Senate Probe Could Target Cheney For Interrogation Briefings

Mother Jones:

Dick Cheney, as vice president, was once the president of the Senate. Now he could become the target of a Senate investigation, for the Senate intelligence committee is in the position--and perhaps has the obligation--to answer this question: did Cheney tell senior members of Congress the truth about the Bush administration's use of harsh interrogation practices (a.k.a. torture) during hush-hush briefings on Capitol Hill?

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Comments

[brandnewstuff]

All Cheney's false calims of TSP and EIT's work- and the WAR was a sham and killed more people for profit- That is the guideline for the WAR Crimes- DUH--

[beaupritchard]

Finally sanity ... bravo.

[wordvarc]

Not "could." "Should."

Send him to the Hague like Milosevic.

[smchp]

Patience. I have no doubt lawyers over there are building a case as we speak.

[SteadyOn]

Get him.

[poaster]

A must see, Sheldon Whitehouse last nite beginning to piece to together the torture program and efforts to distort the record.

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/06/10/sheldon-whitehouse-no-further-actionable-intelligence-was-obtained-from-abu-zubaydah-by-waterboarding/

[SarcasticFringehead]

"That press release makes it seem unlikely that the committee is investigating whether the White House--with or without Cheney's involvement--pressured the Justice Department to cook up legal cover for the CIA's use of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques."

Another toothless and perhaps pointless investigation.
Cheney is smirking with delight about it.

[kvet]

What are they waiting for......

Start Targeting !!!!!!

[blues101]

Makes you wonder what they're afraid of.........

[VJ2008]

Do you all remember how everytime the republicans wanted to get their way on an issue, they would either post a message from Bin Laden or raise the threat level to a higher color. I knew they were controlling us with fear, but I didn't really know to what degree and to what end. OMG I wonder if OBL is even a real person. If he was, I'll bet he's been long dead, but the murderers in the white house then didn't want that to get out, otherwise, who would they use to control their masses--especially once they put Hussein to death. He may have committed horrific acts and all, but his killing was not for the people of Iraq, it was for revenge.

[Yermammy]

OBL used to work for us. They don't want you to know that. Big bad OBL! Boo!

[ObamAtomic]

Tro//s are MIA!

[SteadyOn]

Busy defending their darling Sarah and her ilk from David Letterman.

[Yermammy]

Cool! Well then, let's get Conan, Craig and the two Jimmy's (Kimmel and Fallon) to take one day of each week to pound Sarah and we'll never have to suffer fools again here!

[jorge4u]

Quick question:

Does anyone know why Cheney still has security detail?

I thought only current and former presidents and their spouses were allowed to have that.

[JessWonderin]

with the lack of interest in Bush, they just moved them to the "Real" Ex-President anyway . . .

[redsongia]

Could?

[Yermammy]

It's WAAAAAY past time to start investigations. Let's get this thing going post haste! All this right wing resistance to health care and stimulus spending will crumble if they have to scurry to protect their corrupt allies and themselves. Time to hit them when they're at their most arrogant. INVESTIGATE!!!

[ObamAtomic]

Interrogate The Chief Torturer,put to rest the notion that torture was effective,
stump and indict.

[MyGuyO]

Bring it on!

Let us stop this maniacal ex-VP once and for all.

[CAPTAINSKIPPY]

eight years late, but better now than never

[bragladish]

If they don't stop him now, they will never be able to stop him. He will seize every opportunity to destroy America... You must stop this man from doing what he is doing... All this violence, abortion DR. killing and race killings, are being spurned by the republicans... they are inciting the extremism, rilling up the KKK and the fringe Christian extremists... Cheney is the terrorist! If you people can't remember history, the you should look at the Nazi party, it was very unpopular when the lost their election to the Socialists, but the minuet the socialists failed politically, Germany was seized by extremists... They were the total underdog until the socialists couldn't improve things for the German people, which the royal families were behind, the whole time, undermining their ability to succeed. This America situation looks like a sequel.