Dismissing any conspiracy theories, was Cheney served well by 9/11?
Yeah, that’s the meta-question. 9/11 both ratified in Cheney’s mind his lifelong convictions about national security and the dangerous world we live in and the need for executive power in the hands of the commander-in-chief, and on the other hand it gave him greater urgency and opportunity. I mean Cheney had fought and lost, time and again, for decades, on these issues of presidential power – he fought against all the new regulation and restraint of executive power, of the intelligence agencies. He thought that all that stuff had been over-legalized. So that you’re a supposedly clandestine tough guy, overseas for the United States of America, and you’re calling back to talk to your lawyer all the time to see if you can do this or do that. Cheney thought this was nonsense. So he had a chance to blow through all those decades of new restraints because of 9/11. And so it was opportune for his agenda and reconfirmed in his own mind that the agenda was necessary. Q: Why did he take his eye
