Hardball Transcript: Andrea Mitchell tries to sell Maureen on Dick Cheney

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

DOWD: Well, on the “trust me” thing. But, I mean, look who the concierge of the family is. I mean, it was one thing to trust them when they had Jim Baker, it's another thing with Dick Cheney who, as Bob Woodward wrote in his book, has this weird fever. He brought America into the bunker with him. He has a dark, gloomy, paranoid vision. I mean, Bush wanted to be Reagan II, but Cheney and Rummy are like Nixon II.

MITCHELL: But aren't they, in their minds, protecting Americans from another attack? I mean, what Dick Cheney said on the flight back from Oman was that it's no accident, it's not a coincidence that there hasn't been an attack because, in fact, they did expand the powers and used this surveillance in a way that it hasn't been used before.

DOWD: Yes, I don't agree with that. And his whole attitude that warrants are so 20th century—I mean, you've got to go by the law. You just have to. You know, we're—first, Cheney and Bush shredded, you know, the Atlantic alliance, then they shredded the Geneva Convention, and now they're shredding the Bill of Rights. You just can't do that.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10616341/



The Crooks & Liars video clip of the entire segment:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/12/23.html#a6452