Unitary Executive Theory/external articles

The following are external articles related to the main article Unitary Executive Theory.

2006

January

• Tom Engelhardt, "Tomgram: A Cult of Presidential Power. The Unrestrained President," TomDispatch.com, January 4, 2006.
• Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith, "The Limits of Power: Questions for Alito," The Nation, January 6, 2006.
• Glenn Greenwald, "An ideology of lawlessness," Unclaimed Territory, January 6, 2006.
• Armando, "What A 'Unitary Executive' Means - President As King," Daily Kos, January 10, 2006.
• Jennifer Van Bergen, "The Unitary Executive. Why the Bush Doctrine Violates the Constitution," CounterPunch, January 12, 2006.
• Sidney Blumenthal, "George Bush's rough justice. The career of the latest supreme court nominee has been marked by his hatred of liberalism," Guardian Unlimited (UK), January 12, 2006.
• Robert Parry, "Alito & the Ken Lay Factor," consortiumnews.com, January 12, 2006.
• Chrish, "Bin Laden tape justifies Unitary Executive on the Big Story," News Hounds, January 20, 2006.

February

• Steven C. Clemons, "Democratic Imperative: Bush's 'Unitary Executive' Notion Must be Obliterated," The Washington Note, February 26, 2006.

March

• Paul Waldman, "'Unitary Executive' Or Autocracy?" TomPaine.com, March 8, 2006.
• "The Unitary Executive, Part I: Signing Statements," The Mahablog, March 25, 2006.
• "The Unitary Executive, Part II: What is it and why is it bad?", The Mahablog, March 27, 2006.

April

• James Bovard, "Bush’s Bogus Theory of Absolute Power," LewRockwell.com, April 8, 2006.

June

• Chris Floyd, "Insanity Defense: Power, Paranoia and Presidential Tyranny," Empire Burlesque, June 29, 2006.
• Tom Raum, "Analysis: Wartime Powers Face Scrutiny. Analysis: Guantanamo ruling raises questions on other Bush assertions of wartime powers," Associated Press (CBS News), June 30, 2006.

July

• Richard Stengel, "No One Gets a Blank Check," TIME.com, July 2, 2006.
• Michael Ratner, "For His Eyes Only: Bush's Secret Crimes," The Nation, July 2, 2006.
• Doug Smith, "The Unitary Executive for Dummies," DouglasKSmith.com, July 13, 2006.
• Michael Isikoff and Stuart Taylor Jr., "The Gitmo Fallout. The fight over the Hamdan ruling heats up—as fears about its reach escalate," Newsweek, July 17, 2006 (issue).

August

• Chris Floyd, "CYA Agents: Bush Hit Men Running Scared," Empire Burlesque, August 1, 2006.
• Dan Froomkin, "Signing Statements Strike a Nerve," Washington Post, August 2, 2006.
• Commentary: "Bush is signing away our checks and balances," Chicago Sun-Times, August 2, 2006.
• Aziz Huq, "We're All Enemy Combatants Now," TomPaine.com, August 2, 2006.
• David S. Broder, "Governors Wary of Change on Troops. House Bill Would Increase President's Authority Over National Guard Units," Washington Post, August 6, 2006.

