Cheney Said He Disabled Heart Device to Avoid Terrorist Threats
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Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said the implanted defibrillator that helped keep him alive in 2007 had its wireless feature disabled because he feared terrorists could use it to kill him.
“It seemed to me to be a bad idea for the vice president to have a device that maybe somebody on a rope line or in the next hotel room or downstairs might be able to get into, hack into,” Cheney said on CBS’s “60 Minutes” program airing today. “I worried that someone could kill you.”