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Cheney says Obama endangers U.S. By: Mike Allen March 15, 2009 09:56 AM EST Asked Sunday on CNN if he thinks President Obama "has made Americans less safe," former Vice President Dick Cheney said: “I do." Looking slimmer and relaxed, Cheney told John King on “State of the Union” that Bush administration policies on detention and interrogation of suspected terrorists – some of which were immediately modified by Obama — “were absolutely essential” to preventing another 9/11-style attack. "I think that's a great success story. It was done legally. It was done in accordance with our constitutional practices and principles,"...

A federal judge has ordered Dick Cheney to preserve a wide range of records from his time as vice president... Breaking... That's all there is... Looks like another well-timed hit piece... Dirty tricks continue

Democratic Party of Virginia Dear xxxxxxm Just yesterday, former White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan accused Dick Cheney of misleading the media and public. Tomorrow - just two days after these allegations hit the air waves - the Republican Party of Virginia will proudly display this architect of the Bush agenda in an attempt to fill their campaign coffers. Vice President Dick Cheney will emerge from his undisclosed location to appear as the keynote speaker at the Commonwealth Gala during the 2008 Virginia Republican State Convention. With the funds raised at that event, he and the Virginia Republicans will try...

In an exclusive interview with ABC News, Vice President Dick Cheney was asked what effect the grim milestone of at least 4,000 U.S. deaths in the five-year Iraq war might have on the nation. Noting the burden placed on military families, the vice president said the biggest burden is carried by President George W. Bush, who made the decision to commit US troops to war, and reminded the public that U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan volunteered for duty. "I want to start with the milestone today of 4,000 dead in Iraq. Americans. And just what effect do you think...

WASHINGTON, March 18, 2008 – The United States intends to complete the mission in Iraq, Vice President Richard B. Cheney told troops there today, on the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom’s fifth anniversary. On the second day of a 10-day surprise visit to Iraq, the vice president vowed commitment to what he characterized as an ideological fight against violent extremists who prefer tyranny to democracy. “Understanding all the dangers of this new era, we have no intention of abandoning our friends, or allowing this country of 170,000 square miles to become a staging area for further attacks against Americans,”...

He remained John McCain's staunch supporter throughout the his campaign's darkest days when most observers believed the Arizona senator's presidential hope were doomed, and now his name is being mentioned as McCain's possible running mate. So reports The Politico's Jonathan Martin, who writes that a result of his loyalty, Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty's chances of joining McCain's ticket in the number two spot is a hot topic among party insiders. Martin cites former Minnesota GOP Rep. Vin Weber, one of Pawlenty's biggest boosters as ticking off the governor's strong points as a Veep contender “First of all, his age (47)...

ARLINGTON, Va., Nov. 11, 2007 – Vice President Richard B. Cheney today remembered millions of veterans at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month at Arlington National Cemetery. Navy veteran Neil Koski, a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars National Honor Guard, pulls on his gloves prior to the Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery on Nov. 11, 2007. Koski and other members of the honor guard passed out programs prior to the ceremony. Photo by Melinda L. Larson  (Click photo for screen-resolution image);high-resolution image available. “More than 20 million of our fellow citizens...

Saturday, Oct. 13 at 9 p.m. ET Sunday, Oct. 14 at 3 p.m. ET Host Bret Baier He's the most powerful vice president in American history and has been accused of using that power to steering the country in the wrong direction. Who is the real Dick Cheney? Tune in this weekend as FOX News gives you unprecedented access into the vice president's world. Correspondent Bret Baier shadows Cheney in Washington, visits the vice president in his private sanctuary in Wyoming and travels with Cheney on a mission to the Mideast. Baier also speaks with President Bush about his relationship...

