"Good Daughter"-Liz Cheney: Stop ‘political’ investigation of torture and focus more on Benghazi

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Liz Cheney: Stop ‘political’ investigation of torture and focus more on Benghazi

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Fox News contributor Liz Cheney on Sunday argued that a United States Senate report on Bush-era torture was “political” and that lawmakers should spend more time investigating President Barack Obama’s role in failing to prevent terrorist attacks in Benghazi.

Last week, the Senate Intelligence Committee voted 11-3 to request that the White House declassify parts of an investigation into the CIA’s enhanced interrogation program, whose chief backer in the Bush White House was former Vice President Dick Cheney.

“If you’re going to say that we should not have conducted the enhanced interrogation program, if you’re going to say that we shouldn’t have waterboarded three terrorists, then you’ve got to say that you’re willing to accept the consequences of that,” the former vice president’s daughter said on a Sunday morning Fox News panel. “You’ve got to be willing to say how many American lives would you have been willing to put at risk because you didn’t want to waterboard Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.”


Fox News political analyst Juan Williams quipped that Liz Cheney was the “good daughter,” but the American people had a right to know what the CIA was doing in their name, and if the techniques were effective.



http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/06/liz-cheney-stop-political-investigation-of-torture-and-focus-more-on-benghazi/




reading material for Liz:
Senate Report: Torture Didn't Work and YOUR DADDY & HIS MINIONS Lied About It

according to evidence uncovered by the SSCI, the agency may have tried to “minimize or sanitize that case” – in other words, to obstruct justice. “The documents initially make it seem like it was an accident,” a former official told McClatchy. “However, evidence pointed to what it actually was: willful negligence or even negligent homicide.”

http://essentialopinion.wordpress.com/

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2014-04-04/opinion/chi-cia-torture-didnt-work-20140404_1_cia-torture-torture-program-the-cia
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2014/04/05/357251/cia-whistleblower-and-the-torture-report/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/cia-misled-on-interrogation-program-senate-report-says/2014/03/31/eb75a82a-b8dd-11e3-96ae-f2c36d2b1245_story.html
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2014/03/senate-report-torture-didnt-work-and-cia-lied-about-it

[lunasun]

1. Spawn of Satan Shut up already

Daddy's little vapid angel

[NYtoBush-Drop Dead]

42. cheney spawn..

lanza yourself already.

[FiveGoodMen]

47. Couldn't have said it better!

[City Lights]

2. Fuck off, Liz. nt

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. It's Fux Noise

Enough said.

[L0oniX]

4. ...the “good daughter,” Go fuck yourself Juan!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. I thought he was just being a little sly and sarcastic by that, dismissive of her opinion.

[Frustratedlady]

5. Getting a little nervous, sweetie?

Don't fret yourself. Daddy can probably unhook that machine any time he wants...as in rather than going to the Hague?

[TwilightGardener]

6. Somebody's feeling some heat. This is a good sign.

[rhett o rick]

7. Which is more significant, Benghazi or the 9/11 attack on the WTC?

Not only did your daddy not prevent the worst disaster on American soil, I believe he actively participated.

[elzenmahn]

21. I'm with you there...

...I think there is ample and compelling evidence to suggest that Dick was more than an ancillary player.

And I'm not pulling this out of Alex Jones' keister, either.

If that "outs" me as a "9-11 truther", then fine - I'm a 9-11 truther. And you know what? DAMNED PROUD OF IT.

[rhett o rick]

28. IMO the word "truther" is a bully tool. If someone believes something that you dont,

then provide them with arguments. Disparaging them by calling them (anyone) a "truther" is just attempting to belittle them into shutting up.

[elzenmahn]

30. The MSM has made it a bully tool...

...on both sides of the spectrum. You would expect this from Foxy News, but MSNBC has engaged in this, as well (see Rachel Maddow's recent coverage of Alex Jones (though I agree he's a charlatan) and dismissing of "conspiracy theories" contrary to the 9-11 commission report, which she was hawking on her show along with a comic book version of the same.) This is what the NYT tried to do to Abby Martin recently - mentioning that she's a "9-11 truther" - in a completely unrelated story.

[rhett o rick]

8. She is running for VP in 2016. nm

[TransitJohn]

10. She couldn't even get Wyomingites to back here for a Senate seat.

I think she'd be a loser in that role.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

35. Correction:

She's running to pick herself as VP in 2016.

Seriously, of all the things Papa Cheney did, choosing himself as Dubya's running mate was one of the most underrated moments of audacity on his part.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

11. "the consequences of that (no waterboarding)” are that we'd get the info legally.

And probably more accurately.

The lady doth protest too much...

[Marcuse]

25. Kodos > Dick

I don't doubt Liz would attempt to murder our hero...but Dick would never take a bullet for anybody.

[link:http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Kodos|

[silvershadow]

12. Dear Liz: Or, we could spend time investigating actual scandals like Abu Garib (sp), torture,

secret rendition, profiteering, that mysterious fire, on and on…heck, the entirety of Bushco. Let's compare Behghazi to 9/11 for even just a moment, shall we? Let us start there… (I will leave alone the fact that the administration was a fraudulent one, the result of a coup-de-etat. Let's start by comparing the non-scandal of Benghazi to the actual scandal of 9/11. Thank you, dear. The next time I want tripe, I will order it off the menu. Signed, me.

[Tom Ripley]

13. Somebody seems to be worried that civil suits will deplete the estate

She and I both look forward to his death, but for vastly different reasons.

