Darth Vader just won't stop. He gave an interview today on CNN with Jake Tapper, who confronted him with President Obama's overseeing the hunting and killing of Osama bin Laden as challenge to Cheney's claim that Obama is weak on terrorism.
Cheney rebutted, claiming it was "through our process of enhanced interrogation techniques that provided the intelligence we needed in order to get bin Laden." Note: "our" process and "we" got him.
FACT CHECK: Bush-Cheney left office in January 2009. The day after his unuguration, January 22, 2009, President Obama signed an executive order ending use of those techniques Cheney refers to.
Osama bin Laden was killed on May 2, 2011 -- more than two years after Cheney becake an ex-VEEP and Obama had ended torture.
If Cheney's effectiveness was so great and he deserves credit, why didn't he find bin Laden?
A report by the Senate Intelligence Committee found no evidence that these techniques led to the capture of bin Laden. Cheney claims that one detainee supplied the name of the courier used to trace bin Laden. But others have said that information was obtained from other sources, using standard intelligence techniques.
Cheney has a pretty thin ledge to stand on in this claim. But, as he says, "I've got to defend my point of view."
No, you don't, Ex-Veep. You could just Shut Up -- be an old curmudgeon; just don't do it on teevee. Your self-destruction is no longer entertaining.
Ralph
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