Never has a vice president played a greater role in shaping an administration’s foreign and domestic policy and its response to such unique events as 9/11 than Dick Cheney. A murky role, it has to be said, since Cheney is the most secretive official of a generally secretive administration.

TBILISI, Georgia - Vice President Dick Cheney has arrived in Georgia, in a show of support for the South Caucasus nation and its pro-Western president.

The House has just passed a bill that would give Vice President Dick Cheney and his successors up to six months of Secret Service protection after leaving office. The secretary of Homeland Security could extend it if warranted.

Ann McFeatters: We don't know how former Vice President Dick Cheney feels about the new airport body scanners that explicitly show the human body, but we have to assume he's gung-ho for them. He is on a self-imposed mission to scare us about how vulnerable we are to another 9/11 attack.

Martin Schram: What a bitter irony it would be if the neo-torture technique favored by Cheney makes it impossible to sentence the confessed 9/11 mastermind to the punishment that fully fits his crime.

CAMP SPEICHER, Iraq - Vice President Dick Cheney saluted U.S. troops stationed near former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's hometown on Thursday and defended the Bush administration's recent decision to extend military deployments as "vital to the mission."

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney was taken to George Washington Hospital early Monday experiencing shortness of breath, a spokeswoman said.

Our View: It turns out President George W. Bush really could say “no” to his powerful vice president, Dick Cheney. And the president did it on a cause dear to the vice president’s heart — a full pardon for his former top aide, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby.

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney went to the hospital on Saturday to undergo minor surgery to replace the battery that powers a device monitoring his heart rhythms.

Hunters generally consider quail hunting safe — at least for humans — despite the negative stigma attached to it by Vice President Dick Cheney’s shooting accident Saturday. Cheney accidentally shot his hunting companion, Austin attorney Harry Whittington.

Hunters generally consider quail hunting safe — at least for humans — despite the negative stigma attached to it by Vice President Dick Cheney’s shooting accident Saturday. Cheney accidentally shot his hunting companion, Austin attorney Harry Whittington, in the face, neck and chest with birdshot while hunting on a private ranch in south Texas.

WASHINGTON — Former vice president Dick Cheney was hospitalized after experiencing chest pains Monday, an aide said. Cheney assistant Peter Long issued a statement that the 69-year-old Cheney was resting comfortably and his doctors were evaluating the situation.

CAIRO, Egypt - Vice President Dick Cheney met with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak Tuesday for talks on the political process in Iraq and the West's standoffs with Syria and Iran.

Vice President Dick Cheney probably couldn’t have picked a friendlier nonpartisan crowd to talk to than the military veterans invited to his speech today in Mesa.

RAYMONDVILLE, Texas - A Texas judge has set a Friday arraignment for Vice President Dick Cheney, former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and others named in indictments accusing them of responsibility for prisoner abuse in a federal detention center.

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney experienced an abnormal heart beat Wednesday morning, went to the White House physician and scheduled a hospital visit to "restore his normal rhythm."

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The lawyer shot by Vice President Dick Cheney during a hunting trip was being discharged from a hospital Friday and told reporters he was deeply sorry for all the trouble Cheney had faced over the past week.

A long string of recent terrorist attacks like the train bomb blasts in Spain show the world is too dangerous to trust to indecisive leaders, Vice President Dick Cheney said as he championed the re-election of President George W. Bush Monday in Phoenix.