Dick Cheney

Clinton mocks Cheney over his defence of waterboarding

Clinton mocks Cheney over his defence of waterboardingWashington, Apr 23 : US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has mocked former vice president Dick Cheney at a Capitol Hill review of her first three months in office.

"It won't surprise you that I don't consider him a particularly reliable source," Clinton said, dismissing Cheney's claim that classified documents prove that harsh interrogations of terror suspects yielded vital intelligence.

There are things about government that I miss: Cheney

Cheney calls for declassification of CIA memos showing interrogation resultsWashington, Apr. 22 : Former US Vice President Dick Cheney has revealed that there are still things about working in the government that he misses.

In an interview to Fox News, Cheney said that while he did not feel bad about retiring, “I spent 40 years in government and there are things about it I miss.”

Cheney calls for declassification of CIA memos showing interrogation results

Cheney calls for declassification of CIA memos showing interrogation resultsWashington, Apr. 21 : Former US Vice President Cheney has taken umbrage over the selective release of CIA-related interrogation techniques by the Obama administration that showed the Bush administration in poor light, and officially demanded that all CIA memos relating to the subject be declassified to show the positive results of the techniques.

Jindal advises Cheney to tone down criticism of Obama

Jindal advises Cheney to tone down criticism of ObamaBaton Rouge (Louisiana, US), Apr. 17 : Louisiana's Indian American Governor Bobby Jindal has suggested that former Vice President Dick Cheney should tone down his criticism of President Barack Obama.

Cheney has repeatedly criticized Obama's national security policy, saying recently on CNN's "State of the Union" that Obama's decisions "raise the risk to the American people of another attack."

Obama Administration will ‘raise the risk’ of a terrorist attack: Cheney

Obama Administration will ‘raise the risk’ of a terrorist attack: CheneyWashington, Mar 16 : Former Vice President Dick Cheney has said that the Obama Administration will "raise the risk" of a terrorist attack by overhauling his predecessor's approach to the War on Terror.

Cheney criticized President Barck Obama's decisions to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, limit the methods CIA officers use to interrogate terror suspects and suspend military tribunals for alleged terrorists, saying those decisions taken together will make Americans less safe.

Cheney’s warning of another 9/11 in the offing angers Democrats

Dick CheneyWashington , Feb. 6 : Former Vice President Dick Cheney's warnings about the risks of closing Guantanamo Bay prison and changing other Bush-era policies, has angered Democrats and some top counter-terrorism experts, who said Cheney was reviving the same scare tactics voters had rejected in electing Barack Obama.

Cheney made his comments in an interview this week with Politico in which he unyieldingly defended the detention facility and coercive interrogations of terrorism suspects
- and warned that changing course would invite another mass-casualty terror attack potentially worse than the ones on Sept. 11.

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