Matea Gold's post on Show Tracker. -- Kate Linthicum Still time to register at Twitter here to get instant alerts of all new Ticket items flashed straight to your cell. ... Source: www.cbc.ca --- 22 days ago
A U.S. federal judge on Saturday ordered Vice-President Dick Cheney to preserve a wide range of records from his time in Office. ... Source: thinkprogress.org --- 28 days ago
Today, the Washington Post’s Angler series explores Vice President Cheney’s heavy hand in Bush’s domestic surveillance program. Documents giving “strategic direction to the nation’s largest spy agency” were held not in the White House but in Cheney’s Office. Cheney’s lawyer David Addington, who wrote the documents, kept White House Chief of Staff Andy Card in [...] ...
Source: themoderatevoice.com --- 22 days ago
The White House has suffered yet another setback in its battle over the powers of the executive branch in light of a federal judge’s orders that Vice President Dick Cheney must preserve his records: Vice President Dick Cheney must preserve a broad range of records from his time in Office, a federal judge ordered Saturday, ruling in favor of a private watchdog group. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly found that the records are not excluded from preservation under Presidential Records Act, which gives the national archivist responsibility over the custody of and access to the records at the end of a president’s final term. The Bush administration had sought a narrow interpretation of the act to allow for fewer materials to be preserved by the National Archives. “Defendants were only willing to agree to a preservation order that tracked their narrowed interpretation of the PRA’s statutory language,” Kollar-Kotelly said in her order. This position “heightens the Court’s concern” that some records will not be preserved without an injunction. Cheney chief of staff David Addington has told Congress that the vice president belongs to neither the executive nor legislative branch of government, AP reported. Instead, he said, the Office is attached by the Constitution to Congress. The vice president presides over the Senate. The issue is important in political terms due to the ongoing battle between the Bush administration and Cong ... Source: www.thehollywoodliberal.com --- 27 days ago
Cheney?s Office hid wiretapping memos from White House chief of staff. Today, the Washington Post’s Angler series explores Vice President Cheney’s heavy hand in Bush’s domestic surveillance program. Documents giving “strategic direction to the nation’s largest spy agency” were held not in the White House but in Cheney’s Office. Cheney’s lawyer David Addington, who wrote [...] ... Source: www.neilrogers.com --- 34 days ago
Historians and scholars are among those joining a lawsuit aimed at preventing the Bush administration from destroying or withholding documents related to the role of the "most influential vice president in U.S. history," Dick Cheney, in forming public policy, the Washington Post reports in its Monday edition. ... Source: www.citizensforethics.org --- 19 days ago
More good news in our lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney. Today in CREW v. Cheney, District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued an order directing the parties to confer on the need for discovery before briefing on the merits. This order follows her ruling on Saturday ordering the vice president and the Office of the Vice President (OVP) to preserve all records, widely defined, as the law requires. Anne Weismann, CREW’s chief counsel said today: By this order, the court appears to recognize the need for additional fact-finding beyond what the OVP has attested in sworn declarations it is preserving and we anticipate that it will lead to depositions of White House officials in the very near future. In the lawsuit, which was filed on September 9, 2008, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington was joined by historians and archivists against Vice President Cheney, the OVP and the National Archives and Records Administration because of their unlawfully narrow interpretation of their obligations under the President Records Act. ... Source: www.citizensforethics.org --- 7 days ago
Last week, the judge in CREW's lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney approved our request to take the depositions of David Addington, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff. On the eve of that deposition, Vice President Cheney and the other defendants filed an emergency petition for a writ of mandamus with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Mandamus is an extraordinary remedy and defendants seek it here to have the D.C. Circuit intrude directly into the district court litigation by demanding that the district court judge vacate her discovery orders. The petition is based on a claim that the discovery authorized by the district court raises serious separation of powers concerns merely because the deponent is David Addington. Anne Weismann, CREW’s chief counsel, said: The White House, having failed to convince the Court that it is saving all that the Presidential Records Act required, is now attempting to stop any further fact-finding in order to prevent the plaintiffs, the court and the American people from learning the truth. ... Source: batoov.wordpress.com --- 39 days ago
The Office of Vice President Dick Cheney told an agency within the National Archives that for purposes of securing classified information, the Vice President’s Office is not an ‘entity within the executive branch’ according to a letter released Thursday by the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. read more | digg story [...] ...
