Col Wilkerson: AFTER 04 Photos Released-"THE CHENEY METHOD" of Interrogation-Shut Down-Nada-Nothing

[kpete]

The Truth About Richard Bruce Cheney

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Third--and here comes the blistering fact--when Cheney claims that if President Obama stops "the Cheney method of interrogation and torture", the nation will be in danger, he is perverting the facts once again. But in a very ironic way.

My investigations have revealed to me--vividly and clearly--that once the Abu Ghraib photographs were made public in the Spring of 2004, the CIA, its contractors, and everyone else involved in administering "the Cheney methods of interrogation", simply shut down. Nada. Nothing. No torture or harsh techniques were employed by any U.S. interrogator. Period. People were too frightened by what might happen to them if they continued.

What I am saying is that no torture or harsh interrogation techniques were employed by any U.S. interrogator for the entire second term of Cheney-Bush, 2005-2009. So, if we are to believe the protestations of Dick Cheney, that Obama's having shut down the "Cheney interrogation methods" will endanger the nation, what are we to say to Dick Cheney for having endangered the nation for the last four years of his vice presidency?

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[mod mom]

1. Again, the Snarling DICK is nailed! rec'd

[HereSince1628]

2. It's a bit hard to believe that the torture wasn't outsourced

I can believe that Americans doing torture became frightened. After all else is considered, we have become a fearful people.

[EFerrari]

6. I don't think he's right. That program was in place through 2008,

as far as I remember from my reading.

[Voice for Peace]

3. I'm glad to see Wilkerson speaking out so often these days. nt

[malaise]

5. Dick Cheney sent the military to die for his personal greed

Men like Wilkerson will never forgive him and will not stop until he is prosecuted. Col. Wilkerson better watch his back. That witness in Libya has suddenly 'committed suicide'.

[Winterblues]

4. People seem to be missing the entire point of Cheney's torture

His whole purpose on the Grand scale was to instill Fear in any one that opposes American will. Cheney once made the statement "it is better to be feared than loved" and that became America's official policy. What he is objecting to now is not that torture has ended but that we announced to the world we ended it. We are telling the world we don't want people to Fear us now but to Love us and that goes against everything the Republicans and Cheney in particular believe in. They believe with all their heart that fear is the best motivator and deterrent, and without it America is a weakened nation. That is what the Debate is really about and it is at the heart of our foreign policy. That policy is still in effect but slowly changing and that is what is riling the Republicans..

[Soylent Brice]

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[leveymg]

8. Wilkerson is correct - Army intelligence took and released the photos. It was pushback against

the Bush-Cheney Administration by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the last independent institution powerful enough to resist the neocons.

When no WMD were found in Iraq by May 2003, this outraged a number of ranking military and intelligence officers. They knew they had been scammed by the neocons. The JCS and CIA inititiated an investigation of criminal fraud by the White House in manipulating intelligence and the Plame outing. By 2004, the CIA and U.S. armed forces had the evidence they needed to prosecute Cheney's circle, and handed the case to Fitzgerald. The Scooter Libby, OSP-AIPAC investigations and public outrage over Abu Ghraib crippled the White House politically, and boxed them in until they left office.

Had this not happened, we would now be at war with Iran.