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https://voicesfromtheheartland.blogspot.com/2013/04/bush-administration-responsible-for-no.html
Friday, April 26, 2013
Bush Administration Responsible for No Oversight of West, Texas, or Other Fertilizer/Chemical Storage Facilities by EPA
“Perry reworked the language and helped to get it added to the spending bill in a conference committee. Under the new amendment, the DHS would have nominal authority to regulate the chemical industry but also have its hands tied where required.”
What Phillip Perry, VP Cheney's son-in-law, did was to add language the chemical industry wanted to an appropriations bill rider that moved the task of regulating and oversight of chemical plants from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Another day, another group that has bought and paid for Republican members of Congress. This time it is the chemical industry which is only being highlighted after the West, TX, fertilizer plant blew up last week while storing large amounts chemicals that should have set off red flags. EPA is no longer in charge of regulating these plants while the Texas Department of Health who had the authority seems pretty worthless as they took the owner's word with no inspections.
Seems chemical manufacturer's thought giving DHS authority for regulation and oversight with little money provided by Congress would allow them to operate as they chose without no regard to safety. As we saw in West, Texas, the lack of oversight blew up in their face with a plant storing chemicals that were way over the limit allowed in unsafe storage units with no markings so fire department officials didn't know what was in the storage tanks. Because of not knowing what was stored, the volunteer fire department used water instead of foam which is used to fight chemical fires. The owner of the facility has already been sued.
This picture is from the site of the West, Texas fertilizer storage facility the night of the explosion where 10 of the 13 killed were volunteer fire fighters, one was a paramedic, and one was from Dallas search and rescue -- all first responders who died because of lack of oversight and inspections of this plant:
[pix of rubble]
With Chris Hayes connecting the dots on MSNBC with this video, it shows what happened which eventually led to the West, Texas, fertilizer plant exploding.
Summary of the Chris Hayes video:
Let’s recap: The Bush administration’s own cabinet secretaries come up with a plan to regulate these chemical plants. It’s stymied by Phil Perry once. The Bush administration sides with the chemical industry when it’s brought before Congress. And then, basically in a backroom maneuver, Perry does the chemical industry’s bidding by moving the oversight of this from the EPA, which the chemical industry hates, to DHS, which the chemical industry thinks they can more easily manipulate.
Now, fast-forward six years. The West Fertilizer company is storing more than 13-hundred times the amount of ammonium nitrate that would normally trigger safety oversight by DHS. And it does appear now, that not only did DHS literally have no idea that the West Fertilizer company was storing ammonium nitrate. But according to Congressman Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, DHS did not even know the plant existed until it blew up.
Everyone in America should watch this video which connects the dots which all lead back to the Bush Administration, Phillip Perry, and the chemical industry:
Bush and the West explosion: The untold story of deregulating chemical plants
Collier Meyerson, @youngcollier11:26 PM on 04/25/2013
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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-levine/dick-cheneys-dangerous-so_b_40695.html
While Vice-President Cheney has been pursuing a war in Iraq that has led to an increase in terrorism worldwide, his son-in-law, Philip Perry, until very recently the general counsel of DHS, has been working behind the scenes to make it easy for those terrorists to hit chemical facilities at home. The upshot, to put it bluntly: more Americans have died in war and are at risk of terrorism because of this family’s efforts.
The Washington Monthly reports today in its online edition — and in the magazine early next week — on the critical role Phil Perry has played in recent years in derailing meaningful and tough chemical security oversight on behalf of the chemical industry. My article, backed with research assistance by the Nation Institute, is called, “Dick Cheney’s Dangerous Son-In-Law.”As reported in hearings yesterday, he’s also played a key role in thwarting oversight investigationsinto alleged abuses at DHS.
A foretaste of what could happen if a plant contained highly toxic chemicals came with Wednesday”s explosion of a chemical plant in Kansas City that forced an evacuation. Fortunately, it seems, the plant didn’t contain the sort of highly common toxic gases that, like chlorine, can kill or injure 100,000 people in 30 minutes if those chemicals are released. But currently, as the Washington Monthly points out, EPA data shows that at least 700 sites across the country could potentially threaten the lives of 100,000 or more people if attacked. But thanks to the agressive anti-regulatory efforts of administration officials such as Phil Perry, the chemical industry is not required to switch to safer chemicals or processes, known as “inherently safer technologies” (IST), even when they’re available and economically feasible, although such changes could save countless lives.
