Obama Using Dick Cheney To Cover For His Own Failings

Mary Matalin hits Barry head-on:

A one-time aide to former Vice President Dick Cheney suggested Sunday that recent reports about Cheney and the CIA are a distraction designed to avert attention away from the policy struggles of the Obama administration.

�This is very suspect timing,� Republican strategist and former Cheney adviser Mary Matalin said Sunday on CNN�s State of the Union. �The president�s agenda is almost in shambles. His [poll] numbers are dropping. Isn�t it coincidental; they gin up a Cheney story.�

Matalin also said that the Executive branch has some authority under the nation�s intelligence laws to not disclose information to Congress under certain circumstances. �The more people that know, the more it leaks . . . and then the enemy knows what it is,� Matalin said of details about other intelligence programs that were leaked to the media.

�Every time they get in trouble . . . they dredge up a Darth Vader story,� Matalin also said, making a reference to past comparisons between Cheney and the villain in the �Stars Wars� movies.

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[Source: Politik Ditto]