Dick Cheney on Fox News Sunday And the CIA

Time by Michael Scherer | Aug. 31, 2009 (Opinion)

Cheney is saying he does not object to the rogue behavior of CIA agents who went beyond their legal mandate. (In the same interview, Cheney says that the Bush Justice Department found there was nothing "improper or illegal" in this behavior, a determination that is now under review by the Obama Justice Department.) Speaking of the interrogation program as a whole, Cheney says, "It was good policy. It was properly carried out. It worked very, very well." Full Story »

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by Richard McIlnay - Aug. 31, 2009

A well written and very subtle defence of Cheney, giving a short account of charges and then long defenses by Cheney relying on the tried and true justification, used down through history including bu the Japanese who waterboarded Americans and were prosecuted, - National defense, security., thus leaving the reader with a definite bias for Cheney.

If we,as a nation, go along with Cheney's the end justifies the means, we go down a very slippery slope. I suppose the same people who don't seem to mind that we have been over in the Middle East blowing things up and killing people (and getting killed) for eight years now, are the ones who find torture justified.