- Barton Gellman & Jo Becker, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency, The Washington Post, 24-27 June 2007.
Series of 4 articles. A must read.
Webchat with Barton Gellman, WashingtonPost.com, 25 June 2007. - Hendrik Hertzberg, The Darksider, The New Yorker, 09 July 2007.
Comments on the Gellman & Becker series. - Jane Mayer, The Hidden Power, The New Yorker, 03 July 2006.
Discusses the roles of Cheney and his assistant David Addington in the Bush White House (they are Bush's puppetmasters). - Joan Didion, Cheney: The Fatal Touch, The New York Review of Books, Volume 53, Number 15, 05 October 2006.
- Jack Beatty, Cheney Lives!, Atlantic Unbound, The Atlantic Online, 21 February 2007.
"Cheney's star may have faded at the White House, but his doctrine of preventive war remains Bush policy. Does this mean Iran is next?" - Juan Cole, Dick Cheney's least favorite TV show? Why the worldview of "Heroes" clashes with the vice president's "1 percent doctrine" on terrorism, Salon.com, 30 May 2007.
- Tim Dickinson, The Secret Campaign of President Bush's Administration To Deny Global Warming, Rolling Stone, 29 June 2007 (web post 20 June 2007).
Comments:
Cheney Bypassed Environmentally ‘Clueless’ Bush To Craft Administration’s Climate Change Agenda, ThinkProgress.org, 23 June 2007. - Bruce Fein, Impeach Cheney: The vice president has run utterly amok and must be stopped, Slate.com, 27 June 2007.
Bob Fertik, Bruce Fein's DEVASTATING Indictment of Dick Cheney, DailyKos.com, 27 June 2007. - Aziz Huq, Cheney and the Constitution, The Nation (web only), 26 June 2007.
- Sean Wilentz, Mr. Cheney’s Minority Report, The New York Times, 09 July 2007.
- Steven Clemons, Guantanamo and Colin Powell, The Guardian, 14 June 2007.
"Powell's commentary matters, and it’s an indicator of the fact that the vast majority of those in the public and those in power are rejecting Cheney and the warped national security impulses he embraced."
I posted a link to the Wilkerson speech discussed in the article here. - Muriel Kane, Old-line Republican warns 'something's in the works' to trigger a police state, The Raw Story, 19 July 2007.
Paul Craig Roberts links:
- Tough Talk on Impeachment, Bill Moyers Journal, 13 July 2007.
- Lou Dubose & Jake Bernstein. Vice: Dick Cheney and the Hijacking of the American Presidency. New York: Random House, October 2006.
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
Some recent articles etc. on Vice President Cheney: