In the exchange likely to get the most attention, Cheney told King he thinks Obama has made the U.S. less safe by modifying Bush administration policies on detention and interrogation of terrorist suspects.
The enforcement model implemented on the US-Mexico border by civilian and local leadership has proven far more effective than anything the Obama administration has cooked up against the war on terror, why is that doctrine not considered a superior policy? Especially when Mexican cartels use the same tactics of intimidation, beheadings, and militarization as Islamic fundamentalist enemy combatants from Gaza or Iranian insurgents in Iraq. The ragtag border patrol has proven by the numbers it is far more effective as a peace keeping operation than the entire US military under Obama's command.
-- Border Patrol agents improved border security, reducing the number of apprehensions at the borders by 17 percent in FY 2008. During FY 2008 Border Patrol apprehended 723,825 compared with 876,704 during FY 2007.
-- Border Patrol made significant progress with denying illegal entry to aliens from countries other-than-Mexico (OTM), with 62,059 OTMs apprehended in FY 2008.
-- The highly successful “Operation Streamline” (which was reported in one hearing to have increased apprehension rates to almost 90 percent) was expanded from Del Rio, Texas, and Yuma, Arizona Border Patrol sectors, to the Laredo, Texas, and the Rio Grande Valley Border Patrol sectors resulting in an increase in criminal prosecutions and a reduction in apprehensions.
-- CBP seized more than 2.78 million pounds of narcotics during FY 2008.
CHENEY: I think those programs were absolutely essential to the success we enjoyed of being able to collect the intelligence that let us defeat all further attempts to launch attacks against the United States since 9/11. I think that's a great success story. It was done legally. It was done in accordance with our constitutional practices and principles. 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.
Then John King panders to his radical audience by implying open rebellion against Obamaland.
KING: That's a pretty serious thing to say about the president of the United States...
Yet make no mistake that tone of revolution is spreading as the nation rallies to defend itself from a wide-sweeping government power grab fully supported by world media outlets.
