Dick “Palpatine” Cheney, the man who spent the last 8 years burying the truth of what the government was doing under layer after layer of secrecy and lies, has just announced that the government should release more torture memos to show what intelligence torture has produced.
Never mind the fact that the entire time Cheney was in power, he wanted to keep as much power as possible, and now that he’s out of power, and more importantly, his actions as the Dark Sith Lord might land him in front of the Hague, now he’s calling for transparency in government.
Never mind that that Cheney trying to defend torture on the grounds that it “works” is morally equivalent to arguing that we should use criminals and the mentally and physically challenged as sandbagging material because they do in fact hold back water when tied up in burlap bags.
Never mind the fact that immediately after 9/11, the US tortured Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, who then gave us the “intelligence” that al Quaeda had sent operatives to Iraq to acquire chemcial and biological weapons and training, that this “intelligence” was the entire basis for how Bush justified linking Iraq to 9/11, and that this entire linkage was not only a LIE, but it was a lie that Bush and Cheney eagerly believed so they could launch an invasion of Iraq in an effort to give reconstruction contracts to Cheney’s Haliburton company.
http://web.archive.org/web/20070517165922rn_2/www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5197853/site/newsweek/
http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/supporting/2005/DIAletter.102605.pdf
Never mind that Bush and Cheney’s precious “intelligence” , i.e. the NIE, to the US congress back in 2002 said with “high confidence” that Iraq “has now established large-scale, redundant and concealed BW agent production capabilities.” It said “all key aspects” of Iraq’s offensive BW program “are active and that most elements are larger and more advanced than they were before the Gulf War.”
NEVER MIND THAT EVERY BIT OF THIS PRECIOUS INTELLIGENCE WAS WRONG. Never mind that this intelligence was used to justify a war we are still fighting years later and still have no exit in sight.
http://www.fas.org/irp/cia/product/iraq-wmd.html
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1120-01.htm
Never mind any of that.
What I realized was that Cheney is right, at least in this one particular instance. We need more transparency. We need to see ALL the things that EVERY PERSON EVER TORTURED BY US HANDLERS EVER CONFESSED TO. And put them all up side by side and see what there is to see.
I thought I’d provide a starting list. So, here are some of the things that people have confessed to while being tortured by US agents:
1) Hijacker of United Airlines Flight 175
2) Driver of small craft that attacked the USS Cole
3) Kaiten submarine crew
4) Selbstopfereinsatz pilot
When you’re tortured long enough, you’ll confess to anything that will make the torture stop. This is why the system of torture doesn’t work. It’s morally wrong, but it doesn’t work either. Darth Cheney wants to argue that torture does work that it did produce good information. Well, even a broken clock is right two times a day.
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