Something stinks around here...

Former vice President Dick Cheney, in an interview with FOX News Sunday, criticized President Obama's decision last week to assert White House control over a newly formed unit that will interrogate terrorists. The new arrangement shifts control of such interrogations away from the CIA and toward the FBI, although oversight will be exercised by the National Security Council, which is located in the White House and reports directly to the president. Cheney ridiculed the new unit, which will be known as Special Handling of International Terrorists, or S.H.I.T.

Administration officials are vague about which agency will retain ultimate authority over S.H.I.T. Obama spokesman Bill Burton initially said the new unit "will report to the director of the FBI," although the Justice Department, which encompasses the FBI, insisted “We don’t know S.H.I.T.”

Burton explained: "Just like other interagency processes, if S.H.I.T. happens, the different agencies will be able to come together and make a decision."

"It's not even clear who's responsible for this S.H.I.T," Cheney marveled. "The Justice Department is, and then they claim they aren't. The FBI is responsible, and they claim they aren't. It's some kind of inter-agency process by which they're going to be responsible for interrogating high-value detainees. In my opinion, S.H.I.T stinks.”

Cheney predicted the new unit will be incapable of effectively interrogating "people that may have knowledge about imminent attacks." "They're going to have to have meetings and decide who gets to ask what question and who's going to Mirandize the witness," he said. "I think it's silly. It makes no sense. I think the administration will discover too late that once they get deep into S.H.I.T that S.H.I.T won’t work.”