Perry is a former lawyer-lobbyist for Latham and Watkins, which has represented at various times the leading trade group, The American Chemistry Council. His latest industry favors came when he helped craft weak pro-industry legislation this past fall that allows chemical plants to choose their own security measures and bars private groups from suing to make sure that DHS enforces the law. To top it off, he then slapped into new regulations issued by the DHS in December a provision allowing the pro-industry DHS to pre-empt stronger state laws, as in New Jersey. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have been furious. “In order to please their cronies in the chemical industry, the Bush administration is willing to put the health and safety of millions of people at risk,” said Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) about the new law and regulations. Democratic Senators will be working to overturn the regulations pre-empting state laws, but it could be slow going in the Senate because of the ability of Republicans to slow down measures.
Some highlights from the Monthly article:
For the chemical industry, which has always had a chilly relationship with the EPA, Perry has been a consistent, quiet friend. “Phil Perry was never the EPA’s biggest fan,” says former EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman, recounting the relationship. “I think there was a predisposition on his part that we were trying to overreach.” she says [ referring to his blocking of EPA’s efforts in 2002 and 2003 to regulate the security of the chemical facilities it monitors under the Clean Air Act.] Indeed, like many Republican hardliners, for whom the EPA represents all that is wrong with government regulation, Perry has sought to limit the role of the EPA, not expand it. He’s been successful.
To understand the workings of Philip Perry is to get a sense of the true lines of power in the executive branch. “Perry is an éminence grise,” says one congressional staffer. “He’s been pretty good at getting his fingerprints off of anything, but everyone in this field knows he’s the one directing it. He is very good at the stealth move.” And, as it turns out, Perry’s stealth moves have often benefited opponents of chemical regulation. One of his final pieces of handiwork included coming up with what critics have called an “industry wish list” on chemical security that ultimately became law last fall. “Every time the industry has gotten in trouble,” says the staffer, “they’ve gone running to Phil Perry.”
The result has been that our chemical sites remain, even five years after 9/11, stubbornly vulnerable to attack. Philip Perry has hardly been alone in tolerating this. Others in the White House and Congress have been equally solicitous toward the chemical industry. But as part of anetwork of Cheney loyalists in the executive branch,Perry has been a key player in the struggle to prevent the federal government from assuming any serious regulatory role in business, no matter what the cost. And a successful attack on a chemical facility could make such a cost high indeed. A flippant critic might say the father-in-law has been prosecuting a war that creates more terrorists abroad, while the son-in-law has been working to ensure they’ll have easy targets at home. But it’s more precise to say that White House officials really, really don’t want to alienate the chemical industry, and Perry has been really, really willing to help them not do it.
The dangers posed by the weak laws and lax oversight that Perry has helped promote have been underscored by U.S. PIRG and Greenpeace, and their websites are good resources for activists and journalists seeking more insight into the topic. The American Chemistry Council, in turn, has given lip-service to federal oversight of the industry, but has sought to undermine strong laws and regulations every step of the way — and praised the new law that Perry helped develop for them. A recent New York Timeseditorial, “Chemical Insecurity,” outlined what’s at stake.
As Rick Hind of Greenpeacenotes about the new DHS regulation, written essentially by Perry for his allies in the chemical industry:
The proposed Department of Homeland Security rule fails to provide the
protection the nation and communities living in the shadow of thousands
of chemical plants need. This is primarily due to the fatally flawed
statute (Sec. 550) the proposed regulations are based on.
Unlike the bi-partisan legislation (H.R. 5695) adopted by the House
Homeland Security Committee in the 109th Congress, Sec. 550:
Fails to require safer technologies that can reduce or eliminate the
magnitude of an attack on high risk facilities or require any other
“particular security measure.”
Fails to protect approximately 3,000 U.S. water treatment plants as
well as several other exempted categories. Nearly 100 water treatment
plants each put 100,000 or more people at risk.
Fails to give the DHS criteria for choosing high-risk plants. As a
result, there is no assurance that the 4,391 most hazardous facilities
will be prioritized for protection.
Fails to set schedules to secure chemical plants by not giving DHS
deadlines to approve or disapprove security plans.
Fails to require meaningful involvement of plant employees in
developing vulnerability assessments and security plans.
Fails to include whistleblower protections to enhance enforcement.
Fails to protect the right of states to establish stronger security
standards.
Fails to protect the public’s right-to-know by asserting authority
to classify previously public information as secret, including information
used in civil or criminal enforcement actions.
