Globe and Mail: Fox on the run (Dick Cheney: The hunter becomes the hunted?)

[marmar]

Fox on the run
The former U.S. vice-president has come out of his bunker to defend his legacy. This week there was a hint why, when the new U.S. intelligence chief revealed Dick Cheney's involvement in covert, possibly illegal operations. Has he been making pre-emptive strikes against prosecution, lest the hunter become the hunted?


by John Allemang

From Saturday's Globe and Mail
Last updated on Saturday, Jul. 18, 2009 03:36AM EDT


In power, Dick Cheney didn't worry about what other people said.

George W. Bush's omnipotent vice-president was a man entirely without doubts, a happy misanthrope who thrived on being opposed. “If a principle is worth having, it's worth fighting for,” he once said, as if admitting being wrong were the greatest sin.

“I think he understands that the vilification of the moment is not the final word,” historian Victor Davis Hanson observed.

But what happens when the vilification lingers on, and threatens to make Mr. Cheney pay the price for his self-aggrandizing vice-presidency? The attacks are suddenly coming thick and fast, with a fervour that jeopardizes not just his legacy but also the agenda of his White House successor (in power, if not official title), Barack Obama.

This week, Mr. Cheney and his associates were implicated publicly in setting up a covert Central Intelligence Agency hit-squad program while facing renewed criticism for their role in implementing torture techniques at Guantanamo Bay and devising a dubious domestic eavesdropping program. ..............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/fox-on-the-run/article1223065/

[Berry Cool]

1. Excellent article, thanks

but warning to those who read: it will make you angry.

[marmar]

2. Agreed.....Makes you mad all over again.

nt

[sutz12]

3. I remember on pundit had a comment...

He said that Cheney is trying to pollute the jury pool.

Apt comment.

[City Lights]

4. The Dick of Death in a nutshell:

Isolation among the like-minded has always suited him – he instinctively avoided the flesh-pressing side of political life; he turned down the Hurricane Katrina emergency-response job because, according to a Bush aide, he “doesn't do touchy-feely;” had his official vice-presidential residence blurred on Google maps; regarded the non-executive branches of the U.S. government as an irritant to his management style (once telling Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, “Go fuck yourself,” on the Senate floor); and was so consumed by his bunker mentality that he actually enjoyed hunkering down in undisclosed locations during his government's terror alerts.

Thanks for posting...recommended.

[lunatica]

5. Very good article

it elegantly paints Dick as a dick no less

[meow2u3]

6. FOX on the run (Dick Cheney version)

FOX on the run
Dick Cheney's lost his loaded gun
It seems as if his life is done
Because the FOX is on the run



Everybody sing now!!!

[Wednesdays]

7. K&R

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