Posted on 08/31/2009 10:08:29 AM PDT by kellynla
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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One of the things the Soviet Union did was the SHOW TRIALS, were innocent people were convicted for politcal purposes.
There is not one damn bit of difference in what this administration is doing.
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.
Just watched a video of this interview. I wish Cheney were president!
Thank you Mr. Cheney!....Thank you for the straight talk concerning the disaster in our White House! NEVER in our countries history has a president tried to reach back and investigate a former president! OBAMA IS A JOKE!
Other alternative is to go to the grand jury, say I did nothing wrong while preventing additional attacks and that the grand jury should tell Holder to F himself.
It is so refreshing these days, in respect of public policy, to hear the words of a grown-up.
If anything was learned from Scooter Libby’s problems, it is that when interrogated by law enforcement, plead the 5th amendment!
I will have the Most Ethical Administration and Protect America too. Tax Cheats will be in my administration and I will end efforts to Stop Terrorists.
/Sarcasm OFF
This is Act II of the Church committee. Putting CIA agents on public show trials isn't a misguided move --- it is a deliberate move. The ideologues are not being short-sighted by underestimating the impact on future operations, their objective is to emasculate future operations.
The key will be how Americans respond to the show trials of CIA agents, and eventually, Cheney himself. I believe too few will recognize them as such, and middle America will not stand stongly enough against the new Obama regime to stop it. It is finished.
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