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Obama’s Marxist Agenda Is Setting Us Up For Another Terror Attack - With Video
Pat Dollard | Young Americans —
... intelligence, but now that you’re out of government, to the degree that you can, tell the American people, because of those tactics, because of those, yes, sometimes extreme tactics, we stopped this.
CHENEY: Well, I would say that the key to what we did was to collect intelligence against the enemy. That’s what the terrorist surveillance program was all about, that’s what the enhanced interrogation program was all about.
CNN:
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration has endangered Americans and opened the ...
Cheney: Obama puts US at higher risk of terror attacks
INSTAPUTZ —
America: No one gives a shit what Dick Cheney has to say. I mean, seriously, who (if anyone) pays any attention to this ass clown? Who solemnly nods their heads and says "Yes, exactly!" when Dick Cheney talks? ...
Quote of The Day
Shakesville —
"[President Obama] is making some choices that, in my mind, will, in fact, raise the risk to the American people of another attack."—Former Vice President and current fearmongering asshole Dick Cheney, this morning on CNN's "State of the Union." ...
In Which We Learn That Cheney Had Reasons For What He Did
JustOneMinute —
... excerpts the Cheney interview with John King on CNN : Asked Sunday on CNN if he thinks President Obama "has made Americans less safe," former Vice President Dick Cheney said: “I do." Looking slimmer and relaxed, Cheney told John King on “State of the Union” that Bush administration policies on detention and interrogation of suspected terrorists – some of which were immediately modified by Obama — “were absolutely essential” to preventing another 9/11-style attack. The ...
Making the world safer for America
The Reaction —
By Michael J.W. Stickings Earlier this afternoon, Creature posted on Cheney's remark on CNN today that Obama has made America "less safe": "And now he is making some choices that, in my mind, will, in fact, raise the risk to the American people of another attack." He made a similar remark in an interview with Politico early last month: If his and Bush's policies are reversed, "there's a high probability" of a nuclear or biological attack on an American city. This is irresponsible fearmongering -- and just ...
The question John King didn't ask
The Reaction —
By J. Thomas Duffy The blogosphere is all aflame today, with the big interview by CNN's John King, with former Shadow President, the VP Dick Cheney (go to Memeoradum, now, or earlier today). Cheney dissed President Obama, stuck to the script on his disastrous record, and pissed-and-moaned how Scooter Libby is innocent, and a really great guy. Most of the posts (we'll have a cavalcade of them below) were, of course, slapping Cheney upside-the-head, as he included, in ...
Around the Web in 80 Seconds, 03.16.09
The Latest on Air America —
... their way. AIG discloses $75 billion in bailout payouts . Some of it went abroad , some went AWOL, and someone like Robert Reich is going to be talking about it on every news channel today. Ben Bernanke predicts that the economy will show growth again early next year so long as there is sufficient political resolve to solve the crisis. Space Shuttle Discovery launches . Play it again, Dick. Cheney says we're going to get attacked . Daniel de Groot on the underlying "principles" of death penalty abolition . ...
Cheney: Obama’s Refusal to Torture People Makes Terrorist Attack More Likely
Firedoglake —
It appears that Dick Cheney doesn't believe in supporting the Commander-in-Chief during wartime.
The Obama administration has endangered Americans and opened the country to further attack by reversing Bush administration anti-terrorism policies such as harsh interrogations of suspects, former Vice President ...
R-E-S-P-E-C-T. Find Out What It Means to Cheney.
Comments from Left Field —
At today’s White House presser, Robert Gibbs was asked to respond to Dick Cheney’s CNN interview in which he told John King that Pres. Obama was putting the country at risk of another terrorist attack by announcing his intention to close Guantanamo and to end former Pres. Bush’s pro-torture policy, as well as his regime’s policy of detaining suspected terrorists indefinitely with no legal protections or rights.
Gibbs’ reply: “Well, I guess Rush Limbaugh was busy. So they trotted out their next-most popular member of the Republican cabal.”
And on Cheney’s comments on ...
Obama: Cheney’s philosophy ‘hasn’t made us safer.’
Think Progress —
... On CNN last week, former Vice President Dick Cheney said that President Obama’s national security policies, including his plan to close Guantanamo Bay, will “raise the risk to the American people of another attack.” In ...
Congressional Republicans want Dick Cheney to go away.
Think Progress —
... Former Vice President Dick Cheney has refused to stay out of the political spotlight since leaving office, giving high-profile interviews to CNN and ...
Carlos Watson: Dear GOP, I Quit!
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... of middle- and working-class Americans immediately. We'll propose a limited five-year income tax increase to 39% for the wealthiest Americans, and go further than Obama on defense spending cuts. He says we can get $1.5 trillion out of there? I think we can find $2 trillion, and I think the American people agree. When it comes to foreign policy, health care, and energy, we will offer similarly radical but practical ideas. No more of this Dick Cheney head-in-the-sand stuff. Did you see him on CNN? Embarrassing. ...
Jindal v Cheney: When reporters repeat White House talking points
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
Sometimes you have to wonder if reporters just do dictation for Democrat Press Secretaries. Check out this story by Politico’s Andy Barr. He invented a debate between Louisiana Republican Governor Bobby Jindal and former Vice President Dick Cheney to make sure that it had the White House’s framing, no matter how far from the truth it was, excluding all sorts of essential facts.
You see, Jindal was on Good Morning America, Jindal came on right after Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who had just attacked Cheney. The GMA host asked Jindal to respond to Napolitano about Cheney. Jindal ducked and attacked Obama’s ...
Torture, Social Science, and Ethical Responsibility
The Monkey Cage —
... Nevertheless, it does seem that a significant number of Americans always want to come back to “24” style scenarios, where a ticking bomb is about to blow up an American stadium somewhere and some terrorist holds the code to defusing it but won’t talk. Even absent this kind of extreme scenario, there is a belief - not exactly discouraged by Dick Cheney - that torture could help save American lives by revealing information about terrorist plots. There are a lot of arguments floating around in the blogosphere and media now about whether torture does in fact ...
The Society for Ethical Data
Megan McArdle —
... Nevertheless, it does seem that a significant number of Americans always want to come back to "24" style scenarios, where a ticking bomb is about to blow up an American stadium somewhere and some terrorist holds the code to defusing it but won't talk. Even absent this kind of extreme scenario, there is a belief - not exactly discouraged by Dick Cheney - that torture could help save American lives by revealing information about terrorist plots. There are a lot of arguments floating around in the blogosphere and media now about whether torture does in fact yield valuable ...
