Levin: Cheney "Bore False Witness" On Torture

[katty]

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Levin: Cheney "Bore False Witness" On Torture (VID OF SPEECH AT SITE)
By Zachary Roth - May 29, 2009, 4:07PM
Over at TPMDC, we posted video of a speech given Wednesday night by Sen. Carl Levin, in which he pushed back against Dick Cheney's no-middle-ground approach to torture.

But one specific rebuttal of Levin's that particularly stood out, in part because not enough people have challenged Cheney's claim, comes at the 3:53 mark.

Says Levin:


When former Vice President Cheney said last week that what happened at Abu Ghraib was the work of a quote few sadistic prison guards acting on their own, he bore false witness.

[Sequoia]

1. The prisoners have become the new Salem Witch Trials.

All those innocent people then, some as young as 4 years old. All the innocents today.

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. In English that translates to "CHENEY LIED" -

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as did the rest of the Bush/PNAC crew for the last 8 years

so I guess Cheney is not really that unique

Powell, Sleazy, Rummy, and dozens of others

they all lied

(sigh)

[Stuart G]

3. The asshole lied, and he always lies...nt

[depakid]

4. Still afraid to just call a spade a spade

Pathetic.

The man's a serial liar who's been at it since the run up to the war. He's still at it. and still getting away with it- with only the meekest of responses.