Thursday, August 27, 2009

Dick..........

Last spring, the news media trumpeted Vice President Dick Cheney’s challenge to release the CIA’s torture memos. It was a move Cheney supported because, he said, the documents would vindicate his claims that the Bush administration’s torture program operated within the law, and provided indispensable information in protecting the US from further terrorist attacks. Since Monday, when the CIA released a significant part of those documents — a 2004 CIA inspector general’s report on torture practices — there has been hardly a mention in the mainstream press about the fact that the report largely contradicted what the former vice president has been saying in public...Link

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