Posted on 05/22/2009 2:30:32 PM PDT by Pyro7480
Anchor Anderson Cooper grilled Dick Cheney’s daughter Liz Cheney on his CNN program on Thursday evening about her father’s defense of the Bush administration’s anti-terror tactics. At one point, he asked, “Is it appropriate, though, for your father, who has had access to high-level intelligence for -- for eight years, to be very publicly waving a flag, saying, we’re much weaker now than ever before? Isn’t that, in fact, emboldening our enemies? Couldn’t you make that argument?”
Cooper later asked the former State Department official, “If a Democrat was doing this in a Republican administration, wouldn’t be the Republicans be saying, this is traitorous?” The anchor also questioned whether the CIA actually took care in implementing its enhanced interrogations: “But -- more than 100 people are known to have died in U.S. custody. Twenty -- I think about 20 of those have been ruled a homicide. I mean, if -- if these were just tightly-controlled things, how come so many people are being murdered in U.S. custody?”
The CNN anchor had the Cheney daughter on for a live interview eleven minutes into the 10 pm Eastern hour of his Anderson Cooper 360 program. He came out the gate using a term that he led his program with: “Is it -- is it appropriate for your father to be so out in front right now so soon after leaving office, essentially mocking the sitting president of the United States?”
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Who? Blanderson Goober?
Cheney is emboldening our enemies? Wow, you have to be particularly gifted in the fool department, to come up with that analysis.
The people who say nothing about outright treason from the NYT & others have absolutely no right to talk about “emboldening our enemies”.
Coop lives in an alternate reality, where trying to make us stronger is actually exposing our weaknesses and disagreeing with others is calling them traitors.””
Too bad that Coop didn’t stay in the rag business with nis Mommy- Gloria Vanderbilt. He is much better suited there with his IQ.
What an utterly stupid question for Cooper to ask. Does he even think about what he’s saying?
NO! But the man anderson cooper calls our president is.
Too bad that Coop didn’t stay in the rag business with nis Mommy- Gloria Vanderbilt. He is much better suited there with his IQ.”
Liz Cheney came from a much better gene pool, also.
We should nominate one person to watch CNN, so the rest of us don’t have to.
Isn't that what this NewsBuster is doing? It seems that he mainly blog on CNN.
But-but-but I thought “dissension is patriotic”. Where is the definition on what is or is not “dissent”, and what is or is not “weakening of the national resolve”?
The fact is, there is no national resolve about anything right now. This country is running on cruise control, set up long ago, that had been more or less successfully modulated during the very brief period when Republicans used to take responsibility for their actions, and TRIED to override the troublesome glitches that continually crept into the system. But in a moment of a terrible lapse of judgment, they gave up doing the right thing, and went back to doing the expedient thing. We are simply plunging down an ever-steeper path, with no exit strategy in sight.
Maybe we can surf the avalanche to the bottom.
Or not.
Cooper is a loon... and getting loonier by the day, apparently.
Not to mention a tad light in his loafers.
Could we or Lynn remind him about Algore and his “he betrayed us, he acted on our fears!”, or Hillary’s “What did he know and when did he know it?” How about Harry Reid’s “The war is lost!”? Could we argue that that emboldened our enemies against our troops on the battlefield?
Another question I’d ask this tea bagging afficianado is, “If a democratic vice-president calls out a Republican president, don’t people like you and the rest of the driveby media applaud and go with the accusation as THE story, as opposed to this question you just asked me, or have you completely forgotten you and the rest of the driveby medias utterly biased support for the democrats these past 8 years?”
Obama is the biggest recruiting tool al Qaeda has.
“If a Democrat was doing this in a Republican administration, wouldn’t be the Republicans be saying, this is traitorous?”
He doesn’t have to ask this as a retorical question, the Democrats started doing this as soon as the initial shock of September 11 wore off. There are plenty of examples of Democrats undermining Bush in a manner that clearly emboldened our enemies, not the least of which is Jimmy Carter.
Bastards, traitors, human waste, and they’re a national disgrace and not worthy of being called an American. May they go down in history accordingly.
LOL
Stuck on stupid.
This is right out of the Democrat talking points and the leftist media playbook.
The CIA interrogations, Guantanamo, and Abu Ghraib are three distinctly different things.
The CIA, not being a military organization, was the only organization authorized to do "enhanced interrogations". The "Torture memos" gave specific permission to the CIA and the CIA only. These interrogations were generally done in third countries (see leftist talking point "CIA Secret Prisons" and leftist talking point "Extraordinary Rendition") The Army, being a military organization, used the Army Field Manual for interrogations.
Guantanamo is military run, not CIA, and has primarily housed Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists captured in Afghanistan, and other terrorists captured in locations not associated with the military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. I do not know of reports of many Iraqi captured in Iraq being sent to Gitmo. Iraq had a lot of prisons, so it was easy to just keep captured prisoners in Iraq.
I don't understand what the big deal about Guantanamo is. There have not been any major scandals from Guantanamo. There was Newsweak's false scandal of the Koran desecration. But no stories of "torture". Simply put, Guantanamo has no place in the conversation on "abuse" or "enhanced interrogation" or "torture".
As I understand it, Abu Ghraib was mostly a prison used to house criminals, rather than high-value terrorist detainees. That is probably why Army Reserve MPs worked Abu Ghraib, while active duty military guards and military interrogators worked Gitmo.
The left is inventing its own narrative. And only Cheney is defending the CIA, Guantanamo, and the military.
Cheney deserves a medal.
The MSM is a joke.
The Dems don’t need an attack machine, its called the Establishmedia.
Pray for Amercia
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