Did Carl Levin actually bring out the “L” word against Cheney? Wow. It’s about time. According to the Michigan Messenger, Mr. Levin said that, “Mr. Cheney’s claims are directly contrary to the judgment of our FBI director, Robert Mueller, that no attacks on America were disrupted due to intelligence obtained through the use of those techniques.”
Cheney has been going around for weeks now talking about how the policy of using “enhanced interrogation techniques”, i.e., “not torture” (er, torture) during the Bush administration actually kept the United States safe. And now the Obama policy of actually following the law and Geneva Convention accords is making the United States vulnerable to attack.
And all this time we thought Cheney would evaporate into a plume of smoke if he exposed himself to sunlight. Who knew?
The thing that strikes me most is the fact that we prosecuted the Japanese for water boarding long ago. The precedent is there. The tactic of changing the word “torture” to “enhanced interrogation” is like changing the word “rape” to “enhanced touching”. Ironically, while they were talking about liberal “activist judges”, the Cheney camp was actively changing legal verbiage so that their twisted actions would be “legal”. It doesn’t make sense.
The more he talks, the more Cheney will implicate himself. But I”m not looking for Cheney to get prosecuted. A tarring and feathering would do just fine.