2007

June

• Editorial: "Dick Cheney Rules," New York Times, June 3, 2007.
• Dan Froomkin, "Cheney, By Proxy," Washington Post, June 4, 2007.
• Bonnie Erbe, "Cheney Is Arrogance Personified," Washington Whispers/CBS News, June 4, 2007.
• "Vice President Exempts His Office from the Requirements for Protecting Classified Information," Chairman Henry A. Waxman, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, June 21, 2007.
• Peter Baker, "Cheney's office balks at rules on classified information. Vice president's staff tried to abolish office that wanted them to comply," Washington Post (Houston Chronicle), June 21, 2007.
• Sidney Blumenthal, Opinion: "Imperial presidency declared null and void. Bush may ignore the 4th Circuit's stinging rebuke of his war paradigm. But his policies are losing the cloak of legality," Salon, June 21, 2007.
• Nico Pitney, "Report: Cheney Exempted His Office From Executive Order Protecting Classified Information," Think Progress, June 21, 2007.
• F. Vyan Walton, "Cheney's Office Scoffs at National Security Rules - Literally," OpEdNews.com, June 21, 2007.
• Dan Froomkin, "Cheney: Neither Here Nor There?" Washington Post, June 21, 2007.
• Peter Baker, "Cheney Defiant on Classified Material. Executive Order Ignored Since 2003," Washington Post, June 22, 2007.
• Dan Froomkin, "The Method to Cheney's Madness," Washington Post, June 22, 2007.
• Andrew Cohen, Opinion: "Is Vice President's Office Above The Law? Legal Analyst Andrew Cohen On Friction Between Cheney And The National Archives," CBS News, June 22, 2007.
• Josh Meyer, "Cheney claims a non-executive privilege. He asserts he's exempt from showing an agency how his office keeps secrets because he's not fully part of the administration," Los Angeles Times, June 22, 2007.
• Julia Malone, "Cheney: Office not part of executive branch. Assertion made as part of data battle," Cox News Service (Seattle Post-Intelligencer), June 22, 2007.
• Josh Gerstein, "Cheney Refused an Inspection for Security," New York Sun, June 22, 2007.
• "Waxman vs. Cheney," The Gate/National Journal, June 22, 2007.
• Michael Sung, "Cheney ignoring executive order on classified info oversight: House panel," Jurist, June 22, 2007.
• "With Cheney's Refusal to Follow Executive Order on Classified Information: CREW Asks 'Is the Vice President Creating a Fourth Branch of Government?'," PRNewswire-USNewswire (Common Dreams), June 22, 2007.
• Craig Crawford, "Add This to the Constitution — The Cheney Branch," Craig Crawford's Trail Mix/CQPolitics.com, June 22, 2007.
• Carrie Budoff, "Reid doesn't buy Cheney's argument," The Crypt's Blog/The Politico, June 22, 2007.
• Ryan Singel, "White House: Of Course, the Rules Don't Apply to Cheney," Threat Level Blog/WIRED, June 22, 2007.
• "Cheney tried to nix agency targeting him," The Raw Story, June 22, 2007.
• Nico Pitney, "White House On Cheney Ignoring Executive Order: ‘It’s A Little Bit Of A Non-Issue’," Think Progress, June 22, 2007.
• Spencer Ackerman, "WH's Perino: Veep's Role in the Gov't is 'Unique'," TPMmuckraker, June 22, 2007.
• Kathleen Reardon, "Pathological Power: Dick Cheney Explained," The Huffington Post, June 22, 2007.
• Peter Baker, "White House Defends Cheney's Refusal of Oversight," Washington Post, June 23, 2007.
• Faiz Shakir, "Olbermann Fact-Checks White House, Finds No Special Exemption For Cheney," Think Progress, June 23, 2007.
• "White House Backs Cheney's Secrecy Stance. Bush Administration Defends VP's Decision Not To Cooperate With Archives," Associated Press (CBS News), June 23, 2007.
• Josh Catone, "Democrats plan to cut Cheney out of executive funding bill," The Raw Story, June 23, 2007.
• Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel), "And While We're at It, Let's Take Away Their Security Clearance," The Next Hurrah Blog, June 23, 2007.
• John Byrne, "Cheney ordered Secret Service logs destroyed, paper reports. VP created new secret document classification, keeps 'man-size' safes," The Raw Story, June 23, 2007.
• Sandy Sand, "Cash In the Rogue Nation of Cheney with Monetary Sanctions," OpEdNews.com, June 23, 2007.
• Kevin Drum, "Fun With Dick and Dick," Political Animal/CBS News, June 23, 2007.
• Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel), "The Next Four-Branch Presidency," The Next Hurrah Blog, June 23, 2007.
• "Cheney Stance on Information Challenged," Associated Press (Washington Post), June 24, 2007.
• Michael Isikoff, "A New Cheney-Gonzales Mystery," Newsweek, July 2-9, 2007 issue; posted online June 24, 2007.
• Barton Gellman and Jo Becker, "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency", Washington Post:

• Chapter 1: "'A Different Understanding With the President'," June 24, 2007.
• Chapter 2: "Pushing the Envelope on Presidential Power," June 25, 2007.
• Chapter 3: "A Strong Push From Backstage," June 26, 2007.
• Chapter 4: "Leaving No Tracks," June 27, 2007.

