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"I've never gotten around the question of her having left the governorship of Alaska in mid-term," former Vice President Dick Cheney said today when asked about fellow Republican Sarah Palin and her suitability for national office.

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney was admitted to the hospital Friday after experiencing discomfort, the latest health scare for the 69-year-old Republican leader who has a long history of heart disease.

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney says his successor, Joe Biden, is "dead wrong" about terrorist threats facing the United States.

Biden says Cheney is "misinformed."

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President Obama has spent a lot of time over the last couple of weeks talking about bipartisanship. Over the weekend, there was a remarkable verbal spat between Vice President Joe Biden and former Vice President Dick Cheney, who was critical of the Obama administration on national security issues.

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Did former Vice President Dick Cheney order the CIA to keep Congress in the dark about a program to capture or kill al-Qaeda leaders?

NPR Senior Washington Editor Ron Elving, Reps. Jan Schakowsky and Peter Hoekstra discuss a potential congressional investigation.

Meanwhile, will Attorney General Eric Holder appoint a special prosecutor to investigate allegations of torture during the Bush administration?

Former Vice President Dick Cheney directed the CIA eight years ago not to brief Congress on a secret counterterrorism program created after the Sept. 11 attacks, according to reports from the Associated Press and The New York Times.

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As vice president, Dick Cheney led CIA briefings with senior members of Congress on Bush-era harsh interrogation program, a news report says.

Intelligence experts say Cheney's role, while highly unusual, was within legal parameters — and underscores his stake in the program.

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President Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney delivered major addresses on national security this week, practically simultaneously.

What were the messages they were signaling? NPR's Scott Simon and NPR News Analyst Juan Williams contrast Obama and Cheney's speeches.

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This week, President Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney faced off over interrogation methods and national security.

What's the upshot? E.J. Dionne of The Washington Post and Brookings Institution and David Brooks of The New York Times discuss the week in politics with Michele Norris.

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Following President Obama's address on national security Thursday, former Vice President Dick Cheney defended the interrogation methods used during the Bush administration.

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