Dick Cheney is "Dead Wrong" According to VP Biden

Speaking recently of comments made by former Vice President Dick Cheney yesterday, current Vice President Joe Biden called Cheney "dead wrong" on the matter of Barack Obama’s national security policies. Cheney, who claimed that Obama’s policies were making the U.S. less safe, has generally been outspoken in his criticism of the new administration. He has nothing on the current vice president, however, who also noted that Cheney was himself part of an entirely dysfunctional decision-making administration.

Said Biden, "I don't think he is out of line, but he is dead wrong. ... The last administration left us in a weaker posture than we've been any time since World War II: less regarded in the world, stretched more thinly than we ever have been in the past, two wars under way, virtually no respect in entire parts of the world. And so we've been about the business of repairing and strengthening those. I guarantee you we are safer today, our interests are more secure today than they were any time during the eight years [of the Bush administration]."

Among the moves Obama has made and Cheney has criticized are the closing of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay as well as bans placed on various interrogation methods. Said Cheney of the now-defunct programs, "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." Biden countered, "Look, everybody talks about how powerful Cheney was. His power weakened America, in my view."