Posted on 09/09/2006 10:01:55 PM PDT by John Carey
From those first moments five years ago when Secret Service agents burst into Vice President Dick Cheney’s office on Sept. 11, lifted him off his feet and propelled him to the underground Presidential Emergency Operations Center, the man who had returned to Washington that year to remake the powers of the presidency seemed unstoppable.
Within minutes, Mr. Cheney was directing the government’s response to an attack that was still under way. Within weeks, he was overseeing the surveillance program that tracked suspected terrorist communications into and out of the United States without warrants. Within months, he and his staff, guided by a loyal aide, David S. Addington, were championing the reinterpretation of the rules of war so that they could detain “enemy combatants” and interrogate them at secret detention facilities run by the C.I.A. around the world.
It was Mr. Cheney and his staff who helped shape the rules under which members of the Taliban and Al Qaeda were denied some of the core rights of the Geneva Conventions and would be tried by “military commissions” at Guantánamo Bay — if they faced trial at all.
“I believe in a strong, robust executive authority, and I think that the world we live in demands it,” Mr. Cheney said in December on a flight from Pakistan to Oman. “You know,” he added, “it’s not an accident that we haven’t been hit in four years.”
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The VP has no real power.
Can we get a (Barf alert) on this bile?
Hey NYT ... I DON'T CARE WHAT HAPPENS TO THE TERRORISTS!!
The NEW YORK TIMES and its so-called "news" no longer goes unquestioned.
Cripes, what a godawful headline.
The funny/sad thing about this is that it took TWO people to write this article.
It's gotten to the point where you know which paper the headlines is from before you open the thread.
Catching this Sunday drivel early is worth falling asleep in church tomorrow. EDT has its disadvantages.
BTW, I'm not worried about my soul nearly as much as I am the current direction of the GOP and my country.
That's one of my favorites. Thanks
Tell that to Algore, he came close to ruining your life as you know it..
Or Bush senior for that matter, he became President.
What a barfer this article is. Of course, its the NYT. And being in the online edition, it cant even be used as toilet paper..
Now if only we could get the Democrats to no longer go unquestioned by the media.
And when has Cheney EVER been unquestioned? I've never seen a vice president more under seige than this one...why is anyone's guess.
The Geneva Convention doesn't afford them many rights. They are given more than they deserve.
Hell, some of them don't want to be released to their home country for fear that they face far worse treatment there.
I knew it would be a hit piece before I read it...but I think it is so twisted and biased...that is no where near true.
One thing I know is true...is the Graham, McCain, and Warner trying to throw their weight around...but I have news for them...they are NOT the POTUS...or even the VPOTUS...and they never will be.
This constant harping by Congress that Bush is trying to GRAB power is just disgusting...and it has made me dislike them all.....even the ones I like, I am disappointed in..because I don't hear them taking up for Bush or Cheney, while they are under attack from the dems and MSM...
I also love how the article spent so much ink on how Cheney misses Lewis Libby.....of course he does, and we know now that it was a SETUP that took Libby away from him...
And the part where Colin Powell and Armitage got mad as Cheney pretty much goes to that...I didn't check the dates to see which came first Plamegate ...and the call that Cheney made while they were at the prom.
NYT isn't fit to wipe my behind.
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It's a hit piece.
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