Cheney Says Torture Was a 'Success,' Wants Memos Released to Prove It

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"Former Vice President Dick Cheney challenged President Obama Monday to release top-secret CIA memos that allegedly states the torture of prisoners was an intelligence 'success'...Cheney defended the Bush administration's torture program and claimed that it saved American lives...'And I've now formally asked the CIA to take steps to declassify those memos so we can lay them out there and the American people have a chance to see what we obtained and what we learned and how good the intelligence was. If we’re going to have this debate, let’s have an honest debate...Cheney said the interrogation of 'war on terror' suspects was 'done legally; it was done in accordance with our constitutional practices and principles.' But those assurances ring hollow.”
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  1. #1    the only media I could find this one earlier today was FOX, which I didn't want to insult anyone by posting - glad you got it from an actual source
    written by regroce since 214 days 22 hours 1 minuteregroce
  2. #2    The photo selected is appropriate, too, don't you think? I'm curious about his "formal request to the CIA". What's up with that, and since when do past VPs have any such authority? (And, why didn't "he" release these memos before?) Can we make such formal requests? It is scary to see Cheney still engaged in the political scene.
    written by PatriotDem since 214 days 21 hours 22 minutesPatriotDem
  3. #3    Call his damn bluff. Release everything.
    written by epppie since 214 days 14 hours 24 minutesepppie
  4. #4    Cheney, the leader of the repub party, no want everything released. Seems strange from a person that when in power wanted everything hidden. Of course, what would one expect from the repubs, do as I say not as I do party. This guy needs to go away or better yet let the Democrates use him as their posterBOY for what is wrong with the repub. Hannity is already a posterboy for teabagging. It seems from whatis now coming out, Hannity has a lot of experience in that area as both a pictcher and catcher.
    written by papapete since 214 days 14 hours 19 minutespapapete
  5. #5    PatriotDem Yeah...I'm real curious too. What's he up to?
    written by patinNM since 214 days 12 hours 58 minutespatinNM
  6. #6    #4-"This guy needs to go away..."

    ...to court, and to a prison cell. He has publicly confessed to US and International crimes.
    written by kladner since 214 days 12 hours 39 minuteskladner
  7. #7    HE IS SHITTING HIMSELF!!!!!!!
    written by coonhound since 214 days 12 hours 30 minutescoonhound
  8. #8    I thought releasing classified information was "bad".
    written by TurMault since 214 days 12 hours 19 minutesTurMault
  9. #9    Let's see Cheney said that the President and VP could unclassify material as they saw fit. For example Cheney unclassified Valery Plame as a covert CIA agent. If torture protected us and saved us from terrorists attacks, why didn't Cheney unclassify them himself?
    written by deke4 since 214 days 11 hours 40 minutesdeke4
  10. #10    What?
    written by Bladerunner since 214 days 11 hours 37 minutesBladerunner
  11. #11    All torture has done is radicalize the moderate muslims of the world and serve as a recruiting tool for Al Qaeda....Nothing was done "On behalf of the American People"...This was playing dirty to steal the oil and justify Illegal war!!!!It was used to procure specious information for endless war, and to spread fear among the american people!!!!!!!
    written by coonhound since 214 days 11 hours 26 minutescoonhound
  12. #12    If it turns out the Cheney is right and torturing people helped save American lives, it changes nothing. Torture is a crime in the United States. Cheney and Bush had no legal authority to use it on anyone for any reason. They have admitted to doing it anyway. At their trials any evidence they present attesting to torture having saved American lives will serve as a mitigating factor not an excuse. Last time I checked, "ends justify the means" arguments did not serve as a legal defense.
    written by sulphurdunn since 214 days 11 hours 9 minutessulphurdunn
  13. #13    Let me spend 3 days with dick. By using varying enhanced interrogation techniques, included (but not limited to) waterboarding, rodents and insect in small enclosed spaces, some dentist's tools, possibly with some dentist help, pair of needle-nose pliers, pack of cigarettes and a lighter, some towels etc., I could get a confession out of dick. I could make him say ANYTHING I wanted to hear.

    By this token, how is it that torture is effective?
    written by Malgoska since 214 days 10 hours 56 minutesMalgoska
  14. #14    I'm with Eppie in #3, and, for once in my life, with the malignant Dickster himself.

    Release the relevant documents and call his bluff.
    written by bluewombat since 214 days 10 hours 48 minutesbluewombat
  15. #15    Yes, the documents should be released. The wingnuts will then complain that releasing them has weakened national security.

    Because the wingnuts know that if you searched the entire Dim leadership you wouldn't find enough vertebrae to make a single backbone.
    written by Mike5000 since 214 days 10 hours 14 minutesMike5000
  16. #16    In Cheney's eyes and his kabal they believe that even death is a success if the can kill someone and death is the result.they believe they have succeeded.
    what a fucked-up philisophy !! no wonder he is the Darth Vader we all know and
    despise.would you care to comment, Cheney? you know it's true.
    written by Texatheist1 since 214 days 9 hours 59 minutesTexatheist1
  17. #17    Epppie is right. Call his bluff.
    written by Fiore since 214 days 9 hours 42 minutesFiore
  18. #18    When Hannity went down on his knees to teabag Darth Cheney, lord of the dark side, what was really scary was the Cheney wheezing and hissing with each breath. Couple of times it appeared he took a jolt from his built-in defibrillator: "Yes, Sean, your question is so sycophantal I need a jolt of juice just to agree." Bzzzzt.
    written by montymarket since 214 days 9 hours 40 minutesmontymarket
  19. #19    Right, Dick..more of your cherry-picked, politically slanted, completely partisan, bogus memos...will clear it all up..weren't you the guy who forced the Scientists to "alter" their reports on global warming, the EPA on clean air and water, FEMA on Katrina, Intelligence sources to "prove" there were weapons of mass destruction...your secret testimony behind closed doors (no swearing in, no recording, just your worthless, lying word on 9/11, Plame outing, etc.) going to the Supreme Court to protect the identity of top oil executives (while figuring out a way to screw the citizens) in your top secret "Energy Commission" (dividing up Iraq's oil)..? And you think I would believe any "memos" you released, as proof of how well torture works....? I hope they hang your evil ass
    written by chabuka since 214 days 8 hours 24 minuteschabuka
  20. #20    I find myself in a rare moment of agreement w/epppie and Mike5000....

    By all means, release ALL the Memos - now that MISTER DICK can't cherrypick what to "leak" anymore!
    written by drdarkeny since 214 days 8 hours 5 minutesdrdarkeny
  21. #21    Thanks, Chabuka, your words summarize the both the truth and the anger beautifully!
    written by PatriotDem since 214 days 6 hours 21 minutesPatriotDem
  22. #22    <big exasperated sigh>

    Call his bluff...common sense dictates that these 'techniques' are immoral - I don't need the Pentagon to tell me this.
    written by zelator since 214 days 1 time 45 minuteszelator
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