As vice president during 9/11, Cheney is at the center of an enduring debate over US spy powers
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Dick Cheney was the public face of the George W. Bush administration’s boundary-pushing approach to surveillance and intelligence collection in the years after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks . An unabashed proponent of broad executive power in the name of national security, Cheney placed himself at the center of a polarizing public debate over detention, interrogation and spying that endures two decades later. “I do think the security state that we have today is very much a
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