Ethics

Carl Levin: Cheney is Lying

By Ed Brayton

In a speech to the Foreign Policy Association on Wednesday night, Michigan Sen. Carl Levin forcefully answered recent claims by former Vice President Dick Cheney that the so-called "enhanced interrogation techniques" ordered by the Bush administration to be used on detainees in the war on terror were not torture and that they saved American lives.

Levin blasted Cheney for "embracing the arrogance that for too many years alienated our friends and set back efforts to achieve common goals." Referring to the 200-page report that his Senate Armed Services committee recently put out about abuse and torture of detainees, Levin said that Cheney's worldview, put into action at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay, "dishonored our nation."

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 01, 2009 (boomark / email).