Monday, July 30, 2007

Ex-VP Mondale accuses Cheney of power grab

Ex-VP Mondale accuses Cheney of power grabAgence France-Presse
Published: Sunday July 29, 2007Vice President Dick Cheney has presided over an unprecedented power grab during his six years in the White House, former Vice President Walter Mondale wrote in a rare, scathing critique Sunday.
"The real question is why the president allows this to happen," Mondale writes.
Mondale, the former number two to Democratic President Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s, in an opinion piece appearing Sunday in the Washington Post newspaper, fingered Cheney as the chief transgressor in a White House guilty of "great excess" and "exceeding its authority."
He wrote that since the September 11, 2001 terror attacks, "Cheney set out to create a largely independent power center in the office of the vice president."
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