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Rising Hegemon —
Dick Cheney continues to be a lying sack of shit: Did Dick Cheney really “formally” ask the CIA to release reams of intelligence allegedly showing that the torture program worked, as Cheney claimed last night on Fox News? An intelligence source familiar with the situation says the answer is No. “The agency has received no request from the former Vice President to release this information,” the source told me a few moments ago. That thin-skinned, evil, craven old fucker is remarkably ...
Your True Colors Shining Through
Talking Points Memo —
... I guess at some point it was possible to think that Dick Cheney only 'lied' about things that his paranoid fantasies convinced him were true. Or that he only 'lied' about things that the higher Orwellian calling of the state convinced him needed to be lied about. But, alas, in cases like this, you see the guy is just a textbook example of what my beloved father used to call a real bulls**t artist. ...
Cheney's unusual request
Political Animal —
... to the CIA. He's a civilian with no authority at all, so what did he do, write Leon Panetta a nice letter? For that matter, what's the point of the declassification? Even if Cheney could produce instances in which torture led to reliable acquired intelligence, there's little chance that President Obama is going to say, "You know what? Cheney's right; committing war crimes isn't such a bad idea after all." But Greg Sargent did a little digging today and found that the CIA apparently hasn't received any "formal" requests from Cheney. "The agency has received no request from the ...
Did Cheney Literally Ask That Documents Be Released?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Greg Sargent talks to an intelligence source who says they haven't had any requests from the former veep. Josh Marshall wants to call Cheney's bluff: ...why not take Cheney up on the offer? And not just the handful of documents he wants to cherry-pick but everything. Or perhaps more realistically, assemble a diverse and accountable panel of distinguished Americans who will review the most secret records, lean forward in the direction of disclosure while taking a due account of the need to protect genuine national secrets and simply get about the ...
Cheney: Release the Memos
Daily Kos —
... , Cheney claimed he’d asked the CIA to release intel reports he’d read detailing info successfully collected via torture. But an intelligence source familiar with the situation told me that the CIA has received no such request from Cheney.... ...
I’ll Huff, and I’ll Puff, and I’ll Bloowww Your House Down!
The Moderate Voice —
Yesterday, Dick Cheney told a Fox audience that he wanted the CIA to release all the torture memos, including the ones, Cheney said, that “proved” torturing enhanced interrogations had stopped terrorist attacks and kept Americans safe. In fact, he declared that he had already “formally asked the CIA to take steps to declassify those memos…”
Except that, um… he didn’t:
Did Dick Cheney really “formally” ask the CIA to release reams of ...
Let’s Hear It
The Mahablog —
The argument of the week is over the alleged effectiveness of torture. Our former Veep said,
“I’ve now formally asked the CIA to take steps to declassify those memos so we can lay them out there and the American people have a chance to see what we obtained and what we learned and how good the intelligence was, as well as to see this debate over the legal opinions.”
… and by all means, let’s take him up on this. Show us exactly what our national disgrace bought us.
BTW, there were reports that Dick didn’t really ...
Bad Intelligence, Very Bad Intelligence
Weekly Standard Blog —
... But the next day, "An intelligence source familiar with the situation" told the Washington Post's Greg Sargent that "The agency has received no request from the former Vice President to release this information." ...
Shadows are the best disinfectant
The Poor Man Institute —
... , and why they still refuse to whip out the awesome secret evidence they have right here in their back pocket that will totally bust everybody. Now, I’m not a credentialled horseshitologist or anything like that, but I have been exposed to a fair amount of horseshit in my day, and, in my experience, horseshit generally smells a lot like this horseshit right here. Call their bluff. ...
