nydailynews.com - 4/22/2009
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U.S. officials slam Dick Cheney's claim that waterboarding 9/11 mastermind 183 times was a 'success' BY James Gordon Meek DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU Wednesday, April 22nd 2009, 4:00 AM U.S. counterterrorism officials are reacting angrily to ex- Vice President Dick Cheney 's claim that ...
blogs.abcnews.com - 4/22/2009
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Hillary Clinton stepped directly into the middle of
this week's political fray when she questioned former Vice...
President Dick Cheney's credibility on the torture memos recently released by the Obama administration
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Hillary Clinton Questions Dick Cheney's Credibility
news.bbc.co.uk - 4/21/2009
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Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney has urged the
CIA to release memos which he says show harsh...
interrogation techniques such as water-boarding work. His comments follow the publication of memos written by Bush administration lawyers which justified ...
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BBC NEWS | Americas | Cheney enters 'torture' memos row
washingtonindependent.com - 4/21/2009
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney — the avatar
of secrecy — really did say this last night...
. Daphne puts together a wish list : [I]f there are memos showing that torture and the CIA’s other “extreme” interrogation techniques were successful, I’d like ...
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So Much Torture Disclosure to Be Had
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U.S. officials slam Dick Cheney's claim that waterboarding 9/11 mastermind 183 times was a 'success'
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... sessions involved things he thought his CIA-contract interrogators already knew, or were just his ideas for mayhem. ... Former CIA official John Brennan, who now serves as Obama's White House counterterrorism adviser, told the Daily News then that Mohammed was "quite creative, and threw out a lot of seeds to see if they would actually germinate." "They didn't have the people or capability to do all of those," Brennan said of the 30 plots KSM claimed to have conceived of. Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/04/22/200...
And Occasionally, US Intelligence is Spot On...
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Old Man Cheney keeps croaking his nonsense about how kewl his torture regime was and how it produced all the Jack Bauer wonder scenarios that saved fluffy kittens and apple-cheeked toddlers. After all, didn't the "enhanced interrogation" of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed prevent some major stuff from going down? Cue the experts: ...
Keep on talking, Dick
Political Animal —
... to see Cheney quietly go away -- if he's the face of the Republican Party right now, the GOP is in a lot of trouble. This is especially true when it comes to a debate over the economy. Cheney believes Obama's policies are likely to be "devastating"? It's like manna from heaven for Obama's team. On a related note, there's been some follow-up on Cheney's comments on Fox News from Monday: U.S. counterterrorism officials are reacting angrily to ex-Vice President Dick Cheney's claim that waterboarding 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed 183 times was a "success" that ...
Cheney "Full Of Crap"
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... Dump on Cheney Day continues. The NY Daily News: U.S. counterterrorism officials are reacting angrily to ex-Vice President Dick Cheney's claim that waterboarding 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed 183 times was a "success" that produced actionable intelligence.
"Cheney is full of crap," one intelligence source with decades of experience said Tuesday. ...
Oh, Reallllly?
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Like most of us didn't know this A long time ago: U.S. counterterrorism officials are reacting angrily to ex-Vice President Dick Cheney's claim that waterboarding 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed 183 times was a "success" that produced actionable intelligence. "Cheney is full of crap," one intelligence source with decades of experience said Tuesday.Full of shit would be more appropriate. But what the hell, close enough. Hitler would be envious. Investigate, charge, convict and hang. And do it with a short rope so ...
Hey, don't take my word for it…
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…ask an intelligence source with decades of experience. "Cheney is full of crap." As if you needed to be told... ...
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More from Dick Cheney, the former vice president who already has accused President Barack Obama of making the nation less safe with his approach to terrorism:
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theplumline.whorunsgov.com 4/21/2009 — * That whole question of whether Dick Cheney asked the CIA to declassify and release intelligence supposedly proving that the torture worked? Turns out Cheney made the request through the National Archives, a spokesperson for the archives ...
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Greg Sargent got a hold of Cheney's FOIA request for the documents that will prove--he claims--that torture was effective. He's asking for two documents, both of which were stored in his "detainees" file in his ...
Media continue to ignore Cheney role in authorizing torture tactics
mediamatters.org 4/22/2009 — In an April 22 article ,
The Washington Post asserted that "[c]ritics on the right,
including former vice president Richard B. Cheney, said that [President] Obama
was jeopardizing national security by releasing" portions of four
previously ...
First 100 days: Torture story continues —
First Read 4/22/2009
The New York Times is chock-full of pieces that advance the interrogation story. From the front page: “In a series of high-level meetings in 2002, without a single dissent from cabinet members or lawmakers, the United States for the first time ...
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