tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 5/21/2009
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The following is the prepared text of former Vice President Dick Cheney's speech today on national security, courtesy of the Weekly Standard :
Thank you all very much, and Arthur, thank you for that introduction. It's good to be back at AEI, where we have many friends. Lynne is one of your ...
tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com - 5/21/2009
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tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com —
The following is the prepared text of President
Obama's speech today on national security. You can also
watch the speech live . These are extraordinary times for our country. We are confronting an historic economic crisis. We are fighting two ...
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Obama's National Security Speech
andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com - 5/21/2009
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andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com —
by Andrew I'm on vacation, I know, but
a speech of this maturity and magnitude demands some
kind of comment on a blog that has been deeply disturbed by and engaged in these questions of the laws of war, torture, abuse, detention, interrogation and ...
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The Re-Balancing
justoneminute.typepad.com - 5/21/2009
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justoneminute.typepad.com —
[Pre-gaming...] I have just flipped on the live
coverage of The One's speech on national security and
my goodness - peevish Obama seems really irritated with us for expecting him to deal with these issues. As a good (and now...
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Obama's "I'm Tough On Terror, Too" Speech
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Cheney Secrecy & War Crimes Blogging
Talking Points Memo —
11:20 AM ... Cheney starts things off classy with some snide comments about Obama's speech length.
11:24 AM ... Transcript of Cheney's speech. So far basically 9/11, 9/11, 9/11 sort of echoes of Rudyism.
11:27 AM ... Still trying. Cheney hinting at the Iraq/al Qaida tie ... "We had the training camps of Afghanistan, and dictators like Saddam Hussein with known ties to Mideast terrorists."
11:28 AM ... Cheney now seems to be arguing he was psychologically traumatized by the experience of watching the 9/11 attacks like the rest of us did. ...
Cheney: If You Disagree With Me, You Don't Take 9/11 Seriously
TPMMuckraker —
Here's what might you might call the nut graf of Dick Cheney's forthcoming speech, which was released a little earlier:
So we're left to draw one of two conclusions - and here is the great dividing line in our current debate over national security. You can look at the facts and conclude that the comprehensive strategy has worked, and therefore needs to be continued as vigilantly as ever. Or you can look at the same set of facts and conclude that 9/11 was a one-off event - coordinated, devastating, but also unique and not sufficient to justify a sustained ...
Cheney Rolls out New Fib for 2009
Talking Points Memo —
... One of the weirdest moments in Vice President Cheney's speech was when he claimed that "President Obama has reserved unto himself the right to order the use of enhanced interrogation should he deem it appropriate." We talked to various sources and no one even seemed to know what he was talking about since Obama and his CIA have explicitly ruled out the use of Cheney-era torture techniques. ...
Dick Cheney Asks Obama to Wave His Magic Wand
Firedoglake —
... I thought of that today when I read Cheney's latest attempt to pressure Obama to declassify his propaganda on torture. (h/t Bob Fertik) ...
Cheney: Still Cherry-Picking After All These Years
Comments from Left Field —
... I didn’t think too much about Dick Cheney’s speech yesterday because the framing of a “showdown” between the President of the United States and the least popular human on the planet just made me laugh. But this monstrosity probably should be read and studied, because it offers a window into a diseased mind and an object lesson in specious logic. ...
Reading Cheney's Response To The New CIA Documents
Swampland —
... them out there and the American people have a chance to see what we obtained and what we learned and how good the intelligence was, as well as to see this debate over the legal opinions. These memos soon became a cause celeb for conservatives, who accused the Obama Administration of withholding key evidence showing the effectiveness of harsh interrogation. Later, in a major speech on the issue of national security, Cheney charged that Obama was intentionally withholding the memos. Said Cheney : As far as the interrogations are concerned, all that remains an official secret is ...
Related: transcript of cheney national security speech, text of cheney's 5/21/09 speech, cheney's speech at aei
Text of Cheney's AEI Speech
weeklystandard.com 5/21/2009 — THE WEEKLY STANDARD has obtained an advance copy of VP Cheney's remarks as prepared for delivery later this morning at the American Enterprise Institute. I've read it quickly. I think fair-minded people will find it very well-argued and powerful.
