{"id":77,"date":"2006-03-12T20:29:26","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T01:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/12\/american-conservative-prints-my-hit-on-lawless-dick-cheney\/"},"modified":"2006-03-12T20:29:26","modified_gmt":"2006-03-13T01:29:26","slug":"american-conservative-prints-my-hit-on-lawless-dick-cheney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/12\/american-conservative-prints-my-hit-on-lawless-dick-cheney\/","title":{"rendered":"American Conservative prints my hit on Lawless Dick Cheney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new issue of <strong>American Conservative<\/strong> (3\/27\/06) contains my hit on Cheney&#8217;s latest lawlessness.\u00a0\u00a0Here is the first paragraph:<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"3\">&#8220;The biggest surprise from the shooting of Harry Worthington was Dick Cheney\u2019s announcement that he is entitled to declassify national security secrets. Such declassifications raise the question of whether the president and vice president possess unlimited discretion to manipulate the information Americans receive. And if Cheney does not actually possess the new prerogative he claims, he could risk impeachment if he invokes this power as a shield in the trial of his former chief of staff.&#8221;<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"3\">That last sentence\u00a0offers fresh proof of my incurable optimism.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Trebuchet MS\" size=\"3\">The magazine will probably put the\u00a0full piece online next week.\u00a0<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new issue of American Conservative (3\/27\/06) contains my hit on Cheney&#8217;s latest lawlessness.\u00a0\u00a0Here is the first paragraph: &#8220;The biggest surprise from the shooting of Harry Worthington was Dick Cheney\u2019s announcement that he is entitled to declassify national security secrets. 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