Unless you've been living in an "undisclosed location" for the last several months, you've probably heard more than enough, from the Party of Losers. Funny, I don't remember the Dems, getting so much easy air time, as Cheney has, since being cast to the hinterlands, by the American Voters. Worse yet, the Media foils on stage with him, couldn't ask a challenging question, even if, say, there was a "ticking time bomb" on stage, so that they had to get to Truth ...
"Thankfully they Kept Safe for the last 7 years" ... Say What?!
The Cheney CYA Parade, has gotten as much air-time as he needed to give the American People "his version of events". I remember Al Gore speaking out against the Iraq War somewhere around 2004-2005. They didn't let Al back on the TV for years, after that. So much for a "fair and balanced" Media.
Cheney: Obama decisions are putting country at risk
CNN's Rebecca Sinderbrand - March 15, 2009
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..."
(emphasis added)
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com...
Excuse me!
Who was convicted for the Anthrax Attacks, in America?
How many Americans were "kept safe" fighting a War of Choice, in Iraq?
One more Question, On Who's Watch again, DID 9/11 happen?
That's right Dick, inspite of numerous Serious Warnings, about pending Attacks, YOU FAILED to KEEP America Safe then!
Complete 911 Timeline
from historycommons.org
August 6, 2001: Bush Receives Briefing Titled ‘Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US’
President Bush receives a classified presidential daily briefing (PDB) at his Crawford, Texas ranch indicating that Osama bin Laden might be planning to hijack commercial airliners. The PDB provided to him is entitled, "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US." The entire briefing focuses on the possibility of terrorist attacks inside the US. [New York Times, 5/15/2002; Newsweek, 5/27/2002] The analysts who drafted the briefing will say that they drafted it on the CIA’s initiative (see July 13, 2004), whereas in 2004 Bush will state that he requested a briefing on the topic
(emphasis added)
'Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US' PDB (pdf)
So Cheney you had over a Month's Warning -- what did you guys do with that lead time?
Between August 6 and September 10, 2001: ’Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US’ Memo Is Not Acted Upon
The 9/11 Commission will later state that after the now famous "bin Laden Determined to Strike in US" memo is given to President Bush on August 6, 2001 (see August 6, 2001), "We have found no indication of any further discussion before September 11 among the president and his top advisers of the possibility of a threat of an al-Qaeda attack in the United States." [Newsweek, 4/28/2005] 9/11 Commissioner Bob Kerrey will later state to CNN,"[B]y the way, there’s a credible case that the president’s own negligence prior to 9/11 at least in part contributed to the disaster in the first place
(emphasis added)
What was W's response to the CIA upon getting such serious news?
August 6, 2001: Bush Tells CIA Regarding Bin Laden Warning, ‘You’ve Covered Your Ass, Now’
Supposedly, just after a CIA briefer presents President Bush the later infamous PDB (Presidential Daily Briefing) entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in US"(see August 6, 2001), Bush tells the briefer, "You’ve covered your ass, now."
9/11 timeline from historycommons.org
Just More Ass-covering, from the Party of CYA!
and given Cheney's "kid gloves treatment" lately, his "Revisionist History" is apparently being condoned by the CYA Corporate Media, too.
Their "Campaign of Torture" will "keep us safe for generations" -- I doubt it! ... Stirring up Hornet's Nests is generally a very bad idea.
Yet given the total lack of competence of the last Administration, and the outrageous abuses of everything, from the Constitution, to the Bill of Rights, to the DOJ, to the uncharged Prisoners, it's no wonder that Cheney would want to take every opportunity to "taint that pool of public opinion", in his favor. While he still can. If he still can.
The Cheney Exit Interview
Face The Nation - Jan. 4, 2009
[...]
Sen. John Rockefeller, who wrote a letter to Cheney in 2003 [which was classified and not revealed until news of the wiretap program was broken]. In that letter Rockefeller, who was the leading Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, raised his concerns about the "profound oversight issues" involving warrantless wiretaps, and his inability to endorse the program.
When asked about the discrepancy, Cheney told Schieffer, "They were kept fully informed."
"Well, why would he have written that letter?" Schieffer asked.
"I have no idea," Cheney said.
[...]
"I always felt it was a bit of a CYA letter," Cheney said.
(emphasis added)
http://www.cbsnews.com/...
"A bit of a CYA letter" ?!
Project Much, Dick?
When are you Chicken Hawks going to end your CYA Tour,
and crawl back into your cave(s),
and contemplate just how much YOU LET YOUR County Down!
9 months was plenty of time to get Serious about the Threats, that your predecessors were chasing for years, and were still urgently warning you about -- But NO, from all those Secret Energy Policy Meetings you held with Oil Executives, it's obvious that you and your Administration, had much more "urbane" priorities to deal with, than to worry about some trivial Terrorists --
Until it was too late, of course!
Backseat Drivers do have 20-20 vision, don't they now?
Where were those insights when you needed them most, Cheney? (like about 7 years ago?)