The Washington Post is running excerpts from Barton Gellman’s THE ANGLER: The Cheney Vice Presidency, which publishes on Tuesday. The book’s take on domestic surveillance conducted post 9/11: “Cheney and his counsel would struggle for months to quash the legal insurgency. By the time President Bush became aware of it, his No. 2 had stoked dissent into flat-out rebellion. The president would face a dilemma, and the presidency itself a historic test. Cheney would come close to leading them off a cliff, man and office both.” Washington PostSecond excerpt
