In reference to NYT article on Saturday
What Cheney was doing here was making a point: that he believes that the president can impose the equivalent of martial law inside the country at any moment he feels it's necessary, even if it isn't. What Cheney was about was making a point about his own untouchable power outside the constitution to wage a war, even in America itself against American citizens. Remember also that Cheney strongly believes in the power of torture as well - as integral, as he has put it, to American constitutional practices.
One day, we will realize what a threat Cheney was - and remains - to America as a constitutional republic and to the national security of the West as a whole. (Source)
One day? Is the problem that we're too close? That Americans can only see this man clearly through the haze of history? Or is it that there are too many people, insiders, who today have a stake in protecting him?