rise in filed last week he knows that he was told by reliable sources that former vice president dick cheney pressure the justice department to personally target him because cheney was unhappy with his reporting and wanted to see him in jail now the reporting in this particular case refers to a chapter in his two thousand and six book state of war the secret history of the cia in the bush administration in that chapter he described a cia effort to thwart iran's nuclear ambitions by secretly providing them with faulty blueprints but it was more than just that rising reported on the waterboarding of detainees in iraq he broke the story of the n.s.a.'s warrantless wiretapping program he also said in his affidavit that he was subject to government surveillance and harassment during the bush administration but that he feels of the obama administration is just continuing the effort of intimidation so why pursue him so vigorously and as our guest today wrote in doing so has obama finally become dick cheney joins me to discuss this is conor friedersdorf sociate out of there at the atlantic carter th

first starters what do you read when you say that barack obama has finally become dick cheney. obviously hasn't worked into an old man with our problems what i mean particularly is that on this issue he is taking the bush cheney position that james rosen should be jailed if he doesn't reveal his source. and it's particularly galling because president obama relied on the reporting of james rosen in particular in making a lot of very solid critiques of the bush administration so it's disappointing to see him take the position of dick cheney on this particular issue what would you say james rise and actually help get obama elected. i would say that i think that if not for reporters like james rosen and james rosen in particular we wouldn't know about the illegal acts that the bush administration committed in the name of the war on terror we wouldn't know about the illegal wiretapping that the n.s.a. did we know about the illegal torture that was done to detainees overseas and so there are just all sorts of critiques that president obama made during his campaign that are a direct r

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at me for a joke i made about bill edwards and bill maher goes on his show and he says, i wish dick cheneyeen killed in a terrorist attack and no reaction to that. so i was referring to what bill maher had said. what i said was about what bill maher said. >> you're still responsible for your words, aren't you? >> my responsibility is for making fun of bill maher, or not making fun of i suppose liberals for not reacting to bill maher for saying this terrible thing about dick cheney, make a joke about john edwards, the world blows up, i'm asked about the joke and i say i guess i learned my lesson, i said bill maher said about dick cheney he wished he had been blown up in a terrorist attack, i guess i learned my lesson. next time i will say i wish he had been blown up in a terrorist attack. >> i think the government should be spying on all dropping daisy cutters throughout the middle east and sending liberals to guantanamo. that was one of your own columns. >> that needs no explanation. it is beautiful. beautifully written. >> yeah? >> yeah. >> that wouldn't in any way fall into demonic rabbl

it was dick cheney speaking to me at graduation and i don't remember exactly what he said but it wasrobably something along the lines of what do you want me to say? go forth and ruled world or something like that. i don't exactly remember and our don't know if because i am speaking here now today if i will go on to become secretary of defense or if i will be a comically evil place president who god's gift to cartoonists everywhere. but i do know one thing. if dick cheney had spent more time on this campus playing frisbee on this very quod like i did that there definitely wouldn't have been a bogus run up to work based on wm ds that didn't exist. but i digress. i am not here to talk about politicians and bash political figures, as much fun as that is. that is what i get to do every week, fortunately. what i really here to talk about is the path of my life and how it relates to the path of your life. and the incredible influence colorado college at on me. it was the most formative four years of my life to date. from this podium standing here, i can see over to polymer all where i took

attack by the taliban in kabul today really mean then why ask if obama has finally turned in to dick cheney and his legal battle against reporter james rise and or have all that and more parade united but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has missed. you know we've done quite a bit of trash talking on the show about the mainstream media's coverage of the casey anthony trial it's been incessant it's been over the top it's been quite ridiculous to say the least but today's coverage i think takes the cake every single cable news network for at least two or three hours this morning we told her in our office had nothing on it screens but the casey anthony trial they discussed every piece of evidence every little minuscule piece of paper every question and answer i mean it was non stop it was kind of like the rest of the world stopped by casey anthony was the only thing going on. you can believe this but what's happening now george anthony is on the stand and he's being questioned about his relationship. did he have some kind of inappropriate relationship with one of the search

we have to live in reality. >> dick cheney wasn't shooting birds in a cage. was hunting. >> he was not hunting, anderson. there's a difference between hunting which i'm not a big fan of either and when you go out into this controlled situation where they -- i forget what they do to the birds but they do something where they can't fly. it's the equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel. and yes, look it up. that's what he did. >> all right. >> he shot and killed an incredible number of birds for absolutely no reason than a blood lust. >> why could you think he should resign? >> because people won't let it go. because you're asking me about it. this is how it works in america. when you do something unspeakable, you know, like be horny, you have to go away. then he can come back. but until he goes away, they're not going to let it go and it's going to be a huge distraction. i mean, the democrats were sort of on a roll when this happen. and it completely threw them off their game and changed the subject. for the good of the party which means in my view the good of

