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BLUFFING.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney, torture supporter, has called for the release of more memos "proving" that torture was effective. At least, on Fox News he did. Greg Sargent has the details:
The source, however, tells me that the CIA didn’t get any such request from Cheney. So barring the unlikely possibility that Cheney submitted his request to the Obama White House, it seems fair to assume for now that the only target of this request was the Fox News television audience.
It's a bluff. The administration should call it. But even if it isn't, it's important that the American people have all the details about what was done and why.
UPDATE: Looks like Cheney did make the request.
-- A. Serwer
COMMENTS (1)
I keep seeing comments on various blogs disputing whether or not the torture was effective. Giving any legitimacy at all to this arguement is crazy. If actionable intelligence is achieved through the torture and this in any way mitigate the torture then any torture that may provide actionable intelligence is okay. If you accept this line of reasoning then you are saying that our pilots in Vietnam, who killed far more than 3,000 people, were justifiably tortured because they might (in fact, very probably) had information on subsequent attacks.
Stop all this talk about the effectiveness or non-effectiveness of torture. It doesn't matter. Your playing Cheney's game. Sooner or later they are going to come up with some plausible intelligence that was induced and then where will you be?
Posted by: robertl | April 22, 2009 8:16 AM