Holder: ‘Part Of Me’ Doesn’t Believe Cheney Believes His Criticism Of Us

Attorney General Eric Holder and Dick Cheney
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Asked by Newsweek how he feels about the unrelenting stream of barbs from Dick Cheney, Attorney General Eric Holder told the magazine, “There’s a part of me that doesn’t really believe that he believes what he’s saying.”

In the new interview, Holder also says he doesn’t understand Cheney’s criticism, seeming to suggest that the former vice president is more supportive of the Obama Administration’s policies than he will admit publicly.

Cheney recently slammed Obama’s bow before the emperor of Japan as “fundamentally harmful,” and called out the administration for projecting “weakness.”

He said in August that the approach of the administration — led by Holder’s Justice Department — on investigating CIA interrogations “offends the hell out of me.”

Here’s Holder’s full exchange with Newsweek:

How do you feel–how do you react, personally–when you see the former vice president going on about how this administration is not keeping the American people safe, or has abandoned important policies? Are you dismissive of it? Does it tick you off?

I frankly don’t understand it. There’s a part of me that doesn’t really believe that he believes what he’s saying.

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