Democracy Now: Barton Gellman, author of Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency.

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Barton Gellman, author of Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency. He is a special projects reporter at the Washington Post. His Cheney series, with partner Jo Becker, won a 2008 Pulitzer Prize, a George Polk Award and the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting.


AMY GOODMAN: With less than two months to go before the election, the media’s attention has been on the recently confirmed vice-presidential nominees Sarah Palin and Joe Biden. But after nearly eight years in office, how much do we know about our current vice president?

According to Gellman, there’s quite a bit we’ve all been kept in the dark about, right from the decision to select Cheney as Bush’s running mate to winning congressional approval for war on Iraq and the administration’s illegal wiretapping program.

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.” Cheney’s “indifference to public opinion,” Gellman writes, “verged on contempt.” ...http://www.democracynow.org/2008/9/19/book_cheneys_drive_for_warrantless_spying

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1. I've heard a couple of radio interviews with this clown

and this is just the same old "big bad Cheney made poor little George do all those awful things" defense we've been hearing for years. Condi cried, Rumsfeld was arrogant, they were all a bunch of lovably loyal chumps who got blindsided by al Qaeda, yawn. Sorry, that dog won't hunt.

Gellman by the way is a former Jerusalem bureau chief and Pentagon correspondent, now a "special projects reporter," read CIA operative.

Barton Gellman is a special projects reporter on the national staff of The Washington Post, following tours as diplomatic correspondent, Jerusalem bureau chief, Pentagon correspondent

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2006/06/08/LI2006060801222.html

God I'm sick of being propagandized. :puke: