Cheney's Fondness for the Dark Side

[laststeamtrain]

Cheney's Fondness for the Dark Side

By Sherwood Ross
July 30, 2009

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According to Weiner, six days after 9/11 President Bush issued a secret directive to the CIA ordering it to hunt down and interrogate suspects the world over. “It set no limits on what the agency could do,” Weiner wrote. “It was the foundation for a system of secret prisons where CIA officers and contractors used techniques that include torture.”

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That Cheney did run the show is suggested by the fact that, “with the apparent exception of Rice, it was Cheney who did the appointing (of top personnel), not Bush,” James Carroll noted in his House of War.

After 9/11, the Bush regime scrapped due process rights for captured suspects. Cheney said his new legal approach “guarantees that we’ll have the kind of treatment of these individuals that we believe they deserve” --- an incredible prejudgment as only a tiny handful of suspects ever saw the inside of a courtroom.

Author Carroll asserts Cheney had no less ambitious scheme in mind than “world domination through overwhelming military superiority, with special emphasis on unfettered access to oil…”

Carroll says, “Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and the rest have on their hands the blood…of each young American killed, and the blood of many thousands of Iraqis ---- all those who have died and will die in that misbegotten war.”

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http://www.consortiumnews.com/2009/073009b.html

[jimshoes]

1. A few indictments, trials and convictions

will help set history on the right path and hamper the neocon/war mongering, war criminals penchant for re-writing history to their liking.

[enviralment]

2. He'll get his come up ens.

Cheney's legacy will be his stanch disregard for human rights and decency. Also he will go down as one of the most unpopular vice-presidents in American history. The future will not look kindly on Cheney or his cronies.

[supernova]

3. Why isn't Dick Cheney locked up

in Butner with a straight jacket?

Same for Rummsfeld and Yoo, too.

[bobthedrummer]

4. K&R and a link to a National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book (122)

that spells out quite clearly that CHENEY knew about what TORTURE is back in 1992.
"Prisoner Abuse: Patterns From The Past" (National Security Archive EBB 122)
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB122/index.htm


Let's not forget Donald Henry Rumsfeld either.
"The Interrogation Documents: Debating U.S. Policy and Methods" (National Security Archive EBB 127)
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB127/index.htm