Dick Cheney, Interrogation | 05/12/2009 9:50 am
Liz Cheney: Obama Should Stop Bashing My Dad, Cherry-Picking Intelligence (Video)

Liz Cheney is defending her dad once again.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney recently defended the Bush administration’s handling of the War on Terror and criticized the Obama administration for making the nation "less safe," i.e., releasing details of interrogation techniques used on terror suspects. Cheney’s comments have been slammed by the White House, with spokesman Robert Gibbs saying Cheney should stop regurgitating "ideas and a series of thoughts" that "the last election rejected."
But Liz Cheney, a former State Department official, said on MSNBC today that her father is speaking out of genuine concern for the country and to make sure people know what has kept the country safe for the past eight years, and that her dad is willing to make himself available to the Obama administration to talk about what worked and what didn’t.
"I think that is very much the heart of the matter and I think because of that, he feels he has an obligation to speak out," Ms. Cheney said. "My dad feels very strongly that the current administration is making us less safe … It would be the easiest thing in the world for him to just go fishing and spend time with his grandkids."
Ms. Cheney also noted that former Vice President Al Gore was critical of the Bush administration when he left office, and Obama officials and Democrats never miss an opportunity to bash Bush, so why is Cheney getting all this flack?
"Nobody is sort of saying, ‘Gosh, the Obama administration needs to keep quiet about the Bush administration,’" she added.
She also agreed that the Obama administration is cherry-picking intelligence information to release — a charge echoed by Republicans who say the White House is only releasing memos on waterboarding and other intelligence documents that suit their political purposes. Rep. Pete Hoekstra, R-MI, just this week called on the intelligence community to declassify documents showing what members of Congress — including House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-CA — were told about interrogation techniques and when.
The media needs to "hold the administration’s feet to the fire on this," Ms. Cheney said. "People need to ask — when is the selective release of documents going to stop? … It’s really a dishonest game they’re playing."
Watch Ms. Cheney defend the Bush administration on "Morning Joe" below:
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Hmmm … let me think.
Dick Cheney was the leader of criminal cartel called the Bush Administration. As Bush does not show any traces of basic intelligence to string a whole sentence together, it is obvious that Cheney was running the show and calling the shots. At the first meeting right after the 911 attacks, he was the one that said that the best response was to attack, not Saudi Arabia (most of the terrorists were Saudis), not Egypt (few terrorists were Egyptians), not even Afghanistan, but Iraq!! Everyone at that top security meeting was startled at this statement, but his long time buddy Donald Rumsfeld (then Secretary of Defence) was right behind him. AFTER all, it was with his help and some other Neoconservative evil individuals (Paul Wolfowitz, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, John Ellis "Jeb" Bush) that the "Project for the New American Century" (PNAC, a document with plans for the invasion of the middle east) was drafted in 1997 and later executed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century
So lets summarise the achievements:
1. The Bush/Cheney cartel make up a story about WMDs in Iraq and links to Terrorists!
2. They use all the mainstream media to play the "we’re all under immediate threat" storyline to all Americans, all supported with rogue intelligence, served well to suit American audiences, AND even convince the UN assembly!
3. They order the attack/invasion of the sovereign state of Iraq under false pretences!
4. Their US led invasion results to almost 650,000 Iraqi civilian deaths and a horrible life for the survivors, and the American people under the influnece of the "terror" bug don’t even blink to the devastation of Iraq and madness of the whole plot!
5. The US led invasion led to 4,000 US troop deaths, and again the American people simply accept it as the price for their "liberties" and "way of life"!!!!
6. The Cheney cartel shouts lucrative defense contracts to companies associated with the Republicans (US Military Industrial Compllex) and gives a lion’s share to his own (HALIBURTON)
7. Abu Graid and Guatanamo Bay jail and interrogations with torture approved by Cheney/Rusfeld scandals leak to media, proving multiple and severe breache of Human Rights and Geneva Convention
8. Army auditos announce that arms stocks worth multi-miilion dollars paid by US tax-payers are unaccounted for (they could not be found cause chances are invoices were issued and paid without any weapons being receipt!)
9. The first thing US forces do is secure the oil wells and pipelines, and put in charge a puppet govt which immedieatley disbands the National Oil Industry and authorises Anglo-American multinationals BP and SHELL to become the direct beneficiaries of the Iraqi Oil distribution. The ironic think is that some Israeli connection within the Cheney cartle has ensured that Israel be getting directly from Iraq 40% of its oil needs
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=29421§ionid=351020201
10. The most important (and least publicised) action of the US puppet Iraqi govt is that they re-installed the US dollar as the currency for selling the oil (Saddam had previsously announced in 2000 that he would only accept Euro, which is the real reason that triggered his downfall)
So Liz, in case you’ve been living in a hole the last few years, I’m sorry to break the news to you, but it looks like your daddy is a SUPER-WAR CRIMINAL, along with his buddies, who committed crimes equal only to those of Hitler and Stalin, and fooled the whole US nation. The fact that a man with this record is stil walking around us, indicates the corruption level and the sad state of affairs in the US political system. Unfortunately he will never be indicted, and Liz will be a direct beneficiary of the prizes and looting of all these crimes.
Excellent summary.
And all unforgettably true.
As the Russians would say, "It would be funny if it weren’t so sad."
God, that voice…..like nails on a chalkboard.
Not interested in hearing from your War Criminal, Insane, War Profiteering….Mass Murdering creep of a father who belongs in The Hague. Ugh.
Under the skillful direction of this dear leader, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer … and the poor, the under-educated, the bigoted and the disenfranchised wave the flag, scream “Hurrah!” and beg for more of the same.
What a racket.
Should be enough to make a Wall Street robber-baron blush … but it appears that most of them have no scruples about throwing the entire country under a bus either.
Add to your post… Haliburton and the soldiers of fortune that Cheney ordered were war profiteering, and his connections with the suppliers is obvious. Corruption was rampant. Bremmer was running riot and demolishing the Iraqi military and misappropriating billions of "lost" money. This appointed Viceroy of Iraq screwed up monumentally and corruption became commonplace. Cheney is a war criminal pure and simple. He has a right to spew under free speech, but that he is still free is a wonderment. Our country is loaded with corruption,theives, a flawed political and legal system, and Dick Cheney raves on without being held responsible. Just thinking about oil is sickening. Seeking the Euro as you correctly point out was but one of the reasons for lying our way into Iraq. Iraq is being run by he oil cartel. Lynne and Liz Cheney are known idealogues who have aggressively and combatively defended Cheney for all the reasons you outline and are emboldened because they know there are no consequences for their actions. But I do believe that most Americans know how out of touch and corrupt Cheney is.