Dick Cheney Gets Awkward On Fox & Friends Over NSA Spying

"An awkward situation ensued on Fox & Friends Monday morning, after co-host Steve Doocy teed up former Vice President Dick Cheney to take a swing at the Obama administration's surveillance policies, and got a long silence from the noted proponent of stronger security measures instead.

Following a discussion on Obamacare in which it was roundly agreed the President Barack Obama misled the public, Doocy played a clip of Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testifying before Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) in March that the NSA was not collecting data on Americans, a claim proved untrue shortly thereafter by material leaked by Edward Snowden.

"Well, we know that's a lie, too!" Doocy prodded, with a wide grin."* The Young Turks host Cenk Uygur breaks it down.

*Read more here from Evan McMurry / Mediaite:

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