"I'm very disappointed in the vice president's comments. I'm neither a Republican nor a Democrat — I've worked for the past five administrations. And either the vice president is willfully mischaracterizing this president's position — both in terms of language he uses, and the actions he's taken — or he's ignorant of the fact. And in either case, it doesn't speak well of what the vice president's doing. The clear evidence is that this president has been very, very strong…” – John Brennan.
Cheney is, of course, deliberately mischaracterizing, i.e. knowingly lying, about the current president.