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Cheney harshly criticized CIA in Plame leak probe

Reuters US Online Report Domestic News 21 days ago

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dick Cheney, then U.S. vice president, had harsh words for the CIA sending a spy's husband to Africa to see if Iraq was seeking nuclear material, according to an interview with the FBI released on Friday. Cheney was interviewed ...

Cheney to campaign for Hutchison in Texas

AP News 23 days ago

Cheney to endorse US Sen. Hutchison's run for Texas governor; will appear at Nov. fundraiser Former Vice President Dick Cheney will throw his support behind U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison's campaign for Texas governor. Hutchison's campaign confirmed Wednesday that Cheney will endorse ...

Kerry slams Bush's Afghan war legacy

AFP American Edition 25 days ago

US Senator John Kerry on Monday accused former president George W. Bush's administration of "gross mishandling" of the Afghan war, and of leaving a terrible inheritance to President Barack Obama. "On day one, this administration assumed responsibility for a war heading from ...

Lawmakers split on timing of Afghan decision

AP News 26 days ago

Lawmakers in partisan divide over timing of Obama's Afghan decision Top lawmakers sparred Sunday over the timing of President Barack Obama's decision on how to move ahead in Afghanistan, with Republicans urging a quick move to boost troop levels and Democrats counseling ...

'Who cares' what Cheney says: Biden

AFP American Edition 28 days ago

US Vice President Joe Biden rebuked his predecessor Dick Cheney over Afghanistan on Friday, and said a war review the previous administration passed onto President Barack Obama was "irrelevant." "Who cares?" Biden said, when asked to comment on Cheney's claims that Obama ...

White House slams Cheney on Afghan 'dithering' claim

AFP American Edition 29 days ago

The White House slammed Dick Cheney Thursday, accusing him of years of neglect of Afghanistan, after the ex-vice president said President Barack Obama was "dithering" on troop decisions. The latest fierce feud over national security between the past and current administrations flared ...

Pelosi: Obama should take time to make Afghan troop call

AFP American Edition 29 days ago

Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday rejected as "not very dignified" former vice president Dick Cheney's charge that the White House was dangerously "dithering" on Afghanistan. Cheney charged in a widely reported speech late Wednesday that President Barack Obama was endangering ...

Cheney: Stop the 'dithering' as troops face danger

AP News 29 days ago

Former Vice President Dick Cheney says Obama must do 'what it takes to win' in Afghanistan Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday night accused the White House of dithering over the strategy for the war in Afghanistan and urged President Barack ...

Cheney

AP News 30 days ago

Former Vice President Dick Cheney, and his wife Lynne arrive at the Center For Security Policy dinner at Union Station in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009. (AP Photo/Harry Hamburg) Copyright 2009 AP News

Judge orders Cheney statements released in Plame case

AFP Global Edition 50 days ago

A federal judge ordered the US Justice Department to release significant portions of statements former vice president Dick Cheney made to the FBI about the Valerie Plame case. The judge dismissed objections brought by the previous George W. Bush administration to the ...

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