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Cheney's Criminal Conspiracy

By Robert Justin Lipkin

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Dick Cheney's repeated lies to the American people surely qualify him for the gold medal in mendacity. But the Vice-President's successful scheming to keep the President out of the loop concerning his own administration's decisions authorizing torture

indicates the complete absence of even an elementary moral sense. Consider the following report: "Bush administration officials from Vice President Dick Cheney on down signed off on using harsh interrogation techniques against suspected terrorists after asking the Justice Department to endorse their legality, The Associated Press has learned. . . . The officials also took care to insulate President Bush from a series of meetings where CIA interrogation methods, including waterboarding, which simulates drowning, were discussed and ultimately approved. . . . A former senior U.S. intelligence official familiar with the meetings described them Thursday to the AP to confirm details first reported by ABC News on Wednesday. The intelligence official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the issue. . . . Between 2002 and 2003, the Justice Department issued several memos from its Office of Legal Counsel that justified using the interrogation tactics, including ones that critics call torture." For the entire story click here and for more click here.

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Full post as published by Essentially Contested America on April 16, 2008 (boomark / email).