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Liz Cheney Is Concerned ‘We’re Hearing Too Many Details’ On Bin Laden Killing

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At one point, President Obama’s claims that his administration would be among the most transparent were met with mockery from his opponents, though with the current national security situation, some are concerned he is fulfilling that promise. On tonight’s Hannity, Liz Cheney expressed hope that the President would scale back on some of the details being released about the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.

Cheney was on the program to first discuss the possibility that some military personnel may face legal action against them for questionable interrogation tactics, calling that potential legal move an “abomination” and “appalling that the administration is taking a position to score political points.” “They ought to stop the investigations… of those Americans who bravely carried out these measures.” What’s more, asked by host Sean Hannity whether the capture “vindicates your father,” Cheney replied that “those plans worked” and this was only “one more peace of evidence” towards that. That said, the safety of the country, Cheney concluded, rested in that “there are things we shouldn’t know and our enemies shouldn’t know” that she hoped were still kept under wraps, lest that information be used against the country.

Cheney was remarkably unenthused about either side of the debate on releasing photos of the dead al-Qaeda leader, however, particularly since “now that al Qaeda confirmed that he’s dead,” the need to prove that he is is far diminished. Instead, Cheney was outraged that President Obama’s reasoning behind not releasing the photos were that “we wouldn’t like it if someone released a picture of American soldiers,” accusing the President of “immediately go[ing] to a comparison between bin Laden and American soldiers.”

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  • Glackin

    Liz Cheney, who’s daddy got her a job with Uncle Donnie, is what passes for an expert what? in the Faux Universe?
    She is just another winner in what Warren Buffett calls the “lucky sperm club.”

  • seek

    …and she also happens to be a very well educated woman. Do you have a problem with that?

  • insideguy

    I don’t know if you guys have noticed or not. But the right wing has a strategy here and its been building up the last couple of days. They are pulling this water boarding/interogation thing into the forefront. First they start with their “facts” that waterboarding caused KSM and others to give up valuable information that led to the capture of Osama Bin Laden. Never mind that at this point it is just conjecture and no evidence at all, I repeat no evidence at all had proven this at this point. Then they are trying to crucify the Obama administration because there is an investigation into the use of these interrogations. There by making Obama look like he is going after hero interrogators who were responsible for catching Osama bin laden. Very interesting tactic, watch how it builds the next week:)

  • CAINtheBULL

    “Victory has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan” – JFK

  • TillieGlockenspiel

    seek said:
    …and she also happens to be a very well educated woman. Do you have a problem with that?

    Also, intelligent, articulate, well-versed in foreign policy, wife, and mother and very pretty. I wish she were ready to run for public office- she’d be a great senator from Virginia.

  • avoidswork

    seek said:
    …and she also happens to be a very well educated woman. Do you have a problem with that?

    Yet she has no credibility on this. One may be well educated and have no clue what they are talking about in certain areas. Baby Girl Evil isn’t in the loop on this one. She’s just a spokesperson for the post-OBL revisionist storyline: condi, rummy, Cheney, etc.

  • JoeRemi

    Liz Cheney has never said a single useful thing in her life.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Ed-Lascar/100000889579338 Ed Lascar

    “Cheney was outraged that President Obama’s reasoning behind not releasing the photos were that “we wouldn’t like it if someone released a picture of American soldiers,” accusing the President of “immediately go[ing] to a comparison between bin Laden and American soldiers.””

    Obama has no clue at all saying what he said! It’s was a very idiotic assertion!

  • JoeRemi

    Ed Lascar said:
    “Cheney was outraged that President Obama’s reasoning behind not releasing the photos were that “we wouldn’t like it if someone released a picture of American soldiers,” accusing the President of “immediately go[ing] to a comparison between bin Laden and American soldiers.”” Obama has no clue at all saying what he said! It’s was a very idiotic assertion!

    As opposed to this dumbass comment from Ms. Cheney, right?

  • TfT

    Really. You just have to laugh at the senior editor at mediaite writing an article criticizing ms cheney and saying “peace of mind” in the middle of it

    You just can’t make this stuff up

    And to think folks here call palin stupid. I know the article will be edited to correct the error but really…”Peace of mind”????

    Too funny senior editor

  • Gasket

    seek said:
    …and she also happens to be a very well educated woman. Do you have a problem with that?

    Argumentum ad vericundiam. Being “very well educated” does not mean she’s an expert on this particular genre or policy. Glackin was questioning her expertise. She doesn’t have any.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Cheney

    Ed Lascar said:
    “Cheney was outraged that President Obama’s reasoning behind not releasing the photos were that “we wouldn’t like it if someone released a picture of American soldiers,” accusing the President of “immediately go[ing] to a comparison between bin Laden and American soldiers.””

    Obama has no clue at all saying what he said! It’s was a very idiotic assertion!

    I watched the entire 60-minutes interview. That was NOT the MAIN reason given. Keep in mind, Liz Cheney’s own father, an actual “expert” AGREES with Obama on this particular decision.

  • insideguy

    awwww man my theory had so many thumbs up then a right wing platoon must have moved in while I was off guard.

  • “Real” American

    insideguy said:
    awwww man my theory had so many thumbs up then a right wing platoon must have moved in while I was off guard.

    The contards here get crazy when you “out” their plans. Right now they are busy spitballing all these ideas/talking points to “get” Obama to see what sticks, but the average American is just happy we checked OBL off the list of things to do, and now they want Obama to check a couple of more things off the list. While the Mediate Peanut Gallery has nothing to do all day but post here and charge their Hover Rounds for their nightly trip to the bingo parlor, the rest of America is going to work and moving on. Let the conservatives keep attacking Obama, people will get really tired of the constant whining sound from the right and return Obama in ’12.

    You will need earplugs after the re-elections. These folks will redouble their whining then.

  • murf

    Gasket said:
    Argumentum ad vericundiam. Being “very well educated” does not mean she’s an expert on this particular genre or policy

    I’ve been making that same argument about Rachel Maddow for a year now.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    Glackin said:
    Liz Cheney, who’s daddy got her a job with Uncle Donnie, is what passes for an expert what? in the Faux Universe?She is just another winner in what Warren Buffett calls the “lucky sperm club.”

    The always sickening Glackin lives up to his name once again .

  • The Lantern of Truth

    TillieGlockenspiel said:
    Also, intelligent, articulate, well-versed in foreign policy, wife, and mother and very pretty. I wish she were ready to run for public office- she’d be a great senator from Virginia.

    Liz is fearless and will debate anyone in any setting . The wonderful Cheney family has reason to be proud of her .

  • huntingtonboy

    Liz is another person who goes along with the Republican’s de facto leader Rush Limbaugh’s mantra, “I hope Obama Fails”.

  • TfT

    OOOps, not the senior editor but the funny still remains in the article:

    “peace of evidence”….really Frances, sooo funny.

  • writer

    Glackin once again proving the left is the kind and sensitive side.

  • Barack Must Go

    It appears that president Obama has abruptly changed course on campaign strategy.

    In an apparent, though lame, attempt at appearing bi partisan he has personally joined with Republicans and ” real ” American people by repeatedly kicking himself to the curb this week.

    oddly enough, he seems to really be enjoying doing so, as he refuses to stop.

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  • TillieGlockenspiel

    The Lantern of Truth said:
    Liz is fearless and will debate anyone in any setting . The wonderful Cheney family has reason to be proud of her .

    Yes, fearless! I WOULD love to see Liz Cheney debate 0bama; she’d expose him for the fraud he is.

  • Pablo

    insideguy said:
    They are pulling this water boarding/interogation thing into the forefront. First they start with their “facts” that waterboarding caused KSM and others to give up valuable information that led to the capture of Osama Bin Laden. Never mind that at this point it is just conjecture and no evidence at all, I repeat no evidence at all had proven this at this point.

    You’d better explain that to Leon Panetta.

  • Pablo

    avoidswork said:
    Yet she has no credibility on this. One may be well educated and have no clue what they are talking about in certain areas. Baby Girl Evil isn’t in the loop on this one. She’s just a spokesperson for the post-OBL revisionist storyline: condi, rummy, Cheney, etc.

    What are your credentials? What gives you insight as to what her knowledge is? She’s got years in the State Department backing her up. What do you have to recommend your opinion?

  • http://politicallyincorrectlibertarian.wordpress.com PoliticallyIncorrectLibertarian

    We’re hearing too much? I say we need to hear EVERYTHING and see the damn PICTURES! We paid for this, it’s the least Uncle Obama can do.

    DEMOCRATIC PARTY PLAYBOOK 101.
    http://libertarians4freedom.blogspot.com/2011/05/10-commandments-in-democrat-party.html

  • JustPlayTheGame

    Why don’t the goverment say “no comment” and continue with what they do silently…because it’s dems vs reps and they got to get their media attention while media “demands” to be informed. (rollseyes)

    We spent alot of money on new Homeland Security and FEMA camps, preparing for homeland/grown terror, we gotta allow torture to continue to stay in front of the other terrors of the world, even if we did train them! war is hell.. they do what they do to make sure all these political media news programs can say what they say nightly… none of it matters.. Get popcorn, watch the media clowns, ignore everything heard. find the punch line. Laugh, move to next station.

