These Aren’t the War Crimes You’re Looking For
by Batocchio • Friday, April 24th, 2009 - 4:26 am
The dark side of the force is not strong with this one. Even Norah O’Donnell, who used to treat all war protesters as anti-American, isn’t buying it. Notice, though, that this younger Cheney, Liz, acts as if it’s her show in several ways, mostly by talking over O’Donnell. Watch, if you dare:
It’s infuriating, isn’t it? Liz Cheney lying about torture – about war crimes? Luckily, there’s a cure. Check out emptywheel’s post on this encounter. She summarizes and, uh, translates it. A sample:
Norah: Was your Daddy the “prime mover” of this process?
MiniCheney: I won’t answer the question. Instead let’s talk about why Eric Holder didn’t read the “Effectiveness Memo” created as a prop for the Bradbury torture memos to refute the IG Report’s conclusion that the torture program wasn’t effective.
Norah: We”ll get to whether torture justifies the ends in this program.
MiniCheney: Norah, just because everyone knows this is torture doesn’t make it so. We have a SERE program so people are exposed to how false confessions are created. And we took that SERE program and exceeded the guidelines on the SERE program. But that’s not torture at all, not at all. In fact, it’s a very effective means to generate false confessions.
Awesome. Incidentally, there’s a fundraiser for emptywheel/Marcy Wheeler, who always does excellent work but has been on quite a tear recently. She’s the one who first noticed that Khalid Sheik Mohammed had been waterboarded 183 times in one month. What the Bush administration tries to hide, the human rights bloggers and journalists shall uncover, with relentless digging, keen analysis – and the occasional Jedi mind trick.
Say it with us, Liz Cheney. “Like the dread lord my father, I want all the memos released. I want a full investigation. We need a special prosecutor, an excellent one, someone like Patrick Fitzgerald. It’s the only way we’ll be vindicated. It’s the only way to be sure.”
(Cross-posted at Vagabond Scholar)
Tagged: Liz Cheney, Torture
April 24th, 2009 at 9:28 am
Wow, Cheney must be really freaking out. He pretty much stayed in a bunker through his term in office, and now not only is he out there trying to defend his criminal behavior, but he's got his family out there, too. She's as creepy as her Dad.
April 24th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
Mini Chaney has been on the publics dime for a while now. She and her sister served in advisory capacity as the authoritive source in the semi-diplomatic posts that they held (hold?). To my knowledge both are as slimy as mom and dad. Possibly from living under rocks and only crawling to the surface on occasion.
April 24th, 2009 at 1:42 pm
Buck in NM, you're right - the whole clan is happy to lie at the drop of a dime.
Qgirl, I've long felt - and several people agree - that Cheney has a part of him that's heading for a "You can't handle the truth" moment. He keeps on admitting to war crimes in public with varying degrees of candor. He normally plays it fairly safe legally, but part of him feels entirely justified in all of this. As Dan Froomkin says, call his bluff. The torture apologists are asking for more memos to be released. All right. Let's have a full investigation.