Former Vice President Dick Cheney said today that the Department of Justice decision to review detainee interrogation practices by CIA workers and contractors was “a political move.” He said that President Obama was trying to “duck the responsibility” by saying the choice was the attorney general’s.
On “Fox News Sunday,” Cheney called Attorney General Eric H. Holder’s decision to name a federal prosecutor to examine abuse of prisoners “clearly a political move. I mean, there’s no other rationale for why they’re doing this.” The review would create “an outrageous precedent” for the Justice Department under Mr. Obama to take an “intensely partisan, politicized look back at the prior administration,” Cheney said.