Conflict Over Spying Led White House to Brink. "This is the first of two stories adapted from "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency," to be published Tuesday". Read this, it's utterly chilling.
"Addington's behavior with the NSA auditors was 'a wake-up call for me,' Goldsmith said. Cheney and Addington, he came to believe, were gaming the system, using secrecy and intimidation to prevent potential dissenters from conducting an independent review. 'They were geniuses at this,' Goldsmith said. 'They could divide up all these problems in the bureaucracy, ask different people to decide things in their lanes, control the facts they gave them, and then put the answers together to get the result they want.'"
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