Dick Cheney Book Tour: 11 Questions Reporters Should Be Asking

Mr. Cheney, why were maps of Iraqi oil fields and pipelines included in the documents reviewed by the administra­tion's energy task force, the NationalEn­ergyPolicy­Developmen­t Group, which you headed during the first months of 2001?

Did discussion­s about regime change in Iraq figure in the deliberati­ons of the energy task force?  

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Markos Moulitsas on Countdown two days ago, talking about the Bush interview that will be aired on the 10th anniversar­y of 9/11:

MOULITSAS: I would have probed deeper into why he [GeorgeWBu­sh] really ignored that report about OsamaBinLa­den determined to strike the US I don't know if you remember, but DickCheney was supposed to be in charge of a terrorism -- counterter­rorism task force, which he basically ignored because he started a new one that was more focused on how to get kickbacks to his oil buddies. He was more concerned about the energy stuff than he was about fighting terrorism. To me, that's the biggest question, because when Bush sits there and wonders why he didn't know, it's clear that there's something going on, and maybe what was happening, given what Cheney's saying these days, was that Cheney was really in charge. And maybe while Bush was floating around in the air, hiding off in some remote airbase in the Dakotas, he had Cheney in charge at that command and control bunker.  

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OLBERMANN: It is amazing that they had all that curtailmen­t of civil rights ready to go within weeks, but, you know, ten years later, he still really doesn't really understand why he didn't know that it was going to happen in advance.

MOULITSAS: No, and when he quickly talked about how he had to put the plans on invading Iraq on hold.

OLBERMANN: That's right.

MOULITSAS: Why were there plans to invade Iraq in the first place at that point? And the fact is we know as for a fact that they actually were at that time planning to invade Iraq. Now, they had a really great excuse to do so.

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