In this story, Dick Cheney says the following:
"The people involved deserve our gratitude," Cheney said in the statement. "They do not deserve to be the targets of political investigations or prosecutions."
I agree with the former VP: the people asked to do these things under the auspices of (admittedly tenuous) legal frameworks should not be targeted. Which is what the President said.
What I do not disagree with him about is the idea that somehow what the CIA operatives (and the contractors that were also used) weren' t used as political pawns by the former administration in the first place.
Outsourcing and proxying of acts is not a defence against breaking the law. The sooner we get to the bottom of whether what was done in Our Collective Names was legal or not, the sooner this can be put to bed.
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