[marions ghost]

48. Ouch

I wouldn't doubt it.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

14. That she's an ass doesn't surprise me. She probably doesn't fall that far from the evil tree, right?

I mean, she DOES share the a-hole's DNA, right?

[asjr]

15. The Cheneys seem to need the limelight in order

to exist. Maybe they came from a different planet.

[chervilant]

31. An acquaintance I know (I use the term loosely)

actually believes that Cheney and Bush (and several other vile members of that cabal) are lizard people from another planet, plotting to take over our planet. She saw it on the inner tubes.

[atreides1]

16. My take

The grand kids are getting older and are hearing of some of the evil shit that grand dad did and that mom may have known about...maybe the kids are even asking questions that make Liz squirm, just a little!

So, that could be the reason why grandpa Dick has been out and about trying to deflect some of the news about how he might have got off on ordering people to be tortured...but with the news of students walking out on him at AU and calling him a war criminal...loyal and faithful Liz is now popping up.

She's not directly implicated in what took place so she figures she can get out and start screaming Benghazi and everyone will forget about her dad and his little pain infliction fetish...but it ain't working and the very public battle with her sister hasn't helped Liz's image much.

In the mean time the kids/grand kids are still asking really uncomfortable questions and as they get older it'll get even worse...

[Solly Mack]

17. She would.

"Fox News political analyst Juan Williams quipped ...if the techniques were effective."

If torture was effective? Damn.

If that is your standard for judging torture then you're one fucked up piece of shit.

[Voice for Peace]

18. Who puts these idiots on tv?

[olegramps]

19. Not only torture, but I hold Cheney and Rice guilty of malfeasance

They not only disregarded the extensive evidence of impending attacks that the Clinton administration warned them of, but demoted Clarke to shut him up so they could focused on their plans to invade Iraq. I lay a great deal of blame on the intelligence failure that resulted the destruction of the World Trade Center and the loss of thousands of lives directly on them. I am also cynical enough to believe that these criminals welcomed it as their Pearl Harbor excuse to take us to war on their lies. She is just as evil as her despicable father. She would be the perfect GOP vice-presidential nomine for Jeb since it looks like Jeb Bush will be a front runner for the GOP nomination for president.

Don't forget that Jeb was an important member of the Project for the Next American Century, PNAC, neo-cons who dominated the Bush Administration and were directly responsible for the Iraq war. If he is elected his neo-con cronies would once again dominate his administration and will be calling for the invasion of Iran and Syria.

It may very well be Armageddon.

[canuckledragger]

20. holy crap...

Does she comprehend the irony in that statement?

Or, like another poster here said...she understands completely and wants to deflect the heat away from her war criminal daddy.

[sabrina 1]

22. I remember reading that the only channel Cheney watched was Faux. The war propaganda channel.

Looks like the apple hasn't fallen far from the tree. And it isn't JUST the water boarding of a few 'terrorists'. It was murder by torture, rape, sodomy, beatings, mostly of innocent people. Not to mention the terrorizing of children and old shephards with vicious dogs and isolation and on and on.

The very fact that SHE is trying to deflect from the exposures of these horrific crimes, is a good reason to keep on talking about them.

[Rex]

23. 'Fox News contributor Liz Cheney...'

Says it all...no need to read anything more.

[JHB]

24. Speaking of accepting consequences, the biggest recruiting tool of Al Queda splinters....

...was the torture program she's so busy dismissing.

[tularetom]

26. People are starting to ask questions and the cheneys are getting uncomfortable

Particularly as screaming "Benghazi" doesn't seem to be working anymore.

I don't think the dick is ever going to see the inside of a prison cell, but it appears that liz doesn't have the poise that it will take to withstand all the publicity over the long haul. I foresee a very public meltdown in her future followed by an overdose or a stint at Betty Ford.

[Warpy]

27. Sorry, asshole, but even if there was a CIA cockup

it doesn't rise to the level of what your daddy did.

Good thing he got that transplant. He might just live long enough to be thrown into prison.

[spanone]

29. i fart in her general direction

[chervilant]

32. Bwahahahahahahahahaha!!!

She probably wouldn't notice -- evil has its own foul stench.

[TBF]

33. Typical.

There's that Republican personal responsibility. Look over there! Something shiny! Shut up, Liz.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

34. "Torture?" "I can't hear you! La-la-la-la-la-na-na-na-na-na!" nt

[joeybee12]

36. The fascist doesn't fall far from the tree...knr

[malaise]

37. or

Leave my daddy alone - call the wambulance

Fuck off Liz Cheney

[SummerSnow]

38. chip off the ole block she is...

[mstinamotorcity2]

39. She's her

father's daughter

[Beacool]

40. OK Liz, let's do a body count.

Benghazi = 4 dead

Afghanistan, Iraq and 9/11/01 = thousands dead, and that's not including the civilian count

[The Wizard]

41. The Cheneys are a curse on humanity (NT)

[brett_jv]

43. RIIIIIIGHT ... Because 'Investigating Benghazi' is not at ALLLLL 'political', right Lizzie?

Seriously, STFU, you stupid POS.

Dog, I hate the Cheney family with every OUNCE of my friggin' being.

[JohnnyRingo]

44. "Everybody look at this dead horse I'm whipping over here!"

Rather transparent I'd say.

[yurbud]

45. irony deficiency

[Gman]

46. That doesn't work anymore, Liz

“You’ve got to be willing to say how many American lives would you have been willing to put at risk because you didn’t want to waterboard Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.”

[Politicalboi]

49. Hey Liz

How did your father let the Pentagon get hit with 40 minutes notice? Why didn't he protect DC? Benghazi my ass. STFU!