"She's been my nurse, my negotiator with the medical community, and in return for all of that great help she's given me, today I've agreed to let her interview me," förklarade Dick Cheney skämtsamt.
Cheney talade om Bush-administrationens säkerhetspolitik efter 9/11-attacken och sa:
"I'll always remember lifting off in the helicopter (on 9/11) and looking down on the Pentagon, seeing the devastation that had been wrought — that plus the World Trade Center in New York — the devastation that had been wrought by 19 men armed with box cutters and airline tickets. From that moment on, we were in a situation where we could no longer treat terrorist attacks as a simple law enforcement problem. They were an act of war."
Han förklarade också varför han ansåg att såväl ökad övervakning och tuffa förhör förhindrat fler attacker:
"All of this turned out to be very controversial ... but it was absolutely necessary. And one of the things I'm proudest of as vice president from my time working with President George Bush, is that we prohibited, blocked, in effect defeated all further attempts for seven-and-a-half years to launch major attacks against the United States."
Cheney förklarade vidare att han det största hotet var möjligheten att någon terrorist kunde attackera inifrån det amerikanska samhället, med te x ett kärnvapen:
"When you're dealing with somebody who wants to die for Allah and their promise is that if they do they'll go straight to paradise, then the possibility of a nuclear weapon isn't a deterrent, it's an incentive. And it's my belief if they ever do get their hands on that kind of capability, that they'll use it."
Han fick av sin hustru Lynne också frågan om vilken av de fyra presidenter han arbetat för som var hans favorit, varpå han svarade:
"I got to work for all those presidents because I never said who was my favorite."
Dick Cheney, som var Bushs vice-president 2001-2009 kommer 2011 att släppa en egen självbiografi om sitt liv och tiden i Vita Huset under George W. Bush.
Här har MSNBC ett kort reportage om saken:
Källa: MSNBC
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Cheney beskriver splittringen med Bush i sin memoar 20090813
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