Could Cheney Be (Gulp) Right?

The most pointed attack on President Obama in Dick Cheney’s speech yesterday was his claim that after all is said and done Obama is still reserving to himself the right to use “enhanced interrogation techniques” in the future. We documented that this talking point is a riff off comments made by CIA Director Leon Panetta — and that it’s arguably stretching what Panetta actually said. But it should be noted that Chris Matthews gave David Axelrod a chance to rebut Cheney’s claim, and Axelrod only danced around the question. Watch the video. We asked the White House yesterday to comment on Cheney’s claim and got no response.