Mondale issues blistering attack on Cheney

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Former Vice President Walter Mondale today accused the current vice president, Dick Cheney, of a wholesale assault on the Constitution, the balance of powers, and the system that evolved since World War II to coordinate intelligence and defense policy.

"They wrecked that system," Mondale said this morning at a University of Minnesota scholarly conference on the vice presidency.

This isn't some academic difference of opinion over the proper balance between branches of the federal government, Mondale said, during a question and answer session after his prepared remarks:

"I think this was a brutal, deliberate policy to ignore a wide range of written laws and constitutional principles and the legitimate powers of Congress…It's different than anything we've seen in American history and I think it ought to be seen not as two responsible positions, but ought to be seen as a dramatic challenge to American's system of government."

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http://www.minnpost.com/ericblack/2008/03/24/1254/mondale_issues_blistering_attack_on_cheney


There is also a 33-minute audio link on the page to the presentation at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute on the Vice Presidency

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2. Should a Democratic president

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