Gellman on Democracy Now! about Cheney Vice Presidency

[Muttocracy]

Caught a little of this on the way to work earlier today - fascinatingly scary stuff.

http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/19/book_cheneys_drive_for_warrantless_spying

Book: Cheney’s Drive for Warrantless Spying Nearly Brought Down Bush Presidency

We speak to award-winning journalist Barton Gellman about his new book, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency. Gellman reveals Cheney played a crucial role in maintaining warrantless spying even after Justice Department officials began to doubt its legality in 2004. Gellman writes: “The history of the Bush administration cannot be written without close attention to the moments when Cheney took the helm—sometimes at Bush’s direction, sometimes with his tacit consent, and sometimes without the president’s apparent awareness.”

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[Douglas Carpenter]

1. scary stuff indeed - kick and recommended

[MadrasT]

2. I just got this book yesterday

and BOY IS IT PISSING ME OFF!!!! :grr:

[Muttocracy]

4. listening to the audio now - they're talking about how Cheney wasn't vetted...incredible. nt

[ensho]

3. he was on Wash. Journal this a.m. too

Gellman seems to be a snake cheney propagandist.

at one point he said he admired the snake, yet he reports the secret, manipulative, obsessive way the snake works.

personally I think the snake is insane. seriously, insane.

curious to see what the psych people will say after reading the book.