Showing posts with label Dick Cheney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dick Cheney. Show all posts
Monday, June 20, 2016
Wednesday, March 2, 2016
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Key takeaway from torture report: Dick Cheney is a dirty, stinking liar
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| DIRTY DICK |
"One of the most controversial techniques is waterboarding ... And the one who was subjected the most often to that was Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, and it produced phenomenal results for us." [...]
Cheney said that waterboarding Khaled Sheikh Mohammed "helped produce the intelligence that allowed us to get Osama bin Laden."And today, from the initial release on the torture report:
The committee reviewed 20 of the most frequent and prominent examples of purported "successes" that the CIA has attributed to the use of its enhanced interrogation techniques. Each of those examples was found to be wrong. READ MORE
Monday, October 22, 2012
Dick Cheney: Son of the New Deal
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| Former Vice President Dick Cheney speaks about national security in Washington, 05/21/09. (photo: Reuters) |
20 August 12
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Vice President Dick Cheney would agree that he is about as right-wing
as an American politician can be, openly hostile to the federal
government's intervention in society. But one surprise from his memoir,
In My Time, is that Cheney recognizes that his personal success was made
possible by Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal and the fact that Cheney's
father managed to land a steady job with the federal government.
"I've often reflected on how different was the utterly
stable environment he provided for his family and wondered if because
of that I have been able to take risks, to change directions, and to
leave one career path for another with hardly a second thought," Cheney
writes.
In that sense, Cheney's self-assuredness may be as
much a product of the New Deal as the many bridges, dams and other
public works that Roosevelt commissioned in the 1930s to get Americans
back to work. By contrast, the insecurity that afflicted Cheney's father
was a byproduct of the vicissitudes from laissez-faire capitalism. READ MORE
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Rachel Maddow and Bill Maher Discuss Her New Book, Ronald Reagan, Iran-Contra and Dick Cheney
April 13, 2012 10:08 PM
By Heather
Rachel Maddow highlighted part of an event that took place earlier this week where she sat down with Bill Maher at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, CA to promote her new book Drift. They discussed Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra scandal and the fact that the one person who bought Reagan's excuse that anything a president does when it comes to national security is legal, was Dick Cheney.
I hope the rest of the event is posted on line somewhere because I'd really love to get a chance to watch the whole thing. I'll add a link here if I find it. Check here
By Heather
Rachel Maddow highlighted part of an event that took place earlier this week where she sat down with Bill Maher at the Saban Theatre in Beverly Hills, CA to promote her new book Drift. They discussed Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra scandal and the fact that the one person who bought Reagan's excuse that anything a president does when it comes to national security is legal, was Dick Cheney.
I hope the rest of the event is posted on line somewhere because I'd really love to get a chance to watch the whole thing. I'll add a link here if I find it. Check here
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