Posted on 08/30/2009 7:24:59 AM PDT by maggief
CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: Mr. Vice President, welcome back to "FOX News Sunday."
RICHARD CHENEY, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: It's good to be back, Chris.
WALLACE: This is your first interview since Attorney General Holder named a prosecutor to investigate possible CIA abuses of terror detainees.
What do you think of that decision?
CHENEY: I think it's a terrible decision. President Obama made the announcement some weeks ago that this would not happen, that his administration would not go back and look at or try to prosecute CIA personnel. And the effort now is based upon the inspector general's report that was sent to the Justice Department five years ago, was completely reviewed by the Justice Department in years past.
They made decisions about whether or not there was any prosecutable offense there. They found one. It did not involve CIA personnel, it involved contract personnel. That individual was sentenced and is doing time. The matter's been dealt with the way you would expect it to be dealt with by professionals.
Now we've got a political appointee coming back, and supposedly without the approval of the president, going to do a complete review, or another complete investigation, possible prosecution of CIA personnel. We could talk the whole program about the negative consequences of that, about the terrible precedent it sets, to have agents involved, CIA personnel involved, in a difficult program that's approved by the Justice Department, approved by the National Security Council, and the Bush administration, and then when a new administration comes in, it becomes political.
They may find themselves dragged up before a grand jury, have to hire attorneys on their own because the Justice Department won't provide them with counsel.
It's a terrible, terrible precedent.
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Please correct my link.
TIA
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/30/raw-data-transcript-cheney-fox-news-sunday/
I see only deep suspicion on the face of VP Cheney. Rightfully so. Don’t know how to interpret Pre. Bush’s expression.
GRAVITAS
Wow! What a look of contempt!
When Cheney comes out it really rattles their cages. They hate it. Good.
He’s the only member of the GOP, other than Sarah, who drives them to distraction.
And the only ones with balls, apparently.
Here is the Cheney transcript. Use the link in post #4.
(I was going to post an AP recap until I found the full transcript.)
Oh that look! It’s the kind of look, I never wanted to see in my father’s eyes. It’s the kind of look that says I know what you are up too, and I am not fooled by your presence!
Regret.
Why aren’t more members of the GOP standing up like Cheney?
They are cowards and undeserving of high office. We need to get rid of more than just the Rats in Congress..every encombent GOP member should have a conservative challenger in the primaries.
Oh that look! It’s the kind of look, I never wanted to see in my father’s eyes. It’s the kind of look that says I know what you are up too, and I am not fooled by your presence!
WALLACE: Now that he has been in office for seven months, what do you think of Barack Obama?
CHENEY: Well, I was not a fan of his when he got elected, and my views have not changed any. I have serious doubts about his policies, serious doubts especially about the extent to which he understands and is prepared to do what needs to be done to defend the nation.
Now we have Hussein and his ilk who hate this nation and the traditional American values and people who have made her strong.
A PETITION ON FACEBOOK FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RESTORATION
Just remember oh chosen one....”What goes around comes around”. The chosen one will be arrested on Jan 21, 2012.
This should explode heads on Martha’s Vineyard. LMAO.
There are few greater americans than Dick Cheney
I agree wholeheartedly but we don’t really know if they aren’t saying good things or not because it could be that the MSM never mentions them.
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