Cheney: Obama Has Raised The Risk Of Attack On America

Dick Cheney, in his first television interview since leaving office, didn't shy away from throwing a few haymakers at his White House successors, saying at one point that Barack Obama's policies had raised the risk of a domestic terrorist attack.

"I do," said the former vice president, when asked if President Obama's policies had made the U.S. less safe. "I think those programs were absolutely essential to the success we enjoyed of being able to collect the intelligence that let us defeat all further attempts to launch attacks against the United States since 9/11. I think that's a great success story. It was done legally. It was done in accordance with our constitutional practices and principles. President Obama campaigned against it all across the country. And now he is making some choices that, in my mind, will, in fact, raise the risk to the American people of another attack."

Speaking to CNN's John King, Cheney was referencing the Obama administration's decision to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, to strictly outlaw torture and define water boarding as such, and to suspend trials for terrorists by military commission. His comments furthered a line of attack he had made against the president in his first post-office interview with Politico.

Cheney's foreign policy critiques didn't end there. He also whacked the president for appointing Christopher Hill as the country's top diplomat in Iraq.

"He is not the man I would have picked for that post," said Cheney of Hill. "He has none of the skills and talents that Ryan Crocker has."

Comments

[frontstreet]

If Cheney wants to talk to someone who appreciates his views on torture and indefinite detention, I suggest he call North Korea, Sudan, or Zimbabwe, where the leaders are much more open to Cheney's style of governing than Obama is.

[Tropiholic]

i can't wait to see him in shackles being tried for war crimes!

[RatgurlSD]

Me Too!

[SonnyBono]

And this pile of horse manure from the guy who left office with a freaking 13% approval rating which only proved that 13% of the people responding the poll are degenerates and don't have the collective IQ of a house fly.

Thank you Mr. Cheney and as a wonderful parting gift - we have for you an all expense paid one way ticket to the World Court. Where you and your fellow criminals will be indicted, tried, convicted and sentenced to - live time imprisonment courtesy of the CIA rendition program that you so lovingly used during your time in office. Thank you and remember don't think of it as water-boarding, think of it as dry land surfing.

[ObjectiveRealist]

Regarding that 13% who approve of Cheney, I hope you find it encouraging to know that 13% is 1% less than the proportion of functionally illiterate adults! (not evil, just uninformed, don't necessarily know which box they're checking or what they're being asked)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_illiteracy

Of course, our dear CIA has come up with an undisclosed method for obtaining the "estimate" of 99% "literacy" in the United States of America (TM).
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/us.html
quote:
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write [What, their own names?]
total population: 99%
male: 99%
female: 99% (2003 est.)
/quote

[Carolab]

Considering the source, is that a threat?

[zendem1]

Yes.

[ObjectiveRealist]

Always. But considering his influence, it's now an empty threat.

[Whinger]

Fear mongering warmonger!

[dagnome27]

Dear D*ck - please put a sock in it, OK? Nobody cares what you or The Shrub think any more.

[hellboundtrain]

Too bad that the US didn't have the defenses available to protect us from Cheney and his ilk.

[thegrifter]

Dou che Bagg ary!

[thegrifter]

Boo! America...

[Wilburrr]

Be afraid.... be very afraid! What has he raised it to, D i ck? Are we at Orange yet??

[RatgurlSD]

Actually we are at orange, at least at airports :(

[LeftRight]

It's been at yellow since the 2004 election, and the airlines have been at orange at least since the 2006 "threats" to British airlines where they were supposedly going to use liquids to bring down airplanes....

[Hopeington]

And we care or believe what he says because???? How can this be reported as newsworthy??? Everyone just reports his words and no one but us bloggers are saying we refuse them?? CNN allows these people to use their shows as a platform for manipulation and fear mongering and I am sick of it.

[SteveDenver]

Is he still alive?

[just4shiggles]

Why is it that CNN is so insistent on spending so much air time trying to make Obama look bad? They are getting more and more like fox "news" every day. It seems that we've been seeing and hearing a lot more from Cheney since he LOST HIS JOB a few months ago... interesting

[just4shiggles]

It's funny how much more of Cheney we are seeing since he LOST HIS JOB.

[nualak]

Who the hell cares what you think. We can see the aftermath of all those talented minions you chose over the last 8 years. Why don't you just go fly back into your batcave and don't come out again until we have Universal Healthcare.