Schieffer To Interview Cheney On "Face the Nation" This Sunday

By: Michelle Levi
Topics: In The News

(CBS)

This Sunday, Bob Schieffer will interview former Vice President Cheney. Schieffer has interviewed Cheney "dozens" of times during their longstanding relationship.

"I first interviewed Dick Cheney in 1974 when he was a staffer for then president Gerald Ford. I have interviewed him many times since as Ford's Chief of Staff, as a congressman, as Secretary of Defense and as vice president," Schieffer told CBSNews.com.

The longtime moderator of CBS News' Face the Nation will interview Cheney for the first time since he left office in January. The two sat down in January for an exit interview.

"I have often disagreed with him," Schieffer said. "But, I have never interviewed him that I did not come away with something I did not know before."

This time around the former vice president will sit down with Schieffer on the set of Face the Nation on Mothers' Day. Check your local listings to catch the show.

Schieffer admits there is "plenty to ask him this time" from "the Republican party and where it is going, the Obama administration's release of those memos on torture and the situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan."

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by dennis_k May 12, 2009 9:12 AM EDT: THE ARTICLES OF THE GENEVA CONVENTION MAY BE CLEAR ON THE SUBJECT OF TORTURE BUT THEY ALSO ARE SPECIFIC ABOUT WHO IS COVERED. IF YOU ARE NOT A UNIFORMED SOLDIER OF A NATION THEN YOU ARE NOT COVERED. THE GENEVA CONVENTION ALSO DOES NOT ALLOW FIGHTING IN SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, PLACES OF WORSHIP, USING CIVILIANS AS SHIELDS, DRESSING AS CIVILIANS, BEHEADING CIVILIANS. SO BEFORE ABYONE CRITICIZES THE U.S. FOR WATERBOARDING I SUGGEST THEY STUDY EXACTLY WHAT IS HAPPENING ON BOTH SIDES BEFORE THEY OPEN THEIR MOUTH.; Reply to this comment


by Louisflash May 11, 2009 11:58 AM EDT: Why is everyone forgetting that the release of these Memos where Court order. President Bush ignored the order and pass on another problem to President Obama; Reply to this comment


by ReallyMeanIt May 10, 2009 7:24 PM EDT: Torture is defined in the eyes of the beholder.
My wife would considered it torture if she's locked in a room full of spiders while the same can't be said for me in the same situation.
So when the terrorist tells you it's torture to them, then you're on the right track to break them.
The naive libs think if we ask them nicely and be their buddy, they'll cooperate. Wake up and smell the coffee already............ you can't reasons with a person who thinks flying airplane full of people into building is perfectly fine. Your "high moral standard" is fine in a academic settings but doesn't work in the real world.
Posted by ReallyMeanIt

NO ITS NOT, THE ARTICLES OF THE GENEVA CONVENTION ARE CLEAR IN THE SUBJECT OF TORTURE.
Ronald Reagon himself reiterated them himself.
It's clear in the conventions as well that we are only required to give as information the name rank and serial number if a soldier and in the case of civilians are subject to military code of justice, which also includes interrogation.

P.S. Lib's are not naive. The neocons are, as we all know stupid is as stupid does.
Posted by netjunkie1 at 9:46 AM : May 10, 2009
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We don't torture, we interogated. Like I said before, it depends on a PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE what torture is. Why is the libs alway trying tell others how to think?
Last time I checked, not one terrorist organization is a signee to the Geneva convention. I'm not a lawyer but these people are criminals, not soldiers so don't know if the convention even apply.
Bottom line is this, if you do things to a person just for kicks, then that is torture. When you do it to extract information, it's called interogation.
I agreed with you on stupid is as stupid does....just looked at the obama's followers.; Reply to this comment


