Going back to his days in the Nixon White House, and certainly during his time as the Reagan administration's chief defender during the Iran/Contra inquiry, Cheney has rejected accountability and transparency. Indeed, he has for so long been so over-the-top in this regard that the opposite of the set of values mentioned by McCaskill is best understood as "Cheneyism."
There are Republicans who have rejected "Cheneyism" -- not least McCain, who on Tuesday, announced "the truth is a hard pill to swallow (but) the American people are entitled to it."
More Republicans need to step up in defense of transparency and accountability, recognizing the wisdom of the Republican leader who best explained the necessity of transparency and accountability.
It was not a liberal Democrat, but rather a retired general, Dwight Eisenhower, who counseled the American people to always remember that "only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together."
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