[Paul Bunyan]

Cheney almost 'wishing' US be attacked

WASHINGTON DC, United States—Former vice president Dick Cheney's criticism of the Obama administration's handling of security matters suggests he wants the United States to be attacked, CIA chief Leon Panetta said.

"I think he smells some blood in the water on the national security issue," Panetta told The New Yorker magazine for its June 22 edition, released on Sunday.

"It's almost, a little bit, gallows politics. When you read behind it, it's almost as if he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point. I think that's dangerous politics."

Cheney, who played a lead role in the George W. Bush administration's implementation of harsh interrogation techniques such as waterboarding, has said that President Barack Obama is making the United States less safe by banning the controversial methods and planning to close Guantanamo Bay.

Some 230 "war on terror" prisoners are still held at Guantanamo, a prison camp set up by Bush at the US naval base in southern Cuba to hold detainees captured abroad in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks.

In a fierce attack on Obama's security policies last month, Cheney blasted the new president's ban on rough interrogations as "recklessness cloaked as righteousness" and called his reversal of Bush-era anti-terror efforts "unwise in the extreme."

The comments by Cheney, regarded by many as one of the most powerful vice presidents in US history, were "dangerous politics," Panetta said.

Asked whether he agreed with the intelligence chief, Vice President Joe Biden told NBC's "Meet the Press" that he would not question Cheney's motives.

However, he added: "Dick Cheney's judgment about how to secure America is faulty. I think our judgment is correct."

[TorryJens]

Cheney is probably tempted to invite Biden on a duck hunt.

[Fegasderty]

just typical leftist propaganda

[Paul Bunyan]

What, if anything, would Cheney get out of it?

Cheney never said he wished US be attacked....

Good Headline Sells...

The left is still trying to blame the previous administration for their own inadequacy, while it is one of their own who "doesn't want a crisis go to waste". Yes, scapegoat and distract...sadly we will all have to pay the price. Cheney's - "Defense Policy Guidelines" is still working...