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.

Read the whole story: Washington Post

Comments

[kimleehan]

2000 to 2006 the United States of America lived under a republican controlled dictatorship.

[monicaangela]

Even before 2000.

[whatthel]

Closet we've been yet.

[TheOwner]

Huh....?? when did it end....??

its getting worse!!!!!! "cyberczar"..?? indefinate detentions...?

are you kidding

[OKnight]

eat ur cereal...

[Sureyouare]

Ooooooooooooooo

BUGA BUGA

A Ch e ney is the D3vil thread. How quaint.

[rich misty]

http://www.icrc.org/Web/Eng/siteeng0.nsf/htmlall/terrorism?OpenDocument

Republicans are criminals thread.

[AtomicSplash]

conservatism must be annihilated

[Jazzman323]

You wonder why Pvt. William Long, the Army recruiter, was shot in Little Rock. This is why.

[breakingnews3]

BINGO!!!!

[Glenmoredoc1]

You nailed it, Chippy.

[ebanks84]

Do we k i l l people we don't agree with now? I didn't get that memo!

[rich misty]

That's the new GOp health care plan.

[HowietheScreamer]

Repubes been doin it for decades. They did it again just a few days ago in a Church no less.

[RRG64]

You did not care about over 7000 Americans who died because of Cheney`s geopolitical agenda...why pretend to care about one recruiter?

[rich misty]

The AP torture poll story is full of factual errors... and then this:

Associated Press writer Natasha Metzler, AP Polling Director Trevor Tompson and News Survey Specialist Dennis Junius contributed to this report.
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This is a partisan coverup poll... Manufactured consent Chomsky calls it.

[DACC]

anyone catch the breaking news that Newt just announced he has ch0ked on his own words again?
.......and the hits just keep on coming !!

[rich misty]

Did Republicans learn to read a poll?

[Glenmoredoc1]

Poor old gasbag Newt just hasn't figured out the power of "the Google" yet. lmao

[DACC]

the reality is that how they are constantly sh00ting themselves in the foot we don't have to do anything anymore. Just sit back and wait for it to happen over and over and over again.

[breakingnews3]

steamboat I'm a Fan of steamboat I'm a fan of this user permalink
Exactly ! .....also, don't 'cherry-pick'. I don't agree with Cheney's position as far as waterboarding goes. However, to his credit, he is asking that ALL the memo's be released. Hey, why would Obama or anybody else have a problem with that? The results. What did they find out. What they did stop. Release ALL or don't release any. Only fair !

Reply Favorite Flag as abusive Posted 09:26 AM on 06/03/2009
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Because the memos are part of an ongoing litigation case against the BushCheney Cabal and cannot be released due to a Court Order. Chinney knows this.

[monicaangela]

Correct, a blatant attempt to get the case thrown out before it is actually filed.

[gallimaufry03]

And there was a report that he's lying and there are no memos corroborating his story.

[savertime]

Why would anyone believe what is in a CIA memo????

[LemonMeringue]

I do not for one minute believe this kept us safe, or that Cheney ever cared a whit for our safety.

[greatlardini]

Chen.ey was, is, and always will be about Che.ney. How he talked himself into the ve.ep job is proof positive.

[Thomas Jones 1]

only cowards would sacrifice the integrity of our nation to feel safe

[RRG64]

also....only cowards would hit the twin towers to further their political agenda.....

[monicaangela]

Intelligent observation.

[Grunty1]

I believe that lowering our morality to this level has made us much less safe.

[Savanna]

What is the sense of having this guy in the headlines everyday..we know he is guilty..and personally I am sick of hearing about this until someone decides that they want to DO SOMETHING..otherwise
enough already.

[doubtingdavid]

Well said, besides it's a distraction from everything the libtrolls are hoping the Messiah will accomplish. What are we now, almost six months into the "new adminstration" and the libs are still hung up on Bush -Cheney and not on the lib agenda. time to turn the page.

[sense11]

Yea lets just forget that they almost destroyed this country and everything its suppose to stand for. They need top be made an example so this never happens again.

[gallimaufry03]

Well using that logic we had no need of the Nuremburg trials in the 2 years following the end of WWII. I would contend that bush/cheney have used their positions to break American laws, have committed crimes against humanity, and should be investigate. It doesn't mean I'm not also paying attention to cap and trade, the demise of yet more jobs, and the as yet impossible to find missing millions (or billions) funneled through TARP.

If you can't pay attention to more than one thing at a time, that's your problem.

[monicaangela]

Sensationalism, the MSM loves it. Also, too, many of his friends are owners of the MSM and would love to try his case in the public in order to help him work out a defense, or find out what the actual charges might be so that he can then mount a defense.

[fallout4U]

CIA and Operation Phoenix in Vietnam

26,369 South Vietn-amese civilians kil-led under Phoenix while op under direct U.S. control (Jan 68 thru Aug 72 ).

33,358 detained without trial.

[furey]

Are you feeling the heat, Mr. Cheney?

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2009/05/29/truth-and-friends/

[RRG64]

Like a lobster in warm water....

[edva]

Textbook coward.

[monicaangela]

How many deferrals does a coward need before he can safely be declared a coward?

[sense11]

Shouldn't they have enough evidence for an arrest warrant by now. I mean this guy said on camera the other day that there was never a link between Iraq and 9-11. War criminals belong in a cell.

[bonofide]

"---anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law."
I certainly hope so.

[fallout4U]

Fragging Bob:
Bob Kerrey, CIA War Crimes,
And The Need For A War Crimes Trial

by Douglas Valentine

By now everybody knows that former Senator Bob Kerrey led a seven-member team of Navy Seals into Thanh Phong village in February 1969, and mur-der-ed in cold blo-od more than a dozen women and children.

What hardly anyone knows, and what no one in the press is talking about (although many of them know), is that Kerrey was on a CIA mission, and its specific purpose was to ki-ll those women and children. It was illegal, pre-meditated mass mur-der and it was a war cri-me.

And it's time to hold the CIA responsible. It's time for a war crim-es tribunal to examine the CIA's illegal activities during and since the Vietnam War.

[Thomas Jones 1]

he can share a cell with Cheney

[AtomicSplash]

sounds great! let's start with the latest happenings while everyone's memory is fresh and work our way back

[LemonMeringue]

They should start the investigations with the recent war crimes.

[Grunty1]

The Rushpublican way: "But... but... some event from 40 years ago!"

[flamom4obama]

We need a truth commission that way we don't miss anything when charges are brought against Cheney.

[GrowUpOrMoveOn]

Fool. Cheney isn't hiding anything, he's proud of his service to the country and his willingness to do the hard work required to protect the likes of you and I.

Mr. Cheney is the Winston Churchill of our time.

[flamom4obama]

You support the notion that t0rture is good so I can only assume you would not protest it's use against our soldiers by other nations.

[Grunty1]

[F00l]

You really shouldn't be projecting that one. Ch3n3y is closer to the H!TLER of our time.

[HyperInfluential]

We don't need a truth commission. We already have this handy thing called a criminal investigation, and we should do that one instead, because it's clear these were crimes. We don't need a blue-ribbon panel to tell us that part. Now it's a matter for the cops to handle.