Cheney has said in several interviews that he thinks Obama is making the U.S. less safe. He has been critical of Obama for ordering the closure of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, halting enhanced interrogations of suspected terrorists and reversing other Bush administration initiatives he says helped to prevent attacks on the U.S.
Last month the former vice president offered a withering critique of Obama's policies and a defense of the Bush administration on the same day that Obama made a major speech about national security.
Panetta said of Cheney's remarks: "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."
Asked if he agreed with Panetta, Vice President Joe Biden told NBC's "Meet the Press" that he wouldn't question the motive behind Cheney's criticism.
"I think Dick Cheney's judgment about how to secure America is faulty," Biden said. "I think our judgment is correct."
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=7837128 Dick Cheney and his shooting victim, Scooter Libby ... Irve Lewis "Scooter" Libby (born August 22, 1950) was an Assistant to the former President of the United States, George W. Bush and Chief of Staff to the former Vice President, Dick Cheney, and Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs, serving from 2001 to 2005, and is a convicted felon .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Libby Cheney Backs Gay Marriage: Yes,he does here ......
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2009/06/cheney-backs-gay-marriage.html because his daughter is lesbian. Yes she is. Dick Cheney's Lesbian Daughter .... Mary Cheney, Vice President Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter, whom he and Lynn love very much, recently made the media rounds plugging her new book, It's My Turn, or "John Kerry said 'Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter' in a painfully clumsy manner in a debate two years ago, so I wrote a book. Read it, I'm Dick Cheney's lesbian daughter." ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-dorchen/dick-cheneys-lesbian-daug_b_25927.html Mary Cheney, right, the openly gay daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, stands with Heather Poe, left, her partner of 15 years, as they attend a memorial observance on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington in this Monday, Sept. 11, 2006 file photo. ....
http://www.daylife.com/photo/03Go7D41TSanS Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby and the New Definition of "Honesty" .... Vice president calls his disgraced chief of staff: "one of the more honest men I know." Fair enough But what does Cheney know about veracity? ...
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