” ‘I served in the Congress for ten years,’ [Vice President Dick] Cheney said in an interview [on NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on February 7, 2006] shortly after the NSA’s [National Security Administration’s] [warrantless wiretapping] program was exposed. ‘I do believe that especially in the day and age we live in, the nature of the threats we face…the president of the United States [Bush] needs to have his constitutional powers unimpaired, if you will, in terms of the conduct of national security policy.’ ”
– Stephen F. Hayes, Cheney, Page 487