All this — plus the war in Iraq. The Cheney family, including Philip Perry, has done more than its share to help keep America unsafe, despite Vice-President Cheney’s bellicose rhetoric.
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Dick Cheney's Dangerous Son-in-Law | HuffPost
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-levine/dick-cheneys-dangerous-so_b_40695.html
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House of Cheney, Interrupted | The New Yorker
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Perry
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Philip J. Perry (born October 16, 1964)[1] is an American attorney and was a political appointee in the Administration of George W. Bush . He was Acting Associate Attorney General at the Department of Justice, General Counsel of the Office of Management and Budget, and General Counsel of the Department of Homeland Security. He is a partner at Latham & Watkins in Washington, D.C..
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Early life and education
Perry was born in San Diego County, California. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Colorado College in 1986. He was awarded the Juris Doctor degree from Cornell Law School in 1990.[2]
Career
Counsel to United States Senate/Campaign Finance Abuse
In 1997-98, Perry was Counsel to the United States Senate hearings on campaign finance abuses in the 1996 presidential campaigns.[2]
2000 Presidential Transition Team
In 2000, he was a policy advisor for the Bush-Cheney presidential transition team and an advisor on the Vice Presidential Debate preparation team.[3] Of Perry, Cheney said, "He was tough...much tougher than I would have been on my father-in-law."[3]
Department of Justice
Perry joined the Department of Justice and served in a number of roles before being named acting Associate Attorney General (the Department’s third-ranking official), overseeing DOJ's five civil litigating units: Civil, Tax, Environment and Natural Resources, Antitrust, and Civil Rights.[4]
Office of Management and Budget
In 2002, Perry then moved to the White House to be General Counsel for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)under the then-Director Governor Mitch Daniels. In that capacity, Perry supervised the White House's clearance of federal regulations, mediated interagency disputes, addressed matters on the DOJ's civil litigation docket, formulated presidential executive orders, developed White House policy initiatives, and advised the president.[5] Among his tasks as general counsel was drafting the legislation that created the new Department of Homeland Security.[6] Kenneth Feinberg, special master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund called Perry "a first-rate lawyer," "quiet but determined, "[5] and the "unsung hero" of the team of lawyers faced with settling the issue of which family members of September 11 victims would be eligible to receive compensation. Perry suggested that in cases where family wills did not stipulate beneficiaries (80%), the matter should be determined under the inheritance laws of the state in which a victim held residence.[7]
Latham & Watkins
After multiple years of federal service, Perry returned to Latham & Watkins as a partner, where he rejoined their litigation and regulatory groups, serving as counsel on behalf of Fortune 500 clients such as Monsanto, defense contractor Lockheed Martin and others. The Washington Post reported that at Latham & Watkins, Perry was "a leader of its homeland security practice."
Perry's law practice however has largely involved federal court litigation. Although he has handled numerous commercial matters, his most high profile successes have involved federal government regulation and federal contracts. For example, Perry recently successfully handled the Roundup Ready alflafa case in Federal District Court in San Francisco. Other recent high profile matters include: Monsanto Co. v. Geertson Seed Farms, 130 S. Ct. 2743 (2010); Entergy Corp. v. Riverkeeper, Inc., 129 S. Ct. 1498 (2009); Ctr. for Food Safety v. Vilsack, 636 F.3d 1166 (9th Cir. 2011); Sottera, Inc. v. FDA, 627 F.3d 891 (D.C. Cir. 2010); Ctr. for Food Safety v. Vilsack, No. 10-4038, 2011 US Dist. LEXIS 31688 (N.D. Cal. Mar. 17, 2011); Wyeth Pharmaceuticals v. FDA, No. 1:09-cv-01810-FJS, slip op. (D.D.C. Sept. 24, 2009); and Sottera, Inc. v. FDA, 680 F. Supp. 2d 62 (D.D.C. 2010). See http://www.lw.com/Attorneys.aspx?page=AttorneyBio&attno=02162
General Counsel for Department of Homeland Security
In April 2005, President George Bush nominated Philip Perry to be the general counsel of the Department of Homeland Security.[6] Perry was confirmed unanimously by the U.S. Senate later that year. In his position as the General Counsel for the DHS, Perry supervised over 1,500 lawyers, and advised Secretary Michael Chertoff and the White House on the Department's legal and policy issues. Issues of influence for Perry included, but were not limited to, "the transit of people and cargo, comprehensive immigration reform, and critical infrastructure such as chemical plants."[5] A Cornell university alumni newsletter reports, "While at DHS, he was joined by Gus P. Coldebella '94, current acting general counsel, and Julie L. Myers '94, assistant secretary of Homeland Security for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.[5] He had substantial involvement in the passage of legislation authorizing DHS to regulate chemical site security.[5] Chertoff is a former partner at Latham & Watkins, LLP.[8] Perry was also "closely involved" in the inter-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) National Security Agreement process.[4]
Return to Private Sector
On February 6, 2007, Perry again returned to the partnership at Latham & Watkins, where he has continued to handle high profile litigation, federal regulatory matters and chaired the firm's Public Policy Practice Group.
