Frank Rich: 'Once Again Cheney And Cohorts Using Lies, Fear For Political Advantage'

Frank Rich: 'Once Again Cheney And Cohorts Using Lies, Fear For Political Advantage'

The Beltway antics that greeted the great Cheney-Obama torture debate were an unsettling return to the post-9/11 dynamic that landed America in Iraq. Once again Cheney and his cohort were using lies and fear to try to gain political advantage -- this time to rewrite history and escape accountability for the failed Bush presidency rather than to drum up a new war. Once again Democrats in Congress were cowed. And once again too much of the so-called liberal news media parroted the right's scare tactics, putting America's real security interests at risk by failing to challenge any Washington politician carrying a big stick.

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