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Some salient discussion of Glenn Beck’s mystifying comments with the Morning Joe crew, sans Morning Joe himself.

I think that they are all correct in their assessments.

Not that it’s a surprise, but are we at the point now where we start talking seriously about prosecutions?

Because it’s apparent that Cheney directed the C.I.A. to break the law by concealing information and if the guy can get away with anything as long as it was done for national security reasons, well, what kind of precedent does that set?

In a show of good faith, Vice President Joe Biden flew to Baghdad Thursday evening on his unprecedented three-day visit.

Typically, a high-level official – like Barack Obama, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney – only remains in the country for a day or less, so the trip is unusually long.

But Biden said this is “the moment where a lot of Iraqis cynically believed we’d never keep the agreement” – to withdraw all combat troops by August 2010 and all U.S. soldiers by the end of 2011.

“I think that freedom means freedom for everyone.

As many of you know, one of my daughters is gay, and it is something we have lived with for a long time in our family.

I think people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish. Any kind of arrangement they wish.”
- Dick Cheney on the hottest topic of the day

Two different views on national security were presented Thursday, in a pair of speeches in Washington. President Obama argued that protecting the country does not have to come at the expense of core values.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney defended the Bush administration's approach to fighting terrorism after the 9-11 attacks.

NPR's Don Gonyea reports.

So, Dick Cheney has been going around telling everyone that President Obama is making us less safe by daring to change some of the Bush era national security policies.

But Jack Goldsmith at The New Republic says Cheney’s criticisms don’t hold up. Obama has actually changed very little outside rhetoric and packaging.