Posted on 01/04/2009 10:52:20 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Cheney Calls Rockefeller Wiretap Objection A 'CYA' @ 1:21 pm by Walter Alarkon
Vice President Dick Cheney suggested that Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) only penned a letter to the Bush administration objecting to its domestic warrantless wiretapping program to give himself cover, not because he really opposed it.
Cheney, on CBS's "Face the Nation," said that congressional leaders, including Rockefeller, didn't object to the government program to wiretap phone conversations without warrants when Cheney first told them about it in 2003. Rockefeller, then the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committeee, later wrote a letter voicing his concerns about the program.
Cheney said Sunday he didn't know why Rockefeller wrote the letter.
"I always felt it was a bit of a CYA letter, that, in those crucial meetings, when we sat down to debate the program and tell them about it, in fact, everybody in the room signed up to it," Cheney said. "Nobody objected."
"CYA" is slang for "cover your a–."
Read below Cheney's full exchange with CBS's Bob Schieffer about Rockefeller and the wiretapping program.
(Excerpt) Read more at briefingroom.thehill.com ...
Man I’m gonna miss Cheney.
I’m going to miss Dick Cheney, big time.
"There is unmistakable evidence that Saddam Hussein is working aggressively to develop nuclear weapons and will likely have nuclear weapons within the next five years ... We also should remember we have always underestimated the progress Saddam has made in development of weapons of mass destruction."
-- Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), Oct 10, 2002
Rockefeller is a big time Clymer.
Buh Bye, “Senate collegiality”-
hope Cheney writes a tell all book.
Rockefeller is a sleeze ball like Reid.
Cheney is an adult in a world of whinny baby leftists. I’ll miss him too, as will many others once the effects of the 0bama Koolaid wears off.
Obama: Opiate of the Asses.
Yep, and he’s a hottie...
Dick and Lynne Cheney are both class acts.
Uh oh... Cheney used “inappropiate” words... ;o) /s
I hope Cheney writes the book too, but being a class act as he is, I bet it doesn’t happen. Maybe I have had my head in the sand, but I don’t think Rove has written his book yet. Have I just missed that?
I so hope you are right. I’d love to see him rip into the likes of David Gregory, Bob Schieffer (sp?), the editorial boards of some of the newspapers etc. I’d buy the book in a heartbeat!
Rove is still working on his book, and I think Mrs. Cheney has said that the VP is looking forward to starting his. Hope his health holds up. Despite what happed on that bird hunt in Texas, Cheney is a pretty good shot and has more wit in his toenail than Obama has in his head.
Go Dick! Rip them all a new one!
I'm all the more prouder to have driven through, and twice stopped in, the state of Wyoming because it was represented by this honorable man. May God bless Richard and Lynne Cheney for their DECADES of service to this nation.
Yeah, Gregory is a jerk. Lots of hair, no brains.
You got that right. I’m glad he’s not the White House correspondent any more. Enough already.
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