(NewsNation) — Former President Joe Biden will be attending the Dick Cheney memorial service, his spokesman Kelly Scully told NewsNation.
Biden succeeded Cheney as vice president, and the two famously had heated public disputes over the issues of national security and executive authority.
In 2010, Cheney criticized how the Obama administration handled an attempted terror attack on a U.S. airplane in Detroit when the suspect was taken into FBI custody.
“The administration wasn’t really equipped to deal with the aftermath of an attempted attack against the United States in the sense they didn’t know what to do with the guy,” Cheney said.
Biden shot back: “I don’t know what Dick has been doing lately.”
Asked if he could envision a time when waterboarding should have been used on anyone, Biden answered “No.”
Cheney was a major supporter of using waterboarding and other controversial “enhanced interrogation techniques” on terror suspect.
In 2008, Biden, as vice president-elect, criticized the Bush administration for committing “abuses of power.
“Well, I fundamentally disagree with him,” Cheney said in December 2008. “Joe has been chairman of the Judiciary Committee, a member of the Judiciary Committee in the Senate for 36 years, teaches constitutional law back in Delaware and can’t keep straight which article of the Constitution provides for the legislature and which provides for the executive.”
During the 2008 presidential campaign, Biden criticized Cheney’s terms as vice president, saying “Cheney has been the most dangerous vice president we have had, probably in American history.”