Cheney's Role Deepens (NBC Reports - VP's office suggested waterboarding)

Source: The Daily Beast

Cheney's Role Deepens

by Robert Windrem

Former NBC Investigative Producer Robert Windrem reports that the Vice President’s office suggested waterboarding an Iraqi prisoner who was suspected of knowing about a relationship between Al Qaeda and Saddam.

Former NBC News Investigative Producer Robert Windrem, who covered terrorism for the network, reports exclusively in The Daily Beast that:

****Two U.S. intelligence officers confirm that Vice President Cheney’s office suggested waterboarding an Iraqi prisoner, a former intelligence official for Saddam Hussein, who was suspected to have knowledge of a Saddam-Al Qaeda connection.

***The former chief of the Iraq Survey Group, Charles Duelfer, in charge of interrogations, tells The Daily Beast that he considered the request reprehensible.

****Much of the information in the report of the 9/11 Commission was provided through more than 30 sessions of torture of detainees.



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:rofl:


So we beat and tortured people .... in many cases innocent people so as to make them lie about a link
between Sadam and 9/11 to start an unneeded war ..... aka this why Cheney is scared shitless.


BTW Sadam used to shoot any al Qaeda people in Iraq.

.. as the Dalai Lama or Nelson Mandela
is to mean.

I already hated him with the searing heat of a thousand suns, but the last week or two has lowered my opinion of him even further. The level of evil in him is simply beyond belief. What a horrible creature he is!

Will he pull a Ken Lay and "conveniently" croak before he has to serve any time? (I still think Lay is living in another part of the world under a different identity. The timing of his death and the fact that he was supposedly cremated looked too convenient for my comfort.)

I spoke with the nurses, ambulance emt's and Sheriff officers who worked that night. The AM ER nurse that took report from the nurses that worked on him through the night, is related to me.(wife)

his fingerprints are all over this, he has no respect for this country, or the people, and just does not give a shit about anything except for money and abuse of power.

Are they going for a mistrial?

At Madame Tousad's, in the torture chamber exhibit.

Is it time to get out those old revisionist spectacles and go over it with a fine-tooth come to eliminate anything that looks likely to have been the result of coerced confessions?

Is the entire report now in question as a result?

There are a thousand unanswered questions, and this raises more. Foremost amongst them:

* Why did the CIA/CTC unit allow the AQ operatives they had watched planning the 9/11 attacks in Kuala Lumpur enter the country immediately after they left the meeting?
* Why were FBI warning cables withheld by CIA/CTC when the Flt. 77 entered the US after attending the meeting where the attacks were planned?
* Why was the military's Able-Danger program shut down that was tracking the AQ "Brooklyn Cell" inside the US, and why did Zelikow deep-six this from the Commission Report?
* Why did Bush refuse to roll-up the cells known to be operating inside the US in the late summer when urged to do so by Tenet and his men at CTC, Cofer Black, and Rich B?
* Why were waterboarding/sleep deprivation/sensory driving - techniques known to cause brain damage and severe memory impairment -- used against the surviving 9/11 planners by the same CIA/CTC unit that had allowed the hijackers into the US?

What was the objective after that -- for the next five and a half years?

One for Two -.500 - actually, not so bad for baseball. Steiglitz estimates the Iraq war cost at $2.3 trillion. Not bad at all. Probably twice that, given that it pitched the country into bankruptcy and bail-out. Nice $5 trillion haul - not bad for an "incompetent" and his designated flack-catcher.

Ok, call me cynical.

and chilling.

Why were waterboarding/sleep deprivation/sensory driving - techniques known to cause brain damage and severe memory impairment -- used against the surviving 9/11 planners by the same CIA/CTC unit that had allowed the hijackers into the US?

You think, maybe, that these detainees could have spilled the beans on what really happened on 9/11 and why? Therefore, their recollections needed to be scrambled?

9/11 has to be understood in the context of the sometimes violently ambivalent relationship between US intelligence and Islamic militants. The American people are not prepared to accept the fact that the US employs terrorists in its foreign relations, and that relationship did not end with the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.

to say there was a connection between Saddam and Al Qaeda. It seems the Bush administration had done that before. I'm sure they would have gotten the results they wanted.

out there defending him, too. Cheney is a monster and history will prove it. Dubya is sure quite, huh?

Answer: He knows that all torture decrees point directly at him and he's in a desperate self protection mode.

He is scared that his head is about to go on the chopping block.

:kick:

Folks, we got our War Criminal just begging for it.

Thanks for the thread, kpete.:thumbsup: