Fox Catches Dick Cheney Lying About Torture
Perhaps Cheney did know about “rectal rehydration,” but is too ashamed or fearful of prosecution to admit it now. Explicitly defending the anal rape of prisoners is a bit much even for him. Or perhaps he really is just hearing about the tactic.
Either way, he story doesn’t hold together. He can’t have it both ways. Either the CIA hid depraved, unapproved tactics, or Cheney was perfectly okay with subjecting prisoners to anal rape. Perhaps Chuck Todd can ask him about this glaring discrepancy Sunday on Meet the Press. Until then, there is reason to suspect that, whatever Cheney knew, he doesn’t have a moral problem with the anal rape of prisoners, a conclusion I draw from a succinct exchange later in the interview:
Bret Baier: Did the ends justify the means?
Dick Cheney: Absolutely.
I didn’t realize Friedersdorf wrote comedy:
Perhaps Chuck Todd can ask him about this glaring discrepancy Sunday on Meet the Press.
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