    We are the only nation capable of world domination, thru political media news! well, besides “Ellen” who is a nation in herself..and may be in the lead. go guantanamo go! (rolleyes)

  • Pablo

    JustPlayTheGame said:
    We spent alot of money on new Homeland Security and FEMA camps

    We did? Where are those FEMA camps?

  • Gasket

    murf said:
    I’ve been making that same argument about Rachel Maddow for a year now.

    Rachel Maddow is a political commentator. Liz is not. She’s an attorney. She’s invited to give technical analysis on a subject she is NOT an expert in. There are probably a dozen other people whose insight on the subject would be more valuable. Nice try. I have already linked to her Wiki page. We do KNOW what she did for “years” at the state dept. It was related to ECONOMICS which has nothing to do with what she’s frequently invited to comment on on Faux News. Like I said, it’s a bullshit ad verecundiam argument.

  • Pablo

    Gasket said:
    Rachel Maddow is a political commentator.

    So is Michael Savage. Your point?

  • M Colins

    Gasket said:
    Argumentum ad vericundiam. Being “very well educated” does not mean she’s an expert on this particular genre or policy. Glackin was questioning her expertise. She doesn’t have any.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Cheney

    Ironic, considering that was apparently enough for the Left when it came to Obama. He went to Harvard! Well of course he must be made President at once!

  • J Baustian

    The Lantern of Truth said:
    Liz is fearless and will debate anyone in any setting . The wonderful Cheney family has reason to be proud of her .

    I cannot decide between Dick Cheney, Lynn Cheney, and Liz Cheney — I like all them, I have respect and affection for each of them. Since Dick and Lynn have reached the end of their political careers, I hope Liz will find a way to serve in some important position… perhaps in the Senate or House, with the presidency somewhere down the road?

  • J Baustian

    Gasket said:
    Rachel Maddow is a political commentator. Liz is not. She’s an attorney. She’s invited to give technical analysis on a subject she is NOT an expert in.

    Wait a minute — are you saying Rachel Maddow is an expert at something? or that her opinion is of greater consequence than Liz Cheney’s?

  • Dem4Ever

    aaronmfleszar said:
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  • Gasket

    Pablo said:
    So is Michael Savage. Your point?

    I sharpened it for you in the post right above yours. Ray Charles could see it. I wouldn’t listen (well, I wouldn’t really value) any technical analysis on national security from Michael Savage either. I would shrug and move on.

    J Baustian said:
    Wait a minute — are you saying Rachel Maddow is an expert at something? or that her opinion is of greater consequence than Liz Cheney’s?

    Strawman. I said Liz Cheney was not. Someone else brought Rachel Maddow into this equation. Ask them why they decided to compare a cable TV host/political commentator to a guest, an attorney by trade who is an EX-State Dept employee specializing in economics brought in to comment on a NS topic. Duh. I would have had NO problem with Sean Hannity interviewing Dick Cheney on the subject. I am not being partisan. I’m saying it’s an obtuse argument that was used to defend her fatuous comments. Glackin had every right to question Liz’s “expertise.” It was legit.

  • Giant Forehead

    Liz Cheney should be given some sort of space megaphone permanently directed at the Earth so that the entire world can always know what she is always saying. If I had one wish that’s what it would be.

  • disgusted

    IF you can’t “facinate” them with “FACTS” – ‘dazzle’ them with BS!

  • illusive man

    I’m surprised the super massive egos of Hannity and Cheney didn’t collapse and create a gravitational singularity.

  • Irish189

    People seem to have this bizzare idea that if something lines up with your personal ideology it must be legal, the law doesn’t work that way bozos

    People can argue about enhanced interogation till they’re blue in the face but “it works” is not an argument

    That would be like saying “drop some nukes on pakastan, Afganistan, Iraq, Iran, and Yemen and we’ll wipe out terrorists”

    Just because” it works” doesn’t mean its legal, must less right

  • seek

    Gasket said:
    Rachel Maddow is a political commentator. Liz is not. She’s an attorney. She’s invited to give technical analysis on a subject she is NOT an expert in. There are probably a dozen other people whose insight on the subject would be more valuable. Nice try. I have already linked to her Wiki page. We do KNOW what she did for “years” at the state dept. It was related to ECONOMICS which has nothing to do with what she’s frequently invited to comment on on Faux News. Like I said, it’s a bullshit ad verecundiam argument.

    Wrong again odd-job. Try a little bit harder. Cheney is brilliant and when confronted with bull shit she pretty well lets them have it (in a nice way). That woman knows her stuff and does not get flustered. A sign that she’s honest and bright and doesn’t have to play the game. Her job was not related to economics as you are attempting to describe twit (economic development equals economics in your mind?). For someone who claims to never watch Fox and never listen to the right you seem to paint yourself an expert. Rather funny really.

