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[Joe Biden News] Dick cheney on the iran-contra controversy - issues facing the ...: November 19, 1987 Bush’s presidency had been characterized by the unitary executive theory, which is a vigorous defense of executive privilege, evidenced in.

[LewRockwell.com] Supplanting the US Constitution: War, National Emergency and ...: Mann and Bamford did report that, from the beginning, two of the key COG planners on the secret committee were Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, the two men who implemented COG under 9/11. What they and Weiner did not report was that under Reagan the purpose of COG planning had officially changed: it was no longer for arrangements “after a nuclear war,”

[1 Boring Old Man] 1 Boring Old Man » Dick Cheney's lessons from history”¦: Dick Cheney, who has wielded extraordinary executive power as he transformed the image of the vice presidency, is asserting that his office is not actually part of the executive branch. In a simmering dispute with the National Archives that heated up Thursday, Cheney has long maintained that he does not have to comply with an executive order on safeguarding classified information because, in fact, his office is part of the legislature.

[Dprogram.net] Supplanting the United States Constitution: War, National ...: Mann and Bamford did report that, from the beginning, two of the key COG planners on the secret committee were Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, the two men who implemented COG under 9/11.[6] What they and Weiner did not report was that under Reagan the purpose of COG planning had officially changed: it was no longer for arrangements “after a nuclear war,” but for any “national security emergency.” This was defined in Executive Order 12656 of 1988 as: “any occurrence, including natural disaster, military attack, technological emergency, or other emergency, that seriously degrades or seriously threatens the national security of the United States.”[7]

[Political Animal] Dick Cheney's greatest accomplishment - The Washington Monthly: When Billy Bob Clinton took office, he shut down the still ongoing investigations into Iran-Contra and other illegalities of the Reagan-Bush administration. Because of that, we ended up with persons who should have been indicted getting 'get out of jail free' cards and ending up repeating the same crimes again as part of the Bush-The-Lesser administration.

[Kai Dowis] The Truth About George W. Bush « Kai Dowis: Bush and/or his operatives to arrange the Iran-Contra deal and allegedly the October surprise conspiracy, on behalf of U.S.. Presidential candidate Ronald Reagan.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » How does the right do it?: This is why we see people more obsessed with hippie-punching than anything else. That toxic masculinity defines itself with opposition to the feminine and thus opposing anything from a feminine Democratic Party or liberalism is crucial to maintaining a fragile masculinity against attack and thus demonstrating “strength”.

[How to Survive] How to Survive » Blog Archive » Will Libby Be Pardoned? aka Bush's ...: Once the closest adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, Libby was convicted Tuesday of lying and obstructing an investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's identity. He was the highest-ranking White House official convicted in a government scandal since the Iran-Contra arms and money affair two decades ago.

[Balloon Juice] Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Reminder: However, the man has utter contempt for democracy, holds radical, counterfactual views about founding principles of America (he and Yoo both cherry-picked The Federalist papers), often bullied his way into meetings he wasn’t invited to, bullied his supposed allies in meetings he was invited to, had no compunctions about misleading or outright lying to Congress when he and the Cheney gang told them anything at all (ignoring statutes requiring briefings) and would often write “laws” himself.

[CNN Political Ticker] CNN Political Ticker: All politics, all the time Blog Archive ...: If the U.S. does neither the world sees a country of hypocrites who always talk about notions and ideas such as 'the rule of law,' and 'civility' when we talk about why the U.S. is such a great place and why we need to intercede in other countries when we see 'evil', but when it is the U.S. who perpetrates the evil then we turn a blind eye and just say 'it won't happen again.'

[David's Blog] David's Blog » Blog Archive » What's a good republican? To me ...: George W Bush and Dick Cheney just continued to gain momentum in their lawbreaking and incompetence as their ASSAULT on our nation progressed. And, of course, where were the “tea baggers” during all of this?

[TalkLeft] Former Powell Aide's Declaration : Bush and Cheney Sent Innocents ...:  However, I still believe he did not buck who he felt were his powerful superiors-- for him, that just did not include President Clinton.  Who he then though was his superior at that point is an interesting consideration, but part of it, in my view,  would include the JCS, and their disdain for Clinton and their loyalty to  GHW Bush, who they felt richly deserved another term and they could not believe Clinton defeated

[BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash] Liz Cheney's McCarthyism: A Family Tradition? | BuzzFlash.org: Admirers have called Liz Cheney a “red state rock star,” and “one of the fresh faces of our movement.” After a September 2009 speech in Nashville, at an event called the “Smart Girls Summit,” conservative columnist Michelle Malkin told her she was “doing a great job out there.” And, Elliott Abrams - yes the Elliott Abrams of Iran-Contra infamy, who after serving as a deputy national security adviser to President George W. Bush, is a senior fellow for Middle Eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations -- thinks Liz Cheney is a hoot.

[Here in Reality] Supplanting the United States Constitution: War, National ...: Mann and Bamford did report that, from the beginning, two of the key COG planners on the secret committee were Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, the two men who implemented COG under 9/11.[6] What they and Weiner did not report was that under Reagan the purpose of COG planning had officially changed: it was no longer for arrangements “after a nuclear war,” but for any “national security emergency.” This was defined in Executive Order 12656 of 1988 as: “any occurrence, including natural disaster, military attack, technological emergency, or other emergency, that seriously degrades or seriously threatens the national security of the United States.”[7]

[Booman Tribune] My Life in Politics - Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community:  Ruined a client meeting on the day after the elections by continually refreshing my phone wap pages to get the latest on the result.  Thought the Florida thing was absolutely corrupt, a demonstration that the US was turning into a lawless place - I mean my God, the Supreme Court (a truly wondrous thing for a lawyer to think about) basically corruptly decided an entire election.

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