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| White House blasts Cheney in interrogation feud | ||
| 2009-09-01 | ||
The White House on Monday dismissed former vice president Dick Cheney's attacks on a probe into alleged CIA abuses of "war on terrorism" detainees and sharply questioned his foreign policy judgment. "This is the same song and dance we've heard since literally the first day of our administration," spokesman Robert Gibbs said after Cheney blasted the investigation as politically driven and harmful to national security.
"I would add this: I'm not entirely sure that Dick Cheney's predictions on foreign policy have borne a whole lot of fruit over the last eight years in a way that have been either positive or, to the best of my recollection, very correct," said the spokesman. Cheney told Fox News Channel in an interview aired Sunday that the probe was an "outrageous political act" that would harm national security by making CIA agents fear possible legal reprisals.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #10 The United States is having more success fighting terrorism under President Barack Obama Sure, for the last few months, Obama has been able to take credit for operations that were initiated during the last administration. Lets see what happens in the next six months, now that everyone at the CIA and the Pentagon are in full CYA mode. |
| Posted by: Skunky Glins 5*** 2009-09-01 21:46 |
| #9 Jones said Obama's efforts to reach out to world leaders and improve relations with law enforcement agencies had made it easier to track and kill terrorists than during the Bush administration. 'Bad Bush - Good Barry' Give that man a sucker! Oh, he's already got something in his mouth? Sorry. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-09-01 12:29 |
| #8 According to our National Security Advisor, Jim Jones, Obama is more successful on terrorism than Bush. The United States is having more success fighting terrorism under President Barack Obama partly because of his "radically different" approach to foreign policy, National security adviser Jim Jones said on Monday. In an interview with ABC News, Jones said Obama's efforts to reach out to world leaders and improve relations with law enforcement agencies had made it easier to track and kill terrorists than during the Bush administration. "We have better human intelligence. We know where the terrorists are moving," Jones told ABC. "Because of the dialogue and the tone of the dialogue between us and our friends and allies ... the trend line against terrorism is positive," he added. While noting that he was not keeping tallies of enemy combatants killed and captured under Obama and Bush, Jones said the numbers were going up as a result of good intelligence. "We are seeing results that indicate more captures, more deaths of radical leaders and a kind of a global coming-together by the fact that this is a threat to not only the United States but to the world at-large," he said. |
| Posted by: Sherry 2009-09-01 12:23 |
| #7 A fart in a windstorm. |
| Posted by: mojo 2009-09-01 10:56 |
| #6 I don't think Chaney is interested in a national security debate with Gibbs. After all one of Dick's mottos is: "Never have a battle of wits with an unarmed person" Gibbs is the classic empty suit. Obama is clueless about national security and I believe Holder is a closet commie hoping to gut the CIA for his buddies in Moscow. |
| Posted by: James Carville 2009-09-01 10:23 |
| #5 sorry.....forgive wrong spelling |
| Posted by: armyguy 2009-09-01 09:35 |
| #4 Beesoaker........gonna have to wait in line for that!! |
| Posted by: armyguy 2009-09-01 09:34 |
| #3 Please Lord, in the hereafter...grant me 5 minutes with Gibbs in a CONEX box. Just 5 minutes, only 5 short minutes. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-09-01 07:43 |
| #2 Pravda means truth. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2009-09-01 04:12 |
| #1 The narcissist bunch in the White House hates free speach, unless it is Carter criticising the Repubs. |
| Posted by: Percy Spons4194 2009-09-01 00:22 |