White House Gets Serious About Rebuttal to Cheney
By Josh Rogin, CQ Staff
National security advisor James L. Jones stepped into the limelight Thursday to rebut former Vice President Dick Cheney ’s criticisms of President Obama’s anti-terrorism policies.
In his first public speech since assuming his new position, the former Marine Corps general who once led all U.S. forces in Europe launched into Cheney’s claims that the country is less safe than it was under George W. Bush .
Cheney had specifically criticized the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison and rejection of harsh interrogations techniques.
Jones said the United States “is not only safe but it will be more secure and the American people are increasingly safer because of the president’s leadership.”
The new policies, combined with Obama’s drive to reach out to the Muslim world and repair damaged relationships with allies, have made America safer by “rejecting the false choice between our security and our ideals,” Jones told a meeting of the Atlantic Council, the foreign-affairs think tank he used to head.
Jones suggested Cheney’s public statements attacking Obama were based less on fact than a desire to defend Bush administration security policies.
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