Cheney: Changes to Anti-Terrorism Policy Will Raise the Risk of Attack
March 15, 2009 by national
Filed under Homeland Security News
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday that the Obama administration will “raise the risk” of a terrorist attack by overhauling his predecessor’s approach to the War on Terror.
Cheney sharply criticized Obama’s decisions to close the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, limit the methods CIA officers use to interrogate terror suspects and suspend military tribunals for alleged terrorists, saying those decisions taken together will make Americans less safe.
And he warned that the administration was transitioning to a pre-9/11 mindset that views terrorism as a “law enforcement problem” and not a military threat.
“When you go back to the law enforcement mode, which I sense is what they’re doing … they are very much giving up that center of attention and focus that’s required, and that concept of military threat that is essential if you’re going to successfully defend the nation against further attacks,” Cheney said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
He said the Bush administration’s tough anti-terrorism policies were “absolutely essential” to the military’s ability to gather the intelligence that helped foil “all further attempts to launch attacks against the United States since 9/11.”
Cheney added: “President Obama campaigned against it all across the country. And now he is making some choices that, in my mind, will, in fact, raise the risk to the American people of another attack.”
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IT’s going to be very interesting to see if the words ” I TOLD YOU SO ” comes into play here!!
It was neither an accident or luck that we weren’t attacked again on our soil since September 11, 2001. The dedication by George W. Bush and his advisors worked long and hard to prevent further attacks. The amount of men and women that put in countless hours to keep us safe from more attacks would boggle the mind. These selfless people should be thanked and appreciated for, if nothing else, that we have not had another tragedy like 9-11. Many plots were stopped in their tracks within days or hours of accomplishing their goals. President Bush also had the additional task of rebuilding our military after the way it was decimated while Bill Clinton was in office. Now Obama will once again tear down our defenses leaving us a prime target for those who would destroy us. President Bush, we owe you a great debt of respect for keeping us safe.
If I were trying to increase the chances of a Republican win in 4 years, I’d say the same thing Cheney said. He has nothing to lose by saying it. If, God forbid, there is another terrorist attack (not counting the several recent mass shootings), then he can say “I told you so.”
A cynical gamble on his part, but times are tough for his party.