Cheney Criticizes Probe of CIA Interrogations - washingtonpost.com: "Former vice president Richard B. Cheney on Sunday condemned the Justice Department's decision to investigate suspected CIA prisoner abuses, reiterated his assertion that enhanced interrogation techniques worked in revealing terror plots, and indicated that he may not cooperate with the prosecutor assigned to the case.
Cheney accused President Obama of setting a 'terrible precedent' by allowing an 'intensely partisan, politicized look back at the prior administration.' Asked whether he would talk to John Durham, the veteran prosecutor appointed by Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. to examine allegations that the CIA abused Sept. 11 terror suspects, Cheney said: 'It will depend on the circumstances and what I think their activities are really involved in.'
Holder announced the investigation last Monday, the same day that a long-awaited inspector general's review of the agency's interrogation methods was released.
'I just think it's an outrageous political act that will do great damage, long term, to our capacity to be able to have people take on difficult jobs, make difficult decisions, without having to worry about what the next administration is going to say,' Cheney said in a taped Fox News interview that was aired Sunday."
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