A media campaign portraying Iran as supplying arms to the Taliban fighting U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, orchestrated by advocates of a more confrontational stance toward Iran in the Bush administration, appears to have backfired last week when Robert Gates and the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan issued unusually strong denials.
Vice President Cheney told Justice Department officials that he disagreed with their objections to a secret surveillance program during a high-level White House meeting in March 2004, a former senior Justice official told senators yesterday.
VP Cheney came out and predicted, correctly, that Democrats will give the President a clean bill for funding our troops.
The House of Representatives has the sole power to impeach, and therefore, the power to define impeachable offenses. Historically, some impeachment charges have been clearly politically motivated. But in the case of Vice President Dick Cheney, the charges of misconduct are solidly based.
On Thursday, Lawrence Wilkerson, speaking on NPR, proposed impeaching President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. "You compare Bill Clinton's peccadilloes for which he was impeached to George Bush or Dick Cheney's high crimes high crimes and misdemeanors, and I think they pale in significance."
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday on an unannounced visit, at a time when pressure from Washington is growing on the Iraqi government to meet benchmarks aimed at healing sectarian strife.
A former CIA analyst claims that falsified documents which were meant to show that Iraq's Saddam Hussein regime had been trying to procure yellowcake uranium from Niger can be traced back to Vice President Dick Cheney.
Looks like he's reached his boiling point. Rep. Dennis Kucinich, the most liberal of the Democratic presidential candidates in the primary field, declared in a letter sent to his Democratic House colleagues this morning that he plans to file articles of impeachment against Vice President Dick Cheney.
Vice President Dick Cheney predicted in an interview aired on Sunday that Democrats in the end would provide the money needed by U.S. troops in Iraq after some political sparring with President George W. Bush.
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After the White House berated Pelosi for visiting Syrian president Assad, it was revealed that Republican Congressmen were in Damascus at the same time just as eager to relay the same message as Pelosi. "It's obvious the White House is desperate to find some phony criticism of the speaker's trip, even though it was a bipartisan trip," sai
This short essay, with links to original source material, shows that Dick Cheney is really a bad guy. From pushing for wiretaps 30 years ago, to creating a fake Russian scare in order to bolster cold war defense spending in the 70's, to pushing for an imperial presidency 20 years ago, you'll learn alot by reading this. All roads do, indeed, lead
How might U.S. national security be threatened by mega-droughts, coastal flooding, killer hurricanes, food scarcity and the other ecological calamities scientists widely predict will occur if global warming continues apace? No one knows, but Sens. Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., think it's time to find out.
Although Saddam Hussein was hanged months ago, Vice President Cheney insisted today that the ex-Iraqi dictator was still actively plotting with Al Qaeda - more specifically, with the "equally dead" Mohammed Atta and al-Zarqawi.
Conservative pundits seem miffed that Valerie Plame, her cover blown, decided to pose for Vanity Fair or get a book deal or sell her story to Hollywood. Well, what do they expect? She lost her job, her career. She can't become a covert agent for Canada. Or Mexico. And just because she's bounced back doesn't mean she wasn't victimized.
AIPAC's three-day summit included fiery evangelical oratory, adoration for Dick Cheney -- and new plans for going after Iran.
Robert Scheer writes that in the wake of the Libby verdict, Dick Cheney, revealed as a man of deep corruption, is as dangerous as any cornered animal.
Oil services giant Halliburton Co. will soon shift its corporate headquarters from Houston to the Mideast financial powerhouse of Dubai, chief executive Dave Lesar announced Sunday.
The case was only marginally about Libby. What was really on trial was the whole culture of an Administration that treated the truth as a relative virtue, as something it could take or leave as it needed. Everyone knows now that Bush and Cheney took the country into a deadly, costly and open-ended war on flimsy evidence
The conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff on charges of obstruction of justice, perjury and lying to the FBI confirms the suspicions that millions of Americans have had for years about the lawlessness of this administration. And the focus of the Libby trial on a particular aspect of that lawlessness -- the determinati
So Libby has taken the fall. Now maybe special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald can get down to the real business of finding out just why the entire White House smear operation was unleashed--why they went so far as to violate federal law and expose Wilson's CIA-operative wife, Valerie Plame.
Just how seriously Bush has bungled his war on terror became painfully clear when a Taliban suicide bomber attacked Bagram Air Force Base in an apparent assassination attempt on Dick Cheney, who was visiting there last Tuesday.
As the discussion moved to the attempted assassination of Vice President Cheney last week, Maher asked his panel why it was necessary for the Huffington Post to remove comments by readers concerning their disappointment that the attempt failed. The host said the world would be a safer place if the assassination attempt succeeded.
A Taliban suicide bomber apparently on a mission to kill U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney blew himself up at the gate of the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan Tuesday, killing as many as 20 people, officials said.
U.S. Vice-President Dick Cheney insisted Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd be sworn to secrecy about the details of their meeting before their talks in Sydney on Friday. According to senior Labor sources, Mr Cheney would not meet Mr Rudd until the conditions of secrecy had been met.
A 70-YEAR-OLD woman was taken to hospital and four people arrested after police moved in on demonstrators protesting against Dick Cheney's visit to Sydney.
Resolved, that Richard B. Cheney, vice president of the United States, should be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and that these articles of impeachment be submitted to the American people. (via Rawstory)
Sitting behind George W. Bush during the State of the Union Address, the blink count runs...
Old enemies of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton are out in force. Just weeks after she joined the Democratic Party's flock of presidential contenders, Clinton is being targeted by conservative and Republican-allied activists intent on derailing her campaign.
On Monday, lawyers for the vice president's former chief of staff will start presenting their defense. But they will have to make some quick decisions. One of their potential star witnesses-Dick Cheney-is due to leave the country for a 10-day trip to Asia on Feb. 19. So conveniently or not, the vice president's loyalty to his former top aide may









