White House spokesman Josh Earnest accused former Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday of politicizing the Sept. 11 attacks, and blaming the Obama administration for the release of terrorist detainees that happened under the George W. Bush administration.

Cheney wrote an op-ed printed Sunday that took aim at President Obama’s efforts to close the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and his administration’s rapid pace of releasing or transferring detainees overseas.