Cheney: "Investigating the CIA will destroy America!"

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Cheney criticizes "political" CIA probe plan

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney criticized President Barack Obama's ability to handle national security after the Justice Department appointed a special prosecutor to investigate CIA interrogation abuses.
Cheney, who has emerged as a vocal defender of Bush administration policies since leaving the White House, said the intelligence obtained from harsh interrogation techniques had saved live

"The people involved deserve our gratitude. They do not deserve to be the targets of political investigations or prosecutions," he said in a statement dated Monday.

Cheney took issue with the Obama administration's decisions this week to have a special prosecutor investigate CIA prisoner abuse cases and to have a new group handling terrorism interrogations report to the White House.

"President Obama's decision to allow the Justice Department to investigate and possibly prosecute CIA personnel, and his decision to remove authority for interrogation from the CIA to the White House, serves as a reminder, if any were needed, of why so many Americans have doubts about this Administration's ability to be responsible for our nation's security," Cheney said.

Earlier this year, Cheney had asked the CIA to declassify two memos that he said showed the effectiveness of using harsh interrogation methods on terrorism suspects.

The CIA in May rejected that request, but on Monday released the documents, with classified portions blacked out.
"The activities of the CIA in carrying out the policies of the Bush Administration were directly responsible for defeating all efforts by al Qaeda to launch further mass casualty attacks against the United States," Cheney said.
(Reporting by Tabassum Zakaria; editing by Mohammad Zargham)

I find it amusing that so far, among the far right, the only person NOT defending the Bush Years... is Bush. I am not sure weathers Chenys such a massive supporting because, He will never admit to doing anything wrong... Or that he simply truely Believes everything he did is good

[Samuel]

I'm going with "doesn't want to go to prison" for 5,000.

[Darth Wong]

It's getting to the point where I think one could seriously make a case for "always doing the exact opposite of whatever Dick Cheney says" as a sound governmental policy. It's downright cartoonish how he invariably says things so blatantly self-serving that one would have to be a complete Republican party-line drone to take them at face value.

"The people involved deserve our gratitude. They do not deserve to be the targets of political investigations or prosecutions," he said in a statement dated Monday.

If they did nothing wrong, then an investigation would clear their names, would it not? Oh wait ...

[General Zod]

It's funny how it's always "politically motivated" whenever the Democrats want to conduct an investigation.

[Darth Wong]

It's funny how it's always "politically motivated" whenever the Democrats want to conduct an investigation.

Not at all like the Clinton Blowjob investigation, which was no doubt motivated only by sincere concern for the integrity of the nation.

[Frank Hipper]

For years I hoped my teenaged anarcho/nihilistic view of politics would never really be justified by the actions of any administration, even Reagan's...then came BushII.


When your actions are so predictable, so transparent, so dystopically vile; when those actions result in objective and verifiable harm of the magnitude we see, you slink back into the shadows of your neocon think tanks and keep your mouth shut, or you commit suicide.

Any rational society would try this beshitted fuckface for everything that has slightest chance of a conviction.

[Themightytom]

It's funny how it's always "politically motivated" whenever the Democrats want to conduct an investigation.

Not at all like the Clinton Blowjob investigation, which was no doubt motivated only by sincere concern for the integrity of the nation.

Both targets are evasive in different ways.



"That depends on your definition of what is, is"

vs

"That depends on what your definition of torture is."

[Pelranius]

He reminds me more of Jonas Hodges than Jack Bauer. Must be the pot belly.

It's astoundingly hypocritical that he wants to get CIA documents declassified but screams whenever someone else wants to do it. From his histrionics, you'd think he probably directed billions of dollars missing from Iraqi aid into Halliburton or something.

[CmdrWilkens]

I'm going with "doesn't want to go to prison" for 5,000.

That would be the correct answer, we would also have accepted "is a self-serving self-righteous asshole."