Perry is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, California, Illinois, the U.S. Supreme Court and multiple federal appellate and district courts throughout the U.S.
Awards and honors
Mr. Perry has been recognized as a leading litigator in the Euromoney Institutional Investor Benchmark: Litigation 2008 guide.[2]
Personal life
Perry is married to Elizabeth Cheney, who is an alumna of Colorado College. They have five children. Elizabeth Cheney is the daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney. She is the former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs at the State Department, and was a member of the Iran Syria Policy and Operations Group,
Quotes by Philip Perry
- "The term 'revolving door' implies people going in and out of government in order to obtain monetary gain. The reason people go into government is to serve their country. It's not appropriate to describe that as a 'revolving door.'"[7]
- "It was an honor to serve the country at such an important time in its history."[4]
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- 1964 births
- United States Department of Justice lawyers
- Cheney family
- Colorado College alumni
- Cornell Law School alumni
- Living people
- People from San Diego County, California
- United States Department of Homeland Security officials
- George W. Bush Administration personnel
- Washington, D.C. lawyers
- California Republicans
Elizabeth Cheney Perry (born July 28, 1966),[1] commonly called Liz Cheney, is an American attorney and political commentator. Cheney is the elder daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and Second Lady Lynne Cheney. She held several positions in the U.S. State Department during the George W. Bush administration. She has been politically active on behalf of the Republican Party and is a co-founder of Keep America Safe. Cheney currently serves as a political analyst for Fox News and is reported to be considering a 2014 bid for the Senate from Wyoming.[2]
Personal life
Cheney is one of two daughters of former Vice President Dick Cheney and former Second Lady Lynne Cheney; her younger sister is Mary Cheney. Cheney graduated from McLean High School (1984), where she was a cheerleader. She received her bachelor's degree from Colorado College, where she wrote her senior thesis, "The Evolution of Presidential War Powers," (1988).[1] She received her Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the University of Chicago Law School (1996), having also taken courses in Middle Eastern history at the Oriental Institute.[3]
Cheney is married to Philip Perry, the former General Counsel of the United States Department of Homeland Security. She and Perry have five children: three daughters—Kate, Elizabeth, and Grace—and two sons, Philip and Richard. The elder four attend The Potomac School in Virginia.[citation needed]
Early career
Before attending law school, Cheney worked for the State Department for five years and the U.S. Agency for International Development between 1989 and 1993. After 1993, she took a job at Armitage Associates LLP, the consulting firm founded by Richard Armitage, then a former Defense Department official and Iran-Contra operative who later served as Deputy Secretary of State.
