Official: Cheney Hasn't Requested Release Of Torture Intel

The Plum Line:

This is getting downright Kafkaesque: I just reached a spokesperson for former Veep Dick Cheney, and she categorically refused to explain what Cheney meant when he claimed on Fox News that he had "formally asked" the CIA to release intelligence allegedly proving that torture works.

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Comments

[Keith52]

Mystery Solved:

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/torture/happy-hour-open-thread-cheney-mystery-solved/

[MikeDu]

Not only are the Right Wing grand masters of unintended irony, they just keep getting better at it! Can you IMAGINE no less a person that Dick Cheney complaining that the executing branch is not being sufficiently forthcoming with documents. That's not just ironic, that's Bizarro world everything­-backwards ironic.

[NoPretenses]

Cheney reminds me of a criminal who continues to return to the scene of the crime in the pretense of helping but is really there to just to monitor any clues that might be found on him.

[Nyla785]

Somebody explain to me how Cheney is in a position to request ANYTHING from the CIA. He's not in office. He's not a legislator. He's just a pensioner now. Where's his authority to require anything--­especially classified.

[RTIII]

FOIA

Freedom

Of

Information

Act

...Just like the rest of us...
.

[sueno]

Cheney is the "Himmler" of our time-
He has lied to us, already killed people in secret,
basically took over the government from Bush
and started much of the mess that we're in.

The question is "how many bodies, do we have to see,
to realize that this man is crazy!" This isn't about politics
but protecting our humanity and who we are as a people.

Cheney like the fallen leaders of Nazi Germany & Vietnam
should be treated as a monster. He ordered thousands of people
to be harmed and often murdered and like Himmler, he lived
in his own demented and twisted world, and we as Americans
need to call it what it is-

[blood1]

Anyone want to bet that he wants to do the redacting himself?

This is sad and amusing...­go on FOX and "demand"..­.and then back to the woods, without formally doing whatever you have just proposed. What do you want to bet that this part of the message will never be seen on FOX?

[rohansjaya]

Dick Chaney should take his own advice and just shut up.When he was VP he was asked by a journalist about the overwhelming public opinion against the Iraq war.TPubli­c opinion does not count."We have elections every four years"and in between elections he expected the public to be silent and let the administration carry on their incompetent and unlawful activities.
Now it his turn to be silent.In case he does not remember we had elections last November.H­e is out of office.Mr Chaney you had your eight years to ruin and run the country to the ground so just shut up and let somebody else clean up after you.We will help you locate your undisclosed location.P­lease stay there.And please dont come out.
RJ

[PhilipTaylor]

A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR can find out everything we need to know!

It is Time!

[escribacat]

Cheney is a private citizen. What right does he have to request the CIA to do anything? He talks like he's still in office.

[joceeco]

When a man live a life filled with lies, why would we expect him to ever tell the truth?

[jinxed]

OMG! Cheney told a lie? OMG! the sk6y is going to fall!

[Jaybot]

Sure he has, he's got his shadow government working on it. Guess this 'official' isn't in the loop.

[janeInCA]

Why Cheney keeps opening his mouth to criticize Obama and his administration, it must be something fishy that the former vp tries to rationalize and convince people that thing like torture is necessary despite Geneva Convention Agreement.

[From the Raft]

What is the big deal? Why is anyone surprised? The split second I heard Dick Cheney's words I doubted them. He owes his entire political career to manufactured lies.

I am surprised the press has taken him seriously, you would think he is Rush Limbaugh or somebody!

[Oonagh]

The old guy has lost it..... somebody get his wheelchair and roll him out or he is going to bury himself.