Dick Cheney: Liar and proud torture advocate

[Soph0571]

The torture program set up by the George W. Bush administration in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks was a brutal, illegal, and slipshod travesty for which there has been no reckoning. All of the people who designed, implemented, and justified the brutal and useless interrogations of terrorism detainees have successfully ducked accountability for a variety of reasons: Republicans actively support torture, Democrats voluntarily abandoned their opportunity to impose accountability for the program, and both parties are apt to excuse flagrant abuses committed in the name of “national security.”

This is why we have the grim spectacle of President Donald Trump (whose stated position on torture is that it should be used as sadistic punishment) nominating as CIA director Gina Haspel, who oversaw the torture of detainees and later led the effort to destroy videotaped evidence of interrogations. It’s also why former Vice President Dick Cheney can go on cable news and give lie-filled defenses of the horrific interrogation program he shepherded into existence.

Cheney sat down with Fox Business host Maria Bartiromo this week and oozed out a series of falsehoods about his torture program -- lies that elicited precisely zero challenges from Bartiromo. Let’s run through the many misleading claims and outright bullshit Cheney spewed in defense of his shameful legacy.

[link:https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/05/11/Dick-Cheney-Liar-and-proud-torture-advocate/220193|

Is devils spawn to harsh?

[Frustratedlady]

1. Every time I see him, the first thought is...how much taxpayer money went out the window

for his heart machine and all the care that went with it? And, wasn't he lucky the Republicans hadn't yet wiped out Medicare, although they're close to decimating healthcare for the poor and children? I suppose that since he got his, they can now proceed. Good ol' Dick! Even at death's door he looks evil.

[smirkymonkey]

2. Isn't he dead yet?

Christ, it seems like evil just lives forever.

[bdamomma]

3. Yea for

real, he caused havoc too, why aren't W, Cheney and Rumsfeld, Karl Rove in prison, what creepy men.

[oasis]

4. "The #2 most evil man in America".

Or just plain ol' number two 💩