Dick Cheney and the CIA : Entrevue vidéo hier sur FOX NEWS SUNDAY

Qualifiant la décision de Obama de "terrible" et qui compromet la sécurité nationale et dévaste le moral de la CIA, l'ancien Vice President Dick Cheney a affirmé que "C'est un acte politique scandaleux que fera beaucoup de dégâts à long terme»
Cheney a averti que restreindre le rôle de la CIA dans les interrogatoires est une grave erreur. «Je pense que c'est une claque directe à la CIA. Je ne pense pas que cela va fonctionner, dit-il. " Source : Cheney Slams Obama's 'Politicized' Probe of CIA Interrogations
«Je suis très fier de ce que nous avons fait pour défendre la nation ces huit dernières années, avec succès. Et on n’aura pas besoin d’un procureur pour savoir ce que je pense.»
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et la transcription en anglais du texte de l'entrevue de Cheney sur Fox News Sunday dont voici un extrait :

CHRIS WALLACE, HOST: Mr. Vice President, welcome back to "FOX News Sunday."

RICHARD CHENEY, FORMER VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: It's good to be back, Chris.

WALLACE: This is your first interview since Attorney General Holder named a prosecutor to investigate possible CIA abuses of terror detainees.

What do you think of that decision?

CHENEY: I think it's a terrible decision. President Obama made the announcement some weeks ago that this would not happen, that his administration would not go back and look at or try to prosecute CIA personnel. And the effort now is based upon the inspector general's report that was sent to the Justice Department five years ago, was completely reviewed by the Justice Department in years past.

They made decisions about whether or not there was any prosecutable offense there. They found one. It did not involve CIA personnel, it involved contract personnel. That individual was sentenced and is doing time. The matter's been dealt with the way you would expect it to be dealt with by professionals.

Now we've got a political appointee coming back, and supposedly without the approval of the president, going to do a complete review, or another complete investigation, possible prosecution of CIA personnel. We could talk the whole program about the negative consequences of that, about the terrible precedent it sets, to have agents involved, CIA personnel involved, in a difficult program that's approved by the Justice Department, approved by the National Security Council, and the Bush administration, and then when a new administration comes in, it becomes political.

They may find themselves dragged up before a grand jury, have to hire attorneys on their own because the Justice Department won't provide them with counsel.

It's a terrible, terrible precedent..........