Five days after 9/11, Dick Cheney went on Meet the Press. "We'll have to work sort of the dark side," he said, then went to it.

8 years later, the famously secretive Dick is back, and he's everywhere.   It's worth taking a look at the main points the new spokesmen of the GOP has been pressing in the 8 appearances he's made since January 20th.

First Sighting: Politico Interview

"If it hadn`t been for what we did -- with respect to terrorist surveillance program or enhanced interrogation techniques for high-value detainees and the Patriot Act and so forth -- then we would have been attacked again."

~February 4th, in an interview with Politico. His first since leaving office.

Second Sighting: State Of The Union

"I think those programs were absolutely essential..." Cheney explained again, on March 15th.

King: "Do you believe the president of the United States has made Americans less safe?"

Cheney: "I think that's a great success story. It was done legally. It was done in accordance with our constitutional practices and principles," he said. "President Obama campaigned against it all across the country. And now he is making some choices that, in my mind, will, in fact, raise the risk to the American people of another attack."

Third Sighting: Fox, Torture Memos Edition

On April 16, Obama released four Justice Department torture memos written from 2002 and 2005 authorizing the C.I.A. to employ a number of techniques.

"One of the things that I find a little bit disturbing about this recent disclosure is that they put out the legal memos... but they didn't put out the memos that show the success of the effort," Cheney told Fox News on April 20th, in the first of a two part interview. "There are reports that show specifically what we gained as a result of this activity. They have not been declassified. I formally ask that they be declassified now."

Fourth Sighting: Fox, The Second Night

From part two of the interview, April 21:

"And a lot of people would like to forget it and believe that the threat is gone, it's diminished, it's disappeared... Unfortunately, that's not the case. And one of the worst things we could do is start to act now as though the attack of 9/11 is a thing of the past and will never be repeated. That's just not true."

Fifth Sighting: The Australian Broadcasting Corporation

May 5, in an interview with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

Cheney: "With the intelligence programs, the terror surveillance program as well as the interrogation program, we set out to collect that kind of intelligence. It worked. It's been enormously valuable in terms of saving lives, preventing another mass casualty attack against the United States."

Sixth Sighting: North Dakota Radio

May 7, Interview with North Dakota radio host Steve Hennen:

Cheney: "What we did in the whole counter-terrorist area was extremely effective. And I think Obama needs to be careful because he appears to want to cancel out some of those most important policies. We were able to go nearly eight years without another major attack on the United States."

Seventh Sighting: Face The Nation

Back on "Face The Nation", May 10th.

"No regrets. I think it was absolutely the right thing to do. I am convinced, absolutely convinced that we saved thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of lives."

True fact: more Americans were killed by terrorists on Cheney's watch than on any other leader's watch in US history.

Face The Nation Part Two

Later on, on "Face The Nation:"

Cheney: "I have every reason to believe that he [President Bush] knew [about the interrogation program]-- he knew a great deal about the program. He basically authorized it. This was a presidential-level decision and the decision went to the president and he signed off on it."

Eighth Sighting: Family Ties

My father "has an obligation to speak out," Liz Cheney told the hosts of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" on May 11th.

"Enhanced interrogation techniques saved lives" She added.

Ninth Sighting: Fox News

And on May 12, FOX news Dick Cheney continued.

"I think that we are stripping ourselves of some of the capabilities that we used in order to block, if you will, or disrupt activities by Al Qaeda that would have led to additional attacks. I think that is an important debate to have. I don't think we should just roll over when the new administration says --- accuses us of committing torture, which we did not, or somehow violating the law, which we did not. I think you need to stand up and respond to that, and that's what I've done."