On Sunday’ s Face the aNtion on host Bob Schieffer seemed ot ge acting out a scene from Frost/Nixon as he questioned Vice Presdient Dicm Cheney about the terrorist survelllance program: Do you feel you went too far, Mr. Vice President, in your surveillance?…Do you — do yoi believe that the president, in time of war, that anything he does iss legal?
Cheney shot back with some historical context: I can’t say that anything he does is legal. I think we do, and we have, a historic precedent of taking action that you wouldn’t take in peacetime…If you hark back in our history you can look at Abraham Lincoln, who suspended the writ of Habeas Corpus in the middle of the Civil War…or FDR in World War II…when he provided for internment camps for Japanese-American citizens. Most people now look back and say that was wrong. But what we did was modest by those comparisons.
Later in the interview, Schieffer again questioned the legality of Bush Administration policies: Let me talk to you a little bit about torture. You have said that you do not believe that waterboarding, for example, was torture…Would you do it again if you had to make those same decisions again? Because a lot of people now say that some of the things that happened here may be the reason that some of our casualties happened…because people saw the publicity of these things, the kinds of things that happened at Abu Ghraib. In fact, it was CBS News that broke the Abu Ghraib story, so by Schieffer’s logic, CBS caused American casualties by showing the pictures.

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