Cheney Hits Obama Policy On Terrorism ; Says U.S. At Higher Risk After Repeal of Bush Plans

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The Obama administration has made the country more vulnerable to a terrorist attack by changing interrogation and detention policies and combating terrorism through law enforcement action rather than treating it like a war, former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday in his first television interview since leaving office.

Citing "enhanced interrogation" techniques, government wiretapping and other Bush initiatives as instrumental in preventing terrorist attacks, Mr. Cheney said that rolling back those programs will undermine U.S. intelligence gathering.

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Cheney Hits Obama Policy On Terrorism ; Says U.S. At Higher Risk After Repeal of Bush Plans

"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," he sa...

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