and katrina turned stewart's comedy from those general jabs to very tough critiques of bush and dick cheney. stewart hammered them nightly. mccain was one of his most frequent guests and right after he wrapped up -- here he is right after he wrapped up the nomination. >> i came on the show. we were declared dead, buried and -- >> you were doing terrible, i remember that. you were just in terrible shape. in some respects, i resurrected your campaign. >> you did. because when i came on this show we got on to real serious issues. in fact, for a while there i was reminded of the words of chairman mao, who said it's always darkness before it's totally black. >> i remember getting that in one of my fortune cookies as well. chris: does he matter politically, john stewart? >> he doesn't want to be a political player, but he does have great political power and his ratings are huge, particularly among young people, which is why he's courted, why the president of the united states goes on his show. john stewart says the stuff you say at home when you start shouting at the television like a cread perso

managers to buy them reporter jonathan landay covered the speech dick cheney gave in august two thousand and two to the veterans of foreign wars many of us are. saying wire nuclear weapons. that was based on absolutely nothing it was as if it was pulled out of thin air there was absolutely no intelligence no evidence whatsoever for that assertion. and more and began writing about forty intelligence about how there was no link between iraq and al qaeda about failed policies that series of stories one station of people in the pentagon trying to shut me out of travel with the secretary of defense i was not allowed to have not been allowed in or invited to trip pentagon sits for three years. the chill white house correspondent. he had been trying to get on the vice president's plane in early two thousand and four there were some things that. there was no. it's my belief that a lot of journalists did not ask hard questions of this administration's policies particularly in the run up to the war in iraq because they were afraid of losing access and having happened to them what happened to me an

analogy between what they're doing with obama's doing with iran is very close to what bush and dick cheney the vice president that did to iraq that is they they they wanted to punish they wanted to make a case against iraq they didn't like the politics. and so we made a case about nuclear weapons i mean if you remember they were talking about mushroom clouds i make a case to go to war i don't i'm not suggesting these guys want to go to war i mean there are elements in america so maybe i wouldn't sit israel that would i would love to see as a tack iran but that would be suicidal. there's no actual evidence of the iranians developing a nuclear weapons program that is why why the the fear mongering and the rhetoric whether it's the administration or the mainstream media there's no evidence that our weaponization there's no evidence anywhere i went they go you go to london you go to you go to you go to the french you go to the germans they also there's a day we thought we still think they might want to go but we don't have a day it should be open and shut we should move on but we're not instea

bush and dick cheney were listed among the five or worst people of all time they us school they were right alongside osama bin laden and it. was a one and a half thousand face book is a crush of birthday party for a sixteen year old and. after she invited them unintentionally via social network accounts. are not as good as some other international news making headlines this hour and yemen's main opposition coalition says that it will accept a transfer of power to the vice president after the president left for saudi arabia ali abdullah saleh is in saudi hospital having undergone surgery on wounds that he suffered during a rocket attack on his compound on friday it remains unclear whether saleh will actually return to again after thirty three years in power the embattled leader has come under severe pressure to resign. and a five u.s. soldiers are being killed in central iraq making it the deadliest day for american troops in over two years iraqi sources say the attack was that camp victory on the outskirts of baghdad the americans were at their base acting as advisors when rockets hi

that gadhafi regime was controlled by the central intelligence agency by dick cheney by richard perle who words in visors and conduct the privatized three hundred six companies and the libyan oil was handed over to the major oil companies exxon shell the immobile but the brazing was the occasion for the intervention and demonizing khadafi as they had saddam hussein in previously as a cover and pretext saddam was their man in baghdad for twenty seven years conduct he had worked hand in glove with the cia and with congolese arise in the ninety's on but they demonize him now to give them cover for a completely. riches and predatory agenda to seize the oil subjugating the population and aborting a worker and popular uprising against the gadhafi regime the population does not benefit from their natural resources because they had to disposal of foreign corporations on behalf of the united states in the western powers it was a colonial engendered in imperial one today resource rich countries are constantly having to sovereignty breached in countries selling regimes installed in resources go

bush and dick cheney ended up alongside him on a list of the worst people of all time put together by a u.s. school. plus the naked truth a group of female activists in ukraine national journalists day with a very hot protest against corrupt media now to watch more of this video you can go to our you tube channel. we can count has begun at the baikonur cosmodrome version of the soyuz spacecraft are being moved into position ready for blast off in just a few days that carry three crew members to the international space station for a six month mission on board the most remote outpost lindsey france reports now from the launch pad. less than two days left before class up here at the baikonur cosmodrome and the three crew members are all in quarantine mike fossum sergei volkov and satoshi photo car were met with press family and friends today through thick glass in what was their last public appearance the mood was light as they talked about what they will miss most about their comforts of home to face. different foods but the thing that is the most brutal for fish was. of course fresh fr

