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“I was a big supporter of waterboarding.”

February 15, 2010 in Cheney, Criminal, Torture, Waterboarding | 5 comments

So said former VP Richard Cheney over the weekend on “This Week” with ABC’s Jonathan Karl. There is not a court in the United States or in the world that does not consider waterboarding torture. The Red Cross certainly does, and it’s the governing body in international law. It is certainly torture according to the UN Convention on Torture and the Geneva Conventions. The British government, America’s closest Western ally, certainly believes it is torture. No legal authority of any type in the US or the world has ever doubted that waterboarding is torture.

So the former vice-president has just confessed to a war crime.

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18 U.S.C. § 1001 : US Code – Section 1001

November 2, 2009 in Bush Administration, CIA, Cheney, Criminal, Hypocrisy, Republican Party, Right Wing | No comments

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, whoever, in any
matter within the jurisdiction of the executive, legislative, or
judicial branch of the Government of the United States, knowingly
and willfully -
(1) falsifies, conceals, or covers up by any trick, scheme, or
device a material fact;
(2) makes any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent
statement or representation; or
(3) makes or uses any false writing or document knowing the
same to contain any materially false, fictitious, or fraudulent
statement or entry;
shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years
or, if the offense involves international or domestic terrorism (as
defined in section 2331), imprisoned not more than 8 years, or
both.

Citing faulty memory, former Vice President Dick Cheney told federal investigators in a 2004 interview he had no idea who revealed to reporters that Valerie Plame, the wife of a Bush administration critic, worked for the CIA…

Yet Libby’s own notes produced at his trial reflect that Cheney told him about the CIA employment of Wilson’s wife in mid-June 2003, a month before Plame’s CIA job became public knowledge. Libby told Cheney again in mid 2004 when he discovered these notes reflecting Cheney’s involvement.

I think it is so important for Americans to hold their politicians accountable, and punish them and their party for gross wrong doing. There are 2 systems of justice in the US – one for the powerful & the wealthy, and another for all the rest of us. And if one is powerful enough, one can commit any number of serious crimes imaginable, with impunity, regardless of how much harm it does to our country.

Justice, therefore, is blind. How can it not be?

It is a fact that Libby was advised on or about June 12, 2003 by the Vice President of the United States that Wilson’s wife worked at the Central Intelligence Agency in the Counterproliferation Division. Libby understood that the Vice President had learned this information from the CIA. Cheney provided the classified information to Libby – who then told the press, yet Cheney’s only defense is I don’t recall!!!!

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