I think Cheney is there to answer all the questions in Bush´s place, since Bush is so dumb he won´t know jack shit about anything.
Cheney is just there to pick up the ball, and keep Bush from making an ass of himself (it doesn´t help).
And to back eachother´s lies, of course.
Some say Cheny is a daunting figure, that temorizes the staunchiest man. Maybe he´s there to scare the comission shitless, and put the fear of god into them...
"I think he has this mystique, whether it's justified or not, of being a very tough guy, and a very Machiavellian guy, and a very bare-knuckles fighter," said Richard Clarke, who worked with Cheney after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks as a National Security Council official and is now an ABCNEWS consultant.
"I don't know whether any of that is true. I've never really seen very much of that, but that's the mystique," Clarke said. "I wouldn't want to put it to the test. I never did. I think he enjoys the reputation that you don't want to cross Dick Cheney."
Uuuuhh, i´m trembling of fear...
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/Nightline/Politics/dick_cheney_031129-1.html