In his new book, "The Age of Turbulence," my longtime friend Alan Greenspan argues that President Bush's economic and budget policies have been fiscally irresponsible. I've known and admired Alan for years, and I believe he was a great chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. But I think his assessment is off the mark. Alan tells of his first meeting with then President-elect Bush on Dec. 18, 2000, at the Madison Hotel in Washington. I recall this breakfast meeting very well, especially Alan's comments on the state of the economy. The Fed chairman told the president-elect and our team that...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7, 2007 – “Terrorists are under no illusion about the importance of the struggle in Iraq,” so freedom-loving people can’t be either, Vice President Richard B. Cheney told members of the Marine Corps League yesterday. Vice President Richard B. Cheney receives a welcome to the 84th National Convention of the Marine Corps League in Albuquerque, N.M.. Aug. 6, 2007. The Marine Corps League is the only federally chartered U.S. Marine Corps-related veterans organization and credits its founding in 1923 to World War I hero Marine Corps Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune. White House photo by David Bohrer...

Dateline: 04 July 2007 What exactly, does a Vice-President do? The original version of the Constitution gave the job to the runner up in the Presidential election. The post attracted heavyweight leaders: Adams and Jefferson. But this proved unworkable. Jefferson was both Vice-President and leader of the opposition. And giving Electors two votes lead to the Jefferson-Burr tie in the 1800 election. The Twelfth Amendment effectively downgraded the Vice-Presidency. It became a position without a role. In today’s continent-sized country we are used the Vice-Presidency being a stepping stone to a Presidential run, but for most of the history of...

The big question right now among Republicans is how to remove Vice President Cheney from office. Even before this week's blockbuster series in The Post, discontent in Republican ranks was rising. As the reputed architect of the war in Iraq, Cheney is viewed as toxic, and as the administration's leading proponent of an attack on Iran, he is seen as dangerous. As long as he remains vice president, according to this thinking, he has the potential to drag down every member of the party -- including the presidential nominee -- in next year's elections. Removing a sitting vice president is...

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The next U.S. president could reshape the Supreme Court, where the two oldest members are liberals and volatile decisions like abortion now hinge on a single swing vote. The possible sea change has already surfaced 18 months before the November 2008 election and could develop into a major campaign issue for Democrats who want to move the court to the left and Republicans who hope to plant it firmly in the conservative camp. The U.S. high court is now evenly split between conservative and liberal justices, who have been divided by 5-4 votes on abortion rights, the death penalty and...

ANN ARBOR, MICH. -- In July 1987, then-Representative Dick Cheney, the top Republican on the committee investigating the Iran-contra scandal, turned on his hearing room microphone and delivered, in his characteristically measured tone, a revolutionary claim. President Reagan and his top aides, he asserted, were free to ignore a 1982 law at the center of the scandal. Known as the Boland Amendment, it banned US assistance to anti-Marxist militants in Nicaragua. "I personally do not believe the Boland Amendment applied to the president, nor to his immediate staff," Cheney said. Most of Cheney's colleagues did not share his vision of...

Vice President Dick Cheney tells ABC's George Stephanopoulos the administration is going "full steam ahead" on its Iraq policy despite the election and mounting discontent with the war among voters of all stripes.

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday he might have to testify in the CIA leak trial of his former chief of staff. Cheney made the comment in a CNN interview, following last month's suggestion by prosecutors that the vice president would be a logical witness in the case of I. Lewis Libby, who is accused of perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI. Libby is "one of the finest men I've ever known," Cheney said, then declined further comment. "I may be called as a witness." Cheney's state of mind is directly relevant to whether Libby lied to...

BaghdadOn a cool December morning, Vice President Dick Cheney and U.S. ambassador to Iraq Zalmay Khalilzad waited for their distinguished guests on the sidewalk outside of the ambassador's residence in the heart of the fortified Green Zone in downtown Baghdad. Moments passed, but no one came. As Khalilzad chattered in Cheney's ear, the vice president stood looking at the cloudless blue sky with his hands clasped behind his back, sporadically shuffling his right foot back and forth. They waited some more. An eager press corps-with cameras and microphones, pens and pads at the ready--waited to capture the handshake between Cheney...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Bracing for indictments against top aides, the White House on Tuesday rallied behind Vice President Dick Cheney but refused to answer questions about whether he told his chief of staff about the CIA officer at the heart of a two-year leak investigation. White House spokesman Scott McClellan would neither confirm nor deny a report in The New York Times that Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby, first learned about the CIA officer, Valerie Plame, in a conversation with the vice president on June 12, 2003, weeks before her identity became public in a newspaper column by Robert...

