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Cheney: Spanish torture probe ‘abhorrent’
Stephen C. Webster
Raw Story
Friday, May 8, 2009
Former Vice President Dick Cheney continued his excuses-for-torture tour today with an interview on a radio station in Fargo.
Perhaps needless to say, he’s not exactly praising the new administration.
“There are two documents in particular that I personally have read and know about that are still classified in that National Archives,” Cheney said. ”But I’ve asked that they be de-classified; I made that request over a month ago on March 31st. What those documents show is the success, especially of the interrogation program in terms of what it produced by way of intelligence that let us track down members of Al-Qaeda and disrupt their plans and plots to strike the United States. It’s all there in black and white…It demonstrates conclusively the worth of those programs. As I say, I’ve asked the administration to de-classify them and so far they have not.”
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He warned that [an investigation] would have future consequences.
“Anybody who sees that kind of thing happen is going to pull their head in, and they’ll be reluctant to take responsibility for anything,” he said, adding, “I hear this talk that there is going to be some kind of foreign prosecution of our guys, I just think that’s abhorrent, and I think they ought to do everything they can to fight that.”
Of course, Cheney’s position that torture “works” has been completely discredited.
The New York Times reported that military trainers at Guantanamo in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart created from a 1957 Air Force study on Communist Chinese methods.
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The harsh questioning techniques were used by the Chinese to obtain confessions from American prisoners, including many false ones, the daily reported.
The chart, made public at a June 17, 2008 US Senate hearing, detailed the effects of “coercive management techniques” such as “sleep deprivation,” “prolonged constraint,” and “exposure.”
“These were techniques to get false confessions,” US Senator Carl Levin was quoted as saying in the Times.
“People say we need intelligence, and we do. But we don’t need false intelligence,” he said.
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May 8th, 2009 at 4:19 am
Can someone please torture Dick Cheney and see if he tells us the truth behind 911.
Or would it be considered too cruel bearing in mind Dick’s dodgy heart.
Greetings from Kiev
Joe
May 8th, 2009 at 5:16 am
abhorrent ! where did that fat worthless pig learn a big word like that ?
Israel=criminal Reply:
May 8th, 2009 at 5:51 am
from all the people who said that about him. Cheney is clinically insane. he still deserves to be hung for treason though.
storky Reply:
May 8th, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Undoubtedly.
May 8th, 2009 at 6:15 am
hang the bastard already
crick Reply:
May 8th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
how excellent …..he should be ….Party’s over Dickface.
May 8th, 2009 at 6:53 am
Anyone that OK’s torture should have to go through it.
Just like any asshole politician that wants to cut social security should have to live on it…. they don’t take things like that to heart, because (to them) it’s like a human worrying about cockroach’s rights.
These fuckheads are too far removed from reality to make descisions for the rest of the world…..
Cheney should be turned into Michael Moore’s stool groomer.
HA!
yuck!
May 8th, 2009 at 10:42 am
Dick Cheney….Walking talking human garbage.
May 8th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
Dick Cheney does a radio show in Fargo? Nice to see Dick has some work.
storky Reply:
May 8th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
. . . to a radio audience of 9 neocon morons.
May 8th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Cheney is not worth a pinch of ‘thermitic dust’. search ‘nano thermitic residue 911′ and see the proof that the towers (and No 7) were blown up and the person inside at the time murdered. Bet DicK knows who did it.
You will not see any report of the neils Harrit (and 8 other scientists) on the ‘thermitic’ findings which was published about 4th April 2009.
Time to start torturing the ‘controlled mass media with their weapons of mass deception”!
May 8th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
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May 9th, 2009 at 10:24 am
The Cheyenne Indians say that a bald headed person can’t enter the gates of heaven, where do you think “Dick” will go?
May 9th, 2009 at 11:48 am
I know Cheney will never face prosecution, but if I were him I’d be long gone to Buenos Aires with a new name, new identity, and new button-up shirt decorated with little palm tree patterns on it by now. Makes you wonder if this guy is really so delusional as to think he did the right thing by ordering torture for false confessions… Nevermind that he helped draft PNAC, which, if not an outright admission of being somehow involved on the wrong side of 9/11, shows a complete disregard for his fellow countrymen. Why would this guy even care about protecting his “good” name at this point? He can’t really believe that he has any credibility whatsoever… can he? If so, Dear GOD, what an idiot. That kind of disassociative stupidity explains alot.
May 9th, 2009 at 1:28 pm
I found this same comment on another prison planet article…Thanks for your insights shill!
May 11th, 2009 at 12:30 am
It shouldn’t be up to the Spanish to prosecute US authorities. The US needs hard high-level introspection. Why does your Congress allow this kind of behavior from its own leaders and then seems to systematically fail to do anything about it? Why isn’t the Senate enraged over such appalling accusations?
Think about this. Something is very very wrong in DC. If your Presidential authorities has indeed started a war with false, selfish pretenses, what does that mean for the US? What kind of nation does that make you?
It should be Americans. American officials should be all over this thing. Your country may be involved in wars of aggression over false data, acquired by illegal means. Your country may be involved in atrocities and crimes against humanity, all because some rich guys managed to fool the entire nation with a false flag operation.
And all the time, Dick and his buddies’ corporations are making a killing. Pun intended.
It shouldn’t be up to the Spanish. America needs to save its face. It’s up to the Americans to redeem themselves. No one should do it for you. Let’s see some backbone.