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Dick Cheney Fib Challenged By Dems

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Monday night, I posted a clip from Meet the Press where Dick Cheney stated that he no longer has any financial ties to Halliburton. Guess I wasn’t the only one who noticed that wasn’t exactly true.
Now Senators Daschle and Lautenberg are demanding hearings investigating the no-bid contracts. They also did me the favor of producing the exact numbers I asked for.

Oil services firm paid Cheney as VP
In Reuters.

“The vice president needs to explain how he reconciles the claim that he has ‘no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind’ with the hundreds of thousands of dollars in deferred salary payments he receives from Halliburton,” Daschle said in a statement.
On NBC’s “Meet the Press” Sunday, Cheney, who was Halliburton’s CEO from 1995 to 2000, said he had severed all ties with the Houston-based company.
“I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and haven’t had now for over three years,” he said.
Cathie Martin, a Cheney spokeswoman, confirmed that the vice president has been receiving the deferred compensation payments from Halliburton, but she disputed that his statements on “Meet the Press” had been misleading.
Cheney had already earned the salary that was now being paid, Martin said, adding that once he became a nominee for vice president, he purchased an insurance policy to guarantee that the deferred salary would be paid to him whether or not Halliburton survived as a company.
“So he has no financial interest in the company,” she said.
But Lautenberg said Cheney’s financial disclosure filings with the Office of Government Ethics listed $205,298 in deferred salary payments made to him by Halliburton in 2001, and another $162,393 in 2002. The filings indicated that he was scheduled to receive more payments this year and in 2004 and 2005.
“In 2001 and 2002, Vice President Cheney was paid almost as much in salary from Halliburton as he made as vice president,” Lautenberg said.
The vice president’s salary is $198,600 annually.

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Dick Cheney On Meet the Press – Subject: The Forged Nigerian WMD Evidence

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This clip is a Dick Cheney classic.
According to Cheney, he doesn’t know anything about anything. He doesn’t know who Ambassador Joseph Wilson is. He doesn’t know who the CIA is. He must not know what a newspaper is either.
This is from the September 14, 2003 program of
Meet The Press, hosted by Tim Russert.
(Link goes to a complete very incomplete transcript.)
Russert: “Were you briefed on his (Joseph Wilson’s) findings of February-March of 2002?”
Cheney: “No. I don’t know Joe Wilson. I’ve never met Joe Wilson…Joe Wilson? I don’t know who sent Joe Wilson. He never submitted a report that I ever saw when he came back…I don’t know Mr. Wilson. I probably shouldn’t judge him…I have no idea who hired him.”
Tim Russert: “The CIA did.”
Cheney: “Yeah but who are ‘the CIA?’ I don’t know.”
Cheney On The Forged Nigerian WMD Evidence (Small – 8 MB)







Dick Cheney On Meet the Press – Subject: The Halliburton Contracts

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This is from the September 14, 2003 program of
Meet The Press, hosted by Tim Russert.
(Link goes to a complete very incomplete transcript.)
Cheney: “I don’t know any of the details of the contract because I deliberately stay away from any of that information.”
Cheney also said that he has “no idea” why there was no bidding process, and to “go ask the Core of Engineers.” He also said that he “has no financial interest of any kind” with the company and hasn’t “for over three years.”
(Can someone please find me a link to the fact that he still receives deferred income from Halliburton every year? I know I’ve seen that several times in different publications. It’s bound to be somewhere else besides in a Daily Show clip. — Thanks! UPDATE! 9/16/03 — Well, that didn’t take long (see snippet below from Chris Floyd in Counterpunch.)
Update: 9/17/03 – New story in Reuters with all the details.

Cheney On The Halliburton Contracts (Small – 6 MB)




From Counterpunch, March 2003:

Old news, you say? Irrelevant to the current crisis? Surely, now that Cheney has been translated to glory as the nation’s second-highest public servant, he is beyond any taint of grubby material concerns? Au contraire, as those ever-dastardly French like to say. At this very moment, while the smoke is still rising from the rubble of Baghdad, while the bodies of the unburied dead are still rotting in the desert wastes, Dick Cheney is receiving one million dollars a year in so-called “deferred compensation” from Halliburton. That’s a million smackers from a private company that profits directly from the mass slaughter in Iraq, going into the pockets of the “public servant” who is, as the sycophantic media never tires of telling us, the power behind George W.’s throne – and a prime architect of the war.

(Thanks, Jim.)

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Dick Cheney On Meet the Press – Subject: The Congressional Budget Office’s Claims That Our Forces Are Already Overextended

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This is from the September 14, 2003 program of
Meet The Press, hosted by Tim Russert.
(Link goes to a complete very incomplete transcript.)
Cheney On The Congressional Budget Office’s Claims That Our Forces Are Already Overextended (Small – 7 MB)



Dick Cheney On Meet the Press – Subject: The Plan For Iraq (Or Lack Of One)

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This is from the September 14, 2003 program of
Meet The Press, hosted by Tim Russert.
(Link goes to a complete very incomplete transcript.)

Cheney On The Plan For Iraq (Or Lack Of One) (Small – 7 MB)
Tim Russert: “What is our plan for Iraq? How long with the 140,000 American Soldiers be there? How many international troops will join them? And how much is this gonna cost?”
Cheney: “Well, some of those questions are unknowable at present. They will depend on developments — depend on how fast it takes us to achieve our objectives.”

Dick Cheney On Meet The Press – Subject: The Confused American Public That Thinks Iraq Was Responsible For 9-11, Saudi Involvement In 9-11, And the “Classified” Pages of the 9-11 Commission Report

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This is from the September 14, 2003 program of
Meet The Press, hosted by Tim Russert.
(Link goes to a complete very incomplete transcript.)
Subject: The Confused American Public That Thinks Iraq Was Responsible For 9-11, Saudi Involvement In 9-11, And the “Classified” Pages of the 9-11 Commission Report
Note: There is no mention whatsoever of this segment in the transcript. (Except for the part in the end about Cheney thinking another attack is imminent.)
Cheney On Iraq and 9-11 (Small – 7 MB)