Cheney ‘OK’ with violating felony torture statute

The strange thing about Cheney is that he handles in public with illicit assertions. One should ask about the attitude of these guys. Can you really be sure that 911 wasnt a sheer creation in the minds of the New world Order designers? Why is Cheney so ruthless? Because he really cares about the 4000 dead of the WTC? Or is it because the breath of the state attorney is pretty close to his neck?


RAWSTORY

In an interview with Fox News to be aired this Sunday, former Vice President Dick Cheney said he is “OK” with CIA interrogations that violated Justice Department guidelines and condemned the prospect of any investigation of abuses as potentially “devastating” to morale.

The 2004 Inspector General’s report released on Monday cited numerous cases of possible violations of the felony torture statute, which prohibits both “the intentional infliction or threatened infliction of severe physical pain or suffering” and “the threat of imminent death.”

Beginning on page 69 of the report (pdf) is a list of “Specific Unauthorized or Undocumetned Techniques,” in some of which the facts “warranted criminal investigations.” Among the cases cited are one in which a CIA officer repeatedly choked a shackled until he almost passed out and several examples of mock executions. These are the cases that Cheney is now defending.