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Dick Cheney to Chris Wallace: I Find a Lot of What Obama Says ‘Not Credible’

Isn’t funny how some Lefty websites are quick to jump on Dick Cheney’s comments defending NSA surveillance when they really hated him with a passion when he was VP.  Of course he’s going to defend the NSA as he well should.  

The difference though is the utter hypocrisy of President Obama who berated President Bush, berated the Patriot Act, and portrayed himself as fraudulently as he could to garner votes only to put the NSA on steroids when he became president!   

President Obama is dishonest about the NSA, about the IRS, about how he handled Benghazi when he went to sleep while U.S. personnel were under attack in Benghazi resulting in four Amerucan deaths. 

This president has ZERO credibility whenever he opens his mouth!   

The Blaze reports former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday he doesn’t “pay a lot of attention” to what President Barack Obama says because he’s “not credible.”

“I don’t pay a lot of attention, frankly, to what Barack Obama says,” Cheney said on “Fox News Sunday.” “I find a lot of it — in other areas, for example, IRS, Benghazi — not credible. I’m obviously not a fan of the incumbent president.”

Cheney had been asked about Obama’s assertion that he cleaned up and added additional oversight to the federal government’s recently-revealed monitoring programs set up under the Bush administration after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Cheney said he doesn’t know what actions Obama took, but said it was “good” the programs were in operation because they had saved lives and kept Americans safe from further attacks.

Funny how the media doesn’t use the phrase “connect the dots” during the Obama presidency

George W. Bush was in office barely eight months when the 911 attacks happened at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.  Soon after the media, in a journalistic mode because a Republican was in office, castigated the Bush administration for failing to “connect the dots” in describing a failure to analyze information gathered by the CIA, NSA and other intelligence agencies to possibly discover and foil the attacks. 

Bush took the admonishment to heart and as a result there wasn’t another terrorist attack on U.S. anywhere in the world for the remainder of his presidency. 

Fast forward to the Obama presidency’s 5^th year and there have been five terrorists’ attacks on U.S. soil

In light of recent news reports of unprecedented surveillance of the American people going on and yet still we suffered this many terrorists attacks.  Isn’t it funny how the media doesn’t apply “connecting the dots” to Obama whatsoever?  That’s because the media is currently “public relations” mode when a Democrat is in office.   

Wacky Lefty Blogger, Little Green Footballs, doesn’t know the difference between the FBI and the NSA in defending NSA/Obama spying

In a very sloppy attempt to defend the Obama administration, Little Green Footballs does what the Left does best, disassemble the facts. 

As I just posted the NSA has admitted tolistening to Americans phone calls, without warrant, totally contradicting President Obama’s claims to the otherwise. 

Here comes LGF to the rescue to defend Obama the Great! 

Little Green Footballs writes: 

“Uh, wait a minute. The latest fear-mongering story about the NSA appears to be bogus. Here’s the story at CNET: NSA Admits Listening to U.S. Phone Calls Without Warrants | Politics and Law - CNET News.
Sounds pretty inflammatory, right?

Really, “eavesdrop on phone calls?” And the NSA admitted it?

If you read this carefully, you’ll notice that the source for this “admission” is not the NSA at all — it’s second-hand information from Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY).”

 Memo to Little Green Footballs: Rep Nadler went public with what the NSA said in a secret briefing!  So in essence Nadler was acting in the role of a journalist breaking news.  So characterizing Nadler as getting second hand information is extremely weak attempt to defend the indefensible. 

Little Green Footballs goes on to play a video of Nadler questioning FBI director Robert Mueller in which Nadler seeks a response to what the NSA told him.  Now this is where LGF is being very disingenuous because Mueller has nothing to do with the NSA.  He’s the head of the FBI, a totally separate government agency with different responsibilities. 

This bait and switch routine Little Green Footballs is trying to pull may fool low information voters, but not readers of The Last Tradition.    

Explosive Report: NSA contradicts Obama: Admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants, Edward Snowden’s claims confirmed

Even before we got to this point in Obamam’s presidency without any of these scandals, Obama has told a laundry list of lies to the American people from lying about Obamacare to his lies about class warfare. 

But, we do have these Obama scandals that only confirm what his character truly is—a dishonorable man that will say anything to get a vote and a dollar (see his stance on Gay marriage before and after 2012).    

The National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing that it does not need court authorization to listen to domestic phone calls reports CNET. 

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, disclosed this week that during a secret briefing to members of Congress, he was told that the contents of a phone call could be accessed "simply based on an analyst deciding that." 

If the NSA wants "to listen to the phone," an analyst's decision is sufficient, without any other legal authorization required, Nadler said he learned. "I was rather startled," said Nadler, an attorney and congressman who serves on the House Judiciary committee. 

Not only does this disclosure shed more light on how the NSA's formidable eavesdropping apparatus works domestically, it also suggests the Justice Department has secretly interpreted federal surveillance law to permit thousands of low-ranking analysts to eavesdrop on phone calls. 

Because the same legal standards that apply to phone calls also apply to e-mail messages, text messages, and instant messages, Nadler's disclosure indicates the NSA analysts could also access the contents of Internet communications without going before a court and seeking approval. 

The disclosure appears to confirm some of the allegations made by Edward Snowden, a former NSA infrastructure analyst who leaked classified documents to the Guardian. Snowden said in a video interview that, while not all NSA analysts had this ability, he could from Hawaii "wiretap anyone from you or your accountant to a federal judge to even the president." 

More here

This what Obama said about government surveillance: “When it comes to telephone calls nobody is listening to your telephone calls If they want to listen they got to go to a federal judge” As usual Obama lied to the American people as is his nature, like if you like your doctor you can keep him. Remember that one?