Cheney: No, I Won’t Cooperate with a Torture Prosecutor

[kpete]

Cheney: No, I Won’t Cooperate with a Torture Prosecutor
By: emptywheel Sunday August 30, 2009 12:48 pm

Far and away, here's my favorite exchange in the Cheney interview:

WALLACE: If the prosecutor asks to speak to you, will you speak to him?

CHENEY: It will depend on the circumstances and what I think their activities are really involved in. I've been very outspoken in my views on this matter. I've been very forthright publicly in talking about my involvement in these policies.

I'm very proud of what we did in terms of defending the nation for the last eight years successfully. And, you know, it won't take a prosecutor to find out what I think. I've already expressed those views rather forthrightly.

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/08/30/cheney-no-i-wont-cooperate-with-a-torture-prosecutor/

[gateley]

1. Yeah, if snoozing while the WTC's was attacked is "defending

the nation successfully". Asshole.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

2. Eight years

The first question should be HOW to you keep getting EIGHT years??:freak:

[SpiralHawk]

3. "Sneer." - xVP Dickie 'Five-Military-Deferments' Cheney (R)

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zvCLjsWq_UU/SQGpsqD2FtI/AAAAAAAAAek/RuNJ7WpKBQE/s400/cheney.+sneer.jpg

[DJ13]

4. Maybe toture is called for to get him to talk?

That would be sweet irony.

[Shandris]

8. My thoughts exactly.

He can prove it wasn't torture easily enough, after all. All he has to do is go through with it. Man up, DICK. Put your mouth where your policy is.

Mancow tried and lasted...what was it, six seconds? Eight? The average is twelve. :P So I think 2 minutes, thirty-eight times should be about right.

[eShirl]

5. I think it won't be long before he has to chose between cooperation, contempt of court, or

invoking his 5th amendment right not to incriminate himself.

[depakid]

6. Still behaving like the defiant little dictator

Flipping off Obama, the people of America and the rest of the world.

[Gman]

7. They had to be thinking about Cheney when they wrote the fifth amendment

He's sure going to be using it, I guarantee!