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Let me get this straight. Dick Cheney made a speech in which he said they (the Bush/Cheney administration) did not torture (they used waterboarding which is torture, and has been so designated for hundreds of years). He said the Enhanced Interrogations worked (which even the actual interrogators deny), he thus implies they were not illegal (which they were), and he claims they kept us safe from terrorists for seven years (which cannot possibly be proven and is probably not so), and then he castigated President Obama for stopping the use of these procedures. In other words, according to Cheney, Obama should continue the war crimes that were started by Bush/Cheney. Of course he said many other things as well, all lies and fabrications of the worst kind that he has been repeating over and over again. The MSM billed these as “dueling speeches” and such. Why should Cheney, an ex Vice-President, with no authority, be given equal billing with the President of the U.S.? Furthermore, why, when Cheney’s approval rating is almost sub zero, and he has been shown wrong on virtually everything for the past eight years, should anyone pay attention to anything he says? Why? Because the MSM is owned and controlled by the Corporations that made billions and billions from the Bush/Cheney administration’s absolutely phony “war,” and they don’t like Democratic Presidents. As near as I can tell Cheney is not really that concerned with our security, but, rather, with trying to salvage some kind of legacy and, more importantly, trying to stay out of jail. I think he is scared. Or, perhaps as I suggested previously, he may be so deluded he has lost track of reality.

The great Pelosi story seems to be dying down a bit. I think she called their bluff, insisted they release all the memos, and of course they don’t want to do that. She was also helped by Bob Graham and several others who all agreed with her that the CIA doesn’t always tell the truth. When Panetta had to admit the CIA could not guarantee what they told people that probably did it. If there was to be a serious investigation into CIA briefings and such I bet they would find out it’s much worse than anyone thought.

Rachel Maddow, liberal that she is, doesn’t cut Obama much slack (so to speak). She is all upset over his statement that he (they) are going to create a new system of law that allows for holding people indefinitely. I’m not certain her complaint is all that justified. Obama pointed out there is a real problem with a few detainees who are avowed enemies of the U.S. and cannot either be tried (for one reason or another) or released. He also made it clear that he did not believe that any one individual, including himself, should have the power or authority to put someone away indefinitely. Thus he wants a system that will insure oversight and allow for periodic reviews of each individual case. While I agree it is terrible that anyone should be held indefinitely without charge, I can see there is a real problem here, and a solution is not easy. Anyway, this does not bother me near as much as Obama’s refusal to have an independent investigator or truth committee or something, to investigate the obvious Bush/Cheney war crimes.

LKBIQ:
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
James Branch Cabell

TILT:
The American beaver, now estimated at 6 – 12 million, was once believed to have been 60 million.