Former CIA agent slams Cheney as ‘hypocritical’

[kpete]

Source: Raw Story

Former CIA agent slams Cheney as ‘hypocritical’
By David Edwards

Speaking on a Sunday talk show, former Vice President Dick Cheney continued to attack President Barack Obama for releasing Bush memos that authorized waterboarding and other harsh interrogation tactics that may have amounted to torture. Cheney wants Obama to release more memos that he says will prove valuable intelligence was gleaned from the questionable interrogation tactics.

Former CIA special agent Jack Rice called Cheney “hypocritical” for calling for the release of memos after leaving office. “If he wanted to release these before leaving office he could have,” said Rice.

Rice questioned the timeline Cheney and other use to back up claims that the harsh interrogations produced valuable intelligence. One such claim says that the waterboarding of Abu Zubaydah lead to intelligence that stopped an al Qaeda plot to bomb the Library Tower in Los Angeles. “I mean, if we look at the timeline, they already said that they stopped the attack in 2002 and wasn’t arrested until 2003. Now, let’s face it. If you can get interrogation in 2003, that stops an attack in 2002, I want to get me some of that,” quipped Rice.

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[Xipe Totec]

1. Dick is another terror victim of Al-zheimer n/t

[LiberalAndProud]

2. I think he knows he's lieing. He just can't help himself.

Not dementia at all, imo.

[AlbertCat]

13. Not dementia at all, imo.

Right you are. He'd more than likely tell the truth if he had dementia.

Nope.... it's not dementia. It's desperation and panic.

[napi21]

3. I think even Darth should realize he's biting off more than he can

handle by going against the CIA AFTER he''s out of office! The CIA no longer has any reason to have any loyalty to "a senior administration official" because Darth lost all that power & loyalty when he left office. I honestly hope Darth keeps on taunting and pissing people off. It has more impact when the inside guys out him than anything we could ever say or do.

Keep going Dick! I might even send you a shovel!!!!!

[sattahipdeep]

4. Disorient and confuse. 2002

There is also evidence cutting against the CIA's claims. A.B. Krongard, who was the agency's executive director when the coercive interrogations began, told author Ron Suskind that KSM and other Qaeda captives "went through hell and gave up very, very little."


The empire’s operatives exposed

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_2652.shtml

But Krongard exhibited the requisite secretiveness when asked
to explain his interest in intelligence and how he came to land
a job in Tenet's inner circle. If you go back to the CIA's origins
during World War II in the Office of Strategic Services, he
explained, "the whole OSS was really nothing but Wall Street
bankers and lawyers."

A power player with shadowy objectives

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=125&topic_id=183603&mesg_id=183603

[Cha]

5. Rec'd~ Will the corporatemedia have Jack Rice

on tv to counter the dick? Didn't think so..so we have to get this Viral.

[Zorra]

6. Cheney is a miserable lying failure and should STFU. Every time he opens his mouth

he makes an even bigger ass out of himself.

[Demeter]

10. Aw, Just Give the Man Enough Rope, Willya!

I figure he just needs a few more feet.

[indepat]

7. Of of the epithets that would fit Darth Cheney, perhaps hypocritical is

the most kind and gentle. :P

[bemildred]

8. Hmmmm ...

This is way the heck better that regular TV, and so well deserved.
:popcorn::popcorn:

[Stinger2]

9. Valuable Intelligence

Valuable Intelligence, is just another layer another of Cheney catch 22, focus on the facts, they authorized torture, torture is against international law. BushCo used 911 to do a lot of things including attacking Iraq killing tens of thousands more then the twin towers falling. Oily politicians used this as a excuse to just show how unscrupulous they really can be, no law was going to get in the way of showing just how much power they have.

If we don’t start investigating this, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales should be arrested when they leave the country and be put on trial, held in undisclosed locations and tortured until they tell the truth!

[bemildred]

12. Ask Pinochet. Hows it going dude?

How is Margaret Thatcher these days? What happened to Reagan? Where is Milosevic? Is Idi Amin a big historical figure now? Is Saddam a hero of the Iraqi state? If you want historical credit, you have to do more than prance on the stage for a bit. These fuckwits are going to be Nixon, historically speaking, they are going to be Kissinger, and they better get used to it.

[mckara]

11. All I Will Say Is: Prosecute! Prosecute! Prosecute!

[crikkett]

14. He's working on his memoirs, "How to shoot friends and interrogate people" - Prez

Still laughing at that one.

[DCKit]

15. You've got to wonder how pissed the rank and file, career employees are over Valerie Plame...

(not to mention the whole "bad intelligence" fiasco) and her intentional exposure as an active agent (in a time of war), resulting in the complete decimation of a huge CIA operation and the outing (as well as possible deaths) of many, many agents and assets.

I don't care who you are - or who you THINK you are, or how many political appointees you've put in place in any one alphabet agency - you don't, and never will, *own* the hearts and minds of the career employees unless you treat them and their life's work with respect. When a good number of those employees also happen to be sociopaths, well....

IF the other shoe drops on Dick and Dumbya, it's going to be HUGH!1!1!!!!1!