Newsweek: Cheney literally mentions the "dark side" after 911

[RobertSeattle]

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10020629/site/newsweek/

Since 9/11, torture lite has been used by the Americans in the war on terror. In the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, fearful that another attack was imminent, Vice President Dick Cheney said, "we have to work... the dark side, if you will." Declared the CIA's then Counterterror chief Cofer Black: "After 9/11, the gloves came off." At one point, the Bush administration formally told the CIA it couldn't be prosecuted for any technique short of inflicting the kind of pain that accompanies "organ failure" or "death."

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

1. OMG that is too goddamn funny LOL

[w13rd0]

2. There's nothing funny about this...

...especially if one has read the PNAC documents and suspects, as many do and more are coming to, that BushCo knew about the 9-11 attacks, but figured another Pearl Harbor would be to their political advantage.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

4. Don't Preach To Me

I don't want to hear it. I wasn't posting as some dismissive simplistic underrepresentation of what PNAC means and the seriousness of the potential that 9-11 was LIHOP/MIHOP, so please, don't preach to me the bullshit.

It was a lighthearted statement in respect to the fact that Darth Cheney has used the phrase use the dark side. Lighten Up Francis.

[Midnight Rambler]

3. George... George... I am your father....

[savemefromdumbya]

5. news

torture has been used for decades worldwide by the US. However, Cheney wanted an excuse to kick it up a notch.

[peacetalksforall]

6. Yes, Cheney and the barons who approved the PNAC plan USED

9-11 to open 'their door' 'for themselves' against us. They are lying, thieving, killing, deceiving, and silencing us. THEY TOOK A COUNTRY! AN ENTIRE COUNTRY! AND THEY ARE TRYING TO TAKE YOU AND ME!

[No Exit]

7. Hades, in a nostalgic moment, speaks of his home.

This entire 5 years has been like a re-make of "Angel Heart"--with the American people playing the part of "Johnny", the movie's main character.

[RedOnce]

8. Cheney would know about working the dark side.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

10. You're kidding, right?

[Leopolds Ghost]

9. "Anikin Bush, m'boy, to govern, a politician must know many things..." n/t

Even such things as pertain to... the dark side!

Why, did you know that there was once a Sith lord named Darth Saddam...

[sakabatou]

11. They are DARK SIDED!!!

THEY HAVE THEM GAR-GILLES!!