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The Commissar's in Town: very little happens at State regarding the Middle East without the knowledge and approval of Cheney--not Dick, but Liz, his powerful, secretive daughter.(REPORT)(Elizabeth "Liz" Cheney appointed to Department of State)
American Prospect, The, June, 2006 by Dreyfuss, Robert
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AT THE VERY HEART OF U.S. MIDDLE EAST policy, from the war in Iraq to pressure for regime change in Iran and Syria to the spread of free-market democracy in the region, sits the 39-year-old daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney. Elizabeth "Liz" Cheney, appointed to her post in February 2005, has a tongue-twisting title: principal deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern Affairs and coordinator for broader Middle East and North Africa initiatives. By all accounts, it is an enormously powerful post, and one for which she is uniquely unqualified.
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