Here is the full prepared text of former VP Dick Cheney’s most recent speech defending the Bush administration’s record on national security. It deserves to be read, even studied by every freedom-loving person around the world. Also see the Weekly Standard’s highlighted excerpts.
Category: National Security
Barack Obama Had a Good Day
After hundreds of thousands of Americans protested his economic policies, Barack Obama batted 1.000 today by releasing the disputed Office of Legal Counsel memos authorizing the use of tortue on captured terrorists, declaring that intelligence officers responsible for the interrogations would not be prosecuted, and announcing that the U.S. will focus on enforcing existing gun smuggling laws rather than re-instituting the lapsed assault weapons ban.
North Korea Launches Rocket; Sanctions to Follow?
Defying of an alliance of nations that included the United States and China, North Korea has launched its latest rocket, one believed to be capable of reaching Alaska and Hawaii. Unnamed Japanese defense officials have said that Iranian experts with in North Korea helping with the launch. Axis of Evil, anyone?
Obama Takes Guns Out of Pilots’ Hands, Risks Public Safety
Despite the obvious benefits of having weapons in the right hands during airline flights, the Obama administration is reportedly ending that policy. There is no justifiable reason for this reduction in public safety. In fact, the Washington Times reports that there are exactly zero cases of on-board officers improperly using their weapons. I’ve been willing…
No Crime in Doing What They Had to Do
John Yoo’s name has become synonymous with what some on the left consider egregious unethical and illegal behavior on the part of the recently departed Bush administration. Today Yoo fired back, saying that the administration did what it had to do to protect the nation and what happened in Mumbai in November might have happened…
Remembering 9/11
Seven years ago terrorists started a fight that they thought Americans would be too soft, too self-indulgent, and too fearful to return. They were wrong, of course, but they were right as well, as demonstrated by the lack for support here at home for the battles in Iraq and Afghanistan. It’s notable that no further…
FISA, Obama, and Reality
A new Newsweek poll shows Barack Obama slipping into striking range of John McCain, 44-41%. This is good news, first because it means that Obama may not become president after all, second because independent voters like me matter more in a close race, and third because he will be forced to further mis-cast himself as…
Telecom Immunity a Fact of Life
PBS says: The Senate approved a bill Wednesday overhauling the rules on government eavesdropping and granting immunity to telecom companies that assist with government-ordered communications monitoring. The Senate approved the bill by a vote of 69-28. And the NY Times says that until now: …more than 40 lawsuits continued churning through federal courts, charging AT&T,…
Liberals Who Simply Can’t Let Well Enough Alone
Unhappy with the deal reached between the parties about the legal fate of telecom companies who helped the feds in the aftermath of 9/11, two of the looniest of the left are banding together in an attempt to filibuster the bill in the Senate: "If the Senate does proceed to this legislation, our immediate response…
FISA Immunity
In what must be a blow for folks like Glenn Greenwald, Democrats and Republicans have come to the logical, inevitable conclusion that telecom firms who aided the Bush administration by compromising records of Americans’ telephony activities shall be immune from prosecution if asked to do so by the government. Dan Froomkin hates the "compromise", which…