All day today, Fox News was telling 'Merika about how the underpants bomber should have been handed over to the military for torture.
And we've heard that since Christmas from Dick and Liz Cheney, and how Obama and the Dems just don't "get it."
Let me climb out on a limb here and speculate:
- Dick did something very very wrong
- Clearly it involved torture, or he and Liz would not be yammering about "torture" all the time.
- He needs the current administration to endorse torture, thus making Dick's actions OK. That's why Dick demands Obama embrace torture as the answer to everything.
- Probably there were a number of deaths involved. A few deaths can be written off as freak accidents, like the next dozen people that will die from Tasers, or the result of a few bad apples. So it would seem that we are talking about dozens of deaths, or something along the lines of the rape, mutilation, or boiling of suspects' children.
- Lots and lots of people in DC seem to have a sense of what deep shit the Cheney's are in, or the Cheneys would not be getting endless hours of air time trying to save their asses.
As long as we are warmed up, let's speculate a little further
- Liz's work in the Middle East may give Liz a personal stake in this also. She sure seems motivated. She handed out tens of millions of dollars, and she would have been one of the few people that Dick trusted.
- The Cheney's personal profit from Haliburton may have led them to do things for personal gain, not just God and country. Wouldn't you?
Seymour Hersh described Cheney running a covert "executive assassination ring." But Hersh's evidence seemed as elusive as the Obama "Whitey" tape. And now we have Erik Prince claiming that hit squads were being trained without the CIA's knowledge, which was mentioned last week on the Rachel Maddow show.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/...
It has also been said that these assassination squads weren't limited to Iraq, and they tried to make a "hit" in Germany on a German citizen. Was this the operation Hersh referred to, and was Cheney in charge?
Finally, every time Dick Cheny or Liz opens their pie hole, it becomes more and more clear that George Bush was not calling the shots. You can hear W. say "I don't want to know anything about it,just do what needs to be done," while Cheney snarls "That's what I do sir," while muttering to himself "....you worthless prat."
Update
An Affirming Flame cites Glenn Greenwald as placing the number of people who died in custody at over 100.
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Why does Dick Cheney get to be the point man in defending this? Is he the fall guy or the mastermind?
It would be a powerful narrative to demand "an inverstigation into Dick Cheney's role in as many as 100 torture related deaths."