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I'm a big supporter of Cheney and how they used waterboarding...
...and a big detractor of idiots like NBADAN, and how he/they "use" waterboarding.
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Darth Cheney has dropped the facade of being a decent human being, joining the likes of Pot Pol and Stalin in 'doing it for their country'.....
By Scott Horton
February 15, 4:21 PM
Does Cheney Want to Be Prosecuted?
HarpersAfter he was indicted for the murder of Alexander Hamilton, vice president Aaron Burr fled to South Carolina, to hide out with his daughter. Another vice president, Spiro Agnew, kept completely silent before pleading nolo contendere on corruption charges. Former vice president Cheney, on the other hand, seems proud of his criminal misadventures. On Sunday, he took to the airwaves to brag about them.
“I was a big supporter of waterboarding,” Cheney said in an appearance on ABC’s This Week on Sunday. He went on to explain that Justice Department lawyers had been instructed to write legal opinions to cover the use of this and other torture techniques after the White House had settled on them.
Section 2340A of the federal criminal code makes it an offense to torture or to conspire to torture. Violators are subject to jail terms or to death in appropriate cases, as where death results from the application of torture techniques. Prosecutors have argued that a criminal investigation into torture undertaken with the direction of the Bush White House would raise complex legal issues, and proof would be difficult. But what about cases in which an instigator openly and notoriously brags about his role in torture? Cheney told Jonathan Karl that he used his position within the National Security Council to advocate for the use of waterboarding and other torture techniques. Former CIA agent John Kiriakou and others have confirmed that when waterboarding was administered, it was only after receiving NSC clearance. Hence, Cheney was not speaking hypothetically but admitting his involvement in the process that led to decisions to waterboard in at least three cases.
What prosecutor can look away when a perpetrator mocks the law itself and revels in his role in violating it? Such cases cry out for prosecution. Cheney wants to be prosecuted. And prosecutors should give him what he wants.
That's the kind of arrogance that comes from years of thumbing your nose at international law and getting away with murder...
I'm a big supporter of Cheney and how they used waterboarding...
...and a big detractor of idiots like NBADAN, and how he/they "use" waterboarding.
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Makes sense...you torture us with all your posts..
Why?
Please explain.
Why? Because.
Please explain? Your not worth the effort.
Needless to say...Cheney is probably the clearest thinker in politics right now.
Look, if you can't explain yourself, don't whine about it.
Needless to say...you are probably the biggest on the board right now.
Idiot.
Cheney all over himself saying the underpants bomber should have been handled differently when he was actually handled in the same manner the shoe bomber was by the Bush administration.
"Clearest thinker"
You are as full of as Cheney.
Same here.
The only way to make such a case stick would be to make the definition of torture different than understood at the time. However, our cons ution does not allow for "ex-post-facto" convictions.
The American left is filled with nutjobs these days. No wonder they can't govern.
Pot Pol?
Like who?
And let's not forget, Cheney killed 3000 Americans on 911, right Dan?
It's disgusting that any human being could be for water boarding. Or support someone as obviously corrupt as Cheney.
See? You do know how to correctly credit an article. Good Job!
With the repeated example of the plutocracy being above the law, why should any common citizen bother to comply?
Because the oligarchs control the police.
Law-snubbing teabaggers and militiamen are watching.
please don't compare Cheney to Stalin. Cheney is a damn pussy next to him
by definition, is a traitor.
I'm glad he's gone. Now we need to be vigilant enough to keep him away from any kind of decision power.
These types of comparisons show how little you know or understand about history.
Or Pot Pol... or Stalin...
I think that our politicians have done enough to demand their own brand. We no longer need the "Hitler" type cliches.
Can I waterboard ? I'd REALLY love to do that..
Why restrict it to politicians? There' plenty of americans that drank the kool-aid too.
This post 100%
So you are against waterboarding only when it is used on mass murdering terrorists?
It diminishes the severity of what these socialist dictators did to their own people, and others.
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