Cheney is afraid of the DoJ torture investigation

[ensho]

http://www.unbossed.com/index.php?itemid=2735


You might reasonably have surmised that Dick Cheney fears where an investigation into the torture and mistreatment of terrorist suspects could eventually lead. Until now Cheney has restricted himself to lying about the effectiveness of the CIA and DoD interrogation programs, claiming to know decisive information that remains classified, and denouncing those who seek to investigate the government officials who abused prisoners under the color of law. But now we have some direct evidence of how rattled Cheney has become by Attorney General Holder's decision to initiate what is after all an extremely limited investigation. Its scope currently is limited to the CIA interrogations that employed even more abuse than the torture memos had actually authorized.

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Here is how Strobel describes the Cheney interview:

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What Cheney fears is pretty obvious. First, he believes that the investigation into a few CIA officers who scandalously flouted the torture memos' rules for coercive interrogations could provide the sharp edge that might pry open the whole sordid program of systematized abuse and expose it to judicial and public scrutiny. It was a program that Cheney apparently sponsored and helped to design.

Secondly, Cheney fears that he could then become a target of investigation. He is especially vulnerable to prosecution because of the close interest he took in the most abusive interrogations. One might be able to persuade a slightly gullible grand jury that the "conditioning" or "exploitation" of prisoners (hypothermia, for example) does not constitute torture. But waterboarding universally has been considered torture since at least the times of the Great Inquisition. Cheney seems to think now that he needs to build a case that he was no more aware of actual instances of waterboarding than anybody else who was briefed on the CIA program.

Cheney may also be aware that his likeness has now been put on one of the "Torture Team" playing cards that the Center for Constitutional Rights has created ("Collect and prosecute them all"). He's in the big leagues
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[Annces]

1. The way he has acted

it seems his life purpose is to be investigated. He is a criminal through and through.

[MajorChode]

2. Of course he's afraid

Money wise, Cheney is set for life (actually several lifetimes and his probably won't be that much longer anyway). His legacy is already fucked completely. Really the only thing he has to worry about is sharing a jail cell with Duke Cunningham.

[formercia]

3. I hope he dies in prison

Dick Cheney is an evil creature.

[eleny]

4. "waterboarding universally ... considered torture since at least the times of the Great Inquisition"

An army of Cheney's on Sunday morning tv talk shows can't change that fact.

[AuntPatsy]

5. To get him to speak the truth perhaps we should use on him the same techniques that he values so

[eShirl]

6. Cheney would not be a believable fictional character.

The same goes for Nixon.

[lunatica]

7. He put himself in the Big League by picking himself as VP

His life long dream became reality and his dream became our nightmare when it was unleashed upon humanity like the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Anyone who says he isn't a force for evil simply isn't paying attention. I am not a believer but that doesn't mean the Book is bad reading. It does a pretty good job of revealing humanity's dark side.

"the four horsemen are often referred to as Conquest, War, Famine, and Death". Cheney is devoted to bringing all these things to the world. It's his life's work.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse

from wikipedia:

The "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" is a term used to describe four horsemen that appear in the New Testament of the Christian Bible in chapter six of the Book of Revelation, which describes an apocalyptic vision. Although scholars disagree as to what exactly each horseman represents, the four horsemen are often referred to as Conquest, War, Famine, and Death. Summoned and empowered by God as part of the opening of the seven seals, the horsemen contribute to the widespread destruction that takes place in Revelation as part of the end of the world.

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[flyarm]

8. get the show on the road..get that bastard charged already! eom