Dick Cheney Says Government Spying “Needs To Be Preserved’

The former vice president defended government surveillance of its own citizens by the NSA on ABC’s This Week.

Cheney refused to say whether the domestic and international snooping operations conducted by the NSA had gone “over the line.” But he did comment on whether the operations were valuable.

“I can say that the capability of the United States government, on a broad basis, to collect intelligence that’s important to the United States, saving lives, et cetera, it’s nothing new without talking about specific details, which I’m not, or specific targets,” he said…’

“I’m talking about our overall intelligence capabilities are important to the security of this nation and need to be preserved,” he concluded.

By: Alan

Alan Colmes is the publisher of Liberaland.