According to Ben Smith over at Politico, Liz Cheney, best known as a former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs daughter of Mr. Potter Dick, will head a new 501(c)4 organization to be known as “Keep America Safe.”

Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s eldest daughter Liz will launch a new group aimed at rallying opposition to the “radical” foreign policy of the Obama administration which it says has succeeded only in undermining the nation’s security.

The new group, Keep America Safe, will make the case against President Barack Obama’s moves to wrench America away from Bush era foreign policy on issues from detaining alleged terrorists at Guantanamo Bay to building a missile shield in Eastern Europe.

“The policies being proposed by the Obama administration are so radical across the board,” Cheney said. “Whether you’re a Republican or a Democrat, you want the nation to be strong and so many steps this president is taking are making the nation weaker.”

The new group will add institutional heft to a scathing critique of Obama articulated first and loudest by Liz Cheney’s father, and fills a void left by a Republican Party made skittish by the Iraq War, and apparently more eager to engage the president on domestic issues like health care.

Keeping America Safe plans to release memos from the Bush era demonstrating that torture was a good thing and not, uh, torture:

The Keep America Safe website, she said, would feature memos by Bush Administration lawyers justifying waterboarding and other practices to make the case that they aren’t torture.

Supporters “can read the memos on enhanced interrogation instead of reading them through the lens of the media where they’re called ‘Torture memos’ when, actually, they’re lawyers talking about an anti-torture statute and how not to violate it,” she said.

Here’s the thing — those memos aren’t about how not to violate Section 2340 of the U.S. Criminal Code — they’re about framing language so as to ensure that the Bush Administration’s actions could be justified as not violating the statute.

Maybe Ms. Cheney should consider changing her new group’s name to reflect its real purpose.

Something along the lines of “Keeping Daddy Safe from Prosecution.”

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