Darth Cheney: Obama decisions are putting country at risk

[jefferson_dem]

Cheney: Obama decisions are putting country at risk
Posted: 10:00 AM ET

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former Vice President Dick Cheney told CNN's John King Sunday that he believed President Obama's decision to eliminate the use of many of the most controversial interrogation practices used under the former administration had put the country at risk.

Asked whether he thought those moves had made the United States less safe, Cheney said he did. "I think those programs were absolutely essential to the success we enjoy, of being able to collect the intelligence that let us defeat all further attempts to launch attacks against the United States since 9/11," he said on State of the Union. "I think it's a great success story. It was done legally, it was done in accordance with our constitutional practices and principles…"

Obama campaigned against those practices, said Cheney, "and now he's making some choices that in my mind will raise the risk to the American people of another attack."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/15/cheney-obama-decisions-are-putting-country-at-risk/

[marmar]

1. "I think it's a great success story. It was done legally...."

CNN needs to stop providing a forum for the criminally insane.....

[opihimoimoi]

2. There he goes again....still sucking on the FEAR CARD...They let the 2nd attack

happen on THEIR watch...after being warned no less...and now they worry of a 3rd attack to ruin Pres Obama?

Are they Nutz?

[movonne]

3. Maybe it is cheney and his black ops that is planning it...

[mix]

4. dark days

if this man still gets the red carpet treatment from the media after the lies and death and 9/11

i hope Obama's people unload on these fools, otherwise they will get away with it again.

[Malidictus Maximus]

7. now they *HOPE FOR* a 3rd attack to ruin Pres Obama

[Peacetrain]

5. Like anyone would listen to anything that person has to say

:grr:

[MessiahRp]

6. Can we now please prosecute these motherfuckers?

No more of the 'play nice with the Republicans' shit. No more of the 'we're looking forward' BS. The GOP isn't playing nice and Cheney is constantly ripping you on TV.

One easy way to shut him up. Prosecute him for the war crimes he committed. Then we'll show the son of a bitch just how not legal his torture program was.

Rp

[4lbs]

8. If Cheney is whining and crying about President Obama's methods, then President Obama is doing it

the proper way.

Hey Cheney, "throw" your back out lifting any more phantom boxes? :eyes:

[Quezacoatl]

13. Exactly

Cheney is the architect of failure. I would be worried if he said President Obama was doing everything well.

[WinkyDink]

9. WHAT "attempts" might those be, Cheeeney? I think you mean you couldn't arrange another set of

"coincidental war-games" again.

[LynnTheDem]

10. Let's torture dick cheney, see if that helps keep us safer or not.

He says torture keeps us safer; let's try it out.

[Arkana]

11. You're not in charge anymore, Dicko.

Go back to sacrificing goats to whatever dark God it is you pay homage to and shut the hell up. No one cares.

[FrenchieCat]

12. Cheney was saying this before the election.....

problem is the elections are over.

Cheney didn't say anything new, and news wasn't made....and yet, CNN publishes an article,
as though there was something newsworthy in the interview that they did.

The fact is the media, CNN and in particular John King are still kissing Cheney's ass. That's not news, but it would be interesting if this specific point was pointed out in an article!

[zulchzulu]

14. Seriously, how can someone who let 911 happen by being careless give anyone advice on safety

It's like a drunk who crashed into a mall and killed a dozen people telling you how to drive carefully.

[Vinca]

15. This guy really needs to slither back under the rock.

(My apologies to snakes everywhere.)

[mvd]

16. Cheney IS a risk

Period.