Countdown: Sen. Levin Disputes Cheney's Claim, Says Documents DO NOT Support Cheney

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MSNBC Countdown w/ KEITH OLBERMANN - 29 May 2009: Carl Levin has seen the same memos Cheney wants declassified to bolster his case for torturing people and he says they do not support Cheney.

KEITH OLBERMANN: "Mr. Bush's defense predicated on the claim that torture worked, that torture yielded life-saving information unattainable any other way. This excuse, which is explicitly prohibited by the Geneva Conventions ... not only morally bankrupt, but as we understand more fully today, flatly untrue."

LEVIN: "Mr. Cheney's claims are directly contrary to the judgment of our FBI director, Robert Mueller, that no attacks on America were disrupted due to intelligence obtained through the use of those techniques ... Those classified documents say nothing about numbers of lives saved, nor do the documents connect acquisition of valuable intelligence to the use of abusive techniques. I hope that the documents are declassified..."

KEITH: "A remarkable new article by Bobby Gauch for Time Magazine posted online less than 24 hours after last night's two speeches offers heart-rending evidence directly in the face of the Bush/Cheney claim that torture was needed to obtain actionable intelligence