46th Vice President of the United States

Dick Cheney served as Vice President from 2001 to 2009 under George W. Bush. He was the primary architect of the Iraq War, which was launched on fabricated claims of weapons of mass destruction and resulted in hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths. He championed "enhanced interrogation techniques" (torture) and the expansion of warrantless surveillance programs, while his ties to Halliburton raised conflicts of interest as the company profited billions from the wars he promoted.