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...Vice President Dick Cheney has reportedly voiced strong reservations about closing Guantanamo, arguing that detainees should not be brought into the U.S. legal system where they might enjoy rights they do not deserve...
...discussion of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo from the agenda of a scheduled White House meeting on Friday appears to be another example of the growing conflict inside the Bush Administration over whether to close the controversial facility. Neo-conservative hard-liners, clustered around Vice President Dick Cheney, would like to keep the camp open, while more pragmatic officials, such as Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Secretary of State Condeleezza Rice, have indicated they would like to see the prison camp shuttered...
...time passed, and Dellums became a respected--if left-leaning--voice on the committee. Dick Cheney, who as Defense Secretary worked with Dellums, called him a "straight shooter" who was worthy of trust. The same issues popped up when Dellums later won a seat on the Intelligence Committee. That time it was right-wing warrior Newt Gingrich, who was in Congress at the same time, pointing out that Dellums had been handling secrets for years on the Armed Services Committee...
Reyes seems to be following the Dellums trajectory. "Chairman Reyes is a straight shooter and a good man," a senior intelligence official told me, using nearly the same language to defend Reyes that Cheney had used years earlier to defend Dellums. Reyes has succeeded in pressing the Bush Administration to work through the courts to get permission to eavesdrop on e-mails and phone calls between Americans and people overseas. He also got the Administration to turn over records of the National Security Agency's eavesdropping plan. He has traveled to Iraq and Africa to look into the terrorism threat...
...were more powerful than their counterpart at State: Robert McNamara over Dean Rusk in the 1960s and Donald Rumsfeld over Colin Powell in George W. Bush's first term. McNamara and Rumsfeld presided over the wars in Vietnam and Iraq. Indeed, the primacy of Rumsfeld and his patron Dick Cheney has created a deep wound. Their constant undermining of the U.S. intelligence community, the putdowns of "old Europe," their impatience with U.N. inspectors, the assumption that might made right-and the hints of racial and religious superiority inherent in these beliefs-all sent a clear message to the rest...