Word: veep
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Libby was such a good storyteller that some in Cheney's circle believed he had even managed to fool Cheney about his qualifications to be the Veep's chief of staff. Cheney raised a lot of eyebrows in 2001 when he named Libby to be both his national security adviser--a spot for which Libby was certainly qualified--and his top domestic political adviser--a job for which he possibly was not. It was an astonishing, and some people said, unprecedented amount of power for a single staff member. Libby also managed to grab the high-ranking title of assistant...
...anyone who has been trying to follow the bewildering saga of Scooter Libby, Karl Rove, Joseph Wilson and his wife CIA officer Valerie Plame, Fitzgerald's indictment is a helpful road map. After months of confusion, the indictment provides the most concrete evidence yet of a war between the Veep's office and the CIA--a war about a war--and the lengths Libby and his colleagues were willing to go to squelch any criticism of the Administration's prewar behavior. Libby was a Vulcan,* one of the Bush team hard-liners, along with former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz...
...first newshound to sniff out Veep Dick Cheney's stealth efforts to exempt the CIA from Senator John McCain's bill banning inhumane treatment of U.S. detainees? BALKINIZATION'S Marty Lederman, a law professor who back in January started parsing Justice Department memos that seemed geared to "identify the legal limits, if any, that apply to interrogation techniques used by the CIA." When Cheney finally asked McCain last week to support such an exemption, other blogs were prompted to weigh in. "We are not fighting a normal enemy," posted THE HOUSTON CONSERVATIVE. "McCain needs to shut up and go home...
...free world in The American President; and Richard Dreyfuss, a Latin American dictator in Moon over Parador. The trio may now join fellow actor and member Ron Silver at the group's speaking events and book-club meetings. As a thank-you, we suggest they help the Veep get a role in a nice date movie...
...Recent Veep contender John Edwards has been on the phone to thank supporters and say he will be back, but "he didn't impress anyone" with his work on the trail last year, a moneyman says, and may be a tough sell. And then there's Hillary Clinton, who remains publicly focused on getting re-elected to the Senate in 2006. Many insiders take it as a given that she will be in the '08 lineup and will be the name-recognition champ to beat. Yet, says a top Democratic fund raiser in New York, "there's a real unease...