President Barack Obama fought Thursday to retake command of the emotional debate over closing Guantanamo, denouncing "fear-mongering" by political opponents and insisting that maximum-security prisons in the U.S. can safely house dangerous terror suspects transferred from Cuba. In a unique bit of Washington theater, former Vice President Dick Cheney delivered his own address just one minute later, defending the Bush administration's creation of the prison camp as vigorously as Obama denounced it. Complete Story...
The top White House spokesman says President Barack Obama doesn't have any particular problem with former Vice President Dick Cheney speaking out on counterterrorism policy or any other issues.
Text of former Vice President Dick Cheney's speech Thursday on national security at the American Enterprise Institute think tank in Washington, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Thursday the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks changed how he viewed his job, but didn't change him. Alluding to Washington whispers that he had turned from pragmatist to ideologue, Cheney insisted he is the same person, but acknowledged the harrowing day's events had a lasting impact.
Some reactions to President Barack Obama's speech Thursday on detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay and national security, as well as former-Vice President Dick Cheney's response.
In soaring rhetoric, Barack Obama ran through his logic for closing the Guantanamo Bay prison, deliberately planting himself on the middle ground between his conservative critics — led by Dick Cheney — and those to the left who accuse the new president of failing to restore American justice for all.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday defended the interrogation methods used against suspected terrorists and said the Bush administration obtained specific information critical to combatting would-be attackers.
The CIA says it has denied a request by former Vice President Dick Cheney to declassify secret internal government memos that detail whether valuable intelligence was gained from the use of harsh interrogation techniques under the Bush administration.
Dick Cheney and Rush Limbaugh contend the Republican Party needs less moderation and more conservative backbone to win back voters who have been abandoning it in droves.
To the chagrin, perhaps, of Republicans looking to rebuild the tattered party, Dick Cheney has grabbed the spotlight.
Dick Cheney made clear Sunday he'd rather follow firebrand broadcaster Rush Limbaugh than former Joint Chiefs chairman Colin Powell into political battle over the future of the Republican Party.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney says transferring suspected terrorists from Guantanamo Bay to the United States would be a bad idea.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney says he believes the U.S. has become more vulnerable to a potential terrorist attack since the Obama administration took power.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is siding with conservative broadcaster Rush Limbaugh over former Secretary of State Colin Powell over the future of the Republican party.
It was the hottest ticket in town, a black-tie dinner gathering of Washington's political and media elite but Dick Cheney couldn't make it.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney says the U.S. government gained valuable intelligence from its aggressive interrogations of high-value detainees after the September 2001 terrorist attacks.
Former President George W. Bush said on Tuesday that he won't criticize Barack Obama because the new U.S. president "deserves my silence," and said he plans to write a book about the 12 toughest decisions he made in office.
The White House says former Vice President Dick Cheney is the second most popular member of the "Republican cabal," behind only talk-show host Rush Limbaugh.
A debate between President Barack Obama and Rush Limbaugh? If it ever happens, Dick Cheney will be in line for a ticket.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday that Americans are less safe now that President Barack Obama has overturned Bush terrorism-fighting policies and that nearly all the Republican administration's goals in Iraq have been achieved.
Dick Cheney's going high-tech with a BlackBerry and a wireless device for reading books. And he's driving a car these days.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney says his ex-chief of staff, "Scooter" Libby, was left hanging in the wind because George W. Bush didn't pardon him.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney says he believes President Barack Obama's terrorism-fighting policies are making Americans less safe.
Vice President Dick Cheney made repeated pleas to President George W. Bush to pardon I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby in the closing weeks of the administration, say individuals familiar with the effort.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has returned to the state that helped launch his political career more than 40 years ago.
In his address to the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative policy organization in Washington, Cheney said that the techniques the Bush administration approved, including waterboarding — simulated drowning that's considered a form of torture — forced nakedness and sle …
The Republican Party appears to the developing a case of impeachmentitis. While Dick Cheney fired off a salvo calling for Nancy Pelosi to resign, other efforts by Republicans were underway to impeach elective officials.
