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| Dick
Cheney |
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| Who
is Really in Charge? |
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| Funny
Photo of Cheney & Bush |
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| A
recent Time Magazine profile of Vice President Dick Cheney |
| Cheney
was born in Casper in January 1941, so his brain crystallized
into its current form just before the 1960s introduced the idea
of fun into American life. Cheney's picture appears next to
the definition of "dour" in the dictionary. |
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| Suit
Challenges Cheney's Wyoming Residency |
| A
Florida lawyer filed suit Monday to block the election of Dick
Cheney as the next vice president, challenging Cheney's claim
to be a resident of Jackson Hole. |
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| Is
Dick Cheney a Texan? |
| Is
Dick Cheney a Texan? While lawsuits fly in Florida over the
recount, another federal lawsuit is approaching the election
from a different angle. Lawrence A. Caplan of Boca Raton, Florida
charges that Republican Vice Presidential Candidate Dick Cheney
is a resident of Texas and therefore the state's 32 electoral
votes cannot go for Bush-Cheney. |
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| Texans
challenge Cheney's residency status |
| Three
Texas voters have sued to block Gov. George W. Bush from possibly
becoming president by challenging running mate Dick Cheney's
Wyoming residency status. The lawsuit was filed hours after
a similar lawsuit was dismissed in Florida. The suit filed Monday
claims Cheney is a resident of Texas and that he and Bush, therefore,
shouldn't be awarded the state's 32 electoral votes. The lawsuit
cites the 12th Amendment, which prohibits the president and
vice president from living in the same state. |
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| Court:
Cheney not a Texan-Judges clear way for Texas electors to select
GOP nominee |
| In
a strongly worded ruling, a federal appeals court said Thursday
that Dick Cheney is a Wyoming resident and would be qualified
to serve as George W. Bush's vice president. |
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| Cheney's
Secrets |
| TVnewslies.org
has many links relating to the misdeeds of Cheney
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| Dick
Cheney, American Warmonger |
| In
which the pallid, angry veep fervently urges bombing the hell
out of Iraq, because he just can't help it |
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| Cheney's
misspeaking streak |
| In
2000, Cheney was the stealth vice presidential candidate whose
image obliterated his radical associations with the far right
and oil. Three years later, the stealth grandfather is the hired
gun. His harm to America's integrity is now incalculable. |
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| John
Nichols: Too bad president needs a minder |
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White House demanded that there be no recording or formal transcription
of today's joint interview of President George W. Bush and Vice
President Dick Cheney by the 9/11 commission. |
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| Cheney's
mask is slipping |
| Already
tarnished by questions surrounding the huge no-bid reconstruction
contracts won by his former company, Halliburton, in which he
retains a financial interest, as well as his refusal to disclose
to Congress what meetings he held during his formulation of
Bush's energy policy, Cheney is increasingly seen as a serious
rightwing extremist and ideologue, and by far the most powerful
number two in US history. |
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| Cheney
Energy Commission |
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| Dick
Cheney, 1998-"I cannot think of a time when we have
had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant
as the Caspian." |
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| CHENEY
ENERGY TASK FORCE DOCUMENTS FEATURE MAP OF IRAQI OILFIELDS |
| The
documents, which are dated March 2001, concerning the activities
of the Cheney Energy Task Force, contain a map of Iraqi oilfields,
pipelines, refineries and terminals, as well as 2 charts detailing
Iraqi oil and gas projects, and “Foreign Suitors for Iraqi
Oilfield Contracts.” |
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MAPS
AND CHARTS OF IRAQI OILFIELDS:
CHENEY ENERGY TASK FORCE |
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| Memo
details Cheney--Enron links |
| While
the White House insists that details of its talks with Enron
officials remain secret, a memo outlining those discussions
reveals the extent to which the Houston energy giant lobbied
to influence government policy. |
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| The
Cheney Energy Task Force: A review and analysis of the proceedings
leading to the Bush administration's formulation of its May
2001 energy policy. |
| In
the spring of 2002, under order from a federal judge, the U.S.
