Rand Paul Blasts Cheney: Someone Should've Been Removed From Office For Pre-9/11 Failures

[jct74]

Rand Paul Blasts Dick Cheney: ‘Someone Should Have Been Removed From Office’ For Pre-9/11 Failures

by Noah Rothman | 5:44 pm, June 18th, 2013




Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) appeared on CNN’s The Situation Room on Tuesday evening where he was asked to respond to former Vice President Dick Cheney who told Fox News Channel’s Chris Wallace that the junior Kentucky senator was wrong when he criticized the NSA’s surveillance programs. Paul tore into the Bush administration’s role in the establishment of the post-9/11 security regime, noting that he thinks it is possible to catch terrorists using methods consistent with the Constitution.

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“What I would ask is who did they fire after 9/11?” Paul asked. “Not one person was fired.”

“Do you remember the ’20th hijacker’?” he continued. “[Zacarias] Moussaoui, captured a month in advance? The FBI agent wrote 70 letters asking, ‘let’s look at this guy’s computer.’ In the FBI, they turned him down.”

“It wasn’t that they couldn’t get a warrant, nobody asked for a warrant,” Paul added. “To me, that was really, really bad intelligence – really bad police work – and, really, someone should have been removed from office for that.”

“Instead they said, ‘Oh, we need to look at the records of all the innocent Americans’ phone calls,” he observed. “I think you can catch terrorists and have protections of our freedoms at the same time.”

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/rand-paul...-911-failures/

[FSP-Rebel]

Top shelf

[georgiaboy]

YES

[squarepusher]

pretty bad ass, I wish he would have outright said that Cheney should have been removed from office for 9-11

[anaconda]

Rand has mentioned this about 9-11 multiple times. If Rand becomes POTUS I wonder if a new investigation might be on like Donkey Kong. In another interview on Fox and Friends he said that the fact that no one was fired after 9-11 "gauls me to this day." See 5:55 - 6:23 in following video:

[anaconda]

Cheney walked into that one.

[cajuncocoa]

I haven't posted in Rand's subforum for quite a few weeks now, but I have to break my vow just this once to say: THAT MADE ME SMILE.

[PatriotOne]

Rand Paul Blasts Dick Cheney

Dear Rand,

You are cordially invited to go quail hunting on Saturday.

Your friend,

Dick

[Sola_Fide]

Rand should have been pressing these differences months ago.

[CaptUSA]

Anybody else catch the "Republicans will find out that I WILL..... uh and I do.... say... that we do everything we can...)

[ObiRandKenobi]

Anybody else catch the "Republicans will find out that I WILL..... uh and I do.... say... that we do everything we can...)

LOL yep.

[ObiRandKenobi]

This has to be one of my favorite Rand moments: "It wouldn't be the first time he (Cheney) made a mistake"

h/t MP

[jct74]

HuffPo front page

Rand Paul Attacks Dick Cheney, Bush Administration For Pre-9/11 Security Failures

By Danielle Schlanger
Posted: 06/19/2013 12:30 pm EDT

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) blasted the Bush administration and former Vice President Dick Cheney on CNN’s "The Situation Room" Tuesday evening, blaming them for not taking corrective action for pre-9/11 intelligence failures and for creating a security protocol inconsistent with the Constitution after the attacks.

When asked to respond to Cheney's comments that the Kentucky senator was wrong to criticize the National Security Agency surveillance programs, Paul hurled criticism at Cheney.

"Really, someone should have been removed from office for that, and they should have said this is never going to happen again," Rand said on the "really, really bad intelligence" and "really bad police work," that failed to thwart the attacks.

"Instead they said, ‘oh, we need to look at the records of all the innocent Americans’ phone calls every day.' And I think you need to have a respect for the Bill of Rights, a respect for privacy and particularly a respect for the fourth amendment," he said.

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read more:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/0...n_3466433.html

[Henry Rogue]

This maybe the dumbest post i have ever wrote and i wrote some dumb ones. Rand needs to put some sun block on his face when he wears his sunglasses, so he doesn't get that raccoon look.

[Restore America Now]

This maybe the dumbest post i have ever wrote and i wrote some dumb ones. Rand needs to put some sun block on his face when he wears his sunglasses, so he doesn't get that raccoon look.

LOL. He does look a bit sunburned.

[jkr]

STAND
DOWN

[RP Supporter]

HuffPo front page

Yeah, read the comments. so many liberals excited about infighting in the GOP. It's a game to them. They don't give a damn about principals. To be fair, most mainstream conservatives don't either.

It's like these people fear they'll lose their progressive cred if they dare to give Rand kudos.

[Sola_Fide]

I don't like the Republican line I keep hearing that "people need to be fired". How about "departments need to be ended" or something like that?

I don't want these federal departments to be re-stocked with less tyrannical overlords. That would be a horrible statement about what libertarianism is.

[anaconda]

This maybe the dumbest post i have ever wrote and i wrote some dumb ones. Rand needs to put some sun block on his face when he wears his sunglasses, so he doesn't get that raccoon look.

I have noticed this too. Maybe he needs to wear sunglasses full time. Like in the Matrix. first POTUS to be sworn in wearing Raybans.