Dick Cheney: Articles & Commentary: 2007

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The following are articles and commentary for January through June 2007 related to Dick Cheney.

Also see:
 * Articles for July through December 2007
 * Articles for 2000-2006

January

 * Murray Waas, "CIA Leak Probe: Inside the Grand Jury," National Journal, Jan. 12, 2007.
 * Murray Waas, "The Paradox That is Scooter Libby," Huffington Post, January 17, 2007.
 * Allen L. Roland, "Cheney in His 'Last Throes'," OpEdNews.com, January 27, 2007.
 * Faiz Shakir, "Cheney: Bush Has 'Shored Up His [Political] Position…Specifically On Iraq'," Think Progress, January 28, 2007. re Cheney interview: "The Man Without Doubt. In a rare print interview, Dick Cheney talks about Iraq, Iran, Chuck Hagel, his image as 'Darth Vader' and Bob Woodward," Newsweek (MSNBC), February 5, 2007 (issue).
 * Michael Abramowitz, "Cheney Says U.S. Is Sending 'Strong Signal' to Iran," Washington Post, January 29, 2007.
 * Dan Froomkin, "The Unraveling of Dick Cheney," Washington Post, January 29, 2007.
 * Eugene Robinson, Opinion: "Dick Cheney in la-la land," Washington Post Writers Group (The Seattle Times), January 30, 2007.
 * John Prados, "Cheney To The Stand," TomPaine.com, January 30, 2007.
 * Bill Gallagher, "Libby Trial Exposes Cheney's Lies," Niagara Falls Reporter, January 30, 2007.
 * Jason Leopold and Marc Ash, "Cheney's Handwritten Notes Implicate Bush in Plame Affair," truthout, January 31, 2007.
 * Laura Rozen, "Cheney’s Dead-Enders. Rumsfeld is gone, but the veep’s other loyalists remain," Washington Monthly, January/February 2007.

February

 * Jon Stewart, "Daily Show: Was Wolfie Out of Line?" The Daily Show (posted by SilentPatriot at Crooks and Liars), February 2, 2007.
 * Joshua Micah Marshall, On the Cheney vice presidency, Talking Points Memo, February 4, 2007.
 * Roger Morris, "The Undertaker's Tally (Part 1): Sharp Elbows," TomDispatch.com, February 13, 2007. Intro "Tomgram: Roger Morris, Donald Rumsfeld's Long March" by Tom Engelhardt. (Also see Donald Rumsfeld.)
 * Roger Morris, "The Undertaker's Tally (Part 2): The Power and the Glory,", TomDispatch.com, February 15, 2007. Intro "Tomgram: Roger Morris, The Rumsfeld Legacy" by Tom Engelhardt.
 * Murray Waas, "Cheney's Call," National Journal, February 15, 2007.
 * John Amato, "Cheney’s insistence on leak investigations led to the Plame Case/ Carl Cameron sang like a bird," Crooks and Liars, February 15, 2007.
 * Murray Waas, "Libby Testimony Raises More Questions About Cheney's Role," National Journal, February 19, 2007.
 * John Nichols, "Cheney's New Front in War on Reality," The Nation (Common Dreams), February 24, 2007.
 * smintheus, "The White House website is getting scrubbed" (Updated), Daily Kos, February 25, 2007. re web scrubbing
 * John Amato, "What was that Laura? Better ask Cheney," Crooks and Liars, February 27, 2007. (Also see Laura Bush.)
 * H.D.S. Greenway, "Cheney's Fixation," Boston Globe (Common Dreams), February 27, 2007.

March

 * Wil S. Hylton, "THE PEOPLE V. RICHARD CHENEY. Resolved, that Richard B. Cheney, vice president of the United States, should be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors and that these articles of impeachment be submitted to the American people," GQ, March 2007.
 * Sheryl Gay Stolberg, "A judgment on Cheney is still to come," International Herald Tribune, March 7, 2007.
 * Tom Raum, "Analysis: Verdict Puts Focus on Cheney," Associated Press (Guardian Unlimited (UK)), March 7, 2007.
 * "Cheney's Statement on the Libby Verdict," Associated Press (Guardian Unlimited (UK)), March 7, 2007.
 * Sheryl Gay Stolberg, "For Cheney, Political Toll May Follow Libby Verdict," New York Times, March 7, 2007.
 * SilentPatriot, "Cleland to Cheney: 'Where the hell were you in the Vietnam War?'" Crooks and Liars, March 12, 2007. re Max Cleland
 * Nicholas D. Kristof, "Iran's Operative in the White House," Welcome to Pottersville Blogspot, March 20, 2007.

