Former Vice President Dick Cheney doesn’t want President Barack Obama looking into the CIA’s secrets, but there’s one thing he does want Mr. Obama to do: keep an eye on A.Q. Khan, the father of Pakistan’s nuclear program.
And perhaps for good reason: Mr. Khan was freed last Friday in Pakistan. Since 2004, he’s been held under house arrest in Islamabad or had restrictions on his movement, after admitting that he sold nuclear technology to Iran, North Korea, and Libya.
In his now famous appearance this past Sunday on Fox News, Mr. Cheney said the CIA should be following Khan, instead of scrambling to find lawyers to fend off US Attorney General Eric Holder’s probe, as Dawn, a Pakistani newspaper reports.
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