Posted on 08/30/2009 9:30:06 PM PDT by reaganaut1
Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday sharply criticized the Obama administration’s decision to investigate the abuse of prisoners held by the Central Intelligence Agency as he delivered a forceful defense of the full range of interrogation techniques used by intelligence officers.
Broadcast just six days after Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. appointed a federal prosecutor to examine the abuse of detainees, Mr. Cheney described the use of waterboarding and other coercive methods — including threatening detainees with a gun and a drill — as legal and crucial elements of the counterterrorism war.
“I knew about the waterboarding, not specifically in any one particular case, but as a general policy that we had approved,” said Mr. Cheney, who noted that neither a gun nor a drill had actually been used on detainees. “The fact of the matter is the Justice Department reviewed all those allegations several years ago.”
“The judgment was made then that there wasn’t anything that was improper or illegal,” said Mr. Cheney, who was speaking in an interview on Fox News Sunday.
Mr. Cheney said he also supported officers who strayed outside Justice Department rules and used unauthorized interrogation techniques, saying they did so to keep Americans safe. And he warned that Mr. Holder’s investigation would demoralize intelligence officers and discourage them from working aggressively to protect the nation.
Mr. Cheney described the inquiry as an “intensely partisan, politicized look back at the prior administration” intended to placate the left wing of the Democratic Party. “It’s clearly a political move,” he said. “I mean, there’s no other rationale for why they’re doing this.”
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Nice! Cheney is getting back on the game. I can’t wait to hear from Liz Cheney.
A few public figures and some private ones seem to be emerging from the muck to show real leadership. Cheney, Palin, DeMint plus Beck & Rush and some others.
Please come back, Mr. VP........or bring on your daughter Lynn. We need you. The walls are crumbling and we miss you and your wisdom.
.......Liz Cheney. That’s it. Any Cheney. They all make good sense. :>
Kreskin’s Predictions for 2009:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/the-amazing-kreskin/kreskins-predictions-for_b_154531.html
“If a terrorist attack succeeds on the U.S. mainland within the next 2 years, Attorney General Eric Holder will be blamed by a considerable percentage of the American public.”
What if Holder is on “their side”, though?
Has anyone considered this? No attacks, yet destruction originating from within our own government.
It’s good to see a Republican with balls & ability to articulate a strong counter attack. Dick Cheney, Jim DeMint, Michelle Bachman and Sarah Palin are the best Repubs at this time. I hope they all go unleashed on the demoRATs & partisan in-the-tank deranged media.
Don’t forget about Cheney’s Daughter. She could chew up and spit out any Rat out there, including the Messiah.
What if Holder is on “their side”, though?
That is the hell of it! the O AG both have the same objective, bring down the status quo of American Exceptualism... the same goal as Islam!
I say damn them to hell in 2010! this hellis crew of marxist must get their Donkey handed to them~
In that case, I wish that Dick Cheney and daughter Liz Cheney would run as conservative Republican candidates for President - Vice-President. And doggone it, come out swinging hard & fast against 0bozo & the demoRATs, cut Federal spending & programs & bureaucracy by 1/2 (yes I do mean this), reverse every socialist program for the last 50 years, quit pandering to Islamics in this country & abroad, and just govern as good solid conservatives.
obama is the president. Remember, he told us, he won. So what is holder doing? Going off on his own?
Either obama is impotent as a leader and holder is doing what ever he wants, or obama is really behind the whole thing.
So one, or both of them, seems to be getting even with the CIA for keeping the American people safe since 9/11. Almost as if one, or both of them are working, not for the American people, but for the islamic muslim terrorists.
United States Transfers Two Guantanamo Bay Detainees to the Government of Portugal
US DOJ.gov/opa - Press Release | August28, 2009 | n/a
Posted on 08/31/2009 2:32:29 AM PDT by Cindy
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