NBC News: CIA denies Cheney made any formal request

[babsbunny]

http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/21/nbc-news-cia-denies-cheney-made-formal-request/


By Raw Story

Published: April 21, 2009
Updated 2 hours ago


After former Vice President Dick Cheney claimed during a Fox News Channel interview Monday night that he had “formally asked” the CIA to declassify memos which “showed the success of” using harsh interrogation practices such as waterboarding against detainees, Salon’s Glenn Greenwald wondered on his Twitter feed, “What mechanism does Cheney have to ‘formally’ ask the CIA to de-classify memos?”

“Did he file a FOIA request?” Greenwald asked.

Cheney had claimed on Fox, “I’ve now formally asked the CIA to take steps to declassify those memos so we can lay them out there and the American people have a chance to see what we obtained and what we learned and how good the intelligence was, as well as to see this debate over the legal opinions.”

But, according to two reports on Tuesday, the CIA still has yet to receive a request from Cheney.

[spanone]

1. cheney is full of doo doo

[Enthusiast]

8. No doo doo, just

simple false information he uses to muddy the water. This is his MO, smokescreens and deception. These assholes, and Cheney specifically, have been using these tactics since the Nixon-Ford Administration. He is the most diabolical figure in our history.

[spanone]

11. let me explain, cheney is full of shit...

:toast:

[Enthusiast]

15. Yes!

:fistbump:

[aquart]

2. Cheney's lied? Bears still defecate in the woods, too.

Some things you can always count on.

[Bozita]

3. I'm sure it's in the mail

[Solly Mack]

4. lololol

bluster bluster bluster

[MidwestTransplant]

5. why would anybody believe anything that habitual liar says?

[WI_DEM]

6. Things are really bad when the Dick can't even get the CIA to back him up.

[DearAbby]

7. Jump back and paint me surprised!

Cheney lied? Really? :eyes:

[Duer 157099]

9. "Formally ask the CIA" = "Get Cornyn to do it" (in Cheney's mind)

He still does not see where he ends and other branches of government begin.

http://www.rttnews.com/Content/Policy.aspx?Id=918720

[pleah]

10. Cheney telling a lie?

Say it ain't so! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[EFerrari]

12. Somebody needs to remind Dick that he's not president any more.

[RufusTFirefly]

13. Are you sure?

:yoiks:

[EFerrari]

14. . . .

:spank:

lol

[BelgianMadCow]

17. Yeah, "formal request" ? Whaaat and in what capacity that might be? Undead president?

really now, he should go back to his cave and wait for the cops.

[EFerrari]

18. Junior gave Cheney the power to classify and unclassify

while they were in office. But, they're not in office any more.

He should go back to his coffin and enjoy the velvet while he can.

[pkdu]

16. Surely as a (now) private citizen old "5-deferments" would have

to file a FOIA request...just like the ACLU.

[RobertSeattle]

19. It was to the National Archives.

There's updated info.

[Occam Bandage]

20. Dick apparently still pulls all the strings.

Unfortunately for him, those strings were all cut on January 20. But I wouldn't want to spoil his fun.