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In reply to the discussion: U.S. senator gets so angry at Cheney’s torture defense that he offers to waterboard him [View all]sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)hearings on whether or not to release the other photos chose to go view them, some refused, probably so they could have some kind of plausible deniability? When he emerged from the viewing of those photos he was visibly shaken, and responded to Cheney's criticisms of the process by telling him to 'Let us do our job Mr. VP, what we just saw was TORTURE'. That was a rare break with the Bush gang for a Republican at the time.
But it didn't last long, his shock that the US was torturing people, men, women AND even children. Either he got a phone call and was threatened, or he recovered from his shock all by himself, but he was silent after that, voting the 'right' way on issues related to this later on. I'm going with the first option.
It will take EVERYONE speaking out to defang the monsters who did this and are still roaming around being interviewed as if they were not criminals.