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bush and dick cheney ended up alongside hitler on the list of the worst people of all time for. together like a new high school. plus the naked truth a group of female activists in ukraine walk national journalists day with a very hard protest against corrupt media and the good news is that on the website and can watch that story as many times you like i'm sure many of you will and source on the you tube channel. you know what the countdown has begun at the baikonur cosmodrome a real version of these stories spacecraft has been moved into position ready for blastoff in just a few days from now it will carry three crew members to the international space station for a six month mission most remote outpost parties in france reports now from a little. less than two days left before blastoff here at the baikonur cosmodrome and the three crew members are all in quarantine mike fossum sergei volkov and such hoshi photo kawa met with press family and friends today through the glass in what was their last public appearance the mood was light as they talked about what they will miss most

bush and dick cheney again this was a list put in the yearbook by students as you can imagine republican parents were outraged that since the yearbooks had already gone to print a little could be done about it but to put a piece of black tape over the list is something that could be easily removed and in the end someone at the school probably lose their job over this. which is a shame because as art linkletter told us kids have a knack of telling the truth instead of this missing what they say it we should dig a little deeper and figure out why they said it and by looking at this list they created it's clear that the students and he quoted violence and warfare with evil after all these kids historical knowledge there was the horror of war two in the hall and the holocaust and in their own lifetimes there are the horrors visited upon the united states by bin laden and the terrorist dumped on iraq and afghanistan but bush and cheney the emperors who kids see as nakedly evil whose crimes too many adults including our president refused to acknowledge and though patriotism or politics or reli

story that we share here and and the great work you guys are thinking the rest of the world is dick cheney a clear power we're doing nothing except pray in the flooding doesn't get worse it's time to retire nuclear power the most expensive and most dangerous and resource on the planet for good in america and why because the weather is getting crazy in a nuclear these these two these three nuclear plants are two nuclear plants and nuclear facilities are risks from the weather over at the weather underground blodgett dr jeff masters blogger w underground or here these are just he wrote a long article these are just his subheads in the article just a list of the of the kind of you know paragraph summary of. the work the earth's hot and by the way this is about the year two thousand to earth's hottest year on record most extreme winter arctic atmosphere of circulation on record snowmageddon is the result arctic sea level below its volume on record third lowest extent record melting in greenland and a massive aveeno event that's where giant icebergs are falling off into the sea fresh water pour

instead and instead of a one time war as bush had intended he and his handlers like donald rumsfeld dick cheney opted for a perpetual war a war on terror it would last as long as his presidency was. so afghanistan half of iraq happened and countless other covert military actions in places like yemen happen with the war on terror the george w. bush dreamed up the as they so america was for the first time. involved in a war without any clear ending. a recipe for perpetual war or well in perpetual war. listen to how bush justified is a war. we can't really comment on that. he might as well have ripped his words straight from the text of orwell's one thousand nine hundred four and big brother told everyone that war is peace but last week he went on steroids to really commit america to a war ravaged dystopia last week congress took a step toward a shrine in perpetual war into law with the defense authorization act it reads congress affirms that the united states is engaged in an armed conflict with al qaida the taliban and associated forces and that those entities continue to pose a threat to the un

bush and dick cheney ended up alongside hitler on a list of the worst people of all time because they go to buy a school in the u.s. . last about one and a half a thousand facebook has crashed a birthday party for a sixteen year old girl in hamburg off a sheet of unintentionally invited them of her social network account. all right now let's get to some other international news making headlines this hour the former i.m.f. chief has pleaded not guilty to charges of sex crimes it was a dominique strauss kahn's first appearance in a new york court since being released on a six million dollars bail the frenchman is under house arrest and on he was detained three weeks ago and faces seven different counts including the attempted rape of a hotel maid if found guilty he could spend up to twenty five years behind bars. yemen's main opposition coalition says it will accept the transfer of power to the vice president after the president himself left for saudi arabia up to about saleh is in a saudi hospital having undergone surgery on wounds he suffered during a rocket attack on his compound on