Just for the record -- some people on the left enjoyed quoting him because he was foresquare against the Iraq war, and was the head of the CIA's Osama squad under Clinton.
But that was the only thing he was against. On everything else bad he thought the Bushies didn't go far enough. Scheuer personally invented the rendition program (during Clinton's 2nd term) to make torture possible. And he's not one bit ashamed of it. He's old school CIA, and as old school pro-torture as they come:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/24/AR2009042403459.html
Michael