Sounding Off

" When -- go former Vice President Dick Cheney once the Obama administration to make some decisions about Afghanistan. The story we brought you first Wednesday here on Special Report. Now Cheney's comments concerning current White House national security policy. Here is chief Washington correspondent Jim Angle."

" a blistering critique of the Obama administration's position on combating terrorism former Vice President Cheney noted the absence of attack since those on nine elevenths more than eight years ago. He said you'd think are successors would ask -- intelligence community what has been so successful in protecting the nation. Instead they've chosen a different path entirely. Giving in to the angry left. Slandering people who did a hard job very well. And demagoguing and issue more serious than any other they will face. During these four years. Mr. -- is especially critical of attorney general Eric holder's consideration of prosecuting intelligence officials it carried out the interrogation. I am not encouraged. When intelligence officers who acted in the services this country find themselves founded with a zeal that should be reserved for America's enemies. The Obama administration has sharply questioned the bush policies and the memos from the office of legal counsel or OLC that authorized them. -- Reflected in my view. Us losing our moral barracks. Mr. Cheney says such statements disregard the legal underpinnings in the safeguards of the program and that the methods were only used after all else had failed. But many thousands of lives potentially in the balance we did not think it made sense to let the terrorists to answer questions in their own good time. If they answered them at all. Part of a long running argument with President Obama and his attorney general what."

" Makes the United States special. And what makes you special. Is precisely the fact that. We are willing to uphold our values and ideals. Even when it's hard."

" But mr. Cheney argues characterizing the interrogation this torture is liable against the dedicated professionals who got the answers we needed with limited time and limited options in the case of college Sheikh Mohammed. By the time it was over he was not only talking he was practically conducting seminars. Complete with chalk boards and charts. Mr. Cheney says this argument is about far more than historical accuracy it's about how to protect the country. And that's a debate with the Obama administration the former vice president clearly intends to continue Brett I was pretty blistering talent and."