Monday, November 07, 2005
Dick (the "dick") Cheney is pro-torture
It should be scary enough that the United States Congress is trying to pass an amendment banning torture and inhumane treatment of prisoners. But it's even scarier that our government leaders, such as Cheney, are fighting tooth and nail to stop this ban. In Cheney-world, you don't have to follow the rule of law.
From the Washington Post:
"Over the past year, Vice President Cheney has waged an intense and largely unpublicized campaign to stop Congress, the Pentagon and the State Department from imposing more restrictive rules on the handling of terrorist suspects, according to defense, state, intelligence and congressional officials.
Last winter, when Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, began pushing to have the full committee briefed on the CIA's interrogation practices, Cheney called him to the White House to urge that he drop the matter, said three U.S. officials.
'The debate in the world has become about whether the U.S. complies with its legal obligations. We need to regain the moral high ground,' said one senior administration official familiar with internal deliberations on the issue, adding that Rice believes current policy is 'hurting the president's agenda and her agenda.'"
The problem is with assuming that Cheney (or anyone in this corrupt, lying, treasonous administration) has such a thing as a "moral high ground."
Cheney Fights for Detainee Policy
From the Washington Post:
"Over the past year, Vice President Cheney has waged an intense and largely unpublicized campaign to stop Congress, the Pentagon and the State Department from imposing more restrictive rules on the handling of terrorist suspects, according to defense, state, intelligence and congressional officials.
Last winter, when Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, began pushing to have the full committee briefed on the CIA's interrogation practices, Cheney called him to the White House to urge that he drop the matter, said three U.S. officials.
'The debate in the world has become about whether the U.S. complies with its legal obligations. We need to regain the moral high ground,' said one senior administration official familiar with internal deliberations on the issue, adding that Rice believes current policy is 'hurting the president's agenda and her agenda.'"
The problem is with assuming that Cheney (or anyone in this corrupt, lying, treasonous administration) has such a thing as a "moral high ground."
Cheney Fights for Detainee Policy
