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* 9/14: Read the first of two days of excerpts from 'Angler' in The Washington Post
* 9/15: Bart appears on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart tonight
* 9/16: 'Angler' goes on sale in bookstores, and Bart holds a live chat with readers
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More than two thirds of Angler is new material, never published before. Highlights include: * The week that Cheney nearly led Bush off a cliff, keeping him unaware of a dispute that threatened his presidency. White House and other top officials speak on the record about an episode that one of them describes as nearing “Watergate territory.”
* Why a top official sent a BlackBerry message, just after leaving the Oval Office, saying he told the president “he was being misled” by Cheney and his allies.
* How Cheney killed a State Department proposal to close secret CIA prisons, deleting it from the agenda of an NSC meeting.
* Cheney’s work with Don Rumsfeld at the Pentagon to slow-roll an emphatic order from Bush on the handling of detainees at Guantanamo Bay. In one scene, their tactics send a cabinet-rank official, cursing, out the door of the Situation Room and leave another one at the table in tears.
* Intelligence gathering by Cheney’s office about policy rivals, including requests for NSA transcripts of their intercepted conversations with foreign officials.
* The vault in Cheney’s wing of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building that served as the command center of a major intelligence program, the first to be conceived and controlled by a vice president.
* What Cheney told a top congressional Republican about Saddam Hussein—a claim, undisclosed until now, that the GOP leader now says Cheney “knew to be untrue.” Speaking on the record, the Republican leader says Cheney will be remembered for “the biggest foreign policy blunder of modern times.”
* On the record interviews with three Cheney advisers who describe his real motives for -- and private doubts about -- pressing the war with Iraq.