The pathological degree to which former Vice President Dick Cheney operated in secrecy led to government abuses that we'll probably spend years learning about.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The funny thing is that Dick Cheney has done more than anybody in the White House for quite a long time to throw up roadblocks against future historians.
If they had taught a class on how to be the kind of citizen Dick Cheney worries about, I would have finished high school.
I'm not questioning Dick Cheney's motives. There's a chance for a conflict of interest. At one point in time, he was opposed to going into Baghdad. Then he was out of office and involved in the defense industry, and then he became for going into Baghdad.
In a network situation, a vice president, while he's shaving, can decide your history.
Secrecy is the foundation of politics.
It's increasingly clear that governments, major corporations, banks, universities and other such bodies view the defense of their secrets as a desperate matter of institutional survival, so much so that the state has gone to extraordinary lengths to punish and/or threaten to punish anyone who so much as tiptoes across the informational line.
Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
Cheney is a terrorist. He terrorizes our enemies abroad and innocent citizens here at home indiscriminately.
That Dick Cheney is pro-torture surprises no one; he freely admits it.
Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly has been disturbed over what he sees as the erosion of presidential powers since the Watergate scandal and has urged Bush to take a stronger stand against what Cheney sees as congressional intrusions into the executive branch.