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Dick Cheney just gave the greatest speech of the Bush Administration
fivefeetoffury.com 5/21/2009 —
Too bad it was months/years too late...
For years to come, people will refer to his address today as "Cheney's AEI speech."
Highly recommeded as a classic, brief, word perfect description of what happened on 9/11, and an explanation of why Bush did
what he did.
Text of Cheney's ...
Don't Forget the Mockery
talkingpointsmemo.com 5/21/2009 — Vice President Cheney's crew is putting out advances this morning on today's speech at AEI, offering 'praise' for Obama when he deserves an answer when he leads the country in the wrong direction. Clearly there's going to be a lot of mano a mano ...
Senate Guru: Cheney Speech: When Subliminal Messaging is Accurate
huffingtonpost.com 5/21/2009 — { First, a cheap plug for my blog Senate Guru . }
Is anybody else watching Dick Cheney's speech? He's at the American Enterprise Institute and his podium is right in front of the AEI logo. Cheney's head is in front of the word "Enterprise." The ...
Kevin Glass: Obama vs. Cheney on National Security
townhall.com 5/21/2009 — Fox News has the full text of Cheney's speech. Barack Obama's speech is available at the New York Times.Barack Obama today followed the same script that has so far dominated his presidency: blame the previous...
Cheney's Core Contradiction —
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
Perhaps the most remarkable passage in his speech to AEI last week was the following: In public discussion of these matters, there has been a strange and sometimes willful attempt to conflate what happened at Abu Ghraib prison with the top secret program of enhanced interrogations. At Abu ...
John McQuaid: The Cheney Campaign —
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
Dick Cheney's campaign of retroactive self-justification, culminating in his AEI speech , is bizarre, and not just for its historical footnote-worthiness, its political thuggery, or its graceless, hectoring tone. What's strangest is that long after the policies he champions were cast aside by ...
Fact Checking Cheney's AEI Speech —
Drudge Retort
Former Vice President Dick Cheney's defense Thursday of the Bush administration's policies for interrogating suspected terrorists contained omissions, exaggerations and misstatements, according to Jonathan S. Landay and Warren P. Strobel of McClatchy Newspapers.
Obama's National Security Speech —
The Corner on National Review Online
It's been a busy day, and I hope to have more to say about Vice President' Cheney's terrific speech at AEI, as well as President Obama's not terrific speech at the National Archives. For now, I share with you my quick appraisal of the president's remarks, which was just posted by the New York ...
Cheney's Speech: Text —
Ace of Spades HQ
Outstanding. Here are a few of the best parts, but it's a read-the-whole-thing sort of thing. Even cutting it for "just the best parts" leaves most of the speech....
Speeches: Pres. Obama and Former V.P. Cheney —
The Moderate Voice
An advance transcript of former vice-president Cheney’s speech put up by William Kristol is here .
The New York Times has the full transcript of Pres. Obama’s speech , as provided by the White House.
I will have more commentary and a roundup after I’ve had a chance to read ...
Obama's Speech: Blogger Reactions —
The Atlantic Politics Channel
President Obama's national security speech was panned by conservatives (many of whom preferred Dick Cheney's speech at AEI) and largely supported by liberals, with some criticism mixed in. Here are some reactions: The Weekly Standard's John McCormack
thought Obama spent too much time talking ...
Obama vs. Cheney —
The Corner on National Review Online
The media seem so desperate for a fight that they've failed in almost every case to point out that Vice President Cheney's AEI speech was scheduled weeks ago. I'm not suggesting the White House needs to check all of the think tanks in town before scheduling a speech, but this notion that the ...
Obama's National Security Speech —
TalkLeft
You can watch it here . Text of the President's speech here (Comments on the Obama speech on the flip.) Dick Cheney's frightened response . Cheney calls for "a truthful telling of history." Here is a truth - Cheney is a depraved monster who did immeasurable damage to the country. It is a ...
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