On Sunday, Former Vice President Dick Cheney accused the Obama administration of making the country less safe by mirandizing terror suspects, trying them in civilian court and abandoning torture.
"It's the mind-set that concerns me," Cheney said. On "This Week" he explained, "I was a big supporter of waterboarding. I was a big supporter of the enhanced interrogation techniques."
The Obama administration considers waterboarding torture and during the Vietnam War one soldier was court-martialled after the Washington Post published a photo of him waterboarding a North Vietnamese prisoner of war.
"Water boarding was designated as illegal by US generals in Vietnam 40 years ago," ABC News reported in 2005 in their story "History of an Interrogation Technique: Water Boarding."
Sen. John McCain(R-Ariz), who was tortured as a POW in Vietnam, said the water board technique is a "very exquisite torture" that should be outlawed, according to the ABC News report.
Responding to Cheney's accusation that the Obama administration is engaged in a feeble attempt to thwart another terrorist attack, Biden hit the Sunday news circuit.
"That's Dick Cheney. Thank God the last administration didn't listen to him at the end," Biden said. "I think his fight seems to be with the last administration. We did exactly what President Bush did. We got the similar result. We are protecting America. And I don't know, it seems like Dick Cheney can't take yes for an answer."
"Meet the Press" David Gregory interviewed Biden.
Cheney "has argued that this administration has failed to treat the fight against terrorists as war." Gregory said the former vice president points to civilian trials of terror suspects such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, mirandizing the Christmas Day bomber and attempts to shutting down the prison located in Guantanamo Bay.
"Let me chose my words carefully here," Biden responded. "Dick Cheney's a fine fellow. He's entitled to his own opinions. He's not entitled to rewrite history. He's not entitled to his own facts. The Christmas Day bomber was treated the exact way that he suggested that the shoe bomber was treated. Absolutely the same way. Under the Bush administration there were three trials in military courts. Two of those people are now walking the streets. They are free."
Biden said of Cheney, "I don't know where he has been. Where was he the last fours years of the last administration?"
The vice president said he doesn't know what Cheney is talking about. "Look it's one thing, again, to criticize, it's another thing to sort of rewrite history."
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