Dick Cheney is out giving speeches on national television, and gracing every talk show he can find. George W. Bush is cleaning up dog sh*t.
Somewhere among the strategically placed references to September 11, 2001 and his unapologetic defense of torture, Dick Cheney managed to lie about a series of topics and events that are well documented. It is, after all, the electronic age and facts are not difficult to come by.
There's a new Facebook page that just went up yesterday and already has over 54,000 fans. The name of it is "Telling Dick Cheney to Shut the Hell Up".
I love it when the bad guy wins and gives it to "the man." Finally in the Bizarro World that is now Amerika (it's spelled 'left'), the bad guy finally won. Of whom do I speak? I speak of Cheney, a true patriot—publicly exposing Obama, a complete fraud.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney's defense Thursday of the Bush administration's policies for interrogating suspected terrorists contained omissions, exaggerations and misstatements.
President Obama made a strong case yesterday for American values, the rule of law and constitutional principles -- at least as he sees them. Former Vice President Dick Cheney offered a similarly robust defense of the Bush team's focus on national security.
WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney's defense Thursday of the Bush administration's policies for interrogating suspected terrorists contained omissions, exaggerations and misstatements.
WASHINGTON - In back-to-back speeches, President Obama and former vice president Dick Cheney faced off yesterday, both forcefully presenting their sharply different views on how to keep America safe from terrorism, the effectiveness of harsh interrogations, and whether the 240 Gu …
President Obama defended his decision to close the Guantánamo Bay detention centre and publish details of harsh interrogation techniques yesterday, saying that America had veered off course under the Bush Administration.
The most extraordinary thing about yesterday's political duel between President Obama and former vice president Dick Cheney wasn't the passion of their convictions or the clash of their values. It was what they agreed on: That the nation went a little crazy after 9/11.
Immediately following a speech by former Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday, MSNBC assembled it's usual panel of left-wing pundits to tear him down, including political analyst Lawrence O'Donnell, who proclaimed: "Well, he came today to -- obviously to do nothing much oth …
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WASHINGTON — President Obama on Thursday deliverered an impassioned defense of his administration's anti-terrorism policies, reiterating his determination to close the prison at the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba in the face of growing Congressional pressure and warning t …
Hmmm, this is interesting. I'm sure there is a sampling error in this poll.
President Barack Obama will attempt to regain control of a boiling debate over anti-terrorism policy with a major speech on Thursday — an address that comes on the same day that former Vice President Dick Cheney will be weighing in with his own speech on the same theme.
My God, the clairvoyant strikes again! Once more, Maureen Dowd knows just exactly what everyone is thinking (no wonder she just "happened" to reproduce a paragraph from someone else's work verbatim) and as usual, she just knows that smarter, stronger people are manipulating poor, …
Colin Powell issued a sharp rebuke Tuesday night to Rush Limbaugh and Dick Cheney for trying to exclude him from the backbiting Republican Party.
Liz Cheney, Dick Cheney's daughter, has accused Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Colin Powell at the State Department, of creating a "cottage industry" by making up "fantasy stories" about her father.
Dick and Rummy are at Cafe Milano in Georgetown, holding court. The maître d' fawns. Waiters hover. Tourists snap pics on their digital cameras. Cable chatterers stop by to ingratiate themselves. It isn't so much that Dick and Rummy are back. It's that they never left.
The embrace by any society of permanent war is a parasite that devours the heart and soul of a nation. Permanent war extinguishes liberal, democratic movements. It turns culture into nationalist cant. It degrades and corrupts education and the media, and wrecks the economy.
In a telephone conversation with RAW STORY, Pulitzer-winning investigative journalist Seymour Hersh refuted reports that he told an Arab television network former Vice President Dick Cheney ordered the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
"US journalist Seymour Hersh on Monday contradicted news reports being published in South Asia that quote him as saying a "special death squad" made by former US vice president Dick Cheney had killed Benazir Bhutto.