When the Iran-Contra probe produced its report in 1987, Cheney's staff helped write the dissenting minority report.

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He did say the plan, documented in a report compiled by a task force led by Vice President Dick Cheney, would closely follow the recommendations Bush first floated on the presidential campaign trail last fall.

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And you report that the White House, and especially Vice President Cheney's office are, as you put it, hostile to this CIA preliminary assessment of these capabilities.

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