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...Some evidence suggests that the sniper was a Syrian man who worked in the building from which the fatal shot was fired, and who may have had al-Qaeda sympathies. The FBI investigates other leads, but, as with the events after 9/11, Dick Cheney, now President, uses the tenuous al-Qaeda connection to push his own harsh agenda. He calls for a Patriot Act 3, suspending most civil liberties, and for military engagement with Syria. An already grotesque world situation keeps growing tesquer...
STUFF HAPPENS Republicans successfully block Senate Democrats from bringing to a vote a no-confidence resolution on Donald Rumsfeld. We understand. The Administration needs someone who can make Dick Cheney seem popular...
...things that eventually turned them. Patience was rewarded. On the other side was the CIA, bursting with urgency and a taste for "whatever's necessary" improvisation--a view encouraged by White House lawyers and a series of anything-goes legal opinions. Bush, heavily directed by Vice President Dick Cheney, went with the CIA. Top-level captives would go to the agency. No one thought much about the summation of the FBI's pitch--successful prosecution in U.S. courts. That was for later, or never...
...crowd waved signs calling Cheney a "demon" and chanted, "Cheney, Cheney's got to go! Send him to Guantanamo!" Three men dressed in jailhouse stripes and wearing Bush, Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld masks mugged for passerby. A group of self-proclaimed 'Billionaires for Bush and Cheney,' dressed to the nines, serenaded the crowd: "All we are saying is give greed a chance...
...Cheney is not the first political heavyweight to hold forth at the Harvard Club. According to the club's website, Eleanor Roosevelt, Henry Kissinger, William Taft, and John Foster Dulles have all been visitors...