In a Wednesday segment on worries President Obama, in not ruling out renditions and water-boarding, may be “slipping back into the dirty old ways� of “torture� supposedly employed by the Bush administration, Hardball host Chris Matthews blurted out: “Do you think if we water-boarded Lewis ...

Maureen Dowd's New York Times opinion piece yesterday was "Cheney and the Goat Devil."  The mainstream media are reveling in the purported falling out between former President George Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney.  Supposedly the two disagreed over granting Cheney's previous...

Dicking around: The officials said Tuesday that Mr. Cheney’s lobbying campaign on behalf of Mr. Libby was far more intense than previously known, with the vice president bringing it up in countless one-on-one conversations with the president. They said Mr. Bush was unyielding to the end, already f...

Christy Hardin Smith caught this nugget from Karl Rove in the LA Times: "Secrecy and confidentiality are necessary for every government, especially when you're at war."... "I love how the last eight years, this White House, the Bush White House, was criticized for being tight-lipped. We didn't leak....

Sometimes there is a news item that actually stuns me with how fucking stupid the people behind it must think we are.Today, from the rapidly dwindling L.A. Times, we get this: Rove versus leakersFormer Bush aide Karl Rove, in a......

Dick Cheney is out of office, and already an ugly footnote in history, a man who learned dirty politics and a lust for power early, and then put those values into practice over the last eight years. American history will come to see Dick Cheney as arrogant and as an enemy of the constitution. But fo...

Former Vice President Cheney told a conservative magazine that his aide Scooter Libby, pictured on the right, should have received a pardon from former President George W. Bush. WASHINGTON (CNN) — George Bush should have pardoned I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Dick Cheney said after stepping down a...

Former vice-president Dick Cheney is displeased about his former boss’s decision not to pardon Scooter Libby: Former Vice President Dick Cheney disagreed publicly with his boss just four times in the eight years they served together. Yesterday, however, on the first day after the official end ...

No Pardon For Libby Bush uses clemency powers sparingly to the end by Michael Isikoff Jan 19, 2009 Newsweek Web Exclusive www.newsweek.com/id/180448 In a move that has keenly disappointed some of his strongest conservative allies, President Bush has decided not to pardon Vice President Dick Cheney's...

A Justice Department lawyer told a federal judge yesterday that the Bush administration will meet its legal requirement to transfer e-mails to the National Archives after spending more than $10 million to locate 14 million e-mails reported missing four years ago from White House computer files....