Cheney admits to authorizing detainee's torture

[Stuart G]

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Cheney_admits_authorizing_detainees_torture_1215.html

Raw Story, ABC News


Monday, outgoing Vice President Dick Cheney made a startling statement on a nation-wide, televised broadcast.

When asked by ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl whether he approved of interrogation tactics used against a so-called "high value prisoner" at the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison, Mr. Cheney, in a break from his history of being press-shy, admitted to giving official sanctioning of torture.

"I supported it," he said regarding the practice known as "water-boarding," a form of simulated drowning. After World War II, Japanese soldiers were tried and convicted of war crimes in US courts for water-boarding, a practice which the outgoing Bush administration attempted to enshrine in policy.

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Darth Vedar finally admits the truth...he is Darth Vedar..

..when will we throw him down the shaft.......

[flvegan]

1. Why wouldn't he? What does he care?

The "Dems" will never grow a spine and impeach anyone, so he has nothing to lose. He gets to swagger and get away with war crimes.

Oh well.

[lumberjack_jeff]

2. "So there" he said, "I dare you bunch of wussies to throw me in jail." n/t

[gratuitous]

3. Oh, well, but how imporatnt is that?

We've got to get to the bottom of this Obama-Blagojevich thing that doesn't exist, that nobody can document, and that everyone involved, including the prosecutor, has denied exists. "Questions still linger" about Obama and Blagojevich.

Cheney admitting that authorization for torture reached not just the White House but his office? Meh. What's the big deal, anyway?

[Stuart G]

4. Doesn't the Constitution prohibit cruel and inhuman punishment? nt

[silverojo]

10. Absolutely

But since when have these motherfuckers abided by the Constitution?

[tabatha]

5. Is that detainee's or detainees'

[The Traveler]

6. Is Cheney setting up his pardon?

He just admitted to a criminal act. Guess that makes it easier to pardon him, presuming you are a President without moral compass. Just speculatin'

:shrug:

Trav

[Stuart G]

7. Excellent point, and correct no doubt..

will make interesting reading in the history books..can you see it?

..."President pardons VP for trying to destroy part of the Constitution"

[Fire_Medic_Dave]

8. Haven't we known for quite some time that they have been using waterboarding?

We use it on our own troops in SERE training. Under the circumstances I'm seriously doubting that this makes any difference.

David

[Phredicles]

9. Naw, he's not Darth Vader;

remember, Darth Vader retained a deeply submerged core of good that finally reasserted itself. The Dick of Death has no such thing.

Still yet again, a question for Ms. Pelosi: NOW do you see any evidence of a freaking crime? :grr::banghead:

[backscatter712]

11. Can we hang him yet?

Japanese officers were hanged after WWII for waterboarding American POWs.

Just saying...

(Oh, and Agent Mike, I'm advocating a legal judicial execution, not an assassination - advocating executions is perfectly legal.)