Stories tagged with Dick Cheney
Mel Sembler financing Liz Cheney’s new group
By Laurie Bennett | October 24, 2009 at 12:14pm | 3
Wealthy Republican fundraiser Mel Sembler has a new cause.
Center for Security Policy gives Cheney an award and a platform
By Laurie Bennett | October 23, 2009 at 12:01pm | 0
When Dick Cheney took the podium Wednesday to criticize the Obama administration and its Afghanistan strategy, he knew his audience.
The short hop between the Fortune 500 and Washington
By Laurie Bennett | September 7, 2009 at 8:45am | 0
The path between American business and Capitol Hill is usually marked by political contributions and lobbying expenses.
Prosecutor John Durham is no water-carrier for Obama
By Carol Eisenberg | September 2, 2009 at 8:28am | 1
John H. Durham, appointed last week to investigate allegations of CIA abuse of detainees, is no one’s shill.
Dick Cheney joins tightknit group of political memoirists
By Laurie Bennett | June 24, 2009 at 8:54am | 0
Dick Cheney has signed a book deal with Threshold Editions, the Simon & Schuster imprint edited by his close friend Mary Matalin.
Bush defies expectations on Libby, Milken pardons
By Carol Eisenberg | January 21, 2009 at 1:56pm | 0
When George W. Bush boarded the former Air Force One to fly home to Texas yesterday, he left behind a lot of disappointed felons, not to mention their lawyers.
Steve Schmidt, aka ‘the Bullet,’ orchestrates attacks on Obama
By Carol Eisenberg | August 26, 2008 at 9:55am | 0
In the two months since the man nicknamed “the bullet” took charge, John McCain’s campaign has grown harder-edged and more combative, relentlessly attacking Barack Obama’s perceived assets, including his promise to be a change agent.
Judge rules that White House staffers can be subpoenaed
By A. James Memmott | July 31, 2008 at 5:15pm | 0
A setback for the Bush administration came from a Bush appointee and former Kenneth Starr associate today.
Muckety this! Dick Cheney to The Fonz and to ‘Friends’
By John Decker | July 10, 2008 at 7:35am | 0
How is Vice President Dick Cheney connected to both the TV show Friends and Arthur “Fonzie” Fonzerelli, a character in the TV show Happy Days?
Cheney no longer worries about loose lips sinking ships
By Emily Morgan | June 3, 2008 at 3:42pm | 0
Vice President Dick Cheney has been flaunting his position as a lame duck. With just a few months left in office, he isn’t worried about whom he offends.
Times concedes error with Moveon.org ad
By Robert Salladay | September 24, 2007 at 7:48am | 0
The New York Times is backing down - somewhat - on a controversial ad placed by the liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org that infuriated conservatives.
Under the headline “General Petraeus or General Betray Us?” the full-page ad contended that the American commander in Iraq was “constantly at war with the facts” in giving upbeat assessments of progress and refusing to acknowledge that Iraq is “mired in an unwinnable religious civil war … Today, before Congress and before the American people, General Petraeus is likely to become General Betray Us.”
