White House Rejects Cheney Criticism

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Source: Washington Post

White House Rejects Cheney Criticism on National Security
By Scott Wilson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, March 16, 2009; 6:35 PM

The Obama administration responded sharply today to former vice president Dick Cheney's comments in a weekend interview that the new president "is making some choices that, in my mind, will in fact raise the risk to the American people" of another terrorist attack.

"I guess Rush Limbaugh was busy," Robert Gibbs, Obama's press secretary, said during his daily briefing to journalists at the White House. "So they trotted out the next most popular member of the Republican cabal."

Gibbs's comments reflected the administration's pique over Cheney's wide-ranging remarks Sunday on CNN, his first televised interview since leaving office. The former vice president, deeply unpopular in opinion polls, accused the young administration of using the abysmal economy to push through a broad and politically liberal expansion of government. He also defended Bush-era policies at home and abroad.

Gibbs concentrated his response on Cheney's assertion that the Obama administration's counter-terrorism policies, including plans to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and end interrogation measures the International Committee of the Red Cross has characterized as torture, have made the country more susceptible to terrorist attack.

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Go Gibbs!!

[Cha]

1. Yes..Gibbs gets an A+ for his

emphatic rejection of darth cheney and his bullshit.

[soothsayer]

2. let.s see some retroactive impeachment, like conyers said was possible

[msongs]

3. read some of the loaded/leading questions asked during that "interview" - so biased nt

[bemildred]

4. Ridicule is not "pique".

Just saying.

[Hulk]

5. That pathetic waste of a human being.....cheney....

...should be behind bars as we speak. For him to criticize ANYONE in political power today is so offensive that he needs to just STFU and go climb into his hole in the ground.

he and the chimp are the two most disgraced politicians in history, and they will FOREVER be reminded of their atrocities to this nation and to the world. May he rot in hell...he and his "fainty wife" and all the rest of the evil empire from January 19, 2009 and before.

[No Elephants]

6. Two things: First, when Carter said one sentence about Bush and Iraq, the

RW made a big deal about prior Presidents' having a tradition of not criticizing each other; Carter had no class, blah, blah. Of course, Ford had said the same thing, but no one mentioned that (no one, that is, except a poster's best friend, Ms. Google). So, why the hell is it okay for Cheney to keep running his mouth? Like there's a big difference between a former President criticizing and a former VP doing so repeatedly?

If Cheney is so concerned about national security, let him call Obama and discuss it privately

Second, the WH has to stop dignifying Limbaugh this way. The more Obama or Gibbs mentions Limbaugh, the more they elevate his status. And this time, they went out of their way to mention him--he was not even involved. Ridiculous and ill-advised.