After graduating from law school, Cheney practiced law in the private sector (at the law firm of White & Case) and as an international law attorney and consultant at the International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group. She has also served as Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of State for Assistance to the former Soviet Union, and as a USAID officer in U.S. embassies in Budapest and Warsaw.[4]
Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs
In 2002, Cheney was appointed to the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs,[5] a pre-existing vacant post with an "economic portfolio," which is a mandate to promote investment in the region. Amid reports, including a New York Times editorial by Paul Krugman, saying that the job was created especially for her, State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said that she had come recommended by then-Secretary of State Colin Powell.[6][7] The Times (London) reported that Cheney's appointment was "the most intriguing sign that America is getting serious about Middle East reform" and that the appointment was "a measure of the seriousness with which the administration was taking Middle East programmes for literacy, education, and reform."[8] The appointment followed publicized policy divisions between the Vice President's office and the State Department on Middle East policy. In that position, she was given control of the Middle East Partnership Initiative, designed to "foster increased democracy and economic progress in a troubled region." The program spent $29 million in 2002, increased to $129 million in the following year. Cheney's task was to channel money to pre-screened groups, some of which were not identified publicly for fear of retaliations from extant governments they sought to undermine. For the budget year 2004, the project sought $145 million.[9][10]
2004 Bush-Cheney re-election campaign
After two years of service, Cheney left her first State Department post in 2003 to serve in her father's re-election campaign.[11] Participating in the "W Stands for Women" initiative to target female voters, Cheney spoke often of how women have enlarged their scope of political issues, invoking the September 11 attacks and "security." [12]
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State For Near Eastern Affairs
In February 2005, she returned to the US State Department and was appointed the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State For Near Eastern Affairs and Coordinator for Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiatives.[13] In this position, Cheney supported the Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, C. David Welch, and coordinated U.S. multilateral efforts to promote and support democracy, expanded education and economic opportunities in the Middle East and Northern Africa. Cheney oversaw the launch of two semi-independent foundations, the Fund of the Future (worth $100 million), to provide capital for small businesses and the Foundation of the Future (worth $55 million), to promote freedom of the press and democracy.[14] In that capacity, Cheney endorsed a draft of a new Iraqi constitution.[15] In November 2005, Cheney was questioned by Ysemink Congar of Turkish CNN that there was "a lot of skepticism building about the U.S. advocacy for democracy and human rights, based on a recent Washington Post story on "black sites" operated by the U.S. and the CIA in some of the countries receiving MEPI support:
Congar: If you were addressing the skeptics today, directly, what would you say to them? Why should they believe that the U.S. is genuinely advocating — supporting democracy and human rights in the region? And why should they — I mean, I'm talking about the grassroots now — why should they enthusiastically endorse the Forum for the Future? Thank you.Cheney: I'll go first. You know, this is a question that I think has come up ever since we first began supporting democratic activities in the region back in 2002. And what I would say is judge us by our actions, you know. Judge us by the extent to which we really are standing with the people who are working for freedom. Judge us by the extent to which we are supporting NGOs with our money and with our back, you know, with our technical assistance. Judge us by the extent to which, you know, our Secretary of State goes to Cairo and makes a speech in Cairo in the heart of the broader Middle East about the importance of freedom and the importance of people being able to express their own wills and desires.So, you know, yes, I think there is skepticism. I think that there is disagreement about policies. I think some of that comes from a misunderstanding of American policies. But at the end of the day, I think that the idea of skepticism is, frankly, a little bit overblown. I mean, my sense is that it's become conventional wisdom among elites that there are skeptics. There certainly are some skeptics, but there are certainly millions and millions of people across the broader Middle East who are participating with us in projects, that are providing training and skills and how you operate in a political — in a democratic environment. And who very much appreciate and feel protected by the fact that the United States is standing with them, you know.So there will always be skeptics, but I would watch what we do and watch also what we say about these issues.[16][dead link]
At the same briefing, Cheney was asked by Tarek Rashad of the Middle East News Agency about the "paradox" of the MEPI funding NGO's supporting democracy and human rights would be "rallying in fact against the regimes and the governments in the region. Cheney answered that contributions to the Foundation had come from governments, but the foundation would not include government officers on its board or as its chairman, that "no government entities will be in either position."[17]
Iran Syria Policy and Operations Group
Elizabeth Cheney also headed the Iran Syria Policy and Operations Group (ISOG), established in March 2006, a unit within the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs.
