Cheney Led Briefings Of Members Of Congress To Defend Interrogation Techniques

Washington Post:

Former vice president Richard B. Cheney personally oversaw at least four briefings with senior members of Congress about the controversial interrogation program, part of a secretive and forceful defense he mounted throughout 2005 in an effort to maintain support for the harsh techniques used on detainees.

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[Nyland8]

Czech Czech - testes 1 - 2

Being the compassionate conservative that I am ( ... and now 8 removes his tongue from his cheek) I can't help but feel sorry for "Five Deferment Cheney". His recent television blitz to spin his VP tenure: the utter desperation in his voice: his total inability to keep eye contact with even the most benign interviewer: desperately trotting out his own unqualified family members to rally to his defense: - more than any human being he reminds me of the Shakespeare's line that ...

"Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant only taste of death but once ..."

Whenever I see him, I'm keenly aware that I'm looking at a man who is dying a thousand deaths - and it is pitiable. I can't help but wonder if a day won't come when he'll wish he'd have taken no deferments, served in the military and met his end on some foreign battle field. The only thing sadder and more uncomfortable than watching him writhe is reading the mindless minions that come here to defend him - perhaps because they see themselves in him.

Otherwise, they'd be too busy serving in Ramadi or Tikrit to be here wasting space.

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[Nyland8]

Censors:
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Would anyone like to explain why that is? If it's not capriciousness, and it's not punitive, then what's the reason?

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[Nyland8]

Would anyone like to explain why that is? If it's not capriciousness, and it's not punitive, then what's the reason?

[Nyland8]

But this contribution is just too challenging for the sensibilities of those who might read it ...

Being the compassionate conservative that I am ( ... and now 8 removes his tongue from his cheek) I can't help but feel sorry for "Five Deferment Cheney". His recent television blitz to spin his VP tenure: the utter desperation in his voice: his total inability to keep eye contact with even the most benign interviewer: desperately trotting out his own unqualified family members to rally to his defense: - more than any human being he reminds me of the Shakespeare's line that ...

"Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant only taste of death but once ..."

Whenever I see him, I'm keenly aware that I'm looking at a man who is dying a thousand deaths - and it is pitiable. I can't help but wonder if a day won't come when he'll wish he'd have taken no deferments, served in the military and met his end on some foreign battle field. The only thing sadder and more uncomfortable than watching him writhe is reading the mindless minions that come here to defend him - perhaps because they see themselves in him.

Otherwise, they'd be too busy serving in Ramadi or Tikrit to be here wasting space.

[Nyland8]

Being the compassionate conservative that I am ( ... and now 8 removes his tongue from his cheek) I can't help but feel sorry for "Five Deferment Cheney". His recent television blitz to spin his VP tenure: the utter desperation in his voice: his total inability to keep eye contact with even the most benign interviewer: desperately trotting out his own unqualified family members to rally to his defense: - more than any human being he reminds me of the Shakespeare's line that ...

"Cowards die a thousand deaths. The valiant only taste of death but once... "

Whenever I see him, I'm keenly aware that I'm looking at a man who is dying a thousand deaths - and it is pitiable. I can't help but wonder if a day won't come when he'll wish he'd have taken no deferments, served in the military and met his end on some foreign battle field. The only thing sadder and more uncomfortable than watching him writhe is reading the mindless minions that come here to defend him - perhaps because they see themselves in him.

Otherwise, they'd be too busy serving in Ramadi or Tikrit to be here wasting space.

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[maikonen]

Cheney & Co. were allowed to get away with so much because America was screaming for vengeance after 9/11 and lost all sense of reason, while the government found justification for trampling on our rights.

[gladys46]

Today, MSNBC produces a poll (no mention of who conducted it) which shows 46% of Americans have an UNFAVORABLE view of Musl ims !! May we please have a similiar poll to show what VIEW Musl ims have of Christians !?? Wouldn't that be fair & balanced reporting !!!

