{"id":6127,"date":"2005-12-19T14:45:19","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T19:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6127"},"modified":"2005-12-19T14:45:19","modified_gmt":"2005-12-19T19:45:19","slug":"just-how-necessary-does-cheney-find-torture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/just-how-necessary-does-cheney-find-torture\/","title":{"rendered":"Just how ‘necessary’ does Cheney find torture?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dick Cheney chatted<\/a> with ABC News’ Terry Moran yesterday for an interesting interview, some of which will be aired tonight on Nightline. One exchange stood out for me.<\/p>\n

Moran: Are you troubled at all that more than 100 people in U.S. custody have died — 26 of them now being investigated as criminal homicides — people beaten to death, suffocated to death, died of hypothermia in U.S. custody?<\/p>\n

Cheney: No. I won’t accept your numbers, Terry. But I guess one of the things I’m concerned about is that as we get farther and farther away from 9\/11, and there have been no further attacks against the U.S., there seems to be less and less concern about doing what’s necessary in order to defend the country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In general, I’m hesitant to ascribe sentiments that are left unsaid, but given the context<\/a>, doesn’t this sound a bit like Cheney is offering tacit support for torture? Moran asked about instances of abuse and Cheney’s immediate response is that we should keep doing “what’s necessary.” It wasn’t exactly a comforting response.<\/p>\n

Neither, for that matter, was this exchange on the NSA surveillance program.<\/p>\n

Moran: The Constitution calls for a court, a co-equal branch of government, as a check on the power of the executive, to give a say-so before an American or someone in America is surveilled, or searched, or spied upon. <\/p>\n

Cheney: This has been done, Terry, in a manner that is completely consistent with our obligations and requirements, I can assure you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Cheney “assures” us? Exactly how much credibility does this guy think he has left?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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