He survived the collapse of the Nixon presidency, finding
a position of power in the administration of Gerald Ford.
He was then elected to the House of Representatives, and
later he earned a spot in the cabinet of the first Bush
presidency. But when he became George W. Bush’s running
mate, Cheney reached a new level of influence. From the
engineering of his own selection as vice president to his
support of policies allowing torture as a permissible weapon
in the “war on terror,” Cheney has steered America consistently
rightward. In Vice, Dubose and Bernstein uncover startling
revelations, including
• the extraordinary intimidation
of CIA officials by a vice president bent on obtaining intelligence
to support a foregone conclusion: the invasion of Iraq •
details on Cheney’s secret energy task force, including
his meeting with Enron chief Ken Lay months before Lay was
indicted–and how Cheney went to court to erode the powers
of Congress
• how Cheney helped to kill
2003 diplomatic overtures from Iran to discuss concessions
on its nuclear program and policy toward Israel
• Cheney’s role in engineering
multibillion-dollar military contracts in Iraq to benefit
Halliburton, the company he once ran
• eyewitness reports from
prominent Republican and conservative sources who go on
record for the first time to tell the truth about how Dick
Cheney has hijacked the American presidency
In the words of one of Cheney’s
colleagues from the House: “Dick keeps his own counsel.
He’s completely in control. He’s completely sure of himself
in everything he does. It’s what got him to where he is
today: the most powerful vice president to ever hold office.
It’s also what’s bringing about his downfall.”
In Vice, we get an unprecedented
exposé of how Cheney operates and what his vice presidency
will mean to America–now and in the future.
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Jake Bernstein is the executive editor of The Texas Observer.
Prior to his move to Austin, he was a staff writer for the
Miami New Times. During the 1990s, Bernstein was based in
Guatemala reporting for the San Francisco Examiner, the
Dallas Morning News, and the Houston Chronicle. A native
New Yorker, his work has won numerous national and local
awards including the Green Eyeshade Excellence in Journalism
Award and the James Aronson Award for Social Justice.
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