The LA Times reports that Dick Cheney emerged from his undisclosed secure location to criticize the Justice Department's decision to investigate whether CIA interrogation tactics broke the law, a decision he characterized as "politically motivated and dangerous to U.S. national security."
Oh lying hypocrite, how do we love you, let us count the ways: (on the flip)
Oh lying hypocrite, how do we love you, let us count the ways:
1] Politicizing the Justice Department is bad (paging Fired US Attorneys, Karl Rove on line 2)
2] Discussing specifics of interrogation techniques helps the enemy train to resist those techniques - Hello McFly? The reason we HAVE so many terrorists arrayed against us is because you've made it so easy to recruit them, BY AUTHORIZING TORTURE IN THE FIRST PLACE.
3] Dick Cheney is honor bound to support the brave men and women who obeyed his orders and conducted all those enhanced interrogation techniques - this has nothing to do with the fact that the next natural target of investigation would be Dick Cheney himself . . .
it's hard to know where to start articulating the outrage Dick Cheney's 8 years in office generated, but one might argue that more than half the conversations on DailyKos would not have been necessary if Florida had actually been allowed to conduct its recount and we'd had the Gore Administration instead of the travesty we've now just begun to recover from.
Attorney General Holder is not on a political witch hunt - Obama has clearly not pushed for investigations or indictments (we Kossacks, of course, are demanding both). Its this little matter of it being the Attorney General's JOB to uphold THE LAW. Not that this is a behavior Cheney saw much in his Justice Department, but that was in the job description even for Alberto Gonzales.
Considering how wrong Cheney has been about everything, perhaps it is a good thing that he pops up occasionally to complain - it lets us know we're on the right track.