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...perhaps a measure of the force of the assault on the Administration record that, in an exclusive interview with TIME last week, Vice President Dick Cheney came close to acknowledging that his team might have been more attentive to the terrorist threat before 9/11. "There are clearly some things that could have been done to be more effective," he allowed...
...people in at one time, we have the border. We have all the things that can make a terrorist stay." New Hampshire, the No. 9 state recipient of funds per capita, is not easily outdone. "Yes, New York City is more target rich," says Bruce Cheney, director of New Hampshire's bureau of emergency management. "But there's been a lot of added security there. If you're a terrorist, you may say, Why waste your time in New York City when you can make a hell of a mess in Maryland or Delaware or, God forbid, Portsmouth, New Hampshire...
...least this much is clear: Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam Hussein would still be in power today in Iraq." DICK CHENEY, Vice President, attacking presumptive Democratic nominee for President John Kerry's voting record on the war in Iraq...
...reasonable to think that a Supreme Court Justice can be bought so cheap, the nation is in deeper trouble than I had imagined." ANTONIN SCALIA, Supreme Court Justice, in a 21-page memorandum declaring that he would not remove himself from a case before the court regarding Vice President Cheney's energy task force, despite his recent outing with Cheney...
...Others have dealt with the fundamental inaccuracies of Cheney's statements. I'm more concerned about the snide, dismissive, undignified quality of the Vice President's performance. He set the ugly, personal tone for the week, for the coordinated attacks on Clarke's character and motives. (The merits of Clarke's case were confirmed by the paper trail unearthed by the 9/11 commission's staff.) But the public seems to have tired of the Vice President's act. According to a Fox News poll last week, Cheney has an approval rating of 35%-and my guess is that the Administration...