Sparked by today's Washington Post story that suggests Vice President Cheney's office is involved in the Plame-CIA spy link investigation, government officials and advisers passed around rumors that the vice president might step aside and that President Bush would elevate Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. "It's certainly an interesting but I still think highly doubtful scenario," said a Bush insider. "And if that should happen," added the official, "there will undoubtedly be those who believe the whole thing was orchestrated – another brilliant Machiavellian move by the VP." Said another Bush associate of the rumor, "Yes. This is not good."...

NEW YORK -- Vice President Dick Cheney's feud with Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel was perpetuated Wednesday when the 75-year-old congressman said Cheney "ought to be ashamed of himself" for a remark about his age. Months of verbal attacks from Rangel turned into a back and forth on Monday when the 64-year-old vice president said Rangel is "losing it," later adding that "Charlie is a lot older than I am, and it shows." After an appearance at City Hall on Wednesday, Rangel was asked when the dispute would die. "I think it ends when he apologizes for attacking me as a...

Vice President Dick Cheney contended Monday that Rep. Charles Rangel, the dean of New York's congressional delegation, is "losing it" _ striking back after months of verbal attacks from the Harlem lawmaker. Rangel had criticized Cheney in recent interviews, saying the vice president, who has a history of heart trouble, might be too sick to perform his job. "I would like to believe he's sick rather than just mean and evil," Rangel said last Friday on NY1, the New York City-based all-news channel. In an interview with nationally syndicated radio host Rush Limbaugh, the 64-year-old Cheney suggested it was the...

NEW YORK (AP) _ For the second time in recent months, the dean of New York's congressional delegation has questioned whether Vice President Dick Cheney is fit for the duties of his office. In an interview in August on NY1, the New York City-based all-news channel, Rep. Charles Rangel suggested that Cheney might be too sick to perform his job. On Friday evening, Rangel was asked in a follow-up talk on the station if he thought Cheney should step down. "He should never have stepped up in the first place," Rangel said. "He's too old for the job and doesn't...

April 2 - During the presidential campaign, Mary Matalin helped craft Dick Cheney’s potent words. Now, her new Simon & Schuster imprint will give voice to the rest of the conservative crowd, starting with the vice president’s daughter. Matalin will publish a memoir by Mary Cheney, whose homosexuality became an issue in the election, next year. NEWSWEEK’s Susannah Meadows talked to Matalin, the Republican pundit and wife of fiery Democratic strategist James Carville, about her new role as editor. Excerpts:NEWSWEEK: What else do you hope to publish?Mary Matalin: My particular interest is in foreign policy and national security, stories like...

In the summer of 2000, Dick Cheney was appointed to find a vice presidential candidate for George W. Bush, and, as we now know, the winner of the search turned out to be Dick Cheney. Today, Republicans are casting about for a successor to Bush. And the winner of that search just may turn out to be ... Dick Cheney. The Draft Cheney movement is burbling just below the surface. Fred Barnes suggested it earlier this month in the Weekly Standard. Tod Lindberg of the Washington Times and Lawrence Kudlow of National Review Online echoed Barnes in columns this week....

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tracey Schmitt 202-863-8614WASHINGTON –RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman issued the following statement on Senator Corzine’s irresponsible comments comparing Vice President Cheney to Saddam Hussein. “Comparing the Vice President to a tyrannical despot who murdered thousands of his own people is rhetoric you would expect to hear from Michael Moore but not a United States Senator. Instead of focusing his time making desperate and outrageous comparisons, Senator Corzine should focus his energy on bipartisan solutions to save Social Security.”

