Video: Dick Cheney hypocrtically now complains about 'politicized' war on terror

Vice President Cheney on CIA interrogations.  AP Photo Susan Walsh

Former Vice President Dick Cheney's interview with Fox News (surprise) focused on Cheney's favorite topic of national security.  While President Bush has appropriately given President Obama some time before criticizing him Dick Cheney has already declared Obama's national security policy a failure.  Cheney's reasoning is as flawed as his statesmanship.

The former Vice President's number one complaint involves the decision of Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate interrogation practices of the Bush administrations.  Specifically, Cheney called the investigation an "intensely partisan, politicized look back at the prior administration." 

I must ask where Cheney's concern for partisanship was when his office single-handedly helped leak the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame to discredit someone who disagreed with their policies?  Where was Cheney's concern for politicization when his administration pressured then-Attorney General Ashcroft to authorize more domestic surveillance?

The fact is Cheney only favors the politicizing of the war on terror when it benefits him personally and advances his policy goals.  It is only when terror policies become disagreeable to him that they also become "political" and "partisan."  Eric Holder is no more political or partisan than John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzalez were during their reign.  If anything, Holder has been less partisan as their is no evidence he has been subject to the kind of pressure the Bushie Attorney General's faced.  At the very least Holder has yet to fire some of his top attorneys under advisement from the President's top political adviser.

As for Cheney's larger claims that disallowing torture will hurt us in gaining valuable information, once again the facts contradict with Cheney's claim.  In reality, all reports on "enhanced interrogation techniques" have revealed that no valuable information was gained through this torture.  Whatever information we gained from terror suspects was given up through traditional interrogation methods.  Cheney asked for classified interrogation memos to be released and he now seems to be upset that they revealed the opposite of what he wanted.