Of COURSE this isn't the case, but...

[fflo]

... if the President and the (evil) former Vice President were in cahoots, at least insofar as wanting the federal govt to retain and exert powers of "preventative detention" and "enhanced interrogation," and they were thus doing some kind of good-cop/bad-cop thing in their spate of public statements of late, with the goal of bolstering public support for the President from the whacky left and left-ish, it might actually, like, work.