Richard Cheney wants to save his own 'hide' and that of his party from political and legal demise. For seven years after September 11, 2001, the people of the USA trusted the 'powers that be' to protect them. How many times did I hear the propaganda? How many times did we believe the 'systems' within the mechancisms of the USA were safe. Dear God, they couldn't even perfect the issuance of USA Passports while they demanded information they had no right to have and raised the cost of application.
When does it stop, Dick? You are out of power, have compromised this country by running a war for Halliburton and you continue to endanger us by running your mouth? When does it stop?
I think Dick needs a job after the global fiscal collapse. Why don't we give him a job at the US - Mexican Border. He can stop all the potential terrorists he wants !!
...The Central Intelligence Agency typically fights distant enemies, but on May 21st its leaders were preoccupied with a local opponent. A few miles from the agency’s headquarters, which are in Langley, Virginia, former Vice-President Dick Cheney delivered an extraordinary attack on the Obama Administration’s emerging national-security policies. Cheney, speaking at the American Enterprise Institute, accused the new Administration of making “the American people less safe” by banning brutal C.I.A. interrogations of terrorism suspects that had been sanctioned by the Bush Administration. Ruling out such interrogations “is unwise in the extreme,” Cheney charged. “It is recklessness cloaked in righteousness.”
Leon Panetta, the C.I.A.’s new director—and the man who bears much of the responsibility for keeping the country safe—learned the details of Cheney’s speech when he arrived in his office, on the seventh floor of the agency’s headquarters. An hour earlier, he had been standing at the side of President Barack Obama, who was giving a speech at the National Archives, in which he argued that America could “fight terrorism while abiding by the rule of law.” In January, the Obama Administration banned the “enhanced” techniques that the Bush Administration had approved for the agency, including waterboarding and depriving prisoners of sleep for up to eleven days. Panetta, pouring a cup of coffee, responded to Cheney’s speech with surprising candor. “I think he smells some blood in the water on the national-security issue,” he told me. “It’s almost, a little bit, gallows politics. When you read behind it, it’s almost as if he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point. I think that’s dangerous politics.”...
