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Talking Points Memo — Coming out tonight ... In an exit interview with PBS's Jim Lehrer on the NewsHour airing tonight, Vice President Cheney repeats claims that Saddam Hussein worked with al-Qaeda. Asked if he made any mistakes in his eight years as V.P., Cheney only mentions underestimating the psychological harm Saddam had done to his own people. He said his administration bore no blame for the economic problem and the terror threat was inherited because of the poor handling by previous presidents. And he shrugged off a statement today by a key figure, who used to work ...

Force-Feeding At Gitmo
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — 33 prisoners are now involuntarily attached to feeding tubes. None of them is likely to be prosecuted successfully. But Cheney has no regrets at all. ...

darth cheney...disconnected from reality.
skippy the bush kangaroo — ... airing tonight, vice president cheney repeats claims that saddam hussein worked with al-qaeda. asked if he made any mistakes in his eight years as v.p., cheney only mentions underestimating the psychological harm saddam had done to his own people. he said his administration bore no blame for the economic problem: "i think we had good economic policies, especially in the early years." and the terror threat was inherited because of the poor handling by previous presidents. -editor&publisher i think he "misunderestimated" the psychological harm this ...

Cheney Takes On Torture, The Flaws Of The Iraqi People, And The Deaths In Iraq
TPM Election Central — Dick Cheney just conducted a farewell interview with Jim Lehrer, and it was a doozy. For one thing, Cheney brushed off today's report in the Washington Post about Pentagon official Susan Crawford, who said that a 9/11 suspect was tortured, and dismissed the idea that there was a coordinated policy of torture: As we dig in and look at hundreds of cases, we may well find a few people who were not properly treated. You know, I ran the Pentagon. I know that you can't absolutely guarantee, at all times, that everybody's doing it the way ...

Cheney: We Did It Our Way And We Aren’t To Blame For Anything
The Moderate Voice — ... Apparently that message didn’t filter up (or down) to Vice President Dick Cheney who, in an interview with PBS’ Jim Leher seems to be doing a Bart Simpson imitation, saying he didn’t do it you can’t prove anything. Here’s Editor & Publisher’s report with some comments from this end: ...

Craziest Republican of the Day: Dick Cheney
The Reaction — ... the talking, contrary to how he conducted himself for most of the past eight years, stewing in his bunker. Nothing he is saying is all that revealing -- he's less introspective than Bush, and more dishonest, and very much just as he has been all along, full of arrogant self-justification -- but much of it, as you might expect, is crazy. For example, this doozy from an interview with Jim Lehrer (more here, with the full transcript here) airing tonight: ...

Cheney: A Piece of Work
BlondeSense — From Editor and Publisher : In an exit interview with PBS's Jim Lehrer for the "NewsHour", Vice President Cheney repeats claims that Saddam Hussein worked with al-Qaeda. Asked if he made any mistakes in his eight years as V.P., Cheney only mentions underestimating the psychological harm Saddam had done to his own people. He said his administration bore no blame for the economic problem: "I think we had good economic policies, especially in the early years." And the terror threat was inherited because of the poor handling by previous presidents. On polls showing he is ...

Stick it in a time capsule
Political Animal — ... " with PBS's Jim Lehrer last night, it was hard not to marvel at the man's shameless, almost pathological, dishonesty . It was like seeing a master criminal at work -- you're offended by the conduct, but almost impressed by the skill. In an exit interview with PBS's Jim Lehrer for the "NewsHour" airing tonight, Vice President Cheney repeats claims that Saddam Hussein worked with al-Qaeda. Asked if he made any mistakes in his eight years as V.P., Cheney only mentions underestimating the psychological harm Saddam had done to his own people. He said his administration bore no ...

Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for January 15, 2009
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash — ...    No typo here, Bush really said, “some of them doesn’t like me”.  Statements like this make one wonder, how in the world did George W. Bush get through Yale and Harvard????  Statements like this reinforce the theory that Poppy actually had to pay for his boy’s degree!!! * * * If ever you suspected that Cheney was delusional, now you know you are absolutely 100% correct!!!  In fact the guy is downright crazy!!!  “Cheney Tells Jim Lehrer Tonight: No Torture, Few Mistakes, Economy Not Our Fault.”   And just in case you needed more proof of the “crazies” --  “MR. LEHRER: Mr. ...

The 43 Appointees Who Helped Make Bush The Worst President Ever
Think Progress — ... vice president.” Until he got the job, people used to actually think it was a bad thing that the vice presidency has historically been a do-nothing position. Asked by PBS’s Jim Lehrer about why people hate him, Cheney rejected the premise, saying, “I don’t buy that.” His top placement in our survey says otherwise. ...

Forgive Us Our Trespasses? Child Soldiers at Gitmo and the Rule Of Law
Firedoglake — ... Earlier this week, Dick Cheney was interviewed by Jim Lehrer for PBS' NewsHour: ...As we dig in and look at hundreds of cases, we may well find a few people who were not properly treated. You know, I ran the Pentagon. I know that you can’t ...

From the Department of STFU Already
Firedoglake — ... "he doesn't see signs on the horizon of a significant economic slowdown" like he said didn't see them back in 2007. Or whether he still think the Bush handling of the economy was a success. ...

The Following Things Are Definitely Not Torture
Politics Daily — ... and slamming them head-first into walls What, are you seriously still whining out there? Now you say you read the Third Geneva Convention, which convinced you that this stuff is torture even though George W. Bush has said more times than we can count: "We do not torture"? Alright, you forced our hand. If Bush wasn't good enough for you, it's time for the big trump card. Guess who else has declared none of this is torture? Dick Cheney. Boo-ya! We take it from your silence that you concede that we are right. ...