Vice President Dick Cheney spoke to members of the press who were traveling with him on December 20, 2005. In defense of President Bush’s national security policy, which included warrantless wiretapping, he said: ” ‘The president and I believe very deeply that there’s a hell of a threat, that it’s there for anybody who wants to look at it. And that our obligation and responsibility, given our job, is to do everything in our power to defeat the terrorists. And that’s exactly what we’re doing.’ ”
– Stephen F. Hayes, Cheney, Page 492