Cheney Wins

Trumpeting his own fanfare on Fox News Sunday, Dick Cheney is back. But it was the Obama administration itself that opened wide the gates for this self-vindicating return. With the release of the 2004 CIA Inspector General’s report on torture, and Attorney General Eric Holder’s appointment of prosecutor John H. Durham to investigate CIA abuses of detainees, a crossroads was reached, and who was standing right in its middle but the former vice president. No sooner

America is finally reckoning with itself as a torture nation, but to find Cheney at the center of this historic juncture is, well, déjà vu all over again. For more than a generation, the nation’s great moral turning points have pivoted on Dick Cheney, always for the worse.

What a fetid, steaming pile of crap.

If Cheney thinks the CIA saved America, he should relish an investigation but he doesn’t?

We'll now, what did save us from any further attack during the 8 years? Was it the ACLU? Was it the New York Times? Was it Nancy Pelosi? Was it Harry Reid? How about up-chuck Schumer? Or Janet Neapolitano?

More likely it was the US Military (God Bless them) and the CIA (God bless them too) and the FBI and NSA and all those who cannot take a bow (Bless them all)

Now, you should sit down and be in awe of Cheney and Bush.

I watched the interview on Chris Wallace last night. I kept thinking that the very means of obtaining information (intimidation by implying that a drill or some other means [drowning by water boarding]) is used to trick those arrested into confessing — not that they use drills, but they definitely use mind games to get a confession in regular law enforcement.

There's a whole lot of difference between blowing cigar smoke in someone’s face while he's looking at a power drill sitting on the table than burning the individual with the coals of the cigar and using the drill on his teeth. While neither is something I would care to do for a living, I appreciate those given the job of obtaining the information. Failure is not an option.

Last but not least, the reason the “suggestion” that violence might ensue works, is that those are the standards by which those so intimidated conduct their own law enforcement. It works because they have knowledge of the techniques.

If anybody actually used the drill or burned anyone in the retrieval of information, then they shouldn't be working for us anyway. If the residual result of a hard interrogation is a bad case of “fright,” then I think we have managed to walk a fine line and err on the right side of it.

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