The obvious man for Bush to tap as his successor in 2008 VICE PRESIDENT DICK CHENEY IS adamant about not running for president in 2008. Asked by host Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday if he might change his mind, Cheney answered with a firm no. "I've got my plans laid out," he said. "I'm going to serve this president for the next four years, and then I'm out of here. . . . In 2009, I'll be 68 years old. And I've still got a lot of rivers I'd like to fish and time I'd like to spend with...

When a vice president doesn't want a promotion, the political dynamic changes in profound ways Dick Cheney is the reason American politics is about to get more and more interesting. Cheney is, of course, the vice president. He and President Bush are about to begin their second terms. Since Richard M. Nixon won the Republican presidential nomination in 1960, the vice president has been expected to run for president. The principal exceptions have been Spiro T. Agnew and Nelson A. Rockefeller.As a result, there is a distinguished list of modern vice presidents who didn't become president: Hubert H. Humphrey, Walter...

Vice President Cheney in New Jersey: President Bush Led With Wisdom & Humility Americans Expect from Their Leader(title edited for length) Lenape High SchoolMedford, New JerseyTHE VICE PRESIDENT:  Thank you.  (Applause.)AUDIENCE:  Four more years!  Four more years!  Four more years!THE VICE PRESIDENT:  Thank you.  (Applause.)  Mercy.  (Laughter.) This sounds like Bush-Cheney country.  (Applause.)AUDIENCE MEMBER:  (Inaudible.)THE VICE PRESIDENT:  Well, it's -- what was that?  (Laughter.)It's a pleasure to be back in New Jersey, and here in Burlington County, in the historic Township of Medford.  And all of you live in one of the most beautiful areas in the Northeast, and you...

Statement by Secretary James A. Baker, III, Bush-Cheney '04 Debate Negotiations Team Leader and Vernon Jordan, Jr. (title edited for length)  NEW YORK - Secretary James A. Baker, III, Bush-Cheney '04 Debate Negotiations Team Leader and Vernon Jordan, Jr. today issued the following statement:"We are pleased to announce today that President Bush and Senator Kerry will participate in three debates.  The first debate is on Thursday, September 30 at the University of Miami, in Coral Gables, Florida, the second is on October 8 in St. Louis, Missouri at Washington University, and the third at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona...

ON SUNDAY, the Kerry campaign put out a statement accusing the Bush administration of "misleading" the country in claiming a "direct link" between Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 attacks.This is an appalling and, one assumes, deliberate distortion. No one--repeat no one--in the Bush administration has ever made such a claim. President Bush has twice explicitly rejected any suggestion that Saddam Hussein was behind those attacks. Condoleezza Rice has done the same on numerous occasions. Vice President Cheney, the subject of the Kerry campaign statement, has gone no further than to say that "we don't know" about potential Iraqi involvement in...

JACKSON HOLE, WY – Vice President Cheney today issued the following statement: "Just over two weeks ago, Senator Kerry talked about the merits of troop realignment in Europe and Asia. 'There are great possibilities open to us,' he said. Yesterday he said it was a bad idea. The one consistency we have seen from Senator Kerry is that he is willing to take any position on any issue if he thinks it will benefit him politically. As we saw yesterday, these political calculations even include his positions on our national security."

Vice President Dick Cheney is scheduled to speak with Sean Hannity on his radio show in a few minutes. If you get a moment, read the transcript of the VP's speech this morning from Dayton, Ohio, at the White House web site. He is brutal in refuting Kerry's "unilateral" and "sensitive war" comments.

I was having lunch with a couple of Republican friends this afternoon and we started talking about the upcoming elections in 2004. One of us heard on talk radio that there is a rumour of Cheney possibly not being on the ticket in 2004 and that Giuliani could possibly be on the ticket in his place. Has anyone heard anything to that affect?

After all, the POTUS (any POTUS) is leader of the free world and the VPOTUS is a heartbeat away from that status.foreverfree