CIA Documents Provide Little Cover for Cheney Claims

[kpete]

Source: Washington Independent

CIA Documents Provide Little Cover for Cheney Claims
Documents Fail to Exonerate 'Enhanced Interrogation' Techniques
By Spencer Ackerman 8/24/09 8:08 PM


For months, former Vice President Dick Cheney has said that two documents prepared by the CIA, one from 2004 and the other from 2005, would refute critics of the Bush administration’s torture program. He told Fox’s Sean Hannity in April:

*** “I haven’t talked about it, but I know specifically of reports that I read, that I saw, that lay out what we learned through the interrogation process and what the consequences were for the country,” Cheney said. “I’ve now formally asked the CIA to take steps to declassify those memos so we can lay them out there and the American people have a chance to see what we obtained and what we learned and how good the intelligence was.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/04/20/cheney-calls-release-memos-showing-results-interrogation-efforts-1862515294/

Those documents were obtained today by The Washington Independent and are available here.
http://washingtonindependent.com/56310/obtained-the-cia-documents-dick-cheney-says-vindicate-torture Strikingly, they provide little evidence for Cheney’s claims that the “enhanced interrogation” program run by the CIA provided valuable information. In fact, throughout both documents, many passages — though several are incomplete and circumstantial, actually suggest the opposite of Cheney’s contention: that non-abusive techniques actually helped elicit some of the most important information the documents cite in defending the value of the CIA’s interrogations.






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[Melinda]

1. Well, the fix is obviously in.

:sarcasm:

[mustardman]

2. What will be the excuse?

So any guesses what lie small Dick Cheney will pull out of his ass to cover this embarassment? I saw the statement he came out with today basically ignoring the facts and again blaming Obama for 'not keeping us safe'. He is obviously hoping people won't actually read the documents.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. Cheney is going to eat his words and really he is responsible for all this

The President and the Vice President are ultimately responsible.

[DCKit]

4. They're Republicans. Republicans are always the victims of conspiracy, never the architects. n/t

[Raster]

8. And we know the opposite is true

[hmorehead]

5. WHY

am I not a bit surprised??????

[Amonester]

6. Five deferments, greedy chainy liar does not really know how to read.

I almost can smell theiR (next) excuse... :sarcasm:

[Senator]

7. K&+R