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When I saw the cover image of Vice President Dick Cheney [March 19], I thought I would be reading an informative and factual piece, in spite of the cute cloud you put over his head. Instead, I pored over an opinion piece with a number of unattributed quotes, more condemnation of the President and the Iraq war and a diatribe against I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby...
...Despite his strong views of executive power, the current President Bush has rarely invoked executive privilege, says Rozell, at least not under that label. For example, the Administration claimed executive privilege in substance while blocking disclosure of what was discussed during meetings of Vice President Dick Cheney's taskforce on energy. The Supreme Court upheld the Administration's claim in 2004, with Justice Anthony Kennedy warning that executive privilege can set "coequal branches of the government... on a collision course...
...getting the Shi'ite-dominated Iraqi government to display the same evenhandedness has been a challenge. In the West Wing on Monday, President Bush and Vice President Cheney spoke with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki via video conference. Gesturing from a large flat panel screen in the cramped Situation Room, al-Maliki assured Bush and Cheney he was committed to implementing the most recent security plan for Iraq in an "evenhanded manner," according to the White House. That was exactly what Bush and Cheney wanted to hear...
...another embarrassment revealed in the e-mails, Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney from Chicago then investigating Cheney aide Scooter Libby in the CIA leak case, had his name turn up on a Justice Department chart including him among prosecutors who had "not distinguished themselves." DoJ's rating of Fitzgerald, who later obtained a jury conviction of Libby on four felony counts, was sent to the White House in March 2005 ranking him behind "strong U.S. attorneys... who exhibited loyalty" to the administration, but ahead of "weak U.S. attorneys who... chafed against administration initiatives...
...light into the crevices of an Administration and its very unconservative approach to Executive power, the final years of Bush's presidency are likely to be punctuated by one controversy after another. The past weeks alone have produced a parade of revelations: leftover questions about Vice President Dick Cheney's role in the I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby case; the betrayal by neglect of the war wounded at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and veterans hospitals across the country; the connected dots showing that the White House and the Justice Department exploited the post-9/11 USA Patriot...