The former vice president and world champion chicken hawk tells CNN he cannot discuss classified programs, like the one that reportedly involves the U.S. spying on its closest allies, but “[w]ithout speaking about any particular target or group of targets,” he’s a huge fan.

Why, presses CNN’s Jake Tapper, must we spy on allies? Without confirming that that is what we do, Cheney responds, “We are vulnerable, as was shown on 9/11, and you never know what you’re going to need when you need it.” And sometimes — like on 9/11 — you have what you need (like a presidential briefing saying bin Laden determined to attack), you just don’t know it.

(Via Political Wire)

— Posted by Peter Z. Scheer

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