Cheney Torture Tour Comes to CBS (Froomkin)

[struggle4progress]

... there is not one bit of hard evidence that Bush-era torture averted a single imminent threat or saved any lives. But Cheney is not troubled by this fact, and neither are his hand-picked media interlocutors, who should be demanding that he put up or shut up.

Regardless, the real genius of Cheney's approach is that keeping the media debate to this narrow question is a victory. Because if the question were an appropriately broader one, the public would likely be much less sympathetic. Consider, for instance, if the question were about the abusive techniques widely and sometimes indiscriminately employed not just at CIA black sites but in places like the Bagram prison in Afghanistan and Abu Ghraib.

Cheney's latest stop on his media tour was with Bob Schieffer of CBS News's Face the Nation, for an interview in which Cheney was largely allowed once again to make his argument that President Obama is endangering Americans without citing one iota of independently verifiable anything ...

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/white-house-watch/torture/cheney-torture-tour-comes-to-c.html

[Blue Meany]

1. What Absolute Nonesense

>there is not one bit of hard evidence that Bush-era torture averted a single imminent threat or saved any lives.

Without torture, there would have been no evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction Program Related Activities to sell the Iraq War; we would have no bases in Iraq; we would not be able to secure access to OUR oil in the region; and the profits of American oil companies would be way down, threatening to bring on a recession (thank God we averted that catastrophe!!). What more imminent threat can be imagined? Also, without the war in Iraq, Kerry might have become president--another imminent threat <sarcasm>.