Cheney says financial crisis was not foreseen
January 9, 2009 by Personal Liberty News Desk
The current financial crisis was completely unforeseen by the Bush administration, according to vice president Dick Cheney.
In an interview with the Associated Press, Cheney claimed that people could not place blame for the economy’s collapse on President Bush because "nobody anywhere was smart enough to figure it out."
When asked whether Bush should apologize for not doing more to prevent the recession, the vice president said, "I don’t think he needs to apologize. I think what he needed to do is take bold, aggressive action and he has."
During the interview, Cheney also defended the methods of interrogation used on suspected terrorists, as well as counterterrorism surveillance programs.
He said that there was no reason for Bush to consider pardoning those who engaged in such measures, as they were legally authorized to do so.
"My view would be that the people who carried out that program … in fact were authorized to do what they did and we had the legal options that in effect said what was appropriate and what wasn’t," Cheney commented.





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