Source: topics.nytimes.com --- 9 days ago
It was hard to tell from Gov. Sarah Palin’s remarks in the vice-presidential debate if she understands how Dick Cheney has reshaped and damaged the Office. ... Source: www.latimes.com --- 7 days ago
A judge's order to preserve all of the V.P.'s records pending a lawsuit's outcome helps guard transparency. In three months, the Bush-Cheney administration will be history. Scholars who want to study that history won an important victory last month when a federal judge ordered Vice President Dick Cheney's Office and the National Archives to preserve all of Cheney's official papers pending the outcome of a lawsuit brought by a citizens' group and individual historians and archivists. ... Source: www.comedycentral.com --- 9 days ago
A debate between candidates for the most powerful Office in the land -- Dick Cheney's. ... Source: www.huffingtonpost.com --- 10 days ago
At last, a Democratic candidate I actually want to have a beer with. I know this idiotic standard is more marketing ad agency speak than actual criteria for elected Office but it is a pleasant surprise from the usually tone deaf to the real world Dems. Not only do I want to grab a beer with Biden but I might even have three or four and maybe some onion rings. He was masterful tonight. Biden is a stone cold pro in a world where most politicians just become cold or stone-like. But Joe Biden managed to communicate on every issue in a clear and laser focused way. The happiest person on the planet had to be Barack Obama's gastroenterologist. Because when Obama has to go under for his colonoscopy as president this Doctor will not have to rush, lest the VP drop the ball while in charge for those forty-five minutes. Obama's GI will even be able to take a second lap around the large intestine to make sure. Biden's outrage may have been the most delicious part of the debate. When he called Cheney "dangerous" or talked about the long line of McCain mistakes on the war or how he has done nothing but support deregulation, it was like drinking cold hose water on a hundred degree day after moving furniture up a four story walk up for ten hours (which is pretty much my metaphor for the past eight years). It was refreshing and needed and I got a brain freeze from gulping it to fast. What made his outrage all the more impressive was that he had to ... Source: thinkprogress.org --- 9 days ago
During the vice presidential debate last night, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said that she agreed with Vice President Cheney’s belief that there is “a lot of flexibility” in the Office of the Vice President and that she was “thankful the Constitution would allow a bit more authority given to the vice president.” Watch it: In an [...] ... Source: www.crooksandliars.com --- 9 days ago
Download | Play Download | Play (h/t Heather) There was a moment in last night’s debate that sent a cold shiver down my spine. That moment was when moderator Gwen Ifill asked Sarah Palin whether she agreed with Dick Cheney’s rather extraordinary claim that the Vice President’s Office is outside of the Executive Branch (truthfully, Cheney argued that it [...] ... Source: www.reason.com --- 11 days ago
The New York Times asked several contributors what question they'd pose to Sarah Palin or Joe Biden. They asked me to submit a drug-war related question for Biden. Here it is: Senator Biden, you’ve been one of the Senate’s most ardent drug warriors. You helped create the Office of “drug czar”; backed our failed eradication efforts in South America; encouraged the government to seize the assets of people merely suspected of drug crimes; pushed for the expanded use of racketeering and conspiracy laws against drug offenders; advocated the use of the military to fight the drug war; and sponsored a bill that holds venue owners and promoters criminally liable for drug use by people attending concerts and events. Today, illicit drugs are as cheap and abundant as they were decades ago. Would you agree that the anti-drug policies you’ve championed have failed? If not, how have they succeeded? reason contributor Gene Healy also contributed a question: The claim by Dick Cheney that he was exempt from certain disclosure requirements because the vice president was a “legislative officer” has been greeted with outrage. But the main power the Constitution grants the vice president is a legislative one — breaking a tie vote in the Senate. So, Governor Palin, Senator Biden, doesn’t Mr. Cheney have a point? But, then, if the vice president is a legislative officer, how can he wield the vast executive powers that Mr. Cheney has exercised, includin ... Source: www.kentucky.com --- 9 days ago
