Although most conservatives (no matter how begrudgingly) have given it up and credited Barack Obama for his decision to use a Navy SEAL team to take out Osama bin Laden a week ago, those same conservatives have also used their time in the cable news spotlight to criticize the administration for investigating CIA officers who may have been involved in those infamous "enhanced interrogation " practices from yesteryear — and have said that waterboarding "worked" in obtaining information that helped to finally chase down bin Laden after nearly a decade.
On Sunday, a couple of the Bush administration's most prominent personalities involved in that controversial strategy against Al Qaeda — former Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld — made appearances on two major Sunday morning public affairs programs.
This article appears in May 5-11, 2011.