by rtchamp May 10, 2009 1:25 PM EDT: CBS : You should mandate that Bob Schieffer offer an apology to the nation on next weeks Face The Nation Broadcast. This was Mothers Day and Schieffer should of had a hardworking Mother in politics doing good for America i.e. Michelle Obama. By having your buddy Dick Cheney on todays broadcast slapped every good mother in our nation right in the face. TODAY BOB, YOU LOST HALF OF YOUR RESPECT AND 49 Percent of your integrity. Take the last 1 percent of your decency and aplogize to every mother for having a war criminal in Cheney as an exclusive guest on Mother's Day. I aplogized to my mother for what you did today, it's up to you and CBS to aplogize to the rest of the mothers nationwide on next weeks broadcast. Lets see if you have the guts to do it or see if my assessment of you after todays broadcast is right......that you threw away 40 years of broadcast journalism respect, for 1 interview with the DEVIL on a day where a good mother in our nation should have been the focus. I'll give you 1 more chance next week to show me your a man....but if not , than rot in hell with Cheney and his croonies!!!!; Reply to this comment


by jokr8790 May 10, 2009 12:54 PM EDT: During the Mukasey confirmation hearings, one of our top generals described torture as the methods used by the stupid, incompetent and the pseudo-tough. Doesn't this describe the Cheney White House (President Cheney's administration) perfectly?; Reply to this comment


by ears-open May 10, 2009 12:49 PM EDT: I don't see the need to interview Cheney about anything. He is more vocal and making appearances more now than when he was in office.

WE AREN'T INTERESTED IN WHAT HE HAS TO SAY.
We have NO respect for this man. Much less do we want to see him on TV, hear him on radio, nor read in print anything about him, nor from him.

His intent seems to be to sabotage, demean and under mind Obama. He and George apparently hid many truths knowing it was not in standing. They took it upon themselves to operate deceptively above the law. Seems as if they contracted with companies to enrich their personal lives upon leaving office.

Please let him be "ghost", as he's successfully done, during his 8 years in the White House.; Reply to this comment


by minicooper55 May 10, 2009 12:38 PM EDT: How disappointing to see Cheney on FTN. Dick is certainly concerned about the present foreign policy's and must speak out- now let me interpret this for you folks: I am beating the same tired old war drums hoping to continue dragging in $$$$$ for my speaking tours. Mr. Shieffer you have missed your mark on this one but you are still my hero as a news man but please keep your guest list focused on people with some integrity.; Reply to this comment


by rtchamp May 10, 2009 12:31 PM EDT: Dick Chaney "What a Disgrace" to our nation. On Bob Schieffer's 05/10/2009 Face The Nation program, Chaney at the end of the broadcast told Schieffer that, in effect, he preferred Rush Limbaugh's Loyalty as an American than that of COLIN POWELL !!!! I would rather bathe in the toilet water of the honorable Colin Powell and President Barack Obama, than relax in a whirlpool with the likes of "YOU, Limbaugh and George W. Bush. "DICK, Rush and George" do me a favor : Always shower in very cold water while you are here on earth, because there will be none in Hell, where you 3 "DICK'S has a special place reserved for you !; Reply to this comment


by jokr8790 May 10, 2009 12:28 PM EDT: So Darth Dick is still repeating the same old tired rationales for the conservative attempt to take this country down the road to becoming a totalitarian nation. What is most interesting is he supposedly want to appear before Congress to "tell the truth," but again and still refuses to testify under oath. He still refuses to acknowledge that the actions of his administration made the country weaker not stronger and got our military involved in two disastrous wars that were completely incompetently managed that will take a competent administration years to extricate our troops from. I wouldn't refuse him a voice, its not the American way, but next time he's on I'll either switch the channel or turn off the TV, because he's got nothing to say that is ever worth hearing.; Reply to this comment


by rnugent04 May 10, 2009 12:26 PM EDT: Dick could/should have declassified his memos 112 days ago, so his argument that he has been trying for 6 weeks to have those memos released is a week one.
Colin Powell did not receive much loyalty from the Bush administration, they turned on him.; Reply to this comment