  • OZ

    Liz strikes me as a very simple minded individual. Obviously, she is sticking up for her “War Criminal” father. And, in all fairness, almost everyone would stick up, for their father, no matter what the situation. I don’t fault her for that. And I realize that it is probably difficult, for her to comprehend, that her father is a “War Criminal”. But, despite all that, it is her simple minded interpretation, of the 60 Minutes interview, with President Obama, that leads me to believe she is too naive, to comprehend American politics, let alone what America stands for.

  • illusive man

    OZ said:
    Liz strikes me as a very simple minded individual. Obviously, she is sticking up for her “War Criminal” father. And, in all fairness, almost everyone would stick up, for their father, no matter what the situation. I don’t fault her for that. And I realize that it is probably difficult, for her to comprehend, that her father is a “War Criminal”. But, despite all that, it is her simple minded interpretation, of the 60 Minutes interview, with President Obama, that leads me to believe she is too naive, to comprehend American politics, let alone what America stands for.

    Do you believe Obama is a war criminal for starting an unconstitutional war in Libya?
    And please don’t use the U.N. argument.
    we are not a world government.
    It dosen’t matter if we are under the US flag or the UN flag.
    If we use American Navy people to shoot missils and drop bombs on a countrys army, we (America) are doing an act of war.
    And since congress didn’t vote to bomb Libya that makes it unconstitutional and therfor illegal.
    And like Bush and Cheney that makes Obama a war criminal.

    Or is your anger only directed to Republicans only?

  • OZ

    illusive man said:
    Do you believe Obama is a war criminal for starting an unconstitutional war in Libya?
    And please don’t use the U.N. argument.
    we are not a world government.
    It doesn’t matter if we are under the US flag or the UN flag.
    If we use American Navy people to shoot missils and drop bombs on a countrys army, we (America) are doing an act of war.
    And since congress didn’t vote to bomb Libya that makes it unconstitutional and therfor illegal.
    And like Bush and Cheney that makes Obama a war criminal.

    Or is your anger only directed to Republicans only?

    If only “Republicons” could read. What a wonderful world this would be. What nonsensical diversion, from my post, are you posing? When I say Cheney is a “War Criminal”, it has absolutely nothing to do with starting a war in Libya, in fact it has nothing to do with starting a war in Afghanistan or Iraq. So what exactly are you implying? And why the non sequitur diversion? It’s like you saying that the Ryan economic plan is vital, to the well being of this country, and then me replying… “do you think the economic plan offered by the “Communists” in the Italian Parliament is vital to the well being, of the Italian Government?” So I again I ask you, what does the situation in Libya have to do with Cheney, being a “War Criminal”? Not to mention, my post basically dealt with the naivete of Liz Cheney. It this some cheap attempt at trying to diminish Barack Obama?

  • OZ

    illusive man said:
    Do you believe Obama is a war criminal for starting an unconstitutional war in Libya?
    And please don’t use the U.N. argument.
    we are not a world government.
    It dosen’t matter if we are under the US flag or the UN flag.
    If we use American Navy people to shoot missils and drop bombs on a countrys army, we (America) are doing an act of war.
    And since congress didn’t vote to bomb Libya that makes it unconstitutional and therfor illegal.
    And like Bush and Cheney that makes Obama a war criminal.

    Or is your anger only directed to Republicans only?

    Excuse me, I missed the last sentence of your post. My personal anger is directed at Mr. Cheney, Not Mr. Bush, nor others in the Bush administration. But now that you mention it, you can add Mr. Rumsfeld to that list.

  • J Baustian

    Or you can decide not to make a list of war criminals at all. Of if you do make a list, you put people on the list who actually commit atrocities and not just people you don’t like.

  • illusive man

    OZ said:
    If only “Republicons” could read. What a wonderful world this would be. What nonsensical diversion, from my post, are you posing? When I say Cheney is a “War Criminal”, it has absolutely nothing to do with starting a war in Libya, in fact it has nothing to do with starting a war in Afghanistan or Iraq. So what exactly are you implying? And why the non sequitur diversion? It’s like you saying that the Ryan economic plan is vital, to the well being of this country, and then me replying… “do you think the economic plan offered by the “Communists” in the Italian Parliament is vital to the well being, of the Italian Government?” So I again I ask you, what does the situation in Libya have to do with Cheney, being a “War Criminal”? Not to mention, my post basically dealt with the naivete of Liz Cheney. It this some cheap attempt at trying to diminish Barack Obama?

    I’m sorry, I thought you were a reasonable person. My mistake.

  • OZ

    illusive man said:
    I’m sorry, I thought you were a reasonable person. My mistake.

    Are you always this confusing? I’m sure to you, anyone who does not respond to your nonsensical queries, is ultimately unreasonable. But you are probably correct, when you say “My mistake”, something I’m sure you say quite often.

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