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Video: Dick Cheney's Fox News Interview and the Defense of Torture

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Days after the release of the latest Bush-era torture memos, Fox's Sean Hannity gave former Vice President Dick Cheney a 30-minute platform --- 15 minutes last night, 15 tonight --- to spin the "correct" meaning on US foreign policy and waterboarding.

Most of the interview is Hannity-prompted waffle and invective: thousands were killed on 9-11, Bush and Co. protected national security, Vice President Joe Biden is irrelevant, President Obama is an apologizing weakling shaking hands with international dictators. The half-hour's purpose only comes out 10 minutes into the interview (Part 2 of 2 below), when Cheney claims:
One of the things that I find a little bit disturbing about this recent disclosure is they put out the legal memos..but they didn’t put out the memos that showed the success of the effort. And there are reports that show specifically what we gained as a result of this activity. They have not been declassified.

VIDEO (PART 1 OF 2)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7bkK8y2T44[/youtube]

We've got irony: as Vice President, Cheney claimed unprecedented authority to block the release of Government information. We've got fantasy: emerging testimony and documentation --- see the outstanding piece in the Washington Post last month --- confirms that torture not only did not work but stopped the flow of useful information. And we've got the easy joke:


Dick, I know where the memos are that showed "what we gained as a result" of torture. They got misfiled in that big folder labelled, "Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction".

VIDEO (PART 2 OF 2)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HBGa19tQUA[/youtube]

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Fox "News", Sean Hannity, Dick Cheney: weapons of mass deception.

April 21, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterCraig Smith

"I'll be the one to protect you from your enemies and your choices, son"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOuOn_RiPUI

April 21, 2009 | Unregistered CommenterJosh Mull

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