video: ANGLER: THE CHENEY VICE PRESIDENCY September 16, 2008 MSNBC Keith olbermann http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiMDDfBd2y4
video:
BART GELLMAN AUTHOR OF *ANGLER: THE CHENEY VICE PRESIDENCY* ('Morning Joe'
show)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyhKK3Q4jLo
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/cheney/
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September 17, 2008
Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
A Harpers interview with Bart Gellman, author of Angler: The Cheney Vice
Presidency, is fascinating -- especially when he discusses the vetting process
Dick Cheney used as manager of George W. Bush's vice-presidential selection
process.
"A candidate for the presidential ticket expects to be put under a microscope.
Even so, the process that Dick Cheney designed was strikingly intrusive. For
one thing, he did not rely on trust. He asked people like Bill Frist, Tom
Ridge, and John Kasich to give him direct access to their FBI files
(ironically, by way of the Freedom of Information Act, which Cheney has never
liked) and to sign waivers of privacy for all health records without exception.
He asked the contenders whether there was something that would make them
vulnerable to blackmail -- and if so, what? (I imagine a sensible person would
bow out rather than answer 'yes' to that one.) All this has a certain logic:
You don't want a blackmailable commander-in-chief (or understudy), and
campaigns don't want unpleasant surprises."
"The news in my book about this process is that Cheney never filled out his own
questionnaire; that the heart surgeon who vouched for his health never met him
or looked at his records; and that Bush and Cheney never interviewed anyone for
the job until Cheney already had it nailed."
The book looks like a must-read to understand how Cheney wielded power in the
White House.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/09/17/angler_the_cheney_vice_presidency.html
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September 17, 2008
Six Questions for Bart Gellman, Author of Angler
By Scott Horton
Last June, Bart Gellman's four-part series in the Washington Post gave us an
extraordinary portrait of Dick Cheney, the most powerful vice president in
America's history. The series, called "Angler"-after the Secret Service's
codename for Cheney-was co-authored with Jo Becker and received this year's
National Reporting Pulitzer Prize (Gellman's second Pulitzer). Now Gellman has
furnished the definitive portrait of the Cheney vice presidency in a book
released today, also called Angler. It's full of new disclosures about Cheney's
extraordinary skills as a power broker and his peculiar but highly influential
views about a government in which a balance of powers is replaced with a
clearly ascendant executive branch. I put six questions to Bart Gellman about
his new book:
http://harpers.org/archive/2008/09/hbc-90003554
http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&q=angler+cheney&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=X&oi=news_result&resnum=5&ct=title
video:
C-span Washington Journal: "What should be the role of the vice president?"
06/24/2007
http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&products_id=198324-1
video:
*ANGLER: THE CHENEY VICE PRESIDENCY* WASHINGTON POST part1 | C-span WJ
(minus caller's comments)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaCD5o9v-NM
video:
Cheney '94: Invading Baghdad Would Create Quagmire C-SPAN
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I
more videos:
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ANGLER%3A+THE+CHENEY+VICE+PRESIDENCY&search_type=&aq=-1&oq=
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