Cheney: The Untold Story

This sounds like a book I’d like to read.

These days, Cheney is the bete noir of the wacko left, so it is interesting to see the praise that has been heaped on him throughout his career by liberals like Ted Kennedy. A life-long moderate, Cheney’s devotion to his country’s service as Vice-President has enraged the contemporary Democratic Party.

One of the many interesting features of Hayes’ book is Cheney’s interactions with the CIA over his career. It is remarkable, in that context, how often the Agency has been wrong. No wonder that Cheney developed a skeptical attitude toward intelligence, while at the same time placing a high value on confidentiality.

Cheney has been the target of a lot of insanity, mostly based on the fallacy that his boss is stupid. It sounds like this book cuts through a lot of that nonsense, and that fact alone would make a good book.