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Search results for "Dick Cheney" ...
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Takeover: The Return of the Imerial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy
Since the 1970s and 80s a faction of the Republican party has been working to create a system that allows "the White House to wield enormous power, operating behind a veil of secrecy and unchecked by Congress or the courts. Today's administration is bringing this project to fruition."
Tags: politics; government; Watergate; checks and balance; George W. Bush; Dick Cheney; executive power; Republican
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The Fall of the House of Bush
Unger's book "examines how and why America took a radical turn to the right under George W. Bush thanks to the coming together of two powerful historic movements, neoconservatism and the Christian Right." It also examines how these two movements influenced the White House and the decision to go to Iraq.
Tags: Iraq; politics; George W. Bush; Dick Cheney; IA; war; Christianity; Christian right; neoconservatism; government; intelligence agency
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Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Conman who caused a war
The book lays out the defining story of the pre-intelligence failure in Iraq. It focuses on CURVE BALL, the American-issued code name for a young Iraqi chemical engineer who defected to Germany in 1999. During dozens of debriefings with German intelligence officers, he claimed that he had helped design and build sophisticated biological weapons for Saddam Hussein." The story was a hoax, yet the CIA used this evidence as its pretext for war despite numerous warnings about the validity of the claims. Only after its invasion of Iraq did the US formally acknowledge that CURVE BALL was a fraud.
Tags: CIA; Iraq; weapons of mass destruction; WMD; war on terror; terrorism; George Tenet; George W. Bush; Colin Powell; intelligence; Dick Cheney; Bill Drogin; spies
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Dick Cheney's Dangerous Son-in-law
The article "examined how the chemical industry undermines genuine security regulation for its chemical plants. It also revealed the little-known behind-the-scenes role of Philip Perry, Dick Cheney's son-in-law, first in his position as general counsel of the Office of Management, then as general counsel to the Department of Homeland Security."
Tags: Philip Perry; Dick Cheney; chemical industry; security regulation; chemical security; toxics
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Unholy Trinity: Katrina, Allbaugh and Brown
The Bush administration's director of FEMA, Michael Brown, was highly ridiculed for his lack of credentials after Hurrican Katrina struck the Gulf Coast. This story looks in-depth at Brown's background, credentials and whether or not he was the right man to be FEMA director.
Tags: new orleans; George Bush; Dick Cheney; Joe Allbaugh, Michael Brown; FEMA
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Signing Statements
Among the presidential powers the Bush-Cheney Administration has worked to expand are "to act in defiance of laws passed by Congress, to shield itself from outside oversight and to impose greater political control over the permanent government." The Globe exposed the role of "a previously obscure device called a "presidential signing statement." President Bush "has employed this mechanism to claim the right to ignore more than 800 laws, asserting that he can set aside any bill provision conflicting with his interpretation of the powers given to him by the Constitution." This power has been used in place of the more limited presidential veto, and "he has used it more often than all previous presidents combined." This has been a push from Vice President Cheney's office, as his history of asserting nearly unlimited presidential power is also examined.
Tags: Signing statements; Bush Administration; presidential veto; Vice President Dick Cheney; presidential powers
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Palace Revolt
This investigation, "tells the definitive story of how a small coterie of conservative Bush appointees led a quietly effective rebellion against the administration’s most controversial polices in the war on terror. Principally residing in the Justice Department, relying on the law and their conscience, these brave public servants took on powerful hardliners in the office of Vice President Dick Cheney, the Defense Department, and elsewhere.
Tags: politicians; politics; federal government; War on Terror; Iraq; Afghanistan
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Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War
"Hubris is a narrative that tells the behind the scenes of story of events inside the White House, CIA, Pentagon, State Department and Congress as President Bush sold the country on the need to go to war against Iraq. It reveals how the Bush administration distorted, twisted, and embellished intelligence to present a thoroughly false picture that Iraq was a storehouse of weapons of mass destruction, was reconstituting its nuclear program, and had relationships with al Qaeda terrorists- despite significant doubts and dissents from numerous intelligence analysts and government experts." It also delves into the role of the news organizations in selling the idea and how White House officials undermined Iraq critics.
Tags: Iraq War; al Qaeda; George W. Bush; Bush; weapons of mass destruction; CIA; Pentagon; White House; Congress; Saddam Hussein; Karl Rove; Dick Cheney;
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Doing Business with the Enemy
60 Minutes discovered that companies like Halliburton and General Electric that pension plans and mutual funds invest in heavily were doing business in countries that sponsor terrorism.
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The price of loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill
This book provides a comprehensive examination of the Bush administration, from policy-making on Iraq, the economy and the environment to a candid look at the president himself. The account is based on interviews with members of the administration and more than 19,000 documents Suskind obtained through his main source, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill.
Tags: BOOK; George Bush; Iraq; Donald Rumsfeld; Paul O'Neill; Christine Todd Whitman; Dick Cheney; White House