Hasn't Cheney's main argument always been that if you release info about torture the 'terrorists' will have an advantage and therefore the US will be less safe????
And we all know Dick cares about America before anything else...right??
Curious that he now advocates declassifying ALL intelligence on torture.
Why oh why could #1 patriot do this to his beloved country? Because this will SERVE to prove HIS point, HIS vision HIS argument (HIS book...) which he values over the US.
(Cheney states the release of this info is necessary to 'prove torture worked'...I am pretty sure that the fact that Zubaydah and KSM (Khalid Sheikh Muhammad) had to be waterboarded a whopping 266 times says something wasn't working. Also, he argued against this consistently to - keep the US safe - why abandon it to prove a point?)
Here is my posting on how ineffective torture is.
Philip Zelikow (one of Condi's old advisors, who wrote a memo objecting to the torture memos while in the Bush administration, has been spekaing out about the inner dealings on torture in past days. He gave an informative interview on Rachel Maddow Tuesday night and something he said this morning on NPR stuck with me: When asked how would respond to statements that these torture methods were effective, Zelikow said its not about whether the torture was effective - its about whether it could have been acquired in other ways. Other methods - incentives, cooption - have been effective in the past and might have been effective here.
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