{"id":6248,"date":"2006-01-04T13:39:56","date_gmt":"2006-01-04T18:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6248"},"modified":"2006-01-04T13:39:56","modified_gmt":"2006-01-04T18:39:56","slug":"cheneys-in-full-campaign-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/cheneys-in-full-campaign-mode\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheney’s in full campaign mode"},"content":{"rendered":"

Look out, everyone, Dick Cheney is angrily defending<\/a> the administration’s warrantless-search program, and he’s not letting facts, context, reason, or logic stand in his way.<\/p>\n

He said as the memory of September 11 faded, some politicians were “yielding to the temptation to downplay the ongoing threat to our country and to back away from the business at hand.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Name one. Point to a single politician who’s downplaying the terrorist threat. Cheney names names<\/a> all the time. Why not now? Because straw men don’t have names.<\/p>\n

“The enemy that struck on 9\/11 is weakened and fractured yet it is still lethal and planning to hit us again. Either we are serious about fighting this war or we are not,” Cheney said in remarks prepared for a speech at the Heritage Foundation think tank.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If someone can explain why we can’t fight the war by eavesdropping on terrorists with an easily-obtained warrant, I’d sure appreciate it.<\/p>\n

“There are no communications more important to the safety of the United States than those related to al Qaeda that have one end in the United States. If we’d been able to do this before 9\/11, we might have been able to pick up on two of the hijackers who flew a jet into the Pentagon,” Cheney said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If we’d been able to do what<\/i>, exactly? Eavesdrop on the terrorists’ conversations? We were<\/i> able to do that before 9\/11, just like we’re able to do it now. The warrantless-search program isn’t a new intelligence-gathering tactic, it’s the old tactic without a warrant.<\/p>\n

Cheney said Bush was committed to protecting civil liberties and had made clear that “our duty to uphold the law of the land admits no exceptions in wartime.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Funny, I thought that was our line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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