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“a lot of what needs to be done here will have to be done quietly, without any discussion.”
on post-9/11 embrace of secret executive power
On the record · Updated October 18, 2026
Dick Cheney quotes
former vice president
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“In our nation’s 246-year history, there has never been an individual who was a greater threat to our republic than Donald Trump,”
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