{"id":46,"date":"2026-05-22T21:26:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/summitrelocationtimess.com\/?p=46"},"modified":"2026-05-22T21:26:59","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T21:26:59","slug":"dick-cheney-a-profile-in-impunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/summitrelocationtimess.com\/?p=46","title":{"rendered":"Dick Cheney: A Profile in Impunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<article>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>Richard Bruce Cheney died on Nov. <span>3<\/span>, <span>2025<\/span>, at age <span>84<\/span>. Widely acknowledged to be the most powerful vice president in U.S. history, Cheney was the chief architect of the so-called War on Terror under President George W. Bush, including the invasions of Iraq and\u00a0Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/summitrelocationtimess.com\/?p=44\">Radical Booksellers Do More Than Just Retail<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A conservative estimate of the deaths (direct and indirect) caused by America\u2019s post-<span>9<\/span>\/<span>11<\/span> wars, according to Brown University\u2019s Costs of War Project, comes in at <span>4<\/span>.<span>5<\/span> million human\u00a0beings.<\/p>\n<p>While responsibility for this hecatomb\u2009\u2014\u2009and for the harvest of suffering those wars continue to sow\u2009\u2014\u2009is amply distributed across the U.S. political class, Cheney was inarguably the individual who played the greatest part in accelerating and normalizing a\u00a0geopolitical vision built on regime change, aerial terror, extrajudicial killings, secret detentions and\u00a0torture.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>From Bagram Air Base and Abu Ghraib to Guant\u00e1namo and countless clandestine dungeons, Cheney oversaw the build-up of the U.S. empire\u2019s archipelago of\u00a0repression.<\/p>\n<p>Not only did Cheney avoid any accountability for the violence he unleashed on the world and for his corruptions inside the country, he was also a\u00a0crucial proponent of a\u00a0monarchical interpretation of the presidency that treats executive power as immune from redress or challenge. Though defending the political honor of his daughter Liz Cheney led him to eventually declare that \u200b<span>\u201c<\/span>there has never been an individual who is a\u00a0greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump\u201d\u2009\u2014\u2009and to endorse a\u00a0publicly grateful Kamala Harris for president\u2009\u2014\u2009Trump\u2019s increasingly authoritarian administration is part of the world that Cheney\u00a0made.<\/p>\n<p>Cheney served as an aide in the Nixon White House after an internship in Congress, then became President Gerald Ford\u2019s chief of staff, from <span>1975<\/span> to <span>1977<\/span>. It was in this role that, alongside then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Cheney fought against the curbs on the prerogatives of the presidency that Congress had implemented in the wake of the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal, above all the <span>1973<\/span> War Powers Resolution\u2009\u2014\u2009the same act that the Trump administration (following the example of Obama\u2019s <span>2011<\/span> bombing of Libya) says does not apply to its lethal attacks on boats in the Caribbean. Cheney was an early and steadfast proponent of Unitary Executive Theory, which aims to dispense with all constitutional checks and balances on the president\u2019s monopoly of executive power, especially when it comes to\u00a0warmaking.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/summitrelocationtimess.com\/?p=42\">Turning the Page on Corporate Bookselling<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In <span>1979<\/span>, Cheney began a\u00a0<span>10<\/span>-year stint as Wyoming\u2019s congressman, where he was a\u00a0staunch defender of President Ronald Reagan\u2019s counter-insurgency wars. In Cheney\u2019s minority report on the Iran-Contra affair, he argued the Reagan administration\u2019s covert arms trafficking\u2009\u2014\u2009to Iran via Israel, to fund right-wing Contras against Nicaragua\u2019s Sandinista government\u2009\u2014\u2009fell under \u200b<span>\u201c<\/span>constitutionally protected exercises of inherent Presidential powers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>During the George H.W. Bush presidency, Cheney served as secretary of defense, overseeing the invasion of Panama (which he called \u200b<span>\u201c<\/span>the template for how we should do things\u201d) and Operation Desert Storm. It was during this period that, with his undersecretary Paul Wolfowitz, Cheney set out a\u00a0blueprint for permanent U.S. geopolitical hegemony and endless military intervention. This vision of imperialist strategy, the Defense Planning Guidance, would spawn the Project for the New American Century\u2009\u2014\u2009the hawkish neoconservative foreign policy think tank that would spearhead the expansion of U.S. state violence, under the guise of counter-terrorism, in the wake of <span>9<\/span>\/<span>11<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Between the father-son Bush presidencies, Cheney\u2009\u2014\u2009always a\u00a0staunch proponent of tax cuts and corporate welfare\u2009\u2014\u2009served as CEO of the Texas hydrocarbon multinational Halliburton. When Cheney returned to the White House as vice president, he would lead an energy task force that secured the \u200b<span>\u201c<\/span>Halliburton loophole\u201d to exempt the injection of fracking fluid from the Safe Drinking Water Act. Staff from Halliburton, which remains a\u00a0world leader in fracking, were involved in the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s review of the technology. Halliburton\u2019s subsidiary KBR netted billions from a \u200b<span>\u201c<\/span>sweetheart deal\u201d with the US government during the occupation of\u00a0Iraq.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As vice president, Cheney\u2009\u2014\u2009well-known to be a\u00a0micromanaging control freak obsessed with secrecy (destroying visitor logs, multiplying safes for documents)\u2009\u2014\u2009assembled a\u00a0legal team to avoid prohibitions on warrantless wiretaps at home and to bypass the Geneva Conventions on prisoners of war abroad, transforming enemy belligerents into \u200b<span>\u201c<\/span>unlawful combatants\u201d who could be thrown into a\u00a0legal black hole. In a\u00a0notorious interview on <em>Meet the Press<\/em>, Cheney stressed the need, in the wake of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, to \u200b<span>\u201c<\/span>work the dark side\u201d and spend \u200b<span>\u201c<\/span>time in the\u00a0shadows.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As the current administration gloats about Alligator Alcatraz and drone strikes on fishermen in the Caribbean, that \u200b<span>\u201c<\/span>dark side\u201d is crudely hogging the limelight. Though Trump aptly derided Cheney as \u200b<span>\u201c<\/span>the king of endless, nonsensical wars, wasting lives and trillions of dollars,\u201d the Trump presidency and its pathologies would be unthinkable without the groundwork laid by George W. Bush\u2019s \u200b<span>\u201c<\/span>co-president.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/summitrelocationtimess.com\/?p=40\">\u201cThese Are the Mistakes a Dying Empire Makes\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The life of Cheney which brought so many to await his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dick Cheney: A Profile in Impunity - Summit Relocation Timess<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/summitrelocationtimess.com\/?p=46\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dick Cheney: A Profile in Impunity - 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