THE AUSTRALIAN– Former US vice-president Dick Cheney has accused the Obama administration of being “dead wrong” to assume a repeat of the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, is unlikely.
Stepping up claims that the White House has been soft on national security, Mr Cheney said yesterday that a nuclear or biological attack by al-Qa’ida remained the biggest threat to the US. He also urged that terrorist suspects be treated as enemy combatants in a war, and not allowed criminal trials in US civilian courts.
Mr Cheney was commenting as opinion polls show a majority of US voters back President Barack Obama’s management of national security, but disagree with his administration’s proposals to move away from terrorist trials in military tribunals.
The former Republican vice-president’s claims were immediately rebutted by his Democrat successor, Joe Biden, who argued the administration was devoting more resources than ever against al-Qa’ida.
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