• Editorial: "White House of Mirrors," New York Times, June 24, 2007.
• "Cheney Stance on Information Challenged. Senators Debate Cheney's Claim That His Office Is Exempt From Sections of Presidential Order," Associated Press (ABC News), June 24, 2007.
• David Jackson, "Lawmaker challenges Cheney on executive order," USA TODAY, June 24, 2007.
• Opinion: "Vice Presidency: Having it both ways," Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 24, 2007.
• Roger McShane, "Private Dick," Slate, June 24, 2007.
• Patrick O'Connor, "Emanuel Bill Would Defund Cheney," The Crypt's Blog/The Politico, June 24, 2007.
• Michael Roston, "For Cheney, office's relocation out of executive is nothing new," The Raw Story, June 24, 2007.
• Kevin Drum, "The Panopticon White House," The Political Animal/CBS News, June 24, 2007.
• Prof. Michel Chossudovsky, "Bush Directive for a 'Catastrophic Emergency' in America: Building a Justification for Waging War on Iran?" Global Research (Canada), June 24, 2007.
• "All the vice president’s men," Think Progress, June 24, 2007.
• "Gonzales apparently not probing Cheney exemption," Think Progress, June 24, 2007.
• Jason Leopold, "Vice President's role in outing of CIA agent under examination, sources close to prosecutor say," The Raw Story, June 24, 2007 (reposting of October 12, 2005, story).
• "Protecting the President's Power. Cheney's views on the subject have remained consistent, but his ability to promote them has not," Washington Post, June 25, 2007.
• Paul Craig Roberts, "Goodbye to the city upon a hill and to its fabled economy," Online Journal, June 25, 2007. re America is a shining city upon a hill
• Nico Pitney, "White House: It Would Be ‘Awkward’ If Bush Were Investigated By Executive Agency," Think Progress, June 25, 2007.
• "Vote to defund Cheney’s office to be held this week," Think Progress, June 25, 2007.
• Michael Roston, "Top Democrat claims 'overwhelmingly positive' response to move to defund the Vice President," The Raw Story, June 25, 2007.
• Steven Thomma, "Cheney may meet his match in Democratic Rep. Emanuel," McClatchy Newspapers, June 25, 2007.
• Elana Schor and Mike Soraghan, "Secrecy may cost Cheney, Dems warn," The Hill, June 26, 2007.
• Caren Bohan, "Cheney role as power broker in spotlight again," Reuters (ABC News), June 26, 2007.
• "Civics Quiz: Is Cheney Part of the Executive Branch? Vice President Dick Cheney Refuses to Hand Over Classified Documents to National Archives," ABC News, June 26, 2007.
• Dale McFeatters, "Dick Cheney's own branch of government," Capitol Hill Blue, June 26, 2007.
• Faiz Shakir, "FLASHBACK: Cheney Argued Energy Task Force Probe ‘Interfered With Executive Branch’," Think Progress, June 26, 2007.
• Nico Pitney, "Cost Of Cheney’s Executive Office: $4.75 Million," Think Progress, June 26, 2007.
• Amanda Terkel, "Waxman Reveals Numerous New Security Violations, Threatens Subpoenas," Think Progress, June 26, 2007.
• Spencer Ackerman, TPMmuckraker, June 26, 2007:

• "Today's Must Read"
• "Is President Bush Part of the Executive Branch?"

• Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel), The Next Hurrah Blog, June 26, 2007:

• "Does the 'Royalty Management Subcommittee' Sound Like Something We'd Find in Cheney's DOI?"
• "Well Then, We'll Take Away Executive Privilege for Everyone Else"

• Leora Falk, "Emanuel seeks to cut funding for Cheney's office, home," Chicago Tribune, June 26, 2007.
• "Democrats Target Cheney's Office Funds. Democrats Plan Amendment To Restrict Funds For Vice President's Office," Associated Press (CBS News), June 26, 2007.
• Aziz Huq, "Cheney and the Constitution," The Nation, June 26, 2007: "But the true crisis is hidden in plain sight--the existence of an office in the Constitution--the Vice President's--with no real remit and no real limits, open to exploitation and abuse."
• Robert J. Elisberg, "In Defense of the White House Exemption from Oversight," The Huffington Post, June 26, 2007.
• Satyam Khanna, "Justice Department Lies, Whitewashes Administration’s Failure To Comply With FOIA," Think Progress, June 26, 2007.
• John Byrne, "Cheney's chief of staff rebukes Kerry on VP's secrecy oversight," The Raw Story, June 26, 2007.
• Michael Abramowitz, "Cheney Aide Explains Stance on Classified Material," Washington Post, June 27, 2007.
• Ruth Marcus, "Rules? For Fools," Washington Post, June 27, 2007.
• Editorial: "4th branch of government?" St. Petersburg Times, June 27, 2007.
• Scarecrow, "Morning In Amerika?" Firedoglake Blog, June 27, 2007.

July

• Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein, "Broader Privilege Claimed In Firings. White House Says Hill Can't Pursue Contempt Cases," Washington Post, July 20, 2007.