GET 'EM, DICK! - AT 6:21 P.M. ET:  I've always felt that Dick Cheney was the victim of a modern-day McCarthyism, far worse than the original.  He always struck me as a devoted public servant.  You can agree or disagree with him - that's fair - but his sense of service is remarkable.

Like the man he is, he is striking back at this administration's behavior in what used to be called the War on Terror.  Fox News reports:

Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday said the Obama administration should be debriefing CIA interrogators about keeping the country safe rather than trying to punish them for doing their jobs.

In an exclusive interview taped to air this weekend on "FOX News Sunday," Cheney called the Justice Department probe of interrogators an "outrageous political act" that will do long-term damage to the United States' capacity to protect the country.

"We had a track record now of eight years of defending the nation against any further mass casualty attacks from al Qaeda. The approach of the Obama administration should be to come to those people who were involved in that policy and say, 'How did you do it? What were the keys to keeping this country safe over that period of time?'" Cheney said.

"Instead, they're out there now threatening to disbar the lawyers who gave us the legal opinions -- threatening contrary to what the president originally said. They're going to go out and investigate the CIA personnel who carried out those investigations," Cheney added.

COMMENT:  He is right.  The damage to this country will be immense.  What most Americans won't face, because the media won't let them face it, is that many of those behind this sick crusade want to damage the country.  They are profound leftists caught up in the spirit of the sixties.  They think they are serving the greater good by weakening America. 

By the way, the notion of disbarring lawyers for giving honest opinions will turn the legal profession into a Sovietized branch of the government.  Again, there are people who have no problem with this.  To them, the personal is political and the legal is political.  It's what they've been taught in school.  It's what they practice.

And we must stop them.

August 28, 2009