Keep talking, Dick, keep talking.

I'm just counting the days to the inevitable "you can't handle the truth" tirade.

I think we're already getting a hint from the Rockefeller story that whatever we find in the CIA documents is going to be exactly what Dick dictated to be written there.

I find Cheney's use of language to be interesting. It is usually carefully parsed to not quite answer the question.

For instance: When he was asked recently if Bush knew what he (Cheney) knew, he basically said that a decision was made without Bush and then sent to Bush to rubber-stamp. This not only fits my preconceptions about Bush being a puppet, but it fits the notion that Cheney (and in some cases the Principals Committee or other groups) operated on their own, and thus while Bush deserved to be impeached while in office, Cheney and others might deserve worse now.

I think he's doing a service here, even if inadvertently. I do think he's crossed a line of propriety a couple of times along the way.

I wish someone would point out that for a former VP to broadcast to our enemies that we are somehow less protected now, is in fact, an invitation for them to attack.

His media blitz itself makes us less safe and if he really was so concerned about the safety of America he would have volunteered and served rather than evading such service.

He's basically daring people to charge him with War Crimes and betting that they're too big of pussies to do it.

The sad fast is that they are.

One wished that some US Attorney out there would have the balls to go off the reservation and craft an indictment. Dare the President and the AG to fire him over it.

John

The reality is that this gang of narrow minded fascists - Cheney, Rove, Bybee, John Yoo - made this country significantly less safe by not only their methods of torture, but their unjust misguided war with Iraq that drew new recruits to the radical side of the terrorist movement like a magnet. New martyrs by the tens of thousands. Yes, these "Americans" are fascists, defined as "extreme right-wing, authoritarian, or intolerant views or practice". We owe it to ourselves and the world to bring these miscreants to justice.

i think the investigation on torture, who did it, who authorized it, when?, where?....without blaming it on the Obama administration. Let's go!

I just do not get it. Why does the MSM keep giving this guy a platform on Sundays and evening talk shows?

AND EVERYONE IS SCARED TO DEATH OF HIM!

No one ever challenges his stance on torture or Obama making the country less safe or points out that cutting back govt spending in a recession can lead to a depression.

He finished with a 20% approval rating and has NO CREDIBILITY.

Yet the press LOVE putting him on TV! What gives??

Cheney doesn't care what you say about him; as long as his picture's on your front page, he's a happy camper. Keep up the good work.

Cheney didn't run his mouth this much the whole eight years he was veep.

This is a blatantly obvious "pre-emptive" defense on Cheney's part. He knows what lies ahead and his only hope is to saturate State Run Media with unquantifiable End-Justifies-The-Means claims.

Cheney knows that none of the so-called journalists that interview him will bother to point out two simple facts that render moot any argument that he may have:

A) legal precedent shows that the techniques endorsed and pushed for by the Cheney-Rumsfeld cabal, including waterboarding, amount to torture and, B) torture is a war crime under U.S. federal law and a violation of international law under Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions. Both of which the U.S. Supreme Court clearly set the Bush Administration on notice for back in December 2006 with their ruling on Hamdan v. Rumsfeld.

Cheney is simply betting that his on-air defense will ensure that the vocal (and cowardly) hard-right minority will be both ignorant enough to swallow his propaganda hook, line and sinker -- and loud enough to scare off any prosecution for the war crimes committed.

Sadly, Cheney calculated efforts are likely to be successful given President Obama and his administration's cowardice on this subject. This is one area where Obama's "pragmatic" political approach shows complete disdain for the basic rule of law. Frankly, it angers me to no end. Despite how it is repeatedly portrayed by the media, for most of us this is not about politics. It's about right and wrong -- plain and simple.

I think what angers me the most is Cheney is still doing what he has done to this country for eight year, he's spreading fear. Never in our history have our leaders said, "be very scared." They've said, "We have nothing to fear but fear itself." And sadly it is still working, people are listening to Cheney and congratulating him on keeping us "safe." But how do we protect ourselves from this cancer of fear that he spreads?
I think someone, such as MoveOn, need to put out an ad of Cheney's greatest hits, all his fear-mongering threats over the past eight years. Maybe if people see it all together they'll figure out this guy is no leader, he took advantage of a bad time in our country. And maybe show some of our leaders in times of great threat encouraging us to be courageous instead of afraid. I'm tired of listening to his cowardness.

Blunderdick is a fearful man. He is clearly afraid, and rightfully so, that he is going to be prosecuted for conspiracy etc. He is clearly, like Blagojevich out there trying to control public perception so that he can try to reduce the will of the country to hold everyone accountable.
It's pathetic that he is also using her daughter and that she is trying to sell the same bullcrap blather that her father is dishing up. He is shrewd but he is also an idiot. And he is looking more pathetic and impotent every day.

Cheney strikes me as one of those firemen, who starts fires so he can run in and rescue people. I hope someone is monitoring his access to yellow cake!

He's blaming the lawyers 'who gave us the advice that was crucial.' The lawyers were following orders after the fact to find legal loopholes to allow torture.

7-1/2 years of "safety." Yes, 7-1/2 years of turning the world against the USA, of two tragic never ending wars, and ending with a wrecked economy. Very safe indeed.

Go away Dick Cheney, you are bringing out the worst in people. You and your demon spawn Liz just go back into your fortress and stay there. I wonder that you travel about so freely if you really believe that the USA is so unsafe under the new administration.

if i were yoo, bybee, haynes, addington or any of those torture lawyers, i don't know how happy i'd be with dick cheney going on the air and saying how "crucial" those opinions were to america's torture program.

Dick Cheney is covering HIS a$$. He really doesn't want to go to jail. That's why he's doing all this posturing now, hitting the talk shows, trying to win support for the insupportable. Unfortunately, I don't think he has much to worry about. Sadly, it looks like the Obama Administration is going to give the war criminal a walk. Cheney should be put against the wall, blindfolded, offered a last cigarette, and, after the amount of soul-searching a soulless bastard like him can do in the time it takes to smoke a Lucky, dispatched in the time-honored manner of other traitors. That's what he is - a traitor to his country.

First off, how many failed criminal Dicks can the repubs have & when will he go with the "I'm not a criminal line"? Dickgate is the scandal of all times.
Nobody would have thought he could have possibly accomplished keeping us safe, he says. Well, he said it.
After he allowed the worst attack on American soil, ever, & the most deaths by any administration, ever, what doesn't seem possible, is that he's standing up bragging about it.
This is the final act of a coward.
True justice would be imprisoning him in a secret location without legal rights then using "enhanced torture techniches" on him until he cracks & finally releasing him in Iraq.