Tom Ridge re: Cheney: "don't think most Americans see it that way"

[sabra]

http://www.fox23news.com/news/national/story.aspx?content_id=211A2FC4-0905-492A-A5E0-76690ABDA9B4

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The secretary refused to comment directly on Vice President Dick Cheney's comment that the defeat of U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman in the Democratic primary encourages al-Qaida types.

Chertoff said he stays out of politics, but said the U.S. stance on terror must be bipartisan, steadfast and resolute.


Chertoff's predecessor Tom Ridge told Newsweek of the Cheney remark, That may be the way the vice president sees it, but I don't see it that way, and I don't think most Americans see it that way.

[Olney Blue]

1. Why does Cheney hate Connecticut?

[wicket]

2. Why does he hate freedom?

n/t

[shain from kane]

3. Why does he hate quail? n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

4. Why does he love HATE? n/t

[Cha]

11. he's cheney, you know..

cheney's cheney!

[gully]

13. You guys crack me up!

:rofl:

[KaptBunnyPants]

6. Because one time he was trying to shoot a quail,

and he shot his friend in the face with a shotgun! Do you think Cheney is the type to forgive something like that?

[wicket]

17. In the words of the great Stephen Colbert:

"Somebody shoot me in the face!:

:evilgrin:

[kskiska]

12. Probably because he was kicked out of Yale.

[leesa]

5. Good old Tom, out there making a fortune on anti-terror profiteering.

He's a good American.

[Imagevision]

7. Tommy Ridge, somebody must have screwed him out of something...

or was it that Bush kicked him out?

[WiseButAngrySara]

8. Chertoff Apolitical? Right! Like Goering, Goebbels, Hess and Himmler

were Apolitical!

[Lasher]

9. I saw him on TV today

Chertoff said he doesn't get into politics, and whith his next breath he dove headlong into politics by implying everybody has to back Junior up all the time, every time.

[WiseButAngrySara]

10. Oh, yes. He wants to make B* the next Hitler ..errr world leader! Read

this post by kpete.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1902662

Chertoff: Bush Admin Does Not Have ENOUGH Authority

Michael Chertoff, secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, stopped short of calling for immediate changes, noting there might be constitutional barriers to the type of wide police powers the British had in apprehending suspects in the plot to blow up airliners headed to the U.S.

But Chertoff made clear his belief that wider authority could thwart future attacks at a time when Congress is reviewing the proper scope of the Bush administration's executive powers for its warrantless eavesdropping program and military tribunals for detainees held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

"What helped the British in this case is the ability to be nimble, to be fast, to be flexible, to operate based on fast-moving information," he said. "We have to make sure our legal system allows us to do that. It's not like the 20th century, where you had time to get warrants."


The Bush administration has pushed for greater executive authority in the war on terror, leading it to create a warrantless eavesdropping program, hold suspects who are deemed as "enemy combatants" for long periods and establish a military tribunal system for detainees that affords defendants fewer rights than traditional courts-martial.

http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2006/08/13/ap...

[SlavesandBulldozers]

16. It's not like the 20th century, where you had time to get warrants."

expediency. always expediency.

this could be getting ugly.

[grannylib]

14. REPUBLICANS hate our freedoms; the rest of the world hates our

greed and arrogance.
It's not the terrorists trying to destroy our Constitution; it's the Unelected Imbecile and his handlers/minions.
It's not the terrorists taking away our civil liberties; it's Chimpy, Cheney the Dick, and the rePiglicans in Congress.
It's not the terrorists curtailing freedom of speech and of the press; it's the press itself that is knuckling under to corpo-whore ownership and refusing to investigate, report, and tell the truth to the American people.

If terrorists hated 'freedom' or 'decadent lifestyles' why haven't they bombed Sweden? or the Netherlands?

Every time that fuckin' moron in the WH tries to tell us that terrorists hate our freedoms, I want to pitch a brick through the TV.

[Cha]

15. I'm shocked that tommy ridge would

say something like this about one the head neoCons! Isn't this a good thing?

[wicket]

18. kick

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