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Thursday, February 23, 2006 12:00 AM

Cheney's coup

A 3-year-old executive order that vastly expanded his powers illuminates how the vice president and his minions led us into war.
By Sidney Blumenthal

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  • Thursday, February 23, 2006 05:45 AM

    About that executive order

    Sorry I don't have the patience to look this all up and provide a link, but I heard on NPR that that executive order on declassification only gave Cheney the power to declassify material he had himself first classified. Still an expansion of powers, but different. There's a kind of twisting of the truth in what Cheney said to Hume, I guess with the aim of protecting Libby.

    —minor prophet

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