rssLiz Cheney Loves Torture, Doesn’t Understand Interrogation
Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 4:48 pm
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Over at CPAC, TPM’s Christina Bellantoni caught up with Liz Cheney and elicited this response to a question about the recent capture of Taliban deputy commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar:
I worry though when we capture these leaders that we no longer have the option of using any of the enhanced interrogation techniques because the president took those off the table. When you’ve got people in captivity we’d like our CIA officials in particular to have the capacity to do more than just ask the terrorists to please tell us what they want.
I guess it’s not so surprising that a Cheney loves torture, but I don’t recall Liz Cheney being quite so explicit about her enthusiasm for torturing people. More significant is her presumption that only torture is effective in eliciting intelligence, which every experienced interrogator — Ali Soufan, Malcolm Nance, the people at the High-Value Detainee Interrogation Group — will tell her is the direct opposite of the truth. It would be interesting to hear her tell Gen. David Petraeus why the Central Command leader is wrong about the relationship between torture and success in counterinsurgency, to say nothing of Petraeus’ views on the relationship between torture and the moral fabric of America. No one who doesn’t have the last name Cheney or hasn’t ever depended on a Cheney for a position or a paycheck believes that Liz Cheney has more credibility on this subject than these individuals.
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Comment posted February 18, 2010 @ 7:18 pm
Well, she had to find something to bit… um… to complain about. For weeks, they'd been cavilling about “we're killing them and losing all the intel; we should be capturing them” Now, it turns out that we *had been* capturing them, too, So, Dead-Eye-Dick's and Ms Lizzie's talking points had been taken away from them and they need to regroup.
Comment posted February 19, 2010 @ 1:11 am
I found out why ol' Chickehawk Dickyboy can't keep his mouth shut and fade away. His “policy” ideas were essentially ignored and his opinions weren't taken seriously or outright ridiculed by the bush “insiders”. That's why he won't do what other VP's have historically done. He wants his opinions heard, because he knows he won't prosecuted as a war criminal.
Obama is just a convenient target because he's Democrat. You'll notice how he rails against Obama policy, which has survived practically unchanged from the Bush era. This isn't about Obama, it's about Bush.
He's crying now because he can. He wasn't “allowed” during his tenure as VP. Kind of reminds me of the fable of the wolf and the apple tree.
Comment posted February 19, 2010 @ 6:57 pm
Let's waterboard Dick Cheney to find out the truth about 9/11.
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Comment posted February 22, 2010 @ 3:26 pm
I strongly agree with the Cheneys view of using ” advance types of interrogations” on Terrorists and Liars..
The only qustion I have is .. Why did “Scooter” get a pass????
Comment posted February 23, 2010 @ 1:07 pm
RNE
I agree…. Lets use advanced interrogation on the Cheney.
He is a terrorist and a liar!
Google: Project for a New American Century.
Comment posted February 23, 2010 @ 6:07 pm
RNE
I agree…. Lets use advanced interrogation on the Cheney.
He is a terrorist and a liar!
Google: Project for a New American Century.
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Comment posted September 27, 2010 @ 8:03 pm
For weeks, they'd been cavilling about “we're killing them and losing all the intel; we should be capturing them” Now, it turns out that we *had been* capturing them, too, So, Dead-Eye-Dick's and Ms Lizzie's talking points had been taken away from them and they need to regroup.
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