The Washington Note (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
I think you'll enjoy this five minute chat with Barton Gellman, author of the best-selling Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency, a book which I think makes a great holiday gift. A video of an event discussion I held with...
The Washington Note (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Today Tuesday, 2 December, from 12:30 pm til 1:45 pm EST, I am hosting Pulitzer-prize winning Washington Post correspondent Barton Gellman on his new book, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency, which I reviewed here. This riveting book is essential...
The Washington Note (Free subscription) | 29/11/2008
... 12:15 pm til 1:45 pm EST , I will be hosting Pulitzer-prize winning Washington Post correspondent Barton Gellman on his new book, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency , which I reviewed here . This riveting book is essential for those who want to understand how Vice President Cheney and his chief legal aide and alter-ego, David Addington , sculpted the key memorable, disturbing features...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 04/01/2009
... well-reviewed and meticulously sourced books--" The Dark Side " by Jane Mayer and " Angler " by Barton Gellman--could supply a week's worth of material with which to challenge and contradict Cheney's bland and ballsy assertions. The names of the intel agents in the UK, Australia and the US who publicly said before the war that the intel did not show what the Administration claimed...
The Washington Note (Free subscription) | 02/01/2009
... lies that led to rendition, Guantanamo, and Abu Ghraib. ANGLER: The Cheney Vice Presidency , by Barton Gellman. A terrific companion to Mayer's book; Gellman exposes the extent to which Dick Cheney and David Addington sacrificed the constitution and the rule of law in their efforts to hijack American policy and reshape the office of the presidency. THE SHADOW FACTORY : The...
The Washington Note (Free subscription) | 30/12/2008
A friend sent me this pic of her dad's dog looking wistfully out the window after reading a good chunk of Barton Gellman's much acclaimed Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency. -- Steve Clemons...
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 31/12/2008
... Yoo put Gonzales squarely in the center of all the torture discussions in an interview with Barton Gellman . But the "torture memo," as it became widely known, was not Yoo's work alone. In an interview, Yoo said that Addington, as well as Gonzales and deputy White House counsel Timothy E. Flanigan, contributed to the analysis. The vice president's lawyer advocated what was considered...
Random Jottings (Free subscription) | 30/12/2008
... 'The Dark Side' about 'extraordinary rendition' and other riffs on the Constitution. Absent too is Barton Gellman's 'Angler,' about Dick Cheney, the waterboarder in chief. Bush read David Halberstam's 'The Coldest Winter,' which is about the Korean War, but not on the list is Halberstam's 'The Best and the Brightest,' which is about the Vietnam War. Bush read some novels, but they...
JammieWearingFool (Free subscription) | 30/12/2008
... "The Dark Side" about "extraordinary rendition" and other riffs on the Constitution. Absent too is Barton Gellman's "Angler," about Dick Cheney, the waterboarder in chief.
Think Progress (Free subscription) | 23/12/2008
On Sunday, Vice President Cheney made the astounding claim that if the President does anything during wartime to protect the country, it is legal — echoing Richard Nixon. Yesterday, Cheney biographer Barton Gellman told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that Cheney’s claim is actually “more radical” than Nixon’s because Cheney said it while serving in office: It’s actually [...]
The Daily Beast - Blogs and Stories (Free subscription) | 27/12/2008
... are of their fraught relationship—and pulls off a gripping, haunting memoir.Peter Beinart: by Barton Gellman. An amazing expose. Everything you feared, and more. by J. Peter Scoblic. A very smart history of modern American conservative foreign policy thought, which shows that the George W. Bush disaster was decades in the making. by Derek Chollet and James Goldgeier. An excellent...
Power Line (Free subscription) | 20/12/2008
The new issue of the Weekly Standard carries Christopher Willcox's review of Barton Gellman's Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency . Our own Paul Mirengoff engaged in a series of exchanges with Gellman about the book. I linked to the exchanges here . I formed a negative impression of Gellman's book from Paul's comments, concluding that Gellman was responsible for the...
Fox News (Free subscription) | 25/12/2008
... nuance and obscure legal filings. "No president lightly gives up all of those prerogatives," said Barton Gellman, author of "Angler," a critical study of Vice President Dick Cheney's conduct. He said Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden would likely try to strike compromises when it comes to the power dynamic between the president and the rest of Washington. "Instead of asserting...
Fox News (Free subscription) | 25/12/2008
... nuance and obscure legal filings. "No president lightly gives up all of those prerogatives," said Barton Gellman, author of "Angler," a critical study of Vice President Dick Cheney's conduct. He said Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden would likely try to strike compromises when it comes to the power dynamic between the president and the rest of Washington. "Instead of asserting...
Raw Story (Free subscription) | 23/12/2008
Vice President Dick Cheney may have appeared to be channeling the ghost of Richard Nixon when he was asked during a recent Fox News interview about his view of presidential powers, but Washington Post reporter Barton Gellman believes that Cheney is actually "more radical" than Nixon ever was."If the president during war decides to do something to protect the country, is it legal?" Fox's...
