Dick Cheney wants Americans to know

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Here's somebody the Obama administration would probably rather have refrain from mounting a vocal public defense of the government surveillance programs. But former vice president Dick Cheney wants Americans to know that the programs were his pet project, the AP reports:

Cheney said he was directly involved in setting up the program, run by the National Security Agency, or NSA, in the weeks after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks against the U.S. He said it has had "phenomenal results" in preventing terrorist attacks.

Cheney did not specify which surveillance program he was referring to. [...]

"There was a time when it was a very, very close hold. Unfortunately it's become public," said Cheney.


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/24/edward-snowden-booked-on-plane-from-moscow-to-havana-live-coverage

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1. Who could have guessed that?

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2. Obama has certainly embraced some of the previous admins more disgusting policies.