Cheney Warns of High Probability of New Terror Attacks

Politico reports on a sobering interview with Dick Cheney.  Is the left finally ready to listen?

What's remarkable about the Politico report is that it's delivered as straight news with a minimum of political rhetoric attached.  (There's still a lot but compared to the hysteria of the past eight years, this report is nothing.) 

Going after Cheney and Bush was a blood sport for Democrats.  Now, with responsibility for America's security entrusted to Democrats in the White House and Congress, many in the media, at least, seem to be coming to the realization that the time for short-sighted political games is over.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration’s policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed. 

In an interview Tuesday with Politico, Cheney unyieldingly defended the Bush administration’s support for the Guantanamo Bay prison and coercive interrogation of terrorism suspects. 

And he asserted that President Obama will either backtrack on his stated intentions to end those policies or put the country at risk in ways more severe than most Americans — and, he charged, many members of Obama’s own team — understand. 

“When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry,” Cheney said. 

Protecting the country’s security is “a tough, mean, dirty, nasty business,” he said. “These are evil people. And we’re not going to win this fight by turning the other cheek.” 

Citing intelligence reports, Cheney said at least 61 of the inmates who were released from Guantanamo during the Bush administration — “that’s about 11 or 12 percent” — have “gone back into the business of being terrorists.” 

The 200 or so inmates still there, he claimed, are “the hard core” whose “recidivism rate would be much higher.”

Comments

[Claudia]

would it were that Obama would wake up....

[Cosmic Surfer]

Cheney is continuing his fear-mongering for control...those who buy into it live a sad life of fear and hate...EXACTLY what he wants....Come on, whenever his views are unpopular and he is backed into a corner, he comes out lying
On the Iraq war - confronted with the reaction to the US invading a sovereign nation "we will be greeted with cheers and flowers"; Confronted about no WMDs. "Saddam and Al Qaeda are working together". NOW it is the continuation - MORE OF THE SAME...Anything to try to get the American people to forget the war crimes he has committed and try to force us into accepting the horrors and criminal behavior. Anything to get the people freaked out and perpetuate the hate against those who are not WASPS...Cheney could use with a good dose of reality in the way of indictment.
He is a sad statement of what our country had become but is even a sadder statement of what our MSM has become

[Claudia]

hey Cosmic Surfer,
YOU could use a huge dose of reality and a check into a more honor bound life style.