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...briefings, Cheney deadpanned, "He looks like he's having fun." Cheney knew what to do, being acquainted, as anyone in his position would be, with that most familiar and degrading of political rituals, the act of public penitence. Once that was accomplished, through the ministry of Fox News' Brit Hume, "the President was satisfied," said someone who was involved in the discussions. "I wouldn't have said that last weekend or Monday." A friend of the Vice President's reports that Cheney "believes that he handled this in an appropriate way. But he recognizes that the rest of the world...
...authority and obviously focuses first and foremost on the President but also includes the Vice President." In fact, a 2003 update of a 1995 Executive Order gives the Vice President additional authority over classification of documents, but there is debate about whether the authority also applies to declassification. When Hume asked Cheney what he knew about Libby's assertion, the Vice President said, "It's nothing I can talk about," since he could be called as a witness in the investigation...
...news photographers catching surveillance-style shots of the Vice President hustling into the side door of the West Wing. Finally, under pressure from Bush aides and much of Washington's Republican establishment, Cheney decided to sit down Wednesday afternoon with an interviewer whom the VP appears to trust, Brit Hume of Fox News...
...Cheney told Hume in the Vice President's Ceremonial Office, next to the White House in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, that he "had a beer at lunch" during a barbecue under an ancient oak tree on the ranch. "After lunch we take a break, go back to ranch headquarters," he said. "Then we took about an hour-long tour of ranch, with a ranch hand driving the vehicle, looking at game. We didn't go back into the field to hunt quail until about, oh, sometime after 3:00 p.m. The five of us who were in that party...
...Even some of Cheney's friends have expressed dismay about his reticence to apologize, and he took responsibility in the interview. "Ultimately, I'm the guy who pulled the trigger that fired the round that hit Harry," he told Hume. "And you can talk about all of the other conditions that existed at the time, but that's the bottom line. And there's no ?- it was not Harry's fault. You can't blame anybody else. I'm the guy who pulled the trigger and shot my friend. And I say that is something I'll never forget...