Cheney: "not impeached" = it's legalFrom his
appearance on Face the Nation this Sunday:
CHENEY: 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.
SCHIEFFER: But nobody thinks that that was legal.
CHENEY: Well, no. Well, it certainly was, in the sense he wasn’t impeached.
ALSO: (emp add)
CHENEY: I think we’ve done some very good things over the course of the last eight years. Defending the country against further terrorist attacks like 9/11, I think, is a major accomplishment, for example.
posted by Quiddity at 1/04/2009 03:38:00 PM
Nixon wasn't impeached, therefore the things he did were legal.
Clinton was impeached, therefore the things he did with Monica were illegal.
Or something like that, if I understand Cheney logic.
