Shorter Dick Cheney, to use a Bidenism: a noun, a verb, and 9/11.
But for whatever reason Liz Cheney seems to think that our court system is too quaint to handle terrorism cases. She seems to be saying that there are some crimes that go beyond our constitutional frame of justice. Which crimes are those exactly; just terrorism cases or does it include other inconvenient criminals?
It doesn’t appear she’s thought it through, but only wants to stand up for daddy at a time when he’s making the argument that if we don’t torture we will never be safe. That if we don’t ignore the rules and conventions of civilized nations around the world, being a part of this global community, Americans will suffer.
How does Ms. Cheney explain the arrests of the criminals planning to bomb two synagogues in the Bronx and shoot down military airplanes? How were they tracked down? Through law enforcement tools via an FBI sting. The same agency that didn’t want to have anything to do with daddy’s torture policies. It didn’t take waterboarding or any other illegal means to get at these people. And, thankfully, Mr. Obama didn’t have AG Holder out in front of cameras after the anti-Semitic criminals were caught. Evidently the Obama administration knows the difference between real danger and fearmongering. Unlike others, I’m not as easily impressed with guys armed with missiles that don’t shoot: The informant provided the defendants with a Stinger surface-to-air guided missile provided by the FBI that was not capable of being fired, telling the defendants that he had obtained it from Jaish-e-Mohammed.
Liz Cheney is trying desperately to save daddy, but in the process, through her slams at Europe and the French, as well as her unwillingness to admit the obvious holes in daddy’s torture delusion, she simply comes off as ignorant, which I’m certain she is not. But refusing to consider the reality of how criminals are caught, tried and punished in a democratic republic ruins her credibility. But this isn’t the Cheneys’ idea of America. They tried desperately to remake this country in their image and they succeeded for eight years. Their time is up.
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