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Overview
- The 46th vice president served under George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009, exerting unusual sway over national security and presidential authority.
- He pressed for the 2003 invasion of Iraq based on alleged weapons of mass destruction that were never found.
- He championed expanded NSA surveillance and “enhanced” interrogations, measures later curtailed in court rulings and condemned by rights monitors as torture.
- In later years he broke with President Donald Trump and said he voted for Democrat Kamala Harris in 2024.
- His family said he died at home with his wife Lynne and daughters Liz and Mary present, following decades of severe heart disease that led to a 2012 transplant.