Every so often Dick Cheney pops up out of semi-retirement to do a Fox News Sunday bit with Chris Wallace, and say what you will about the 72-year-old former Vice-President, but he always gives good TV.
With so much in the news about political surveillance that began under the George W. Bush administration after the events of 9/11, it's natural to hear from officials with that presidency who can talk about some of the spying going on that the passage of the Patriot Act allowed the commander in chief to do. That's why former CIA head General Michael Hayden has been omnipresent of late. Former President Bush himself has (admirably ) refrained from talking about Obama, but many think (especially in the first term) Vice President Cheney was one of the Machiavellian masters controlling how we carried out the war on terror.
On Fox, Cheney was asked about several subjects, beginning with Edward Snowden's revelations in The Guardian and the Washington Post.
This article appears in Jun 13-19, 2013.