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    1. RIP Brent Scowcroft. When I was researching my book "Takeover," which traced Dick Cheney's formative experiences in the Ford administration as part of understanding his approach to executive power, Scowcroft was kind enough to let me interview him. /1 nytimes.com/2020/08/07/us/politics/brent-scowcroft-dead.html
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    Working for Ford in the post-Watergate/Vietnam and Church Committee reform era, Scowcroft and Cheney were on the same page about congressional efforts to curtail presidential power: aghast at ideas like FISA, requiring a warrant for national-security surveillance on US soil. /2
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      But in 2006, after the NYT revealed aspects of the NSA's post-9/11 warrantless wiretapping program and Cheney - now Bush43's vice president - argued that the president, as commander-in-chief, could lawfully disregard FISA, Scowcroft told me Cheney was going too far. /3
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        I don't believe Brent Scowcroft and I ever spoke again after that interview. I am sorry to hear of his passing. /end
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