The Cheney's Are Lying

[lame54]

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/carl-levin-calls-out-dick-cheney-torture-memos (for video)

From C&L:

Dick Cheney and his daughter have been on a literal media blitz calling for the release of memos they claim would prove torturing prisoners prevented future attacks on America. Former C&L'er Steve Benen joined Rachel Maddow to weigh in on Carl Levin's debunking of the tag team's talking points. As Steve notes in his blog at Washington Monthly:

But perhaps Levin's most newsworthy remarks referenced the classified materials Cheney believes document the alleged terror attacks prevented by torture.

"Mr. Cheney has also claimed that the release of classified documents would prove his view that the techniques worked. But those classified documents say nothing about numbers of lives saved, nor do the documents connect acquisition of valuable intelligence to the use of the abusive techniques. I hope that the documents are declassified so that people can judge for themselves what is fact and what is fiction."

It's worth emphasizing that Levin is, of course, privy to the same materials Cheney has been talking about.

His remarks are hardly surprising, but it's nevertheless helpful to hear Levin reject the most common claim Cheney has pushed for months now -- the documents in question don't say what Cheney thinks they say.

As Steve points out during the interview, if this is going to come down to who has more credibility with the public, it ain't gonna' be Dick Cheney.

[rhett o rick]

1. Yes and bless their hearts, they are keeping the media focus on torture.

If they were to crawl under a rock like they should, the corp-media would be glad to forget all about torture. But the more the Cheney's squirm the more attention gets drawn to the torture issue.

[bleever]

2. How do you know: because they have lips.

Even if they aren't able to keep them from curling into contorted curlicues of contemptuous contumely.

[krispos42]

3. Lips moving? Then they're lying.

It's that simple.

[annm4peace]

4. The Cheney's should be hanged

I rarely believe in capitol punishments.. but for them. I believed they should be hanged.

[ControlledDemolition]

5. Dick! Is it now O.K. to release the minutes of those secret energy policy pow-wows? n/t

[Harry Monroe]

6. And in other news, the sun rises in the east.

[RushIsRot]

7. Yeah, and water is wet, and fire is hot. Just their natures.

I'd never expect anything different.

[leftofthedial]

8. that's redundant

[lame54]

9. .

[818181]

10. If torture is so successful where the hell is OSAMA BIN LADEN?

i haven't heard that question put to the Cheney's, yet... maybe we can start an internet campaign :evilgrin:

not to mention the FACT that it is ILLEGAL :argh:

[BrotherBuzz]

11. Thou doth protest too much

[QueenOfCalifornia]

12. Answer to subject line:

Were their lips moving again?