February 24th, 2010
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But the number, attention-grabbing as it is, isnt the real issue: Its how much damage a heart attack does to the muscle of your heart that determines how well you recover, and the quality of remaining years.
“One really significant heart attack can be much more worrisome, in fact life-threatening, than several heart attacks that have [...]
February 23rd, 2010
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Cheney assistant Peter Long issued a statement Monday saying the 69-year-old Cheney was resting comfortably at George Washington University Hospital and his doctors were evaluating the situation.
Cheney has a history of heart problems, including four heart attacks starting at age 37.
When doctors rule out an immediate heart attack, the next step [...]
February 15th, 2010
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Cheney says he opposed the Bush administration decision to charge shoe bomber Richard Reid in criminal court rather than declare him an enemy combatant and hold him in military custody.
Obama administration officials have responded to Republican-led criticism of their handling of terrorism suspects in part by pointing to similar actions by the administration [...]
February 15th, 2010
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Cheney declined to throw his support behind Palin when asked Sunday on ABCs “This Week” whether he would back the former Alaska governor as a presidential candidate.
Cheney said the person he supports is going to have to prove capable of being president. He did not say whether he thinks Palin is qualified.
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February 15th, 2010
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Biden sought to rebut criticisms from Cheney and from Republican lawmakers that the Democratic administration is not doing enough to combat terrorists, speaking on NBCs “Meet the Press” program and on CBSs “Face the Nation.”
Obama is fighting al-Qaeda “with a vigor [...]
February 14th, 2010
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In an interview airing Sunday on NBCs “Meet the Press,” Biden said he thinks Cheney doesnt listen to the facts and is trying to rewrite history.
Cheney maintains that the Obama administration is failing to treat the battle against terrorism as war.
But Biden says Cheneys criticism rings false.
Under President Barack [...]
August 30th, 2009
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The new charges were led Sunday by former Vice President Dick Cheney, who called the preliminary probe ordered last week by Attorney General Eric Holder an “outrageous political act that will do great damage, long term.”
“I just think its an outrageous precedent to set, to have this kind of, I think, intensely partisan, politicized look [...]
August 30th, 2009
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“The fact of the matter is, he encouraged me to give him my view on a whole range of issues. I did,” Cheney said in an interview broadcast on “Fox News Sunday.”
“Sometimes he agreed. Sometimes he did not. That was true from the very beginning of the administration,” Cheney said.
Among their disagreements: Cheney supported taking [...]
August 13th, 2009
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Cheney, often described as the most influential vice president in U.S. history, has been discussing his years in office in informal talks with authors, diplomats, policy experts and past colleagues, the Post said, as he works on a memoir due out in 2011 from Simon & Schusters Threshold Editions.
Robert Barnett, who negotiated Cheneys [...]
July 12th, 2009
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Subsequent CIA directors did not inform Congress because the intelligence-gathering effort had not developed to the point that they believed merited a congressional briefing, said a former intelligence official and another government official familiar with Panettas June 24 briefing to the House and Senate Intelligence committees.
Panetta did not agree.
Upon learning of the program June 23 [...]