In April 2006, The New York Times published a story critical of Cheney's work, particularly with respect to Iran. Of particular scrutiny was a grants program administered by Elizabeth Cheney's unit, in collaboration with a Republican-affiliated foundation, the International Republican Institute.[18] The Times maintained that when the group became controversial, with critics saying that it was plotting covert actions that could escalate into war with Iran and Syria, the group was disbanded, by May 2006. Shortly before the ISOG group was dissolved, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice initiated a major effort to engage Iran and Syria in efforts to stabilize Iraq.[19] As late as April 11, 2009, Iranian officials investigating "cyber-crimes" cited Cheney's efforts in the daily newspaper Iran, specifically the "Democracy Program" [sic] initiative as parallel to a Netherlands-funded push for a "velvet revolution" accomplished by a media campaign to polarize the country, "despite the 1981 Algiers Accords signed between the U.S. and Iran in the aftermath of the U.S. embassy takeover in Tehran." [20] Her controversial business relationship with American-Iranian oil trader and millionaire Navid Khiabani, Which led to approving export license by European Union for Austrian Arm manufacturer Steyr Mannlicher to export Steyr High Caliber Anti material Steyr HS .50 to Iran caused media attention during 2005 and 2006.[21]
2008 Republican presidential campaigns
Cheney signed on in June 2007 to serve as one of three national co-chairs for Fred Thompson's 2008 presidential campaign. The other co-chairs were Spencer Abraham and George Allen. In a press release issued at the beginning of his campaign, Thompson said he was "very pleased to announce that former Senators Abraham and Allen, as well as Liz Cheney, will serve as co-chairs of my national leadership team." Thompson added: "These distinguished individuals bring wise counsel and invaluable experience to my campaign leadership team, and they will play a critical role in helping spread my consistent conservative message across America."[22] After Thompson dropped out of the race, Cheney announced on January 27, 2008 that she would work for :{Mitt Romney:(style="background-color:#fff200"):}:'s presidential campaign, serving as a senior :{foreign policy:(style="background-color:#fff200"):}: advisor.[23]
Keep America Safe
In October 2009 Liz Cheney, William Kristol, and Deborah Burlingame launched, as board members, a non-profit 501(c)4 organization, Keep America Safe. The group's stated purpose is to "provide information for concerned Americans about critical national security issues" [24]
References
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- ^ Gray, Eliza (February 27, 2013). "The Cheney Renaissance Starts in Wyoming - Dick's Daughter Liz could be getting ready for a Senate run". The New Republic.
- ^ Kantrowitz, Barbara; Peterson, Holly (October 15, 2007). "What I Learned". Newsweek.
- ^ Cooper, Michael (October 1, 2000), "The 2000 Campaign: The Republican Running Mate; For the Cheney Family the Motto is 'All for One'", New York Times
- ^ Gellman, p. 37
- ^ "State Department Post for Cheney Daughter", New York Times, March 2, 2002
- ^ Dana Milbank, "In Appointments, Administration Leaves No Family Behind," Washington Post, March 12, 2002.
- ^ "Cheney Family Try a New Peace Tack," The Times, 11-09-2003.
- ^ Glenn Kessler and Peter Slevin, "Cheney is Fulcrum of Foreign Policy: In Interagency Fights, His Views Often Prevail," Washington Post, October 13, 2002
- ^ Weiseman, Steven R. (March 1, 2005), "Mideast Mix: New Promise of Democracy and Threat of Instability", New York Times
- ^ Peter Slevin, "Vice President's Daughter to Leave State Dept." Washington Post, November 18, 2003.
- ^ Mike Allen, "The Five (or More) W's," Washington Post, May 13, 2004.
- ^ Al Kamen, "A Newly Meaningful Relationship, Washington Post, February 14, 2005.
- ^ Maha Akeel, "Correcting Perceptions About American Is My Job:; Liz Cheney," Arab News, November 16, 2005.
- ^ Robin Wright, "Constitution Sparks Debate on Viability," Washington Post, August 25, 2005.
- ^ "Preview of the Forum for the Future, November 11–12, 2005, Manama, Bahrain, U.S. State Department transcript, http://fpc.state.gov/fpc/56709.htm
- ^ "Preview of Forum of the Future," etc.
- ^ Weisman, Steven R. (April 15, 2006), "U.S. Program Is Directed at Altering Iran's Politics", New York Times
- ^ Farah, Stockman, "U.S. Unit Created to Pressure Iran, Syria, Disbanded," Boston Globe, May 26, 2007.
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- ^ "Mission Statement" Keep America Safe, 2009. http://www.keepamericasafe.com/?page_id=21
External links
 | Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Elizabeth Cheney |
- [1] Video: Elizabeth Cheney as panelist as a Center for Strategic and International Studies panel participant with foreign policy experts Robin Wright of Washington Post, Jon Alterman of CSIS, Ken Pollack of Brookings Institution.
- Profile: Liz Cheney profile.
- [2] Transcript: appearance on Fox News' No Spin Zone, October 21, 2004, interview with Bill O'Reilly
- [3] Transcript: Foreign Press Center briefing on disbursement of MEPI funds, Manama, Bahrain, Nov. 9 2005.
- [4] Interview: Carnegie Endowment
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Interview: with Norah O'Donnell of MSNBC, April 23, 2009 - [6] Transcript: debate in New York City, "Diplomacy with Iran Is Going Nowhere" sponsored by Rosenkranz Foundation and Intelligence Squared, May 12, 2009.
- [7] Keep America Safe website
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