Posts filed under “Cheney”
Orderly Retractions
John McCain on Fox News yesterday, speaking to that esteemed journalist, Greta Van Susteren: VAN SUSTEREN: Senator, the big talk in town today is CIA director Leon Panetta in The New Yorker says about Vice President Cheney that Vice President Cheney almost suggests he’s wishing that the country would be attacked again in order to [...]
Judicial Activism: Implausible Deniability
I feel Socratic this morning, so here’s a little Q and A. Q: Who the eff is Stuart Taylor Jr.? A: The short answer could be, an asshole so full of himself as to be completely oblivious to his own follies. But let’s not take the low road. Taylor is a journalist with a fine [...]
On The Genetic Persistence Of Compulsive Delusional Revisionism
There must be a Compulsive Delusional Revisionism gene. And Liz Cheney seems to have inherited it. On Thursday, she denied all those scurrilous allegations that Dick Cheney ever pushed a non-existent connection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11. MSNBC‘s Andrea Mitchell asked Liz Cheney whether her daddy’s statement at the National Press Club on June 1 [...]
Novel Criminal Defense
Back in October 2007, Sen. Lindsey Graham drew on his personal expertise to declare: I am convinced, as an individual senator, as a military lawyer for 25 years, that waterboarding…does violate our war crimes statute and is clearly illegal under domestic and international law. … I don’t think you have to have a lot of [...]
Cheney’s Heavy But Invisible Hand
Three weeks ago, Col. Lawrence B. Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell wrote: Third–and here comes the blistering fact–when Cheney claims that if President Obama stops “the Cheney method of interrogation and torture”, the nation will be in danger, he is perverting the facts once again. But in a very [...]
Unexpected Truthtelling By Cheney
(1) Do you remember the relationship between al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein? Dick Cheney does too, just not the same way as you or I: “There was a relationship between al Qaeda and Iraq that stretched back 10 years. That’s not something I made up… That’s something the director of the CIA was telling us. [...]
Compulsive Delusional Revisionism
For almost eight years, Cheney took the high road and maintained an honorable silence on the subject. This man couldn’t maintain a dignified, honorable silence for even six months on the policies of the Obama administration. Imagine what it must have taken for him to sustain a dignified, honorable silence for almost eight long years. [...]
Obama Justice Department Strikes Again!
Here’s some news that made a splash in the blogs on Wednesday, but it still hasn’t managed to hit the mainstream media: the Obama Justice Department’s latest effort in their extremely successful ongoing campaign to out-Bush the Bushies. The Justice Department made a legal filing on Wednesday, urging the Supreme Court not to reconsider the [...]
How Many War Crimes Will It Take Till He Acts?
More evidence is trickling out to suggest that preventing another terrorist attack may never have been the prime motivation behind the torture the Bush-Cheney regime practiced on high-value al Qaeda detainees. That the prime motivation may have been to produce (as opposed to, for example, discover) evidence to support one of their main justifications for [...]
Ticking Time Bomb Scenario, Version 2.0
It looks like the ticking time bomb scenario is in need of a little revision. One Monday, Liz Cheney claimed that this is “exactly the situation my daddy these folks were in”: So, if you knew that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had information about an imminent threat on the United States. Information that would result in [...]