How Torture Worked to Sell the Iraq War

[babsbunny]

http://www.truthout.org/042509A

Saturday 25 April 2009

by: Steve Weissman, t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Three cheers for Dick Cheney. The former vice president has urged, however rhetorically, that the Obama administration release more of the torture memos. "One of the things that I find a little bit disturbing about this recent disclosure is they put out the legal memos, the memos that the CIA got from the Office of Legal Counsel, but they didn't put out the memos that showed the success of the effort," the former vice president told FoxNews.

"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."

[Xipe Totec]

1. Start with this one:

CIA official: no proof harsh techniques stopped terror attacks

WASHINGTON — The CIA inspector general in 2004 found that there was no conclusive proof that waterboarding or other harsh interrogation techniques helped the Bush administration thwart any "specific imminent attacks," according to recently declassified Justice Department memos.

That undercuts assertions by former vice president Dick Cheney and other former Bush administration officials that the use of harsh interrogation tactics including waterboarding, which is widely considered torture, was justified because it headed off terrorist attacks.


http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/66895.html

[malaise]

2. It doesn't matter what they find

Torture is illegal and they all knew that.

[saigon68]

3. Cheney et al are war criminals

They belong in Prison

[malaise]

5. 100% correct n/t

[The Magistrate]

4. It Is Abundantly Clear, Ma'am, From What Is Already On Public Record

That a leading goal of the torture program was to coerce false statements linking Saddam Hussein to al Queda.

[azul]

6. Cheney on fox should just elicit laughs, and maybe pitchforks and torches.

The cowardly illegal ex-vp, that hasn't yet spoken anything but lies, is now employed as a faux consultant on the fake news outlet? That BS news authority that spews lies and distortions and has traitorously banged the drum of lies and corruption to take the US into an illegal invasion and occupation?

Start a criminal investigation into war crimes and domestic propaganda for the lot of them.