April

 * William M. Leogrande and Jim Lobe, "Wright Redux. The flap over Nancy Pelosi's Syria trip echoes a 20-year-old fight with a previous Democratic House Speaker -- and is being driven by the same right-wing Republican hawks," The American Prospect, April 9, 2007. re Nancy Pelosi, Elliott Abrams, and Newt Gingrich

June

 * Editorial: "Dick Cheney Rules," New York Times, June 3, 2007.
 * Dan Froomkin, "Cheney, By Proxy," Washington Post, June 4, 2007.
 * Bonnie Erbe, "Cheney Is Arrogance Personified," Washington Whispers/CBS News, June 4, 2007.
 * David R. Henderson, "Cheney Misstates Military Oath," Antiwar.com, June 4, 2007.
 * Rodrigue Tremblay, "The 12 main failures of the Bush-Cheney administration: A terrible legacy," Online Journal, June 4, 2007.
 * Jim Lobe, "Aide's Sentence Caps Star-Crossed Year for Cheney," Inter Press Service, June 5, 2007; Antiwar.com, June 6, 2007.
 * ProfessorPete, "Entropy, The Quantum, Bush, Cheney and Justice," OpEdNews.com, June 5, 2007.
 * Michael Abramowitz, "Letters Cast Light on Cheney's Inner Circle. Dozens of Prominent Figures and Insiders Praise Libby as Fundamentally Decent," Washington Post, June 6, 2007.
 * Dan Eggen, "Official: Cheney Urged Wiretaps. Stand-In for Ashcroft Alleges Interference," Washington Post, June 7, 2007.
 * "Cheney blocked Justice official's promotion. Attorney opposed Bush's warrantless wiretapping program," Associated Press (MSNBC), June 7, 2007.
 * Laurie Kellman, "Cheney sidetracked Justice official who opposed eavesdropping," Associated Press (Seattle Times), June 7, 2007.
 * Jane Roh, "Attorney Firings: Cheney Squeezed Justice On Spy Program," The Gate/National Journal, June 7, 2007.
 * Klaus Marre, "Dems want Cheney to recuse himself from Libby pardon talks," The Hill, June 7, 2007.
 * ProfessorPete, "God, Intelligent Design, Darwin, Einstein, Evolution, Politics, Morality, Cheney/Rove and I," OpEdNews.com, June 7, 2007.
 * Matthew Cardinale, "Seven US Reps Support Cheney Impeachment," Political Affairs Magazine, June 9, 2007.
 * "Kucinich working on 'renewed efforts' for Cheney impeachment," The Raw Story, June 13, 2007.
 * John Nichols, Opinion: "Baldwin can help stop Cheney," The Capitol Times (Madison, Wisc.), June 14, 2007.
 * Dave Lindorff, "Cheney Impeachment Watch: Now There are Eight," BuzzFlash, June 14, 2007.
 * Scott Sullivan, "Cheney Lost Gaza," The Conservative Voice, June 16, 2007.
 * "N.Y. Times: Rice v. Cheney, Bolton on Iran Strategy," NewsMax, June 16, 2007.
 * Nico Pitney, "Failing Pakistan Policy ‘Essentially Being Run From Cheney’s Office’," Think Progress, June 18, 2007.
 * Walter C. Uhler, "The Bush/Cheney Holocaust in Iraq: Criminality, Immorality, Incompetence and Desperation," The Huffington Post, June 18, 2007.
 * Nick Cooper, "Bush / Cheney '08," The NarcoSphere, June 18, 2007.
 * Ross Douthat, "The Cheney Primary," The Atlantic Online, June 19, 2007. re Fred Thompson
 * Tim Dickinson, "The Secret Campaign of President Bush's Administration To Deny Global Warming," Rolling Stone, June 29, 2007 issue; posted June 20, 2007.
 * Gareth Porter, "New Iran Arms Claim Reveals Cheney-Military Rift," Antiwar.com, June 21, 2007.
 * Dan Froomkin, "Cheney: Neither Here Nor There?" Washington Post, June 21, 2007. See Unitary Executive Theory: The "Fourth Branch" of government.
 * "Waxman vs. Cheney," The Gate/National Journal, June 22, 2007.
 * Kathleen Reardon, "Pathological Power: Dick Cheney Explained," The Huffington Post, June 22, 2007.
 * Kevin Drum, "Fun With Dick and Dick," Political Animal/CBS News, June 23, 2007.
 * David Swanson, "The I Word in the Boston Globe," OpEdNews.com, June 23, 2007.
 * Satyam Khanna, "Cheney Bypassed Environmentally ‘Clueless’ Bush To Craft Administration’s Climate Change Agenda," Think Progress, June 23, 2007.
 * Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel), "The Next Four-Branch Presidency," The Next Hurrah Blog, June 23, 2007.
 * Barton Gellman and Jo Becker, "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency", Washington Post:
 * Chapter 1: "'A Different Understanding With the President'," June 24, 2007.
 * Chapter 2: "Pushing the Envelope on Presidential Power," June 25, 2007.
 * Chapter 3: "A Strong Push From Backstage," June 26, 2007.
 * Chapter 4: "Leaving No Tracks," June 27, 2007.


 * Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel), "Cheney's Method," The Next Hurrah Blog, June 24, 2007.
 * Drake Bennett, "The 'I' word. Why a growing grassroots movement on the left wants to impeach the president -- and why Democrats in Washington don't even want to talk about it," Boston Globe, June 24, 2007.
 * "Cheney Eclipsed Debate on Terror Suspects," Washington Post (Boston Globe), June 24, 2007.
 * Roger McShane, "Private Dick," Slate, June 24, 2007.
 * Faiz Shakir, "Washington Post Profile Reveals Stealthy Cheney Spies On White House Staffers," Think Progress, June 24, 2007.
 * Patrick O'Connor, "Emanuel Bill Would Defund Cheney," The Crypt's Blog/The Politico, June 24, 2007.
 * Michael Roston, "For Cheney, office's relocation out of executive is nothing new," The Raw Story, June 24, 2007.
 * David Edwards and Josh Catone, "Fox pundit: Cheney in 'secured undisclosed bunker of his mind'," The Raw Story, June 24, 2007.
 * Nico Pitney, "Kristol Defends Cheney, Williams Says He’s Creating A ‘Secured Undisclosed Bunker Of His Mind’," Think Progress, June 24, 2007.
 * Aaron Shure, "The Cheney Coup," The Huffington Post, June 24, 2007.
 * Andrew Sullivan, "The Threat of Cheney," The Daily Dish/The Atlantic Online, June 24, 2007.
 * Luke O'Brien, "Dick Cheney Impassive as Twin Towers Crumbled, Thousands Died," Threat Level Blog/WIRED, June 24, 2007.
 * Joseph Cannon, "You Don't Know Dick. The Post has a must-read series on the Veep Who Would Be King," The Brad Blog, June 24, 2007.
 * Paul Kiel, "Cheney, The Black Hole," TPMmuckraker, June 24, 2007.
 * Stephen Crockett, "Time for Republicans to Choose: Bush-Cheney or America," OpEdNews.com; American Chronicle, June 24, 2007.
 * Bob Regl, "Impeachment of Bush and Cheney is essential," OpEdNews.com, June 24, 2007.
 * William E. Jackson Jr., "The Vices of Cheney: Where Impeachment Must Begin," The Huffington Post, June 24, 2007.
 * Faiz Shakir, "Cheney Author: 9/11 Didn’t Change Cheney, Gave Him Opportunity ‘To Put His Views Into Action’," Think Progress, June 25, 2007.
 * Dana Milbank, "The Cheese Stands Alone," Washington Post, June 26, 2007.
 * "FDL Book Salon Welcomes Murray Waas and Jeff Lomonaco", Firedoglake, Jun. 26, 2007.
 * Elana Schor and Mike Soraghan, "Secrecy may cost Cheney, Dems warn," The Hill, June 26, 2007.
 * Caren Bohan, "Cheney role as power broker in spotlight again," Reuters (ABC News), June 26, 2007.
 * Eugene Robinson, "Cheney the Survivor," Truthdig, June 26, 2007.
 * David Edwards and Nick Juliano, "ABC: Is Cheney too powerful?" The Raw Story, June 26, 2007.
 * David Edwards and Mike Sheehan, "'Daily Show' mocks 'Highlander' Cheney's 'secret secrets'," The Raw Story, June 26, 2007.
 * "The Liz Cheney Presidency," The Next Hurrah Blog, June 26, 2007. re Elizabeth Cheney and Fred Thompson
 * Mike Allen, "Cheney part of executive branch again," The Politico, June 27, 2007.
 * "Cheney refuses to hand over classified records," ABC News (Australia), June 27, 2007.
 * Jonah Goldberg, "The Cheney Irony," Townhall.com, June 27, 2007.
 * Scarecrow, "Morning In Amerika?" Firedoglake Blog, June 27, 2007.
 * Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel), "Not Quite the Energy Task Force," The Next Hurrah Blog, June 27, 2007.
 * David Edwards and Nick Juliano, "Daily Show humor: Cheney claims he's member of Supreme Court," The Raw Story, June 27, 2007.
 * John Dean, The Misunderestimated Mr. Cheney:The Vice President's Record of Willfully Violating the Law, And Wrongly Claiming Authority to Do So Writ - Findlaw, June 29, 2007.
 * "FDL Book Salon Welcomes Murray Waas and Jeff Lomonaco", Firedoglake, Jun. 26, 2007.