Part 2 of the 4 part Washington Post series on Herr Cheney has now been posted:

WP: Cheney reshaped limits on interrogation

"His lawyer, they said, has recently restated Cheney's argument that when courts and Congress "purport to" limit the commander in chief's warmaking authority, he has the constitutional prerogative to disregard them."

Sounds a lot like Adolf speaking - to me.

John