Dick Cheney On Innocent Detainee Tortured To Death: ‘I Have No Problem’ With That

Posted by | December 14, 2014 14:30 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics Top Stories

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On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Dick Cheney told Chuck Todd that he would use the controversial interrogation methods “again in a minute.”

Todd asked Cheney to respond to the Senate Intelligence Committee report which stated that one of the detainees was “chained to the wall of a cell, doused with water, froze to death in CIA custody.”

Todd said, “And it turned out it was a case of mistaken identity.”

“Right,” Cheney said. “But the problem I have was with all of the folks that we did release that end up back on the battlefield.”

“I’m more concerned with bad guys who got out and released than I am with a few that in fact were innocent,” he added.

Todd went on to ask the former vice-president if he was okay with the fact that about 25 percent of the detainees interrogated were actually innocent.

“I have no problem as long as we achieve our objective. And our objective is to get the guys who did 9/11 and it is to avoid another attack against the United States,” Cheney responded.

“We were very careful to stop short of torture,” Dick Cheney said.

Except at least one innocent man was tortured to death.

Cheney also hit back against the report’s claim that President George W. Bush was misled about the extent of the practices.

“This man knew what we were doing,” he said, outlining daily briefings that included the president, the CIA director and himself. “He authorized it. He approved it.”

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55 responses to Dick Cheney On Innocent Detainee Tortured To Death: ‘I Have No Problem’ With That

  1. KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker December 14th, 2014 at 18:20

    This odious criminal is a hideous shit-stain on our entire nation’s history.
    Shame on Chuck Todd and his corporate bosses for giving this lying, psychotic, murderer a platform to further distort facts and history in today’s society.

    • Hirightnow December 14th, 2014 at 18:22

      While I agree with you, I can’t help but think “Let him dig his hole as deep as he can…”

      • KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker December 14th, 2014 at 18:29

        He’s had plenty of time to come clean, but as with all cowards with power, he doubles down on his lies.
        To me it’s time for him to shut his pie hole and let the true history be written about the extreme wealth he created for himself through abuse of his office, all the death and destruction he caused and various other crimes he and little shrub committed.

  2. KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker December 14th, 2014 at 19:20

    This odious criminal is a hideous shit-stain on our entire nation’s history.
    Shame on Chuck Todd and his corporate bosses for giving this lying, psychotic, murderer a platform to further distort facts and history in today’s society.

    • Hirightnow December 14th, 2014 at 19:22

      While I agree with you, I can’t help but think “Let him dig his hole as deep as he can…”

      • KABoink_after_wingnut_hacker December 14th, 2014 at 19:29

        He’s had plenty of time to come clean, but as with all cowards with power, he doubles down on his lies.
        To me it’s time for him to shut his pie hole and let the true history be written about the extreme wealth he created for himself through abuse of his office, all the death and destruction he caused and various other crimes he and little shrub committed.

  3. Roctuna December 14th, 2014 at 18:21

    I notice that none of our usual rw apologists have tried to defend and justify this statement from Cheney. Has he exceeded even their threshold for inhumanity?

  4. Roctuna December 14th, 2014 at 19:21

    I notice that none of our usual rw apologists have tried to defend and justify this statement from Cheney. Has he exceeded even their threshold for inhumanity?

  5. Budda December 14th, 2014 at 18:34

    Of course he doesn’t see any problem with it…he’s sociopathic.

    • Bunya December 14th, 2014 at 19:08

      I was going to say he was a sadist, but sociopathic works, too.

  6. Budda December 14th, 2014 at 19:34

    Of course he doesn’t see any problem with it…he’s sociopathic.

    • Bunya December 14th, 2014 at 20:08

      I was going to say he was a sadist, but sociopathic works, too.

  7. burqa December 14th, 2014 at 20:53

    Uh, lesseeeeeeeeee.
    This is the same man who tried to block the investigation of the 9/11 attack by the 9/11 Commission.

    This is the same man who told us on March 16, 2003 that Iraq had “reconstituted nuclear weapons.”

  8. burqa December 14th, 2014 at 21:53

    Uh, lesseeeeeeeeee.
    This is the same man who tried to block the investigation of the 9/11 attack by the 9/11 Commission.

    This is the same man who told us on March 16, 2003 that Iraq had “reconstituted nuclear weapons.”

  9. Web_World December 15th, 2014 at 01:35

    This guy is a war criminal! The question is: how can we get this guy locked up behind bars for the rest of his life!?

    • Dan Richeson December 15th, 2014 at 08:19

      The man’s a billionaire he’ll not see justice in this world. He has an evil spirit, his conscience will never bother him. The best we can hope for is that at the moment of his death he will receive the worst possible epiphany.

  10. Web_World December 15th, 2014 at 02:35

    This guy is a war criminal! The question is: how can we get this guy locked up behind bars for the rest of his life!?

    • Dan Richeson December 15th, 2014 at 09:19

      The man’s a billionaire he’ll not see justice in this world. He has an evil spirit, his conscience will never bother him. The best we can hope for is that at the moment of his death he will receive the worst possible epiphany.

  11. Dan Richeson December 15th, 2014 at 08:12

    Who remembers the term “stovepiping” in regards to intelligence gathering? What is the meaning of this term and whose initiative was it?

  12. Dan Richeson December 15th, 2014 at 09:12

    Who remembers the term “stovepiping” in regards to intelligence gathering? What is the meaning of this term and whose initiative was it?

  13. Jimmy Cahill December 15th, 2014 at 10:32

    He said ““I’m more concerned with bad guys who got out and released than I am with a few that in fact were innocent,”

    This goes directly against the purpose of our own legal system. It was always said that it more important to make sure not one innocent man has his freedom taken, even if that means some guilty people end up going free. What is happening to America?

  14. Jimmy Cahill December 15th, 2014 at 11:32

    He said ““I’m more concerned with bad guys who got out and released than I am with a few that in fact were innocent,”

    This goes directly against the purpose of our own legal system. It was always said that it more important to make sure not one innocent man has his freedom taken, even if that means some guilty people end up going free. What is happening to America?

  15. Brandt Hardin December 15th, 2014 at 15:32

    Isn’t old crow Cheney one of the most vile and despicable excuses for a human being ever to set foot in the White House? He’s a vulture and a war-profiteer whose effigy should be lit afire in the streets every day he still walks around a free man. See some art and words defining his role in architecting a Society of Fear at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2010/04/inside-job.html

  16. Brandt Hardin December 15th, 2014 at 16:32

    Isn’t old crow Cheney one of the most vile and despicable excuses for a human being ever to set foot in the White House? He’s a vulture and a war-profiteer whose effigy should be lit afire in the streets every day he still walks around a free man. See some art and words defining his role in architecting a Society of Fear at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2010/04/inside-job.html

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