Leave it to torture to bring him back......Dick Cheney: Restart enhanced interrogation programs

[spanone]

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said the U.S. should restart its enhanced interrogation techniques — often considered torture — after the issue was thrust to the forefront during Gina Haspel’s confirmation hearing to become CIA director.

“If it were my call, I would not discontinue those programs,” he said in an interview that aired Thursday morning on Fox Business. “I’d have them active and ready to go, and I’d go back and study them and learn.”

Cheney has long defended the post-9/11 tactics even as the national climate shifted over the years. Congress has since banned them.

“I think the techniques we used were not torture. A lot of people try to call it that, but it wasn’t deemed torture at the time,” he told Maria Bartiromo. “People want to go back and try to rewrite history, but if it were my call, I’d do it again.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/10/dick-cheney-enhanced-interrogation-579910

[malaise]

1. And he looked like they dragged him from

his crypt

[RKP5637]

3. They need to nail the damn lid shut! n/t

[malaise]

4. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!

Yah think!

[RKP5637]

2. FFS, not that ass again. n/t

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

5. Like I said in another thread. Fine, start again but this time Dick and Rumsfeld should be

first subjects. There's plenty of shit these 2 goat fuckers need to confess.

[jberryhill]

6. To be fair...

A little known fact about Dick Cheney is that the only thing keeping him alive is a serum made from certain extracts of the perspiration and tears of torture victims.

He's running out of inventory and needs a fresh supply.

[Eyeball_Kid]

7. Evil never sleeps. n/t

[spanone]

9. I'm surprised cheney isn't a cabinet member in this maladministration.

secretary of torture?

[H2O Man]

8. I can think of one case

where it may be appropriate -- when Mr. Mueller questions Trump.

Recommended.

[spanone]

10. 👍🏼

[Yonnie3]

11. My late father never missed the Daily show segment "You Don't Know Dick."

He passed away in 2010 with his biggest regret being that his wife didn't live to see President Obama in office. I'm not sure if he would have been able to handle 'rump.

[Runningdawg]

12. Restart? LOL

Is there anyone so naive to believe it ever ended?

[Solly Mack]

13. Shame that man won't be dying behind bars where he belongs.

[pwb]

14. Another fake tough chicken hawk like trump.

[procon]

15. He lying. If Cheney did study, he would have learned how ineffective torture is.

He's trying to play cute, hiding behind semantics to pretend that his carefully framed definitions don't really mean words like torture. Let him go first. Put him to the rack and then let him deny torture.