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The article reports on the documents from former Vice President Dick Cheney that includes an article noting the supposed vote of former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell for a Democratic presidential candidate in 2008.

The article presents the statement of U.S. President George W. Bush that reflects that he reads newspapers. In 2003 Bush said in an interview with Brit Hume on Fox TV that he hardly read a newspaper. But in his final news conference of 2006 he referred about some information he got from newspaper. On commenting on the news that Vice President of the U.S. Richard B. Cheney would be called testify in the CIA leak case Bush said that he read about it in newspaper.

The article reports that the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush offered its fullest defense to date of the National Security Agency's domestic eavesdropping program, saying that authorization from Congress to deter terrorist attacks "places the president at the zenith of his powers." According to the author, the Bush administration released 42-page legal analysis that included scholarly papers and court cases. Comments regarding the issue from U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney are reviewed.

In the Watergate scandal, he drew Richard M. Nixonnailing himself to a cross. He stood Dick Cheney at a vast graveyard of veterans, saying, ''For seven years, we did everything to keep you safe.'' And on the frieze over the Supreme Court, he etched the hallowed words: ''Of the insurance co's. By the insurance co's. And for the insurance co's.'' Paul Conrad's rapier editorial cartoons in The Los Angeles Times, The Denver Post and other papers slashed presidents, skewered pomposity and exposed what he saw as deception and injustice for six decades. Subjects squirmed. Readers were outraged and delighted. And he won a host of awards, including three Pulitzer Prizes. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]