The vice presidential debate was the toast - make that roast - of late-night television, and that was before the event was held. Shows produced earlier than the match between Republican Sarah Palin and Democrat Joe Biden at Washington University in St. Louis on Thursday made sport out of guessing at the outcome. "Tonight, a debate between candidates for the most powerful Office in the land: Dick Cheney's," said Stephen Colbert on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report." "As for Sarah Palin, she hit it out of the park. Or as they say in Wasilla, she hit it all the way to Russia," Colbert said. "Now, it is possible this is not how things panned out tonight. Could be the media is focusing on some small misstep, like Gov. Palin referring to people from Pakistan as alpacas." David Letterman's "Late Show" top 10 list was comprised of "Surprises in the Vice Presidential Debate" including: "First for Palin: 'Why the hell do you keep agreeing to talk to Katie Couric,'" "Biden's insistence that from his house in Delaware he can see Russia" and, at No. 1, "Palin mentioned bombing Iran, Pakistan and Tina Fey." ... Source: tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com --- 11 days ago
As it happens, pace Scott and Christopher , I stopped to get an egg sandwich at the deli next to my Office and who should walk by but Donald Rumsfeld. This marks the third time I've seen Rumsfeld jaunting down Connecticut Avenue in the mornings, a goon in wraparound shades three steps behind him, death's-head grimace (his version of a smile?) chiseled onto his face. Is a citizen's arrest for war crimes a non-concept? I'd cite Jane's book in my indictment. Christopher's point about the need for universally-applicable rules of global behavior is as unassailable as it is politically unachievable. (At least insofar as I understood it: Christopher, were you advocating such a need or merely urging the rest of us to take up the argument?) Imagine if Barack Obama said, "We ought to follow Justice Jackson's exhortation against creating one international system for us and another for the rest of the world." The avalanche of demagoguery would be overwhelming. Everyone remember the hyperventilation over John Kerry's (predictably misquoted) "global test"? In keeping with Cheney's elevation of the expansion of executive power to a first principle, the right -- by which I mean not simply the conservative movement but the leadership and the membership of the national Republican Party -- holds any challenge to American hegemony to be a first-order national security threat. Several in the Bush administration -- including, remember, Jack Goldsmith, ... Find more results for Cheney's Office on RSSMicro.com |
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The goal, proponents say, is to protect a treasure trove of information about national security, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, domestic wiretapping, energy policy, and other major issues that could be hidden from the public if Cheney adheres to his view that he is not part of the executive branch. more... | PDA ...
Earlier this week, we learned that the McCain campaign had barred New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd from traveling on their plane, stranding her at an airport hotel in Pittsburgh as McCain's pool of reporters wended their way on without her ready skill at alliteration and musical theatre references. Since then, Dowd has had the opportunity to respond: "I had had a great relationship with John McCain for 16 years, through columns he liked and didn't like. So at first I thought it was a mistake and doublechecked with the press Office. They said I was banned from both planes for 'the foreseeable future.' Then [McCain spokeswoman] Nicolle Wallace was gloating about it to reporters on the Palin plane," Dowd wrote in an email. "It was disappointing because I didn't think John McCain would ever be as dismissive of the First Amendment as Dick Cheney." Actually, I'd say McCain is being far more "dismissive" than Cheney. After all, nothing gave Adam Clymer as much cachet as being known as the press corps' "Major League Asshole of 2000." That's BIG TIME. ...