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...President Bush had his physical a couple days ago, and doctors say that President Bush is likely our most fit President in the history of the United States. That means if anything happens to Cheney, he can jump in and take over." --DAVID LETTERMAN...
...period marked by the White House's use of faulty intelligence to hype the threat posed by Iraq's weapons program and the failure to plan for a postwar insurgency. In the run-up to the war, she was often overwhelmed by the combined duo of Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, who ignored her attempts at control. In his recently published history of the National Security Council (NSC), David Rothkopf, a former Clinton Administration official, writes that Secretary of State Colin Powell and his deputy Richard Armitage believed that under Rice's NSC, "the President...
...joined as a federal judge came down earlier this month, when the court said that prisoners held in Guantánamo Bay are not protected by the Geneva Convention and can be tried by military commissions. Roberts dissented in 2003 when his own court refused to rehear Vice President Dick Cheney's appeal to keep secret records from the meetings of his energy task force. Cheney had argued that handing over such documents would violate executive privilege...
...February: The CIA, in response to concerns raised by Vice President Cheney's office, looks into British reports that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Africa. CIA officials dispatch ex-diplomat Joseph Wilson to Niger to investigate. Politics and the CIA (10/21/2002...
...October 28: A federal grand jury indicts Libby on obstruction and perjury charges. Libby resigns as Cheney's chief of staff