Clinton Calls Cheney Out
22 April 2009 11:33 am by Taylor Marsh
Secretary Clinton questions Cheney’s reliability as an information source. Most of America does too.
“Are you in favor of releasing the documents that Dick Cheney has been requesting be released?,” asked Rep. Rohrbacher.
“Well, it won’t surprise you, I don’t consider him a particularly reliable source of information,” responded Secretary Clinton to a smattering of laughter in the hearing room.
Congressman Rohrbacher appeared none too pleased and went at it again. “Madam Secretary, I asked you a specific question,” he said sternly.
“Congressman, I believe we ought to get to the bottom of this entire matter. I think it is in the best interest of our country and that is what the president believes and that is why he has taken the actions he did,” said Clinton.
Cheney misled the country about WMDs in Iraq. He pontificated about some fantasy Prague meeting. He orchestrated the outing of a covert C.I.A. operative in order to get revenge against her husband, Joe Wilson, who just happened to torpedo the Bush administration’s claims on Iraq and uranium procurement. Then he helped lead the White House on a torture policy that is illegal under national and international law. To say that he is not considered “a particularly reliable source of information” is the understatement of the post-Bush era. Given what is prologue, it is also an irrefutable judgment.
