While the leftist commentators excoriate Dick Cheney for daring to challenge Barack Obama on terrorism and the ways to combat it, the Administration has spoken explicitly against Cheney while simultaneously moving to validate his ideas and actions at every turn.

Witness the announcement that the Administration is opposed to the release of the Uigher detainees held at Guantanamo, after ACLU types have been crying for years for their release. Guess their training under a major al-Qaeda leader might have influenced that a bit.

Then, the Administration announced that it was refusing to release classified documents that a District Court judge in San Francisco demanded be released, relating to the warrantless wiretapping program. In this case, they apparently realized that it might harm U.S. security to release the documents. Quite an insight there. Again, you have the Administration publicly bashing Bush and Cheney and their methods, and then adopting those same methods while fighting against oversight from other levels of government. It all comes down to protecting executive power. At least they are making the right decisions here, even if they won't admit it in public. And is it any wonder both these items break late on a Friday, with the hope that most of the country won't notice and more recent events will overtake the stories by Monday. Hypocrisy at its finest.