In the half century he navigated the heights of U.S. executive power, Dick Cheney went from being universally admired—as the competent public servant overseeing the lopsided victory in the First Gulf War—to profoundly polarizing, albeit in ways that made many Americans wistful: The divisions Cheney inveigled were grounded not in personal aggrandizement but in differing concepts of duty to nation. His legacy at the time of his death on Monday, at 84, was as the uniquely powerful Vice President who after the terrorist attacks of 9/11 intrigued for the CIA to use torture, for the National Security Agency to scoop up the communications of every American, and for the misbegotten military invasion of invade Iraq , which killed hundreds of thousands and shifted the balance of power in the r

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