Posted on 06/16/2013 8:37:22 AM PDT by EveningStar
The United States might have been able to prevent the deadly Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington had controversial National Security Agency surveillance practices been in place at the time, former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday.
The former No. 2 in the Bush administration defended the NSA's ability to monitor phone and email data, and labeled as a "traitor" the analyst who has admitted to having leaked details about the classified program.
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Get back to us when you have the AZ border secure.
You just don’t want to deal with reality do you.
You call us Traitors while you attack your own brethren?
Take the log from your eye.
Obama is a master at divide and conquer and it seems many here are happy to play along.
A lack of intelligence is the achilles’ heel of you low information types.
Cheney generally associates himself with men of honor. In his experience, spooks are honorable, trustworthy men who do the hard, thankless job of keeping America safe. He would not betray his country and doesn’t think the spooks will either.
I don’t think Cheney understands how truly dangerous and evil Obama and his thugs are. I know Hillary didn’t see it coming in 2008.
This is the first time I’ve heard Cheney say something stupid.
We don't coddle illegals here and brag about voting to ensure they take away college billets from American kids. Evidently, as I've learned today that's a Texas thing.
Probably hardly any before Boston since the main perpetrators were 2 brothers who communicated in person.
I'm not a traitor. Go to hell.
I remember when the right was hoodwinked into blaming GOP leadership over Mark Foley.
That was the October surprise in '06 and conservatives swallowed it hook, line, and sinker.
Meanwhile the left was elated at how easy the tactic was.
I'm sure the left still marvels at how easy it is.
So would banning all air travel.
Stopping 9/11 is not the ultimate good, sometimes the solution is worse than the problem.
He knows.
He just aint spilling it.
We have one course of action.
Make Obama own it and clean out the rats nest.
Beating up Cheney over surveillance does not accomplish this objective.
Believe me we have layers on layers of protections.
Obama is stripping them away.
Not Cheney.
Obama don’t care how he gets to the nitty gritty.
Any fool can see that Barry is abusing surveillance. He gets off on it.
And this guy is smart. He has increased the surveillance while making us look like the looky loos with an obscene agenda.
Not so with Boston.
Stunning isn’t it?
Yawn. Just like it did Boston and ft hood right?
It just seems a matter of course now after so long.
But I sure wish people would get smart and realize what putty they are in the left's hands.
I'm glad there's a few like you who see what's going on.
Oh but indeed you are. You are not only a traitor, you are a proud traitor. When you brag about voting to put not just non Americans but ILLEGAL immigrants into Texas universities, thereby denying a seat to the kids of Americans you sir are a traitor of the highest order. You are either on the side of the Americans or the ILLEGALS. You had a choice, you voted (proudly I might ad), and you chose not to side with the Americans, hence TRAITOR!
Mega-attacks have lots of chatter. Cheney's right. There's a very good chance it would have been picked up.
That’s a bold-faced lie. We did not vote to take college billets away from American kids.
Nobody is bragging about anything. We made a choice between paying for generations of illegal immigrants on the government dole and allowing those children to pay for their own education.
As I said, if you don’t like the way we run our state, don’t live in Texas.
Well, I am not sure that I know what is going on, but I refuse to fall prey to mass hysteria.
Mass hysteria is just a trip.
Obama knows how to game it.
This guy is no dope
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