Dick Cheney goes on National T.V. and confesses to, in fact brags about, ordering the waterboarding of US detainees. Waterboarding is an act that both our current President and Attorney general, and every tribunal that has considered the matter (via an ongoing prosecution), have determined to be torture. Under Federal law, torture is a felony - punishable by death in certain circumstances!
I completely agree with Glen Greenwald. Dick Cheney is taunting the Obama administration. He knows the administration will not prosecute him. He knows they fear a backlash that would harm them politically and derail their legislative agenda. So he taunts them.
Consider what we've come to as a nation. We have executive branch officials publicly (and illegally) refusing to prosecute felonious conduct, while the former official who committed the felonies taunts them on national T.V.
If that isn't, as Glen Greenwald put it, "a monumental indictment of most everything," I don't know what is.
God I hope we wake up soon.
Joe H.
UPDATE - In case any of my readers want to continue to deny that US forces tortured helpless detainees, federal prosecutors and federal judges are now conceeding that detainees in US custody were tortured.
Joe H.
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