CHENEY SOUGHT RICE'S ROLE AT NAT'L SECURITY COUNCIL

[kpete]

Cheney sought Rice's role at National Security Council, Vanity Fair to report

Ron Brynaert
Published: Tuesday May 2, 2006

Bush apparently gave Cheney power to preside over National Security Council meetings

Shortly after taking office, Vice President Dick Cheney fought to take over one of the national security adviser's key duties, claims an unnamed ex-official in the June issue of Vanity Fair.

"At one point early in this Bush administration, a former official tells me, Cheney wanted to chair meetings of the National Security Council "principals"— the secretaries of state and defense, the C.I.A. director, and so on—in Bush’s absence, co-opting the usual role of the national security adviser, then Condoleezza Rice," writes Vanity Fair national editor Todd Purdum in an advance copy provided by the magazine to RAW STORY.

"He lost," Purdum adds within parenthesis.

Although Cheney's alleged desire to chair principals meetings has been reported before, the results of a RAW STORY investigation suggest that the Vice President may have gotten what he wanted.

more at:
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Exofficial_Cheney_sought_National_Security_Advisers_0502.html

[Richard Steele]

1. More proof that Cheney is the one really running things. nm

[Roland99]

2. And no comments from Richard Clarke all along about this?

At least not about Cheney trying to assume control of the meetings.


I don't see how there can be any doubt that this admin (esp. Cheney and the PNAC) wanted to go to war.

[DELUSIONAL]

3. In the aftermath of the planes hitting the Towers in NYC

reading Richard Clark's book -- Condi went with Cheney to another location. She didn't appear to be in control -- from reading Clark's account of what happened that day -- Cheney was in charge. Also Lynn Cheney was in the same location with her husband and Condi -- and it was she who kept hanging up the phone which was the direct line to the situation room where Clark was.

I don't have his book with me -- but I remember reading this section several times and thinking that Condi was NOT in control -- Cheney was.