Word: cheneyism
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...want the ‘smoking gun’ to be a mushroom cloud.” A month later, President Bush said, “The evidence indicates that Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program.” As late as mid-March 2003, Vice President Cheney said, “It’s only a matter of time until [Saddam Hussein] acquires nuclear weapons.” But these were lies, and Cheney’s office had known it since early...
...basis of Ambassador Wilson's revelations, they'd be left to take the blame if they didn't. Then again, the media may turn its attention to the role of the Vice President's office: After all, Ambassador Wilson claims his inquiry was initiated by a request from Dick Cheney's office to check out the allegation. So presumably, Wilson's findings will have been reported back there. If so, the former ambassador is not the only one who will want to know what they, and other top officials, made of, and more importantly did with his information...
...public. And that's how Oliver likes it. He's the financial wizard behind the curtain. It's a role Oliver played for Bush in 2000 and one he is reprising this year, having just moved from the Republican Party to be deputy finance chairman for the Bush-Cheney re-election campaign. Being outside the White House, Oliver avoids any taint of seeming to influence policy. And yet he carries the weight of being close to top presidential adviser Karl Rove and of speaking for the President...
...WHAT WAS CHENEY'S ROLE? Lawmakers who once saluted every Bush claim and command are beginning to express doubts. Two congressional panels are opening new rounds of investigations into the Administration's prewar claims about WMD. One of their immediate inquiries, sources tell TIME, involves Vice President Dick Cheney's role in reviewing the intelligence before the bombing started. Cheney made repeated visits to the CIA in the prelude to the war, going over intelligence assessments with the analysts who produced them. Some Democrats say Cheney's visits may have amounted to pressure on the normally cautious agency. Cheney...
...circles knew that there were doubts and suspicions that this might be a forgery." But Knight-Ridder reports that the CIA briefings pooh-poohing the claim had gone all the way to the top, and had been ignored by Vice President Dick Cheney and other advocates of war. The Administration might be in real trouble, of course, if its credibility were being measured by the various statements of the Vice President in the months and weeks preceding the war, most notably his March 16 statement that "We believe [Saddam] has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons." (See The Sydney Morning Herald...