WALLACE: This is at the core of the controversies that I want to get to with you in a moment. If the president during war decides to do something to protect the country, is it legal?
CHENEY: General proposition, I’d say yes. You need to be more specific than that. I mean — but clearly, when you take the oath of office on January 20th of 2001, as we did, you take the oath to support and defend and protect the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
There’s no question about what your responsibilities are in that regard. And again, I think that there are bound to be debates and arguments from time to time, and wrestling back and forth, about what kind of authority is appropriate in any specific circumstance.
But I think that what we’ve done has been totally consistent with what the Constitution provides for.
Don’t let the door hit you on the ass when you leave, Dick.
He’s not a Dick he’s a prick
Such a waste of IQ points, really. He’s a very intelligent man, but got stuck somehow in the whole neocon rut where the only solution to those in your way is to bomb them.
I wonder sometimes if he really believes half the stuff he says.
He was corrupted by his mentors.