Dick Cheney, surely now confirmed as the worst Vice-President in American history, produced a cracker, even by his miserable standards, during his interview with Fox’s Chris Wallace on Sunday. The subject was “harsh interrogation techniques”:
WALLACE: So even these cases where they went beyond the specific legal authorization, you’re OK with it.
CHENEY: I am. Well, you can’t get much clearer than that, can you? The contempt with which Cheney views the rule of law is quite breathtaking. Not that, given everything we know about the Vice-Presidents’ term in office, it should really come as any great surprise. But still…
Now that George W Bush has retreated to Crawford to clear brush and write his book, it’s striking how the field has been left to Cheney. Sure, there’s the convention that former Presidents keep quiet, but even allowing for that you could be forgiven for thinking that, now that he’s no longer President, Bush has lost all interest in politics and, for that matter, even the legacy of his Presidency.
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