Dick Cheney

Elliott Abrams, Eliot Cohen, Eric Edelman, and John Hannah have an op-ed in the Washington Post that responds to "a curious op-ed this week about the Bush administration’s response to the secret al-Kibar nuclear reactor built by Syria and North Korea," which was written by Bob Woodward. The former Bush administration officials go on to defend Vice President Cheney and call Woodward's account "a revisionist and misleading history."

Bob Woodward’s recent piece in the Washington Post argues that the debacle of the Iraq-WMD case should have made the Bush administration more circumspect about intelligence—and that everyone understood this lesson except the vice president. He offers the Syrian nuclear reactor destroyed by the Israelis in September of 2007 as an example.

On page 251, Dick Cheney admits a mistake. He had shot his friend Harry Whittington in the face, and in the hours that followed, did not put out a statement about the accident. “In retrospect,” he writes, “we should have.”

Politico: "W.H. furious over speech delay'"

Tablet: "U.N. Flotilla Report Confirms Israeli Stance"

Colin Powell says that Dick Cheney is taking "cheap shots" in his forthcoming memoir:

Reading a short AP story on the new Dick Cheney book, I couldn't help but note this line:

A favorite of the right, Cheney is widely regarded as among the most powerful and controversial of vice presidents and his book is the most anticipated vice presidential memoir in recent history.

"JOURNALIST OF THE YEAR"

"Cheney: Justice Probe of CIA Interrogators an 'Outrage'"

At Politico, Carrie Budoff Brown reports Dick Cheney isn't objecting to Obama's decision not to release photos Osama bin Laden's body:

President George W. Bush:

"No Country Leans on Upper-Income Households as Much as U.S."

Does the judge that issued an injunction against the Wisconsin union law have a conflict of interest?

Dick Cheney writes in the OC Register:

I am proud to endorse Meg Whitman to be the next governor of California. Meg has the conservative values, leadership skills and vision to reform state government and usher in an era of strong economic growth and prosperity. There is a lot at stake in this election. What happens in California has a direct bearing on the health of the U.S. economy. America cannot afford to have its largest state teetering on the edge of financial collapse. California needs a proven executive who has the mettle to stand up to the entrenched special interests in Sacramento and cut spending.

The former veep backs Rubio and bashes Crist:

“Charlie Crist has shown time and again that he cannot be trusted in Washington to take on the Obama agenda because on issue after issue he actually supports that agenda.  Lately it seems Charlie Crist cannot be trusted even to remain a Republican. I strongly urge him to either stay in the Republican Primary or drop out of the race. The only winners from an independent bid by Crist would be Barack Obama and Harry Reid.