Fear of prosecution caused Cheney to speak out, daughter says
Published: May 22, 2009
Updated 6 months ago
Vice President Dick Cheney decided to speak out after learning that President Barack Obama might open prosecutions of former Bush Administration officials, his daughter disclosed Thursday.
Elizabeth Cheney told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that her father decided to speak out after he learned there was a possibility of legal action.
“He certainly did not plan when he left office to be doing this,” Cheney’s daughter said. “But I think as we watched in those very first days and weeks after President Obama came into office when he released the memos that lay out for the terrorists — the techniques we used to question them. Then when he suggested in the Oval Office itself that he would be open to the prosecution of former Bush administration officials including many who weren’t political appointees potentially, you know really, I think, made my dad realize this was just fundamentally wrong. We had to speak out.”
Hannity said he was “impressed” by Cheney’s performance.
“One of the things that really impressed me today is I thought your dad was like a prosecuting attorney and just laying out a strong case, piece by piece by piece,” Hannity quipped. “But he very vividly outlined what we have now forgotten, because we’ve been safe for 7 1/2 years, and that is the attacks on 9/11.”
Cheney’s daughter accused President Obama of having a “September 10 mentality” and said she’d been thanked by a family member of a 9/11 victim following her father’s address.
“I think that when you read the president’s speech… he has a September 10 mentality,” Elizabeth Cheney said. “And one of the most moving messages I got today out of the many hundreds that i received was from a family member of a 9/11 victim, saying, ‘Thank you for reminding the country. Thank you for reminding the White House.’
“You know, this wasn’t a mess, as President Obama described it,” she continued. “This was an attack on the homeland.”
This video is from Fox’s Hannity, broadcast May 21, 2009.
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I think the Cheneys know what crimes were committed and who ordered them and what Justice might follow. The guilty are also likely to strike out to tear down their attackers or just to distract people’s attention.
Perhaps the government should extend secret service protection to those people facing physical danger until this is all resolved and for a time thereafter.
After all, we want Justice, not violence which destroys people or the political process.
Gingrich says we should all be afraid. So he is afraid. Cheney says we all should be afraid. So he is afraid. But what are they afraid of? Of courage. They fear the courage of others like a thief fears sunshine. The chickenhawks who refused to serve their country when it was time for them to serve now tell those of us who served when it was our time to serve that we should be afraid. We aren’t. Why? Because we served, and in serving learned that you can ALWAYS be afraid, except when you stand up and do your duty. Then you conquer fear and learn the real things to fear: chickenhawk yellow belly cowards who want to rule over us, our children, our grandchildren and our greatgrandchildren. And even then we don’t FEAR them as much as despise their yellow livered ilk and watch to see them investigated and prosecuted eventually by man or God. And when man refuses, and God takes care of it, oh, courage just to watch is a double edged sword. But you have to admit it’s effective. And I do believe it is coming. Pinochet was “exempt”. Until he wasn’t. Yes. Oh, yes!