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Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Editorial / Opinion / Op-ed / Cheney's conflict with the truth: "ON 'MEET THE PRESS' last Sunday, Vice President Dick Cheney said, 'Since I left Halliburton to become George Bush's vice president, I've severed all my ties with the company, gotten rid of all my financial interests. I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and haven't had now, for over three years.'

That is the latest White House lie.

Within 48 hours, Democratic Senator Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey pointed reporters toward Cheney's public financial disclosure sheets filed with the US Office of Government Ethics. The sheets show that in 2002, Cheney received $162,392 in deferred salary from Halliburton, the oil and military contracting company he ran before running for vice president. In 2001, Cheney received $205,298 in deferred salary from Halliburton.

The 2001 salary was more than Cheney's vice presidential salary of $198,600. Cheney also is still holding 433,333 stock options." (emphasis mine)

I'm not actually bothered by the deferred salary; as Cheney says, he did earn it, and he's taken out an insurance policy so that he will get paid even if something happens to Halliburton. But I don't see how anyone can look at the stock options and say that what he said on MTP is anything other than a bald lie.