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POLITICS / NEWS Wed Feb 24, 2010 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney was released Wednesday from a Washington hospital after sufferinging a mild heart attack, a spokesman said... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Feb 15, 2010 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- Vice President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Dick Cheney, sparred today over Iraq and the fight against terrorism, via separate TV talk shows... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sat Oct 31, 2009 @ 9:01am neoform

CNN -- Former vice president Dick Cheney told a special prosecutor in 2004 that he had no idea who leaked the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame, according to newly released FBI documents... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Aug 31, 2009 @ 3:00pm neoform

CNN -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney said in an interview Friday that just-released CIA documents demonstrate the effectiveness of coercive interrogation techniques... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jul 14, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney is getting a "bum rap" over reports that he ordered the CIA to withhold information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress, two former U.S. intelligence officials told CNN Monday... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sun Jul 12, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- The CIA withheld information about a secret counterterrorism program from Congress during the Bush administration on direct orders from then-Vice President Dick Cheney, current CIA director Leon Panetta told members of Congress, a knowledgeable source confirmed to CNN... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Jun 3, 2009 @ 3:01pm neoform

CNN -- The back-and-forth between former Secretary of State Colin Powell, former Vice President Dick Cheney, and radio entertainer Rush Limbaugh, has been, well, entertaining and fascinating... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jun 2, 2009 @ 9:00am neoform

CNN -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that he does not believe Saddam Hussein was involved in the planning or execution of the September 11, 2001, attacks... Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Mon Mar 17, 2008 @ 8:21am neoform

MSNBC -- The Iraqis do not yet have a law for sharing the nation’s oil wealth among the Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds, a law that the Bush administration believes will trigger multinational energy companies to invest in exploration and production in Iraq. Iraq pr.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Nov 27, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- Vice President Dick Cheney is expected back at work Tuesday after doctors used an electrical current to correct an irregular heartbeat, the White House reported. Doctors described the procedure -- intended to shock the heart back into normal rhythm -- as.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Nov 21, 2007 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan says top administration officials -- including President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney -- were involved in his "unknowingly" passing along false information about the leak of a CIA operative's identity. I.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Oct 12, 2007 @ 3:19pm neoform

Reuters -- A frequent Bush administration talking point in defense of the “war on terror” is claiming that United States has not been attacked since 9/11. Yesterday, Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Cheney, reiterated this point on The Daily Show, claimin.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Aug 21, 2007 @ 10:00am neoform

The Hill -- Vice President Dick Cheney’s office on Monday responded separately from the White House to a Senate subpoena for documents on warrantless wiretapping and resurrected the controversial contention that Cheney is not part of the executive branch. Senate.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sat Jul 28, 2007 @ 9:46am neoform

CNN -- Vice President Dick Cheney will undergo minor surgery Saturday morning to replace the battery that powers a device monitoring his heart rhythms. During Cheney's annual physical last month, doctors tested his implanted cardioverter-defibrillator and learne.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Wed Jul 18, 2007 @ 4:47am neoform

Washington Post -- At 10 a.m. on April 4, 2001, representatives of 13 environmental groups were brought into the Old Executive Office Building for a long-anticipated meeting. Since late January, a task force headed by Vice President Cheney had been busy drawing up a new nat.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jun 26, 2007 @ 1:58am neoform

MSNBC -- A new battle has erupted over Vice President Dick Cheney's refusal to submit to an executive order requiring a government review of his handling of classified documents. But the dispute could also raise questions for embattled Attorney General Alberto.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Tue Jun 26, 2007 @ 1:27pm neoform

Washington Post -- 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 v.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Sat Jun 23, 2007 @ 3:52pm neoform

Los Angeles Times -- The White House said Friday that, like Vice President Dick Cheney's office, President Bush's office is not allowing an independent federal watchdog to oversee its handling of classified national security information. An executive order that Bush issued.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Jun 22, 2007 @ 12:43pm neoform

CNN -- Vice President Dick Cheney's office refused to cooperate with an agency that oversees classified documents, then tried to abolish the office when it challenged the actions, House oversight committee Chairman Henry Waxman said. The National Archives' In.. Read More

POLITICS / NEWS Fri Jun 22, 2007 @ 8:11am neoform

USA Today -- House Democrats on Thursday denounced Vice President Dick Cheney's idea of abolishing a government office charged with safeguarding national security information — and criticized him for refusing to cooperate with the agency. Cheney's office — over.. Read More