Vice President Dick Cheney listens as President George W. Bush, not pictured, speaks to reporters after a closed door intelligence briefing at the National Security Agency at Fort Meade, Maryland, on October 24, 2008. Charles Dharapak/AP

Dick Cheney, America’s most powerful modern vice president and chief architect of the “war on terror,” who helped lead the country into the ill-fated Iraq war on faulty assumptions, has died, according to a statement from his family. He was 84.

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