Cheney: Lawmakers favored secrecy on surveillance

The Daily Caller; Associated Press ^ | 2013/06/24 2:05 PM EDT | AP

[no-s]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday U.S. congressional leaders he briefed in 2004 on a surveillance program recently disclosed by leaker Edward Snowden supported it, and both Republicans and Democrats wanted to keep it secret.

Cheney said he was directly involved in setting up the program, run by the National Security Agency, or NSA, in the weeks after the 9/11 attacks. He said it has had “phenomenal results” in preventing terrorist attacks.

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[no-s]

"Cheney did not specify which survelliance program he was referring to"

Oh man, Dick, what makes you think it's the same program as it was when you were in office? Are you still part of the show? What the heck is the point of this? The shackles of limited government do not permit an automatic acceptance of government testing the limits. Why ally yourself with the De-Constitutionalists?

[Buckeye McFrog]

translation: Don’t let our voters know we authorized it.

[oldbrowser]

"Cheney did not specify which surveillance program he was referring to"

Obviously the program has "evolved".

[DoughtyOne]

Mr. Cheney, I don’t care who signed on to it. Our Founders and Our Founding Documents did not sign on to it. It was exactly this type of tyranny that our Founding Fathers tried to protect us from.

I don’t know of a single U. S. Citizen who would object to listening in, if a terrorist act were being activated. I don’t know of any U. S. Citizen who would object to listening in if it was thought a terrorist act was being planned.

What they do object to is the other 316 million who aren’t involved in these thing being listened to.

Are you seriously too stupid to grasp the finer points we’re talking about here? If so, just shut your pie-hole.

[Theoria]

Cheney was never limited Gov’t. He supported ‘National’ security, even if it went beyond the limits of the Constitution and the enumerated powers set forth.

[Nero Germanicus]

The National Security Agency Director under President George W. Bush was quoted as saying that Obama was right to continue the Bush-era surveillance program that Obama had opposed as a presidential candidate.

Former NSA Director General Michael Hayden said that “we should just take a sense of satisfaction that what we were doing, once candidate Obama became President Obama, he saw that these were of great value and frankly, were being very carefully done.” General Hayden also said that “National security looks a little different from the Oval Office than it does from a hotel room in Iowa.”
“Frankly, the Obama administration was more transparent than we were in the Bush administration.” “They made this metadata collection activity available to all the members of Congress, not just all the members of the intelligence committees.”

Obama must be loving having Cheney and Hayden rush to his defense.

[Count of Monte Fisto]

Here's a short video of Dick Cheney and his pal David Rockefeller laughing it up when Cheney says he kept his role as Director of the America destroying Council on Foreign Relations secret from his rube constituents. WATCH

[CatDancer]

This was a total shock to me when I watched that video. I’ve always loved Dick Cheney (not everything he says, but the man himself) and wished the 2000/2004 tickets had been Cheney/Bush instead of the other way around. I feel like hanging a black wreath on my door and going into mourning.

Crap. I’ll never trust any pol again. Never.

[no-s]

"I never mentioned that [ his position in CFR ] when campaigning back home in Wyoming"

Grrrr. Even then stuff like that would get around.

[no-s]

I feel like hanging a black wreath on my door and going into mourning.

yeah, same here. I'm sorry I even posted the article now. But I guess my question needed some kind of answer.