Cheney’s Law News & Analysis

Please note that this post is from 2007. Evaluate with care and in light of later events.

PBS FRONTLINE – Cheney’s Law:

For three decades Vice President Dick Cheney conducted a secretive, behind-closed-doors campaign to give the president virtually unlimited wartime power. Finally, in the aftermath of 9/11, the Justice Department and the White House made a number of controversial legal decisions. Orchestrated by Cheney and his lawyer David Addington, the department interpreted executive power in an expansive and extraordinary way, granting President George W. Bush the power to detain, interrogate, torture, wiretap and spy—without congressional approval or judicial review. Now, as the White House appears ready to ignore subpoenas in the investigations over wiretapping and U.S. attorney firings, FRONTLINE examines the battle over the power of the presidency and Cheney’s way of looking at the Constitution.

Sounds like a fascinating investigation of what may formerly have appeared a rather abstract Constitutional debate over the role of the executive branch, but is now central to the future of the United States and the world.