Via BTD, Politico heavyweights Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei have a long justification for why Dick Cheney gets to do what he would have called treason just 13 short months ago--criticizing the President in a time of war. Or maybe it's just a long justification for why Politico has chosen to become Cheney's pet megaphone.
It is because, VandeHei and Allen tell us, he has such a deep conviction that Obama's policies are making the country more vulnerable. It's essentially what you'd expect, until you come to this, as highlighted by BTD.
Obama has pulled back on what he sees as the most inexplicable overreaches of the Bush-Cheney years — the "enhanced interrogation techniques" ("torture," to critics)...
They've been spending too much time hanging out with Cheney, apparently. BTD:
You can have any opinion you want about waterboarding, but it is a fact that it is defined as "torture" under the relevant international treaties and federal law. That is a fact. In short, it is not "torture" to critics, it is "torture" under the law. And there is no dispute that the Bush Administration sanctioned waterboarding. If a news organization is too frightened to publish a factual statement, then what value does it have as a news organization? None.