Newsweek: Cheney Created 'Secret Network' within Government

NewsMax ^ | 11/9/03 | Wire

[Tumbleweed_Connection]

PRNewswire--In the November 17 Newsweek cover story, "How Dick Cheney Sold the War" (on newsstands Monday, November 10), a team of correspondents examines how Vice President Dick Cheney and his staff, mindful of past intelligence failures, helped create a secretive network inside the government which produced alarming and pessimistic assessments that catered to the vice president's dark world view.

Investigative correspondents Mark Hosenball and Michael Isikoff and Assistant Managing Editor Evan Thomas explore Cheney's relationships with conventional agencies like the CIA and the National Security Council, with controversial Iraqi politician Ahmed Chalabi, and with the Office of Special Plans, an unconventional Pentagon team supervised by one of Cheney's former aides.

As Bush's closest adviser, Cheney has lunch with the president every Thursday in a small dining room off the Oval Office, with no aides present.

He has made some of the administration's most alarming public statements about Iraq including a claim that it had reconstituted nuclear weapons and a recent statement reviving old allegations about Saddam and 9/11 that U.S. intelligence agencies have dismissed.

Cheney declined an interview request from Newsweek, but interviews with his aides and a wide variety of sources in the intelligence and national-security community paint the portrait of a vice president who may be too powerful for his own good.

[DoughtyOne]

Cheney is too damned powerful for the Democrats own good. Excellent...

[Consort]

Our Dick (Cheney) is bigger than their Dick (Gephardt).

[Moonman62]

As Bush's closest adviser, Cheney has lunch with the president every Thursday in a small dining room off the Oval Office, with no aides present.

I would think that the closest advisor would get more than lunch once a week.

[Alas Babylon!]

Let's hear it for our Dick!!!!!

[vbmoneyspender]

First Rumsfeld, now Cheney. Maybe Isikoff and Norman Thomans' grandson are angry because Bush didn't let Newsweek pick his cabinet and vice-president for him.

[vbmoneyspender]

Thomans' = Thomas'

[Paul Atreides]

Oh, I don't know. When I look at Gephardt, I can't help but think that he is, without a doubt, the world's biggest Dick.

[Ruth A.]

Between this and the Jessica Lynch story, it is obvious that Newsweek has its daggers unsheathed. Of course, neither story would hold water.

[Paul Atreides]

If the Dims aren't claiming that the Republican Veep is too dumb to be trusted, in the case of Quayle, they are claiming that he is too smart to be trusted.

[ladyinred]

What will the leftist media stoop to next? I think we will soon see that this administration was plotting this war while still in the womb. This will be the only time they will acknowledge that babies are alive in the womb btw.

[Cicero]

Translation: "How Hildabeast Created 'Secret Network' Within the Media; or, Pimping for the Liberal Agenda."

[marron]

I have found that in any organization you have the official organization chart and then you have the real organization. The challenge is always to figure out who are the position-holders and who are the real go-to-guys.

What this article discusses is not particularly remarkable.

[Paul Atreides]

A deleted scene that will be included on the Director's Cut of "Planet of The Apes."

[pabianice]

Ah. Another balanced report from the Left. I hear the article also blames Cheney for the disappearance of Judge Crater and the destruction of the Hindenburg.

[Sockdologer]

A deleted scene that will be included on the Director's Cut of "Planet of The Apes." *snicker*

[eddie willers]

You can't beat our Dick.

[okie01]

"He [Cheney] has made some of the administration's most alarming public statements about Iraq including...a recent statement reviving old allegations about Saddam and 9/11 that U.S. intelligence agencies have dismissed."

Which amounted to a statement that we've no proof that Saddam was not involved. An astute observation, hardly "alarming".

Except to the mainstream media, of course...

[Pukin Dog]

When I look at Gephardt, I can't help but think that he is, without a doubt, the world's biggest Dick.

True, but he is soft.

So soft in fact, Nancy Pelosi couldnt ride him.

[Southack]

The Left has become laughable. They are taking the whole Black Helicopter, tin-foil thing to an entirely new level.

OOooooh, "secret" networks.

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