Dick Cheney, Torture, Iraq, and Valerie Plame

[babsbunny]

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/15/dick-cheney-torture-iraq-and-valerie-plame/

By: emptywheel Friday May 15, 2009 2:32 pm

I've been reluctant to embrace suggestions that torture, Iraq, and Valerie Plame were all going to coalesce into one linked story. After all, it would be too easy for me, of all people, to argue these stories were linked. But I increasingly suspect they are.

Now that they are explicitly stating that CIA lied in its September briefings on torture, Nancy Pelosi and Bob Graham are also both linking those lies with the lies they were telling--at precisely the same time--in the Iraq NIE. Here's Pelosi:

[me b zola]

1. The evidence is mounting

No wonder cheney has been such a nervous ninny that he has emerged from his bunker.

[Senator]

2. K&R

[JimGinPA]

3. Interesting...

K&R