Mind you this poll did not specify whether 46% Americans were viewing "ratical musl ims" !!

[gladys46]

"radical" sry !

[slinkymom]

I am tired of MSNBC and others trying to stir up trouble with this type of "poll." Just more manufactured b.s.

[Buddy McCue]

They probably did mention who conducted it, and you didn't catch it. Who reports on polling data without crediting the source?

I went looking for this poll, curious to read it myself, and found your 46% figure in a CNN/Opinion Research Corp survey. Maybe that's where they got it.

[janie@atthelake]

That sorry so & so. Waiting for Huffing. to report on this one going on in Texas "Library clash could put George W. Bush under oath "
He toook land for his stupid library.....

[fallout4U]

Osborn's colleague, Michael J. Uhl, testified that most suspects were cap-tured during sweeping tactical raids and that all persons detained were classified as Vie-tcong. None of those held for quest-ioning, said Osborn, had ever lived through the process." [Blum's reference: New York Times, 3 August 1971, p. 10.]

[fallout4U]

Vie-tnam, 1966-73 Pho-enix Program to-rtu-re tactics include ra-pe, elec-tric shock, water tor-ture, han-ging from ceiling, bea-tings, inc-arce-ration and exe-cution. 69-71 K. Barton Osborn, Pho-enix agent, testified to Congress "I never knew an individual to be deta-ined as a VC suspect who ever lived through an inte-rrog-ation in a year and a half. This testimony given before U.S. Congressional Hearing.

This type of thing has been going on since WW2.

Cheney is a light-weight in the history of tor-ture.

Why have you Libs suddenly developed a conscious???

[Buddy McCue]

Why do you continue to use this same distorted logic? It doesn't make more sense the more often you repeat it.

[RRG64]

LOL

[fallout4U]

Wouldn't expect you to understand, go attack Hannity or something...

[RRG64]

Why is not near as important as having one in the first place.

[fallout4U]

"A former U.S. military in-tell-igence officer in Vie-tnam, K. Barton Osborn, testified before a House Committee that sus-pects caught by Pho-enix were inte-rrogated in helicopters and sometimes pus-hed out. He also spoke of the use of ele-ctric sho-ck to-rture and the insertion into the ear of a six-inch dowel which was tapped through the bra-in until the vi-ctim di-ed." [Blum's reference: David Wise, "Colby of CIA -- CIA of Colby", New York Times Magazine, 1 July 1973, p.33

I know we were signed on to the Geneva Convention in 1966 through 1973, yet this still happened.

[slinkymom]

I cannot believe you are still pushing this meme. It was wrong back then and it was wrong now. Do you not recall all the people protesting that war?? Please, you're constant posting of this does not make what Cheenie did any more acceptable.

[HyperInfluential]

They're trying to say that Nixon and Johnson didn't get tried for War Crimes, so why should Bush. As if two wrongs make a right. You know what, GOPers? If it would make you feel better, we can try them posthumously. We REALLY ARE for the rule of law, not loyalty to certain figures. You can't get us to change our minds by pointing out that "Democrates" have done crimes too.

[D-V-H]

If so many lawmakers are lawyers, why is it that many don't actually understand the law?

[fourex]

And how did the CIA, Senate, and Congress forget Cheney led the briefings? It boggles the mind.

[Coinyer101]

If I was President Obama I wouldn't want to be seen as 'indifferent' to demanding prosecutions. Good luck with that line of thinking.

[gladys46]

"Cheney's briefings on interrogations began in the winter of 2005 as the top 'Democrats' on the Senate and House intelligence committees, Sen. John D. Rockefeller, III (W.VA) and Rep. Jane Harman (CA), publicly advocated a full-scale investigation of the tactics used against top al-Quaeda 'suspects.' (emphasis added)

Did somebody say that dems did nothing, said nothing !! The reporters of this article state Pelosi WAS NOT present at any of these "secret" briefings that included Che ney.