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...senior counselor, Cheney doesn't have a slew of political advisers weighing the impact of each development on his future. "He speaks with the authority of the President," says Matalin, "because everyone understands the Vice President has no personal agenda." According to Libby and Matalin, that means their boss will spend far less time than past Vice Presidents tending the gardens of politics--schmoozing and fund raising and campaigning for fellow party members--leaving him more time to work on the issues. And he is free to embrace politically perilous issues like the California energy crunch, something a future presidential...
...services at an African-American church--his Vice President was in the background, less visible but no less crucial to the workings of the new Administration. As a close look at his emerging schedule shows, "Big Time" Cheney's influence is vast, his portfolio unprecedented--just the way his boss wants...
...shipments. Chay, a broker in his early 30s, seems nervous when we meet just after dawn in the urine-redolent upper room of a bar 15 minutes outside Bangkok. A heavily built Thai, Chay fidgets a lot, looking down at his hands. His discomfort may be caused by his boss who is sitting at another table, an obese, balding man in his 50s who scowls behind thick, gold-rimmed glasses and cigar smoke...
...found a tape recorder in my back pocket. One pulled out a gun and pointed it at my head. I said I just wanted a record of what was said, that I had no idea they would object. After half an hour the men calm down but the boss still isn't happy. Slowly, Chay starts to talk, glancing at his boss regularly. "The network is huge," Chay says. The weapons he buys are stored in warehouses on the Thai-Cambodian border, then moved by truck to Burma or other destinations. "Usually my trucks don't even get stopped...
...this point, Chay's boss takes over. He is in touch with many overseas syndicates, he says: "I have never met the end buyers but from my syndicate contacts, I know that it goes to Acehnese rebel groups, Burmese minority groups like the Karen, Abu Sayyaf in the Philippines and the rebel groups in Indonesia." Since he is playing such a dangerous game, doesn't he worry about getting caught? "The Thai army openly sells weapons," he says. "They are the biggest source of protection for the people involved in this business. What more do we want...