How is Liz Cheney an Expert on Interrogations?

[ProSense]

How is Liz Cheney an Expert on Interrogations?

Posted by Adam Blickstein

Dick's daughter Liz been all over MSNBC and the media after her interview with Norah O'Donnell where she vigorously defends her daddy's torture regime, but I can't find any instance in the past where she's been vocal on the issue. She was the Bush administration's Middle East Democracy expert at the State Department (remember when democracy was on the march there but then pretty much stopped in its tracks?), but after a thorough search, I can't find any interview previous to this one, either in print or TV, where she provided public commentary on interrogation methodology, the success or failures of various detainee policies, nor the efficacy of "enhanced interrogation." The only way I can see that she qualifies as an authoritative voice on this issue is that she shares the same name and blood as the torture policy's architect. But her defending torture reminds me of a few other times where the Bush administration trotted out husbands, wives and siblings to defend or support tenuous situations, and provide a familial ladder to help them escape from deep political holes:

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[ShortnFiery]

1. To paraphrase Lawerence O'Donnell- Liz Cheney, the nepotistic daughter of the former Vice President.

:P

[BeyondGeography]

2. Dick the Dad?

[graywarrior]

3. Genetics.... and "inheritance" blackmail

[Political Tiger]

4. They probably waterboarded Mary after she came out. n/t

[polichick]

5. How did she "earn" that job??

[Jennicut]

6. She is a female version of her father. Like we need another DIck.

[polichick]

7. With her mother's awful voice. :/

[emulatorloo]

9. Well her mother is just about as hate-fueled and lie-filled as her father

Too bad Liz didn't rebel.

[Hellataz]

8. How is she an expert on anything?

We don't care what her dad has to say, so why would we care about her opinion either?

[TheCoxwain]

10. Sarah Palin .....and Russia ... come to mind. nt.

[rocktivity]

11. After weeks of baiting Obama in the media, Cheney's has had to take cover

after realizing he'd been played like a grand piano. So he sends out his kid to do his dirtywork. Damn predictable, if you ask me.

:headbang:
rocktivity

[WinkyDink]

12. Nixon, in desperation, also used his daughters in this media fashion.

[Raine]

15. Yeah but at least they had always been in the public eye

this goof appeared out of nowhere, I didn't even know he had a daughter or any kids at all.

Edit: I have terminal amnesia I forgot Mary :blush:

[WinkyDink]

17. You are unaware of his gay daughter Mary?

[Raine]

18. Ops SORRY

for sure I know of Mary, I made a stupid statement. :spank:

[Stellabella]

13. Perhaps that tells us a bit too much about their personal family life?

The apple doesn't fall far from the tree, after all.

[karynnj]

14. Well, as a teenager think who interrogated her about her activities

To me that's a scary thought!

(seriously, she is a hack who is willing to say that waterboarding is not torture.)

[AtomicKitten]

16. She's the purveyor of propaganda de jour. n/t

[Vidar]

19. Living with the Big Dick is torture?

[vixengrl]

20. I dunno, let's check Wikipedia:

Personal life
Elizabeth graduated from McLean High School in 1984. She received her bachelor's degree from Colorado College where she wrote her senior thesis, "The Evolution of Presidential War Powers," in 1988.<1> She received her Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1996. She and husband Perry have five children: three daughters, Kate (b. 1994), Elizabeth (b. 1997), and Grace (b. 2000); and two sons, Philip Richard (b. July 2, 2004) and Richard (b. July 11, 2006).


Early career
Prior to attending law school, Cheney worked for the State Department for five years and the U.S. Agency for International Development between 1989 and 1993. After 1993, she took a job at Armitage Associates LLP, the consulting firm founded by Richard Armitage, then a former Defense Department official and Iran-Contra operative who later served as Deputy Secretary of State.

After graduating from law school, Cheney practiced law in the private sector (at the law firm of White & Case) and as an international law attorney and consultant at the International Finance Corporation, a member of the World Bank Group. She has also served as Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of State for Assistance to the former Soviet Union, and as a USAID officer in U.S. embassies in Budapest and Warsaw.<2>

It's torture when you have to be the deferment baby your whole life. You know. Save his ass from Vietnam. Back up his ass professionally. Argue to save his ass from complicity in war crimes. I'm sure she has an idea what torture is. It's imagining a life where Daddy has no influence anymore.

Troubling.

[DailyGrind51]

21. I guess having Dick for a dad was "torture"?

[DailyGrind51]

22. Meghan McCain can kick her ass!

[olegramps]

23. Family values explains it all. Friday night bondage fetes with daddy.

She thinks that sado-masochism is a Christian doctrine. Her dad told her so.