Message #36829

[Kilika]

That creature Cheney is still alive? 

And he's calling Snowden a traitor? Speaking of traitors!

When asked why the NSA has to "vacuum up" information on ordinary citizens, Cheney laughed off the suggestion, saying that "it's just a big bag of numbers that has been collected." And, getting right into the swing of being back defending government surveillance, Cheney slipped into the first-person plural: "The allegation is not that we get all this personal information on Aunt Fanny or Chris Wallace, that's not the way it works." Cheney also took some ownership—or at least authorship—of the data-collection, saying that he "worked with [former Director of National Intelligence] Mike Hayden when we set this program up."

Classic indifference Cheney! People are just "a big bag of numbers"? I expect no less from such a wicked person.

Cheney threw in his two cents on the IRS scandal: "One of the worst abuses of power imaginable."

My translation: "One of the worst cases of government idiots getting caught. I thought we taught them better than that".