Cheney on Site Map subfolders
After the C.I.A.
inspector general’s report on prisoner interrogation was
released, former Vice President Dick Cheney settled into his
usual seat on Fox News to express his outrage — not at the
illegal and immoral behavior laid out in the report, of
course, but at the idea that anyone would object to
torturing prisoners. He was especially vexed that the Obama
administration was beginning an investigation.
In Mr. Cheney’s
view, it is not just those who followed orders and stuck to
the interrogation rules set down by President George Bush’s
Justice Department who should be sheltered from
accountability. He said he also had no problem with those
who disobeyed their orders and exceeded the
guidelines.
It’s easy to
understand Mr. Cheney’s aversion to the investigation that
Attorney General Eric Holder ordered last week. On Fox, Mr.
Cheney said it was hard to imagine it stopping with the
interrogators. He’s right. The government owes Americans a
full investigation into the orders to approve torture, abuse
and illegal, secret detention, as well as the twisted legal
briefs that justified those policies. Congress and the White
House also need to look into illegal wiretapping and the
practice of sending prisoners to other countries to be
tortured.
Mr. Cheney was at
the center of each of these insults to this country’s
Constitution, its judicial system and its bedrock democratic
values.
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Oberman reply to Cheney.
Conservatives Without Conscience - John
Dean
5min
Cheney - Republican Party Moderation
Not
Cheney - Torture is Not US Value
6min 6min
Torture Probe
Required
Planet Cheney Fact Free
7min 5min
Inspector General CIA Torture Report - Col
Wilkerson So called Terrorist
7min 7min
Torture Inc - How to - Imprisoned
3min
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