“Some people say, ‘Well, you know, Obama was this raving liberal before; now he’s, you know, Dick Cheney,’” Obama said, according to a transcript. “Dick Cheney sometimes says, ‘Yeah, you know? He took [the Bush-Cheney approach] all, lock, stock and barrel.’ My concern has always been not that we shouldn’t do intelligence gathering to prevent terrorism, but rather are we setting up a system of checks and balances.”