Cheney Exposes Himself & Torture Conspiracy - By Robert Parry

[kpete]

Cheney Exposes Torture Conspiracy

By Robert Parry
February 14, 2010

If the United States had a functioning criminal justice system for the powerful – not just for run-of-the-mill offenders – former Vice President Dick Cheney would have convicted himself and some of his Bush administration colleagues with his comments on ABC’s “This Week.”

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Cheney was unrepentant about his support for the technique. He answered with an emphatic "yes" when asked if he had opposed the Bush administration’s decision to suspend the use of waterboarding – after it was employed against three “high-value detainees” sometimes in repetitive sequences. He added that waterboarding should still be “on the table” today.

Cheney then went further. Speaking with a sense of impunity, he casually negated a key line of defense that senior Bush officials had hidden behind for years – that the brutal interrogations were approved by independent Justice Department legal experts who thus gave the administration a legitimate reason to believe the actions were within the law.

In responding to a question about why he had so aggressively attacked President Barack Obama’s counter-terrorism policies, Cheney explained that he had been concerned about the new administration prosecuting some CIA operatives who had handled the interrogations and “disbarring lawyers with the Justice Department who had helped us put those policies together. …

“I thought it was important for some senior person in the administration to stand up and defend those people who’d done what we asked them to do."

more:
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2010/021410.html

[Hawkeye-X]

1. Expose himself. *shudder*

[hootinholler]

9. Yes he *really* likes ice cream...

-Hoot

[liberal N proud]

2. I don't think it bothers him

He is evil.

[Echo In Light]

12. Because he knows he & his ilk will never be held accountable

[Mari333]

3. the war criminals will never do time because DEMS HAVE NO SPINES

and that includes obama

[Echo In Light]

17. It's not about "courage," and is ALL about institutional collusion i.e. they're all in on it

Deeply seated propaganda is the only thing that makes that fact difficult for many to accept

[rgbecker]

4. Cheney is begging to be prosecuted. He is overwhelmed with guilt because of his

screw up in letting the terrorist succeed in their attacks on the world trade center. He needs to be tried for treason and put to death. It will help heal the country and give Cheney peace. You can read his face and see the guilt gnawing at his soul.

[madinmaryland]

5. Cheney exposes himself????

:puke:

Un-rec.

[applegrove]

6. Go back to your cave Cheney. Nobody cares what you think.

[ThomThom]

7. so the advisers were not giving their opinion they were doing

what they were told to do that is a big difference
In other words they had no legal opinion on which to decide to torture so it was just taking bad advise it was clearly a criminal act. The lawyers should be disbarred for unethical practices and of course the people that gave the orders to torture should be arrested.

[WhiteTara]

8. I hope the court in Spain takes note of his public

confession. The trial begins tomorrow.

[annabanana]

10. I am kicking this because it's not too late to rec.. And ADMISSIONS

OF CRIMES SHOULD BE NOTED!!

He actually said that Yoo and Bybee deserve defending because:

"I thought it was important for some senior person in the administration to stand up and defend those people who’d done what we asked them to do."

[kentuck]

11. Time for a special prosecutor?

Now that he has admitted giving the orders.

[jtrockville]

15. WAY past time for a special prosecutor.

[Swamp Rat]

13. AN ADMISSION OF GUILT!!!!

TREASON!!!!

:kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick:

[spanone]

14. cheney = ADMITTED WAR CRIMINAL

what else does it take ?

what the fuck else do you have to do ?

[Winterblues]

16. It wasn't so much an admission as it was bragging.

He is saying, see how bad I am. I can say and do anything I want and no one has the balls to confront me..That's what I am talking about. The courage to stand up for what you believe and Democrats don't seem to have that so they can't defend America like I can...I can rub it in their faces and all they will do is whimper...