Department of Energy released to NRDC roughly 13,500 pages relating
to previously secret proceedings of the Bush administration's
energy task force. (President Bush formed the task force in
early 2001 to develop a national energy policy, with Vice President
Cheney at the helm.) Even though the government heavily censored
the documents before supplying them to NRDC, they reveal that
Bush administration officials sought extensive advice from utility
companies and the oil, gas, coal and nuclear energy industries,
and incorporated their recommendations, often word for word,
into the energy plan. |
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| Data
Shows Industry had Extensive Access to Cheney's Energy Task
Force |
| A
close examination of more than 12,000 pages of documents provided
by the Energy Department confirms that energy industry lobbyists
enjoyed extraordinary access to Vice President Cheney's energy
task force. Industry representatives had 714 direct contacts
while non-industry representatives had only 29. Some of them
also are major donors to President Bush and Republican congressional
candidates. For example: |
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| White
House forms energy task force, but offers California scant hope
of aid January
29, 2001 |
| As
a key California utility warned it was running out of natural
gas, President Bush unleashed a new Cabinet-level task force
with the mandate to take swift, bold action to head off possible
energy problems facing the nation. The panel will be led by
Vice President Dick Cheney. |
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| Scalia
Shows His Cards |
In
a last ditch effort to keep the American people in the dark,
Solicitor General Theodore Olson argued before the Supreme Court
that the activities of Vice President Cheney's 2001 energy task
force should remain completely secret.
Particularly receptive to Cheney's arguments: long-time friend
and duck hunting partner Justice Antonin Scalia. |
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| Scalia
no stranger to Cheney's corner |
| Ironically,
in the course of trying to refute that justification for disqualification
in the energy case, Scalia has unintentionally made the far
more important point that he should have disqualified himself
in 2000 from Bush v. Gore, which made his old friend Dick Cheney
the vice president of the United States. |
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| Scalia
scoffs at notion that he's biased toward Cheney |
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Scalia
recently rejected
a request by the Sierra Club, one of the groups suing Cheney,
to recuse himself because of a duck-hunting trip he took with
Cheney to Louisiana in January -- three weeks after the high
court agreed to hear the Cheney case.
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| Cheney-Haliburton |
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| Funny
Cheney Photo |
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What
we know
“LARGE
contracts have been awarded by the Pentagon without the benefit
of a competitive, transparent process.”The firm in question,
of course, is Halliburton. |
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| Cheney's
Halliburton Will Run Iraq's Oilfields |
| Prior
descriptions said Vice President Dick Cheney's former company
would fight oil fires. The contract also lets the company operate
the oil fields for a time and distribute the petroleum. |
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| Cheney
Office 'Coordinated' Halliburton Deal -Time |
| A
Pentagon e-mail said Vice President Dick Cheney's office "coordinated"
a multibillion-dollar Iraq reconstruction contract awarded to
his former employer Halliburton, Time magazine reported on Sunday. |
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| Email
shows Cheney 'link' to oil contract |
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US vice-president, Dick Cheney, helped to steer through a huge
contract for the reconstruction of Iraq's oil industry on behalf
of his old firm, Halliburton, Time magazine reported yesterday. |
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What
did the Vice-President do for Halliburton?
For
months, Cheney and Halliburton have insisted that he had no
part in the government’s decision about the Iraq contracts.
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| HalliburtonWatch:
Pentagon Broke Contract Laws To Help Halliburton |
| Contracting
experts say it is highly unusual for political appointees to
be involved in the contracting process since contracts are normally
awarded by career civil servants with expertise in government
contracting. Involvement by Cheney's chief of staff in the contracting
process contradicts Cheney's assertion that he had no role in
awarding contracts to his former company. |
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| Shedding
light on Halliburton |
| Halliburton's
contracts have expanded in scope and increased in price, often
without much public accounting for tens of millions of dollars
in taxpayer funds. Pentagon auditors said in December that a
Halliburton subsidiary may have overcharged the government $61-million
to import fuel. |
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