“…former vice president [Dick] Cheney–in the course of defending the Bush administration’s use of waterboarding and other such measures–claimed in February [5] 2009 that such an attack [with WMD] was ‘a high probability,’ adding that ‘whether or not they can pull it off depends on whether or not we keep in place policies that have allowed us to defeat all further attempts, since 9/11, to launch mass-casualty attacks against the United States.’ In other words, if there were an attack on the United States that killed many tens of thousands, it would be the Obama administration’s fault, since, in Cheney’s telling, it was the Bush administration’s extralegal policies that kept America safe after 9/11, including safe from terrorists wielding weapons of mass destruction.”
– Peter Bergen, The Longest War, Pages 228-229